Bachelor of Arts: Film and Television

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:

• Define key concepts and terminology in South African and international literature and professional practice.
• Apply specialist research resources and bibliographies.
• Define parameters and criteria for in-depth database searches.
• Utilize a broader/deeper range of content knowledge.
• Decode and understand meanings, arguments, positions in visual and verbal texts.
• Understand debates within modes of professional practice.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:

• Understand and explain written, oral, academic, and graphic conventions at this level.
• Demonstrate basic computer literacy.
• Analyze discipline-specific writing conventions using accurate English.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:

• Explain and report the production of knowledge within disciplines.
• Explain and use conventions of critical analysis of written and visual texts.
• Identify and explain different modes of knowledge acquisition.
• Develop new knowledge through synthesis and creative practices.
• Criticize and interpret the subject matter of a discipline.
• Investigate and apply critical and innovative approaches in the scholarly and professional field.
• Integrate theory and practice to solve problems.
• Recognize and discuss limitations of different theoretical models and professional practices.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:

• Explain and use one or more research methods and their appropriate applications.
• Use knowledge of relevant literature in historical and contemporary visual production.
• Articulate the relationship between theory and practice.
• Provide a rationale for a small-scale research project.
• Conduct a small-scale research project.
• Produce a body of creative work.
• Assess the findings.
• Write a research proposal using appropriate disciplinary conventions.
• Contextualize conclusions arising from the research data.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:

• Demonstrate an increased knowledge of the importance of self-directed, independent learning and the development of critical practice.
• Identify the demands of new tasks and different styles of learning.
• Classify and categorize information for multiple purposes.
• Develop an ability to assess oneself in oral, written, and visual modes.
• Demonstrate initiative in shaping own learning situation and direction in studio practice.
• Establish a pattern of goal setting and time management with minimal supervision.
• Match learning strategies to task requirements.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:

• Develop individual and group dynamics and processes.
• Apply self-awareness of own group role and the role of others.
• Recognize the range of diversity in own and other contexts.
• Recognize the kind of result achieved through group processes.
• Identify multiple sources of knowledge.
• Integrate feedback in own and group development.
• Give constructive feedback.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:

• Apply knowledge of ecosystems to process an understanding of the world.
• Demonstrate independent work in a complex environment.
• Recognize the social context of research and creative works.
• Demonstrate the use of materials within an ecosystemic context.
• Identify and apply ecosystemic contexts as individuals or in groups.

Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 8:

• Demonstrate competence, independence, and originality in specific disciplinary knowledge and studio practice.
• Recognize the generation of new knowledge in major disciplines.
• Acquire an in-depth understanding and practical knowledge of the chosen discipline or field of inquiry.
• Demonstrate wide reading and visual production in a specialized field.
• Identify and understand contemporary debates in specific disciplines related to established knowledge and professional practice.
• Identify lines of inquiry within the discipline and the necessary information and skills.
• Demonstrate an ability to critically engage with, use, and adapt academic and creative conventions.
• Critically examine high-level concepts, texts, and images.

Integrated Assessment:

• Utilize a battery of assessment instruments, including written assignments, research projects, examinations, and continuous critique of creative work/assignments.
• Use both formative and summative forms of assessment to determine competencies acquired through learning.