BA English Language and Literature(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 experience of a considerable amount of English literature from a range of literary periods and locations, including substantial study of texts before and after 1800;
• have a critical and sophisticated command of the importance of the literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written both before and after 1800;
• 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 an advanced and critical knowledge of the social, political cultural contexts of English as a medium for literature;
• demonstrate a command of the English language via an engagement with literary materials;
• demonstrate a critical knowledge of up to four particular and specific literary fields, facilitated either through the choice and pursuit of research-led option modules or via the planning and production of a dissertation.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire key transferable skills as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
• research based training;
• qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment at graduate level entry;
• 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:
• research based learning;
• the knowledge and application of concepts, information and techniques relevant to the discipline;
• the ability to construct an argument;
• knowledge of English Literature;
• the ability to be critical of scholarly work.