Bachelor of Arts Honours

Apply educational knowledge, skills, principles and methods by

• Developing integrated, specialised and methodologically aware perspectives on a field of learning;
• Contributing to addressing cultural and social issues by applying research methodology;
• Follow any career where a higher level of knowledge of cultural and social issues is required.

Qualifiers will demonstrate knowledge, skills and applied competence in the field of study that provide opportunities for continued personal growth, gainful economic activity and rewarding contributions to society.

Learners who register for this qualification can

• Learn from predominantly written material;
• Communicate what they have learnt comprehensively in the medium of instruction;
• Learn and take responsibility for their own progress.

RECOGNITION OF PRIOR LEARNING

The qualification recognises formal and non-formal prior learning (incorporating experiential learning) at a Higher Education and Training Certificate Level 5.

The planned combination of learning outcomes are integrated with critical cross-field outcomes for this Qualification

Practical Competency

The demonstrated ability/skill to achieve the major Skills/Applied Competency of the qualification.

Foundational Competency

The demonstrated understanding, by the Learner, of the embedded knowledge that underpins the end result/outcome.

Reflective Competency

The demonstrated ability/skill to integrate or connect our performances and to reflect on, evaluate and adopt the above competencies.

The Learner will be able to demonstrate the capability to

• Constructing the discursive foundations of an independent perspective on the discourse, artefacts, actions and institutions in a special field of learning;
• Applying this frame of knowledge in exploring and gaining critical insight into cultural and social issues;
• Contributing to the understanding and solution of cultural and social systems and problems;
• Demonstrating rudimentary research capabilities;
• Developing report-writing capabilities.

The learner will be able to

• Critical reading of texts on specialised topics;
• Survey critical debates in the literature, evaluate current theoretical frames and confront dominant ideologies in selected fields of learning;
• Explore sub-disciplines, special areas and unique cases in a field of learning; Verbalise the disciplinary discourses;
• Master specialised research procedure for accessing relevant information, analysing data, and interpreting cases and contextualising problems.

Learners will demonstrate their knowledge and skills through

• Written or oral examination papers on taught and researched subjects;
• Written reports on set readings;
• Finding sources and compiling bibliographies;
• Written assignments on set topics;
• Written and oral seminar presentations, interviews, demonstrations, exhibitions and group discussions;
• Participation in team projects and internships;
• Preparing a minor dissertation or script reporting on a minor research project in the format of a scholarly article.

INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT

Competence is achieved, through continuous assessment by demonstrating the ability to achieve the outcomes of the Qualification:

• Module course mark
• Assignments
• Projects
• Examinations

This will be supported by a module credit system, followed by a final exam on the modules for which credit was not obtained.

Assessment documents are moderated to ensure that

• They conform to the scope and context of the competency as stipulated in the qualification.
• They are constructed in such a way that the Assessor assesses the critical outcomes applied, during the Learners activity performances, towards achieving an outcome.

Assessments are

• To include confirmation of the Embedded Knowledge component to ensure that the Foundational Competency is achieved.
• To be verified by Internal Verifiers to ensure valid, credible, true and fair results.

Four to five three-hour written examinations paper.

Three to four three-hour written examination papers and a minor research project or a minor dissertation.

Certain disciplines have the option of an oral examination in one of the examination papers.