Aims & Objectives

Course Aims

  • Engage with a range of texts, in a variety of media and forms, from different periods, styles, and cultures

  • Develop skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, presenting and performing

  • Develop skills in interpretation, analysis and evaluation

  • Develop sensitivity to the formal and aesthetic qualities of texts and an appreciation of how they contribute to diverse responses and open up multiple meanings

  • Develop an understanding of relationships between texts and a variety of perspectives, cultural contexts, and local and global issues and an appreciation of how they contribute to diverse responses and open up multiple meanings

  • Develop an understanding of the relationships between studies in language and literature and other disciplines

  • Communicate and collaborate in a confident and creative way

  • Foster a lifelong interest in and enjoyment of language and literature.

Assessment Objectives

Know, understand and interpret:

  • A range of texts, works and/or performances, and their meanings and implications

  • Contexts in which texts are written and/or received

  • Elements of literary, stylistic, rhetorical, visual and/or performance craft

  • Features of particular text types and literary forms.

Analyse and evaluate:

  • Ways in which the use of language creates meaning

  • Uses and effects of literary, stylistic, rhetorical, visual or theatrical techniques

  • Relationships among different texts

  • Ways in which texts may offer perspectives on human concerns.

Communicate

  • Ideas in clear, logical and persuasive ways

  • In a range of styles, registers and for a variety of purposes and situations

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