BA English and Sociology(For students entering from September 2023 onwards)

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of Level 2, students should be able to:

1. Demonstrate the importance of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written and read, including literature before 1800;

2. Apply and evaluate key concepts, critical theories and methodologies of literary analysis and sociological analysis;

3. Demonstrate developing research skills, including the ability to identify and locate appropriate scholarship, resources and evidence.

4. Demonstrate an intermediate and broader understanding of a range of theories, approaches and methods in sociology, including qualitative and quantitative research methods;

5. use key sociological theories and approaches to further understand the challenges faced by contemporary societies.

Skills Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of Level 2, students should be able to:

1. Search for, evaluate and use appropriate and relevant information sources to help strengthen the quality of academic work and independent research;

2. Interpret and synthesise ideas and scholarship to support opinion, argument and theories;

3. Communicate intermediate critical thinking skills through constructing a structured and coherent argument referencing appropriately selected evidence;

4. Demonstrate quantitative and qualitative research skills;

Assessment

The Subject Specific and Skills Learning outcomes can be met through the four core modules which combine 1000-word critical exercises as their first assessments, and longer 2,500 word essays for their second assessments. A research exercise requiring the locating, analysis and evaluation of appropriate sources forms the first assessment of both option modules in Basket 1. A critique exercise requiring the development of close reading skills forms the first assessment of both option modules in Basket 2. Together, they work to enhance the different elements tested at Level 1, while preparing students for the advanced research skills required at Level 3.