Course

Course Summary

Credit Type:

Exam

ACE ID:

IBOP-0003

Organization's ID:

112711

Organization:

International Baccalaureate Diploma Program

Location:

Approved High Schools throughout the U.S.

Length:

13.5 hours

Dates Offered:

Credit Recommendation & Competencies

Level	Credits (SH)	Subject
Lower-Division Baccalaureate	3	World Literature

A cut score of 4 was determined by ACE for this specific recommendation. Institutions may provide additional credit if a learner receives a higher cut score or based on their own internal frameworks for accepting transfer credits.

Description

Objective:

The language A: literature assessment aims at exploring the various manifestations of literature as a particularly powerful mode of writing across cultures and throughout history. The assessment aims at allowing the student to demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to the production and reception of literature—the creativity of writers and readers, the nature of their interaction with their respective contexts and with literary tradition, the ways in which language can give rise to meaning and/or effect, and the performative and transformative potential of literary creation and response. Through close analysis of a range of literary texts in a number of literary forms and from different times and places, students will consider their own interpretations as well as the critical perspectives of others, to explore how such positions are shaped by cultural belief systems and to negotiate meanings for texts.

Skills Measured:

• engage with a range of texts, in a variety of media and forms, from different periods, styles and cultures
• demonstrate skills in listening, speaking, reading, writing, viewing, presenting and performing
• demonstrate skills in interpretation, analysis and evaluation
• demonstrate sensitivity to the formal and aesthetic qualities of texts and an appreciation of how they contribute to diverse responses and open up multiple meanings
• demonstrate an understanding of relationships between texts and a variety of perspectives, cultural contexts, and local and global issues, and an appreciation of how they contribute to diverse responses and open up multiple meanings
• demonstrate an understanding of the relationships between studies in language and literature and other disciplines
• communicate and collaborate in a confident and creative way
• foster a lifelong interest in and enjoyment of language and literature.

Instruction & Assessment