Aims and 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