BA Islamic, Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Year 3

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
• Understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed subject knowledge and professional competencies some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in Islamic/Middle Eastern/North African Studies;
• demonstrate a solid grounding in the domestic and regional politics of the Middle East and North Africa and an ability to critically reflect on key issues facing these regions.
• Demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument;
• Describe and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship;
• Appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in Islamic/Middle Eastern/North African Studies;
• Make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;
• Apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended piece of work or project;
• critically engage with major thinkers, debates and methods of enquiry in the field, putting them to productive use;
• proficiently use basic generic and subject specific intellectual qualities i.e.
• be able to communicate the results of their work;
• present a structured and coherent argument;
• access and evaluate qualitative and/or quantitative data;
• appreciate how axes of social division, such as disability, class, gender, race, religion, nationality and sexuality, play key roles in the context of the discipline;
• organise and manage supervised, self-directed projects;
• retrieve and generate information, and evaluate sources, in carrying out supervised, independent research.
• work autonomously within a structured environment;
• conform to professional boundaries and norms where appropriate.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
• The transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the areas studied;
• 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 Islamic/Middle Eastern/North African cultures, societies and politics;
• Work that is typically both evaluative, analytical and creative.