BA English and History (Industrial)

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

On completion of Year One, students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- Demonstrate an understanding of a range of societies and cultures

- Recognise different interpretations and appreciate the value and diversity of scholarship

- Orientate themselves in topics that are new to them, and locate their studies within broader contexts

- Apply fundamental standards and practices of the disciplines for research, discussion, and assessed work

- Select, evaluate, and utilise appropriate source material in response to tasks and questions set by tutors

- Appreciate the range, value, and challenges of primary source material available for study

- Recognise the uses of the past and the challenges of the disciplines

- Present a structured and coherent analysis, in a variety of formats, based on primary sources

- Understand and harness the skills for inclusive scholarly practice

- Demonstrate awareness of the basic concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features of the two disciplines.

- Have experience of English literature from a range of periods and places.

- Have an awareness of the importance of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written and read.

Transferable (key) skills

- Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment, such as independence of mind, initiative, group work, locating and handling information, analytical ability, problem-solving, oral and written communication, intellectual integrity, empathy

- Skills necessary for exercising of personal responsibility, including self-discipline and self-direction, peer and self-appraisal

Assessment

Specified for the year/programme and will include:

- Demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to both disciplines;

- Work that covers a restricted area of the discipline;

- Demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies.

- Demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument.