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

Year 1

(Award available for year: Certificate of Higher Educ)

Learning outcomes

On completion of Year One, students should have provided evidence of being able to:

- On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
demonstrate awareness of the basic concepts, information, practical competencies and techniques which are standard features of English and Film Studies;

- use basic generic and subject specific intellectual qualities i.e.

- present a structured and coherent simple argument

- have some knowledge of critical terminology relevant to literature and film;

- have experience of English literature and national cinemas from a range of periods and places;

- have an awareness of the importance of the cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written and read, and in which film is produced and consumed;

- have a basic knowledge of how to apply concepts of the structure and history of English to analysis of texts (if language modules are selected);

- develop critical skills;

- develop analytical skills;

- appreciate their strengths and weaknesses as learners;

Transferable (key) skills

The programme provides opportunities for students to practise and develop:

- the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied;

- the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;

- analytical and critical thinking;

- 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 further training of a professional or equivalent nature where appropriate.


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

The achievement of the programme outcomes 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 disciplines;

- work that draws on a wide variety of material associated with the disciplines;

- the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;

- evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in-depth enquiry within the disciplines;

- work that is both evaluative and creative.

- demonstrating the knowledge and application of standard concepts, information and techniques relevant to the discipline;

- demonstrating the ability to construct an argument;

- demonstrating some knowledge of two disciplines.

- work that covers a restricted area of the discipline;

- demonstrating emerging abilities, skills and competencies.