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

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of Level Two, students should have provided evidence of being able to: -

- demonstrate familiarity with the main concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features of English studies;

- present a structured and coherent argument

- have sound knowledge of critical terminology

- have experience of English literature from a range of literary periods and locations, including literature before 1800;

- have a sound knowledge of the varieties of language and forms;

- develop and deploy judiciously a range of critical skills; -

- develop and deploy judiciously a range of analytical skills;

- demonstrate a sound critical knowledge of the social, political cultural contexts of the English language as a medium for literature;

- demonstrate a broad understanding of the concept of world literature and how it has been theorized, including the ability to compare and criticize different theoretical views and apply them appropriately to different texts;

- display a growing understanding of the recurrence of themes, tropes and issues across different literatures;

- show an ability to apply theoretical frameworks studied on different modules, as part of the development of independent critical ability;

- display a developed ability to analyse texts and to integrate close reading and theoretical approaches in both written and oral work;

- develop the ability to make independent choices in their selection of primary texts, through the choice of optional modules and through selecting their own texts;

- develop the ability to select, employ and critique a variety of apposite secondary sources, both through using established bibliographies and through independent research.

Transferable (key) skills

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

- qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment

- skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility
decision making

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 concepts, information and techniques relevant to the discipline;

- demonstrating the ability to construct an argument;

- demonstrating knowledge of two disciplines;

- demonstrating the ability to be critical of scholarly work.

- demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline/profession to complex, albeit standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;

- work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;

- demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline;

- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.