Assessment
The course provides opportunities to test understanding and learning informally through the completion of practice or ‘formative’ assignments.
Each module has one or more formal or ‘summative’ assessments which are graded and count towards the overall module grade. Assessment methods include a range of coursework assessments such as essays, reports, portfolios, presentations, creative writing.
The precise assessment requirements for an individual student in an academic year will vary according to the mandatory and optional modules taken, but a typical formative summative assessment pattern for each year of the course is:-
Year 1
- Oral assessment/presentations x 2
- Learning Journal x 1
- Practical portfolio x 4
- Reflective commentary x 3
- Essay x 3
Year 2
- Portfolio x 2
- Creative Writing Piece x 4
- Critical analysis x 6
- Oral assessment/Presentations x 3
- Essay x 4
Year 3
- Portfolio of original work (8000 words) OR Research Project (6-7,000 words)
- Critical analysis x 5
- Creative writing Piece x 4
- Research portfolio x 3
- Oral Presentations x 2
- Radio script x 1