BA Middle Eastern Studies

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

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 Middle Eastern Studies;
• demonstrate a solid grounding in the domestic and regional politics of the Middle East and an ability to critically reflect on key issues facing the region.
• Deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within the discipline;
• 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 Middle Eastern 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;
• demonstrate an ability to evaluate the appropriateness of different approaches to problem solving associated with the discipline;
• 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.

For students completing the international variant of the programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:

Develop the social/personal/transferable skills necessary for gaining maximum benefit from living in a different community;
Enhanced their future employability by reflecting on the utility of skills that they acquired while living abroad.

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 area(s) 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

• 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 Middle Eastern culture, society, politics and religion;
• Work that is typically both evaluative, analytical and creative.