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 to undertake close reading and analyze literary texts. They show this in their assignments, class work and examinations, showing also a firm grasp of the appropriate technical terminology.