BA Modern Languages and Politics (French)(For students entering from September 2024 onwards)

Year 4

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of Level 3, you will be able to
1. Understand and communicate complex events and ideas drawn from everyday and specialised domains in the target language (in written and oral forms), and fully participate in everyday conversations and technical discussions
2. Recognise, analyse, and evaluate basic and advanced communicative resources of the target language: vocabulary, grammar, and script (if relevant)
3. Appraise and question the social norms and cultural values that frame the societies in which the target language is spoken by critically examining cultural material originating from those societies
4. Investigate further the history, culture, and society of the countries where the target language is spoken by critically examining cultural and historical material originating from those societies
5. Apply creatively and independently the strategies to analyse and contextualise texts from the target culture conveyed in written and audio-visual formats (books, films, digital media content)
6. Critically evaluate and discuss the core concepts and processes of Politics, as well as demonstrate competency with specialist theories and literatures relevant to specific areas of study.
7. Appreciate and critically evaluate the appropriateness of different theoretical approaches used to understand the processes and dynamics of Politics.
8. Evaluate and critique the roles and practices of various political actors, such as states, parties, and non-state groups; as well as themes and concepts such as gender, violence, identity, and culture.
9. Evaluate and choose between generic and subject specific intellectual tools in order to evaluate empirical material and case studies examples from politics.
10. Critically appraise a range of research techniques used by different development actors to produce and assess data and information, and apply relevant research skills for assignments.

Skills Learning Outcomes
11. Actively seek, critically evaluate, and use creatively a range of sources of information and knowledge
12. Critically assess and construct sustained arguments supported by evidence and reasoning to challenge received knowledge and propose new ideas
13. Communicate effectively new information and knowledge in written and oral forms or through digital media
14. Critically reflect on, evaluate, and use creatively digital resources and tools to collect and communicate new information and knowledge
15. Work independently on a large individual project to a deadline
16. Make connections across perspectives and disciplines to propose new ideas and strategies
17. Develop and deploy skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility
18. Develop and deploy decision-making skills
19. Evaluate your own achievement and that of others. In addition, you will be able to evaluate and act upon the feedback of others.

Assessment

You will be working towards the subject specific and skills learning outcomes by engaging with a variety of approaches to assessment, which will depend on the programme, language pathway, and modules that you take. At Level 3, assessment methods will typically include coursework in English (essays, commentaries) and the target language (short assignments collected in portfolios), oral presentations in English or the target language, exams in the target language that might include elements of English (for example, translation tasks), group projects, the production of podcasts and other digital artefacts At Level 3, all students will work on one major independent research project. Assessment will be both formative and summative, and will be supported with feedback.