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BA Liberal Arts

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
- demonstrate a familiarity with the basic concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features of the discipline represented in the student's major;
Use basic generic and subject specific intellectual qualities i.e.
- be able to communicate the results of their work;
- present a structured and coherent simple argument;
- be able to interpret and evaluate the underlying concepts and principles of the discipline of the major;
- evaluate qualitative and/or quantitative data;
- demonstrate an ability to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving associated with the discipline represented in the major;
- appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners;
- demonstrate an awareness of professional and disciplinary boundaries;
- demonstrate an emerging ability to combine the perspectives of different disciplines and to apply them to set questions;
- demonstrate a developing awareness of the relationship between ideals of education and different conceptions of the human good;
- demonstrate an emerging understanding of the principles of communication with diverse audiences.

Transferable (key) skills

- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject areas studied;
- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
- skills relevant to communication of diverse audiences;
- skills of viewing a question from diverse vantage points.

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 knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to the discipline of the student's major;
- work that covers a restricted area of that discipline;
- demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies;
- demonstrating an emerging understanding of and capacity to engage in inter-disciplinary enquiry, as developed through the Liberal Arts Level 1 core module and Level 1 Topic modules;
- demonstrate an emerging appreciation of the relationship between ideals of education and different conceptions of the human good, as developed through the Liberal Arts Level 1 core module;
- demonstrate an emerging understanding of the principles of communication with diverse audiences, as developed through the Liberal Arts Level 1 core module.

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