BA English and Film Studies

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of Level Two, students should have provided evidence of being able to: -

- demonstrate a familiarity with the main concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features of English and Film Studies;

- use generic and subject specific intellectual qualities, i.e.

- present a structured and coherent argument

- have knowledge of critical terminology relevant to literature and film;

- have experience of English literature from a range of periods and places, including study of periods before 1900;

- being able to demonstrate an awareness of the variety of film genres and their workings;

- have an awareness of the importance of the cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written and read, and in which film is produced and consumed;

- develop and use critical skills;

- develop analytical skills and apply them to filmic and literary texts.

- effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to practise as defined in the modules specified for the programme:

- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment

- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility
decision making

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 concepts, information and techniques relevant to the discipline;

- demonstrating the ability to construct an argument;

- demonstrating knowledge of two disciplines;

- demonstrating the ability to be critical of scholarly work.

- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline/profession 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;

- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.