Undergraduate Module Outcomes

BA1

By attaining a passing grade in BA1, you will have shown yourself able to:

  • Demonstrate knowledge of a variety of literary forms in oral presentation and written assessment, analyse texts from different literary genres through close reading;
  • Think creatively about how to compare different literary texts, and reflect critically on your own involvement in this activity;
  • Evaluate and assess different secondary sources and integrate these analyses effectively into oral presentation and written assessment.
     

BA1.jpgSubtext ; Noelle Hamlyn Studios, www.noelle.hamlyn.com


BA2

By attaining a passing grade in BA2, you will have shown yourself able to:

  • Identify and describe language phenomena;
  • Account for them using the tools of analysis, classification, comparison and contrast;
  • Ultimately apply the above skills to the analysis of a range of texts and language situations.
     

BA3

By attaining a passing grade in BA3, you will have shown yourself able to:

  • Identify and describe ways in which the English language varies across time and space;
  • Apply the basic linguistic concepts introduced in BA2 to the analysis of a new range of phenomena;
  • Effectively communicate a linguistic analysis orally or in writing.
     

BA3.pngImage by Eric Haeberli


BA4

By attaining a passing grade in BA4, you will have shown yourself able to:

  • Compare, discuss and interpret writings and artworks from the medieval period;
  • Grasp the importance of historical and cultural contextualization when reading literature;
  • Understand the etymological meanings of English words and the historical evolution of cultural concepts that are still in use today.
     

BA5

By attaining a passing grade in BA5, you will have shown yourself able to:

  • Navigate, establish and engage with context-related analysis (keyword: history);
  • Synthesise and communicate analysis and argumentation in different registers, both orally and in writing (keyword: communication);
  • Create a persuasive and positioned argument through synthesis and analysis of complex texts (keyword: argument). 
     

BA6

By attaining a passing grade in BA6, you will have shown yourself able to:

  • Compare, discuss and interpret writings from modern and contemporary text; 
  • Make and use ideas about modernity from these writings as well as critique and synthesize them;
  • Design, develop and produce original research work supported by secondary literary sources.

BA7

By attaining a passing grade in BA7, you will have shown yourself able to:

  • Identify the formal and thematic complexities of American literary history;
  • Identify and analyze the diverse discourses that inform American literary texts;
  • Apply to literary texts the “CRIT method” of close reading.