BA Russian A
Year 4
(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)
Learning outcomes
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of:- being able to communicate fluently and appropriately, maintaining a high degree of grammatical accuracy, in Russian with native or other competent speakers;- being able to effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms;- having consolidated and extended knowledge and understanding of complex structures and registers of Russian;- being able to demonstrate sophisticated receptive and productive language skills, and having had some practice in mediation language skills, in a variety of contexts;- being able to demonstrate an ability critically to evaluate a range of aspects of the literatures, cultures, linguistic contexts, history, politics, geography, social and economic structures of the societies of the country or countries of the target language;- continuing to develop an awareness and understanding of Russian culture and society, that will have been significantly enhanced by the compulsory period of residence in Moscow;- work autonomously within a structured environment.
Transferable (key) skills
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:- qualities and transferable skills related to Russian and Slavonic Studies, valuable for employment, eg. be able to gather and critically evaluate information from a variety of paper, audio-visual and electronic sources, be able to use IT effectively both as a means of communication and as an aid to learning;- word-processing in Cyrillic; proficiency in a range of standard software, e.g. Microsoft Word and Powerpoint; familiarity with specialist software, e.g. online corpora, library databases;- the ability to appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners;- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;- the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;- the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;- the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.
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 of the discipline;- work that draws on a wide variety of material;- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline;- work that is typically both evaluative and creative.Assessment methods include, where appropriate for each module:- written examinations;- oral language examinations;- dissertation;- assessed language coursework;- assessed non-language coursework.