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.
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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.
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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.
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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.


