English Level 3 is a university approved subject
What should I have already achieved?
Level 2 English with UE literacy and/or 17 credits.
What will I learn in English?
Students will learn to interpret texts and argue critically using literary theories.
To analyse, evaluate and synthesise links between texts and contexts, and how contexts influence ideas/style within texts.
Critically evaluate and synthesise their knowledge of how features of the language are used in different contexts.
Students will communicate sustained and insightful ideas by selecting and integrating a range of appropriate language features purposefully and fluently. Seek feedback, monitor, evaluate, and justify their choices independently.
Critically respond and evaluate, while acknowledging their own perspectives through their responses to various texts. Students will show an insightful understanding of why and how the audience is being positioned, and how a text relates to other texts and contexts, and they will integrate their knowledge of ideas, purpose, language features, and structure.
Develop and sustain an argument to explain and justify interpretations of increasingly varied and complex texts, integrating insightful examples and/or details arising primarily from an independent close reading of the text but also from beyond it.
Evaluate how identity influences and informs personal responses to language and language choices.
Aim for a subject-endorsed certificate in English - 17 credits at Achieved, Merit or Excellence with gaining 13 internal credits and 8 credits coming from external assessments.