Successful students will have demonstrated their ability to 

-read and understand advanced, authentic literary texts in English.

- write critically about literary texts while appropriately using  the approaches and techniques of university level literary studies

- Select texts or parts of texts that are suitable for analysis along specified parameters, such as genre, sub-genre, theme, style,imagery and language. 

- Demonstrate their familiarity with selected, foundational texts by correctly identifying them and writing about them in examinations.

- Demonstrate their abilities toundertake close reading and  analyse literary  texts. They show this in their assignments, class work and examinations, showing also a firm grasp of the appropriate technical terminology.