Programme Specification for the 2019/0 academic year
BA (Hons) English and Drama with Study Abroad
1. Programme Details
| Programme name | BA (Hons) English and Drama with Study Abroad | Programme code | UFA4EGLSPA01 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Study mode(s) | Full Time Part Time |
Academic year | 2019/0 |
| Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
English and Drama at the University of Exeter is a challenging and flexible degree that builds on two internationally-renowned centres of excellence in research, teaching and theatre practice. Our teaching grows out of our wide-ranging, world-leading research interests and we provide a supportive and high-quality environment for learning. The programme provides you with a sense of the range and variety of literary works, introduces you to theoretical approaches that enable you to engage critically with texts understood in their historical and cultural contexts, and develops your critical, imaginative and practical engagement with the social, historical and cultural contexts of theatre.
English modules are taught by staff with expertise in literature from the Middle Ages to the present, in cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, and in creative writing practices in poetry, prose and screen-writing. Drama modules are taught by staff with expertise in theatre, drama and performance theory from the classical era to the present, and in practice fields including acting, directing, scriptwriting, voice, applied theatre, live art, digital theatre crafts, music theatre, puppetry, dance, and intercultural performance training. The programme covers a wide range of material allowing you to develop and follow your own interests with the provision of modules by active researchers who are at the forefront of their respective fields.
This programme is studied over four years. The first two years and the final year are university-based, and the third year is spent at a university abroad on an approved programme of study.
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
The programme is intended:
- to create an environment for scholarship and learning in which the stimulus for independent study is provided by an interest in and involvement with each discipline’s past, present and future potential.
- to involve you in a wide range of learning with broad coverage, content, and methodology.
- to create a genuine curiosity about each discipline and to recognise that this curiosity has to be grounded in engagement with the practice and analysis of the specific discipline.
- to promote a sense of the complex social, cultural, and aesthetic interactions between the production and reception of literary, non-literary and filmic texts.
- to foster in you an appetite for, and skills to make, effective drama.
- to enable you to develop a high level of awareness, collaboration and co-operation in group activity.
- to develop a clear sense of the interdependent relationship between theory/criticism and practice.
- to provide a basis for further study in English, Drama, or related disciplines, and for teachers of English and Drama at all levels.
- to develop a range of subject specific, academic and transferable skills, including high order conceptual literacy and communication skills, and those based on social interaction and communication.
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.
http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/undergraduates/
You may take optional modules as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module. Optional modules offered are subject to change depending on staff availability and student demand. You are expected to balance your credits in each stage of the programme, taking 60 credits from Drama, and 60 credits from English.
You may take elective modules up to 15 credits outside of the programme in the first stage and up to 30 credits outside of the programme in the second and final stages as long as any necessary prerequisites have been satisfied, where the timetable allows and if you have not already taken the module in question or an equivalent module.
Stage 1
45 credits of compulsory English modules, 60 credits of compulsory Drama modules and 15 credits of optional English modules.
a You must select 15 credits from this list of optional English modules; EAS1040 is only available in Term 2 to Combined Honours students.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRA1004 | Acting and Not Acting: The Dialectics of Performance | 30 | No |
| DRA1010 | Pretexts and Contexts of Drama 1 | 30 | No |
| EAS1035 | Beginnings: English Literature before 1800 | 30 | No |
| EAS1041 | Rethinking Shakespeare | 15 | No |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| EGLS S1 BA CH opt 2019-0 [See note a above] | |||
| EAS1031 | Introduction to Creative Writing | 15 | No |
| EAS1034 | Film Studies: An Introduction | 15 | No |
| EAS1037 | The Novel | 15 | No |
| EAS1038 | The Poem | 15 | No |
| EAS1041 | Rethinking Shakespeare | 15 | No |
| EAS1040 | Academic English | 15 | No |
Stage 2
30 credits of compulsory Drama modules, 60 credits of optional English modules and 30 credits of optional Drama modules.
Subject to choosing 120 credits for the stage overall, you must:
b select 30 credits from this list of optional Drama modules. You must take DRA2067 if you wish to take a practice option at final stage (level 6)
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.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRA2064 | Performance and Interpretation | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRA S2 BA CH opt 2019-0 [See note b above] | |||
| DRA2007 | Theatre Practice II: Interpretative Acting | 30 | No |
| DRA2013 | Theatre Practice Dance/Choreography | 30 | No |
| DRA2026 | Applied Drama: Interactive Theatre | 30 | No |
| DRA2045 | Theatre and Health | 30 | No |
| DRA2061B | Digital Theatrecrafts | 30 | No |
| DRA2083 | Intermedial Performance Practice | 30 | No |
| DRA2085 | Cultures of the Street | 30 | No |
| DRA2087 | Activism and Performance | 30 | No |
| DRA2067 | Staging The Text | 30 | No |
| EGLS S2 BA Group 1 (pre-1750) opt 2019-0 [See note c above] | |||
| EAS2026 | Desire and Power: English Literature 1570-1640 | 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 |
| EAS2036 | Theatrical Cultures in Early Modern England | 30 | No |
| EGLS S2 BA Group 2 (post-1750) opt 2019-0 [See note c above] | |||
| EAF2502 | Shots in the Dark | 30 | No |
| 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 |
| EAS2112 | Empire of Liberty: American Literature, 1776 to Present | 30 | No |
| EGLS S2 BA Group 3 (non-periodised) opt 2019-0 [See note c above] | |||
| 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 |
| HUM HUM2000-HUM2001 | |||
| HUM2000 | Humanities in the Workplace | 30 | No |
| HUM2001 | Humanities in the Workplace | 15 | No |
Stage 3
120 credits of compulsory modules.
For your year abroad you will agree a suite of modules in your host institution with the College Study Abroad Coordinator. Details of individual modules that may be taken whilst abroad can be found by accessing the partner institution’s factfile at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/international/abroad/where/ and navigating to the “Course Requirements” section of that factfile where a link to the modules on offer in the partner institution is displayed.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUM3999 | Year Abroad | 120 | Yes |
Stage 4
0-30 credits of compulsory English modules, 0-30 credits of compulsory Drama modules, 30-60 credits of optional English modules, and 30-60 credits of optional Drama modules.
d select a Dissertation in either Drama or English: DRA3094 or EAS3003 or EAS3122 (you cannot choose more than one module from this group).
e if selecting EAS3003 or EAS3122, select 60 credits from this list of optional Drama modules.
f if selecting DRA3094, select 60 credits from this list of optional English modules.
Compulsory Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRA3094 | Theatre Dissertation [See note d above] | 30 | No |
| English and Creative Writing dissertation modules [See note d above] | |||
| EAS3003 | Dissertation | 30 | No |
| EAS3122 | Creative Writing Dissertation | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
| Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
|---|---|---|---|
| DRA SF BA SH and CH opt 2019-0 [See note e above] | |||
| DRA3009 | Theatre Practice II: Directing | 30 | No |
| DRA3011 | Practice II: Technical Specialisation | 30 | No |
| DRA3012 | Theatre Practice I: Applied Drama | 30 | No |
| DRA3024 | Restoration Theatre:Culture and Politics | 30 | No |
| DRA3030 | Interpretative Acting II | 30 | No |
| DRA3050 | Creative Industries Management | 30 | No |
| DRA3075 | Playwriting | 30 | No |
| DRA3097 | Social Practice in Art and Performance | 30 | No |
| DRA3088 | Women and Theatre 1700-1928 | 30 | No |
| EGLS SF BA CH opt 2019-0 [See note f above] | |||
| AHV3004 | Victorian Visions: Art, Industry and the Modern | 30 | No |
| EAF3106 | Female Screens: Representation, Agency and Authorship | 30 | No |
| EAF3233 | Surrealism and Its Legacies | 30 | No |
| EAF3501 | American Independent Film | 30 | No |
| EAF3515 | Something to See: War and Visual Media | 30 | No |
| EAF3513 | British Screens | 30 | No |
| EAF3517 | Queering British Cinema | 30 | No |
| EAS3100 | Hardy and Women Who Did: the Coming of Modernity | 30 | No |
| EAS3128 | Writing the Short Film | 30 | No |
| EAS3131 | Advanced Critical Theory | 30 | No |
| EAS3134 | Serious Play: Creative Writing Workshop | 30 | No |
| EAS3177 | India Uncovered - Representations in Film and Fiction | 30 | No |
| EAS3179 | Life and Death in Early Modern Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3180 | Literature/Anti-Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3181 | Visual and Literary Cultures of Realism | 30 | No |
| EAS3182 | Encountering the Other in Medieval Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3183 | After Homer: Poetry, Fiction, Film | 30 | No |
| EAS3190 | African Narratives | 30 | No |
| EAS3191 | Writing for Children and Young Adults | 30 | No |
| EAS3194 | Resource Fictions: Oil, Water and Conflict in the World-System | 30 | No |
| EAS3195 | Acts of Writing: From Decolonisation to Globalisation | 30 | No |
| EAS3198 | The Death of the Novel | 30 | No |
| EAS3199 | Publishing Contemporary Literature: History, Practice, Theory | 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 |
| EAS3226 | Modern Irish Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3228 | Romance from Chaucer to Shakespeare | 30 | No |
| EAS3231 | Spectacular Bodies: Shakespeare and Counter-cultural Performance | 30 | No |
| EAS3234 | Citizens of the World | 30 | No |
| EAS3235 | American Modern | 30 | No |
| EAS3237 | The Rise of Science | 30 | No |
| EAS3238 | Mystery and Manners: The American Short Story | 30 | No |
| EAS3248 | Against the Mainstream: Alternative Comics, Politics, and US Society | 30 | No |
| EAS3250 | Insurgent Narratives: Class Warfare and Modern Literature | 30 | No |
| EAS3408 | Poetry and Politics | 30 | No |
| EAS3409 | Ghosts, Witches and Demons: the Renaissance Supernatural | 30 | No |
| EAS3411 | Speaking Animals: Literature and Interspecies Relations | 30 | No |
| EAS3241 | Harlem and After: African American Literature 1925-present | 30 | No |
| EAS3246 | Food and Literature in Early Modern England | 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: | |
1. Identify English and Drama as broad subject disciplines | ILOs 1-9 are acquired through lectures, seminars, workshops, studio-based sessions, rehearsals, study groups, tutorials and other learning activities throughout the programme. The degree of specialisation of subject knowledge increases during the programme, culminating in the dissertation and special subject modules. Modules at final stage are most closely related to the research specialism of the staff teaching the module. The precise method of teaching varies according to each module. On team-taught modules you will normally engage in both lectures and seminar groups. In smaller options you will normally spend most of your contact time in seminar groups and workshops. Your learning is further developed through engagement with assessments, following guidance from tutors and lecturers and through feedback on work submitted. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of methods, which may include presentations, performance, and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, portfolios, essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. The assessment criteria pay full recognition to the importance of the various skills outlined. |
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: | |
10. Draw thematic comparisons between materials from different sources. | These skills are developed throughout the programme in all modules, with the emphasis becoming more complex as you move from stage to stage. They are developed through lectures, seminars, and studio work; written work, and oral work (both in practical presentation and seminar discussion), and reinforced through the range of modules across all stages. They will culminate in the substantial and independent research skills demonstrated within the dissertation and final stage modules. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. |
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: | |
16. Apply advanced literacy and communication skills in appropriate contexts including the ability to present sustained and persuasive written and oral arguments. | Personal and key skills are delivered through all modules, and developed in lectures, workshops, study groups, tutorials, work experience and other learning activities throughout the programme. | The assessment of these skills is through a combination of presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation. ILOs 16-21 are also strongly developed in the course of the assessed essays and other written work produced through all stages. These assessments work on the principle of offering formative feedback to support the development of your written work within as well as between modules. Feedback on one assignment is intended to inform the next piece of work you undertake on the module; the next piece of work on the programme, or the future learning of graduates. ILO 22 is associated especially with the range of group presentations, performances, studio-based sessions and practical tasks taking place in modules during all stages. Group presentation assessment brings into focus an important range of skills for students, including sharing workloads, responsibility for tasks, team-working, collaborative and communicative skills. Individual contributions to group work are also assessed individually, most often in the form of a reflective presentation report or reflective portfolio. ILOs 23-25 are also accomplished in the course of ‘real-time’ formal assessments such as presentations, performances, and end of module exams, which occur in all three levels of the programme. ILO 26 is particularly related to the optional module ‘Humanities in the Workplace’, and to the range of work conducted in the field beyond the University. ILOs 27-28 are developed through the language tuition in stages 1 and 2 and in the year abroad.
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7. Programme Regulations
Programme-specific Progression Rules
To progress to Stage 2 you must achieve an average mark of at least 60% in Stage 1, otherwise 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 Year Abroad are selected.
The Year Abroad 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 Drama with Study Abroad. If you fail the Year Abroad module your degree title will be commuted to BA English and Drama. You will be assessed by your host university during your academic year abroad with their grades converted back to Exeter grades to contribute towards your degree classification. The rules governing failure and referral will be determined by the host institution.
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
All students within English and Drama have a personal tutor for their entire programme of study and who are available at advertised ‘office hours’. There are induction sessions to orientate you at the start of your programme. A personal tutoring system will operate with regular communication throughout the programme. Academic support will be also be provided by module leaders. You can also make an appointment to see individual teaching staff.
The College complies with the Code of Practice on Study and Work Experience Abroad. The name of the member of staff acting as the programme’s co-ordinator for study abroad is made known to you before you leave Exeter, and this person is responsible for liaison and oversight of your progress during the year abroad. Contact will be maintained with you during your year abroad by regular email communication.
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.
(http://as.exeter.ac.uk/support/admin/staff/qualityassuranceandmonitoring/tqamanual/fullcontents/)
12. Indicators of Quality and Standards
The programme is not subject to accreditation and/ or review by professional and statutory regulatory bodies (PSRBs).
13. Methods for Evaluating and Improving Quality and Standards
The University and its constituent Colleges review the quality and standard of teaching and learning in all taught programmes against a range of criteria through the procedures outlined in the Teaching Quality Assurance (TQA) Manual Quality Review Framework.
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 Drama with Study Abroad
19. UCAS Code
WQ35
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
| CATS credits | ECTS credits |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
[Honours] Dance, drama and performance
[Honours] English
23. Dates
| Origin Date | 01/11/2011 |
Date of last revision | 19/08/2019 |
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