BA Modern Languages and Film Studies (German)

Year 4

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

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

Research Skills:
- Produce an autonomous piece of extended research work (the Final-Year Project), responding to guidance and feedback from a supervisor
- Present a structured, sustained argument, and communicate using terminology and concepts appropriate to the field(s) of study
- Evaluate and critically synthesize aspects of recent enquiry in the field(s) of study
- Reflect on, and work in accordance with, the ethical considerations raised in the research process

Language Skills and Intercultural Awareness:
- Communicate fluently and appropriately, maintaining high degree of grammatical accuracy, in the target language
- Demonstrate a consolidated and extended knowledge and understanding of complex structures and registers of the target language
- Demonstrate cultural sensitivity and an ability to see the world's societies and cultures from multiple perspectives
- Show advanced engagement with multiple genres to support effective work and functioning in another country

Subject Knowledge:
- Show a broad understanding and cultural awareness of societies in which the target language is spoken
- Demonstrate depth of engagement with specific aspects of literatures and social and historical issues pertaining in the cultures in which the target language is spoken
- Make use of specialist knowledge to engage critically with current debates in the field(s) of study
- Demonstrate coherent knowledge of a wide range of world cinemas, film history and genres, and key critical and conceptual/theoretical approaches
- Demonstrate the ability to identify limitations of current knowledge about film. And formulate well-supported arguments regarding the extension of that knowledge
- Effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of print and visual media, including undertaking extended pieces of work or projects, demonstrating independent research skills, making appropriate use of primary sources and showing coherent and detailed knowledge of different aspects of film studies, recent research and scholarship in the fields, and demonstrating academic integrity
- Demonstrate a critical awareness of the importance of the cultural and socio-historical contexts in which film is produced and consumed
- Independently summarise and synthesise complex ideas in relation to the study of film
- Present an extended coherent argument in an appropriate written, oral or visual mode, based on independent research, with limited guidance
- Independently apply general and discipline-specific conventions of acknowledging and referencing source material
- Plan, design and execute a piece of independent research and enquiry with appropriate supervision

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

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 ability to apply a broad range of aspects of the discipline/s
- 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 the discipline/s
- Work that is typically both evaluative and creative