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Students are able to (1) at the end of Level 1: (a) display familiarity with select modes of life, thought and culture in pre-modern Europe from 800–1700 CE; (b) display familiarity with the subject material of the medieval and early modern world from at least two different disciplinary perspectives; (c) display familiarity with various source types for study of the medieval and early modern period; (d) recognise varied disciplinary traditions on which MEMS scholars draw their analysis and interpretations; (e) contextualise their interpretations within distinct disciplinary traditions relevant to MEMS scholarship; and (f) present their learning using the appropriate discourse conventions of written and oral forms; (2) at the end of Level 2: (a) display increased familiarity with the fundamental intellectual structures of the medieval and early modern period (such as cosmological, scientific, and religious understandings); (b) show an understanding of how medieval society and culture related to, and re-imagined, the classical past; (c) locate appropriate sources independently; (d) read and interpret original source materials in support of an argument, contextualising their interpretation within existing scholarship, theories and methodologies; (e) display familiarity with the major disciplines that underpin study of medieval and early modern sources and their interpretation; (e) critically analyse the varied theoretical positions underpinning scholarship in the field; (f) develop nuanced interpretations from independent research and analysis, using the appropriate discourse conventions of written and oral form; and (3) at the end of Level 3: (a) understand key traditions and structures of European thought, science, society and culture in the medieval and early modern period, and analyse specific instances of their operations within particular historical contexts; (b) locate and interpret a range of original documents, texts and items of visual culture from the medieval and early modern period, in manuscript, print and other forms; (c) employ the appropriate necessary research techniques, such as palaeography, iconography, and an understanding of medieval literary theory, to interpretation of original source materials; (d) understand and locate their work within the breadth of appropriate disciplinary scholarship; (e) understand and locate their work within appropriate scholarly theories; (f) understand and develop their work using interdisciplinary methods and techniques in the context of long-running medieval and early modern cultural and historical traditions; (g) understand the significance of the pre-modern European period for the modern world, including Australia; and (h) present sophisticated interpretations from independent research and analysis, using the appropriate discourse conventions of written and oral forms; and (3) at the end of Level 3: (a) understand key traditions and structures of European thought, science, society and culture in the medieval and early modern period, and analyse specific instances of their operations within particular historical contexts; (b) locate and interpret a range of original documents, texts and items of visual culture from the medieval and early modern period, in manuscript, print and other forms; (c) employ the appropriate necessary research techniques, such as palaeography, iconography, and an understanding of medieval literary theory, to interpretation of original source materials; (d) understand and locate their work within the breadth of appropriate disciplinary scholarship; (e) understand and locate their work within appropriate scholarly theories; (f) understand and develop their work using interdisciplinary methods and techniques in the context of long-running medieval and early modern cultural and historical traditions; (g) understand the significance of the pre-modern European period for the modern world, including Australia; and (h) present sophisticated interpretations from independent research and analysis, using the appropriate discourse conventions of written and oral forms.