BA Liberal Arts (International Language)

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- demonstrate a broad understanding of the concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features in a range of aspects of the discipline represented in their major;
- apply generic and subject specific intellectual qualities to standard situations outside the context in which they were originally studied;
- appreciate and employ the main methods of enquiry in the subject represented in their major and critically evaluate the appropriateness of different methods of enquiry;
- use a range of techniques to initiate and undertake the analysis of data and information;
- adjust to professional and disciplinary boundaries;
- reflect with a measure of critical depth upon the challenges and opportunities of inter-disciplinary enquiry;
- effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms, and in ways that will be appropriate for a variety of audiences;
- demonstrate an emerging capacity to work independently and in collaboration with others on a project.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject areas studied;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- decision making;
- skills of communicating with diverse audiences;
- skills of examining a focal question from a variety of vantage points;
- skills needed to work independently and as a member of a team on a project.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for the year/programme and will include:
- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline represented in the major to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline of the major;
- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;
- show an appreciation of the challenges and opportunities of inter-disciplinary study, developed through Level 2 Topic modules;
- show a capacity to communicate effectively with diverse audiences, developed through the Level 2 programme core module;
- show an emerging capacity to work independently and as part of a team, developed through the Level 2 programme core module.