Liberal Arts
Liberal Arts and the World
Module code: Q9112
Level 4
15 credits in autumn semester
Teaching method: Fieldwork, Workshop
Assessment modes: Presentation, Essay
This module enables Liberal Arts students to develop their skills of analysis and understanding. Students will do so both individually and in teams. They will focus on topical or real-life events and explore them using a wide range of methods and approaches linked to the arts, humanities and social sciences, including media analysis, statistical analysis, textual analysis and visual analysis. This module is built around a stake holder meeting, which will explore a specific topic (potentially based on a recent real-world example). It will involve the Introduction to what a stake holder meeting is; introduction to case studies and modes of analysis; introduction to group work and team theory; introduction to presentation of argument and analysis in essay form.
Module learning outcomes
- Engage in active collaboration with others, including communities beyond the University; navigate, value and evaluate differing and multiple perspectives within diverse teams.
- Communicate effectively with others; employ a variety of practices to articulate the significance of particular arguments, positions, perspectives, and/or information to different groups, audiences, and/or stakeholders; pitch ideas.
- Recognise the importance of self-evaluation and employ appropriate modes of reflexivity and evaluation; recognise the value of ‘failure.’
- Produce and draw on a range of secondary and primary source material, including research, in a variety of forms and contexts (such as fieldwork, consultation, archive) for projects and assessment.