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

Year 3

(Award available for year: Bachelor of Arts)

Learning outcomes

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

- demonstrate a coherent and detailed command of the key concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which constitute English studies

- demonstrate a skilled knowledge of generic and subject-specific qualities, ie,

- present a structured and coherent argument

- have detailed knowledge of critical terminology

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

- have an advanced knowledge of how to apply concepts of the structure and history of English to the analysis of texts;

- develop and deploy dynamically and self-consciously a range of critical skills;

- develop and deploy dynamically and self-consciously a range of analytical skills;

- demonstrate a command of the English language via an engagement with literary materials;

- demonstrate coherent and detailed knowledge of recent historical scholarship in the student's chosen historical specialisms; chronological continuity and change; how people have existed, acted and thought in a range of societies and cultures; techniques for close work on sources, both primary and/or secondary.

- apply accurately standard techniques of historical analysis and enquiry;

- demonstrate their conceptual understanding through sustained argument;

- make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;

- prove an ability to initiate, research and complete an extended historical project;

- describe and comment on relevant aspects of recent scholarship;

- appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in history;

- conform to professional standards and norms of ethics, presentation and communication of information.

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 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 of both disciplines;

- 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 disciplines;

- work that is typically both evaluative and creative.