Applied English Portfolio 3
| Code | School | Level | Credits | Semesters |
| ENGL4307 | English | 4 | 60 | Autumn UK, Spring UK, Summer UK |
- Code
- ENGL4307
- School
- English
- Level
- 4
- Credits
- 60
- Semesters
- Autumn UK, Spring UK, Summer UK
Summary
The overarching area of study is Applied English, defined as follows. Applied English is a field of study that places the exploration of the English language and linguistics, and literature and performance in English, in its cultural, historical, social and artistic contexts. It covers several disciplines, topics and sub-disciplines, as well as drawing on interdisciplinary work. The key fields covered by Applied English are literary criticism and scholarship, literary history and historiography, manuscript editing, documentary archival work; creative composition, editing, and production; dramatic theory and performance, theatre studies, criticism and analysis; applied linguistics, literary linguistics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, language acquisition, learning and testing; historical research in language and literature and cognate cultures; global Englishes and literary production in English and translation across the world. A postgraduate student of Applied English would be expected to have a mastery of at least one of these key domains, and a reasonably good knowledge, awareness and facility with the field in general. As a postgraduate student in the field of Applied English, an award holder will be expected to have a high level of disciplined knowledge, a high degree of performative fluency, and an advanced level of critical adaptability in a broad range of English studies.
This ‘module’ covers the third phase (at Masters level) of the MA Applied English scheme. It is comprised of six pods of work, with study material and tutor-support provided online (or a single hexapod equivalent).
Target Students
Compulsory for all students on the Applied English programme. This programme does not involved student OME.
Classes
Not applicable – distance course
Assessment
- 100% Assignment: Portfolio of work across 6 pods studied in the previous period.
Assessed by end of designated period
Educational Aims
The range of knowledge in evidence will represent a comprehensive and rich coverage of the designated disciplinary field within Applied English. The work will demonstrate a mastery and assurance in dealing with key concepts in the field, and this evident expertise will extend into additional significant ideas, arguments, traditions and areas of debate within the topic. Key works that are recognised as essential points of reference in the discipline or topic area will be familiar to the student and evidenced in the submitted portfolio at this level. They will be framed within critical and discursive evaluations. The submitted material will be articulate, fluent, confident, assured and authoritative to an advanced degree, with evidence of a high level of independent thinking and autonomous motivation. The work will contain a recognition of how the particular topic- and discipline-specific knowledge, methods and skills can be contextually situated and extended portably into new domains of knowledge and experience beyond the course programme.Learning Outcomes
The criteria for assessment are determined by the ‘Expertise Indicators’ that are associated with each pod. A pod typically has three EIs, so the assessment criteria for the portfolio will typically involve a set of around eighteen EIs. These will form the basis for assessment. Each Pod Specification sets out the EIs for that pod, and each of these will have been scrutinised and approved by the School Teaching Committee.
EIs are framed as descriptive accounts of the area not as outcomes. Each pod will also be coded for the named domain to which it belongs as a discipline or field; some pods might feature in several domains. When a student submits their portfolio for assessment, the work within it will be assessed against the EIs that the student has covered in the course of that phase of their studies. This means that the portfolio will cover the intellectual ground defined by the EI for every pod of study. Assessment is calibrated against the set of EIs, not against the list of pods (though in practice these will often align).