BA Modern Languages and Film Studies (German)

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year students should have provided evidence of being able to:

Research Skills:
- Respond to questions set by a tutor in relation to research-led teaching
- Present a structured and coherent argument
- Demonstrate the ability to identity, summarize and challenge evidence obtained from key sources
- Demonstrate integrity in use of material and ability to make reference to sources following conventions appropriate to the discipline

Language Skills and Cultural Awareness:
- Communicate in the target language to sustain everyday conversation
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the basic structures of the target language.
- Demonstrate an awareness of social conventions prevalent in cultures in which the target language is spoken.
- Use appropriate receptive and productive language skills in a variety of contexts.

Subject Knowledge:
- Demonstrate sound, basic knowledge of cultures and societies in which the target language is spoken that will inform specialization at later levels.
- Demonstrate an appreciation of key aspects of the literatures and social and historical issues pertaining in the cultures in which the target language is spoken.
- Bring this knowledge to bear in responding to questions set, identifying pertinent examples in support of their responses.
- Demonstrate awareness of the essential concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques that are commonly used in Film Studies
- Demonstrate an understanding of core terms and concepts relating to film theory and its testing
- Use essential generic and subject-specific intellectual procedures (i.e. presenting a structured and coherent argument)
- Demonstrate an awareness of the variety of filmmaking cultures beyond Hollywood and the West
- Read for academic purposes and summarise complex ideas in relation to the study of film, with close guidance
- Present a short coherent argument in an appropriate written or oral style, based on some amount of independent research, with close guidance
- Demonstrate a familiarity with general and discipline-specific conventions of acknowledging and referencing source material

Transferable (key) skills

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

- Qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject area(s) studied
- Skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility

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 standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to the discipline
- Work that covers a restricted area of the discipline/s
- Demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies