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The English studies discipline involves the study, analysis, and exploration of English literature through texts. English studies include: The study of literature, especially novels, plays, short stories, and poetry. Although any English-language literature may be studied, the most commonly analyzed literature originates from Britain, the ...
First-year composition (sometimes known as first-year writing, freshman composition or freshman writing) is an introductory core curriculum writing course in US colleges and universities. This course focuses on improving students' abilities to write in a university setting and introduces students to writing practices in the disciplines and ...
A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is the holder of a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, [1] or, in some cases, other disciplines.
Harold Macmillan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1957–63), read mods (Latin and Greek), the first half of the four-year Oxford greats course, at Balliol from 1912 to 1914. He left to serve in the First World War and never returned to complete his degree. Reginald Maudling, Conservative politician; Iris Murdoch DBE, novelist and philosopher
Bloom's taxonomy is a framework for categorizing educational goals, developed by a committee of educators chaired by Benjamin Bloom in 1956. It was first introduced in the publication Taxonomy of Educational Objectives: The Classification of Educational Goals.
The holders of these degrees have the academic precedence and standing of BAs until the twenty-first term from matriculation, when they rank as MAs. From 2014 graduates with these degrees wear the same academic gown as a Master of Studies, with a black silk hood lined with sand fabric. [9] Previously the academic dress was simply the BA gown ...
Stellantis is recalling more than 300,000 Ram Heavy Duty pickup trucks because a faulty part could cause certain braking and tracking systems to fail. The Netherlands-based automaker said the ...
Arthur Applebee's first book, Tradition and Reform in the Teaching of English, documented and critically analyzed the history of secondary English instruction from colonial times until the 1960s, providing insights that have guided later progressive developments in the teaching of English. [6] A number of his subsequent inquiries has continued ...