Programme Specification for the 2019/0 academic year

MA English Literary Studies

1. Programme Details

Programme name	MA English Literary Studies	Programme code	PTA1EGLEGL11
Study mode(s)	Full Time Level 1	Academic year	2019/0
Campus(es)	Streatham (Exeter)	NQF Level of the Final Award	7 (Masters)

2. Description of the Programme

This Masters programme is aimed at the study of literature, culture and film, and embraces the particular strengths of the Department of English and Film at Exeter. Our flexible programme enables you to choose either a specific pathway or a selection of modules. If you elect to specialise, you will have one of these pathways named in your degree title. You are free on the general programme to choose from all modules on offer in each year. The programme suits students interested in the areas of literature, culture, or film studies. It is specifically designed for those seeking high level training prior to embarking on doctoral research, recent graduates wishing to extend and enhance their studies by a year before taking up a career, individuals already in employment who are interested in career development, and those who simply wish to broaden their intellectual horizons.

English and Film at Exeter
Our Masters degrees offer excellent opportunities to broaden and deepen your work in English and Film studies and to learn the skills needed for further postgraduate research. The English Literary Studies MA offers an unusually large choice of modules and pathways, with expert tuition in all areas of English and Film including Early Modern and Renaissance studies, Romanticism, Victorian literature, American and Atlantic studies, Modern, Contemporary and World Literature, Critical Theory and Film Studies. Many of our MA students go on to undertake PhD research here, where they are joined by research students from universities from across the world. The Queen’s Building, where the Department of English and Film is based, offers a dedicated postgraduate common room with computer facilities and a number of study carrels available for research students.

You will join a vibrant postgraduate and research community. The department hosts a series of events, conferences and symposia every year and is home to several research groups and centres, including the Centre for Victorian Studies, The Centre for Interdisciplinary Film Research and the Centre for Literature and Archives. The College of Humanities has invested £1.2 million into Digital Humanities to create a new lab and research space for the examination and preservation of important historical, literary and visual artefacts. The lab will allow you to use high-tech equipment to find out more about our cultural heritage, examine items in greater detail and share discoveries with the public. For more information view our Digital Humanities Lab page.

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

To offer an in-depth, focused and critical degree which is based on the latest research in major areas of English Literary and/or Film Studies and which combines a wide-ranging choice of modules with the option to specialise through one of the pathways.
To develop academic and individual skills that equip students for further study, employment, or further professional development, and to foster intellectual agility and adaptability, so as to enable them to deploy these skills to implement systematic and balanced judgements in a variety of circumstances.
To provide methodological skills and specialist knowledge, for advanced study or research in various fields, for professional development, or for employment.
To provide a stimulating and supportive environment for students that is informed by research.

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://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/postgraduate/

A more in-depth description of each module is also available from the following pages:

http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities/studying/postgraduatetaught/modules/

You may take one optional module up to 30 credits outside of the English Literary Studies MA from the MA Creative Writing 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. This replaces a 30 credit optional module from the English Literary Studies MA

Providing you have not taken 30 optional credits from the MA Creative Writing, you may take elective modules up to 30 credits from another MA programme offered at the University (subject to availability, and where appropriate, the required prerequisites. This replaces a 30 credit optional module from the English Literary Studies MA.

Please note that English Literary Studies and Creative Writing are distinct MA programmes. You must be enrolled on the MA English Literary Studies to undertake a dissertation in English Literary Studies.

A choice of pathway affects the options you are expected to take: consult section 7 below. The modules we outline here provide examples of what you can expect to learn on this degree programme based on recent academic teaching. The precise modules available to you in future years may vary depending on staff availability and research interests, new emergent areas of study, timetabling and student demand.

Stage 1

60 credits of compulsory modules and 120 credits of optional modules (you may take up 30 credits from the MA Creative Writing)

Compulsory Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
EASM023	Dissertation	60	Yes

Optional Modules

Code	Module	Credits	Non-condonable?
EGLS MA ELS Term 1 opt 2019-0
EAFM081	Hearing Film: Film Sound and Music	30	No
EASM099	Making Progress? Literature in a Changing Environment	30	No
EASM142	Revival and Return: Using the Past from Pope to Keats	30	No
EASM151	Modernism and Material Culture	30	No
EASM152	Criticism and Theory: Critical and Literary Theory in a Global Context	30	No
EASM154	The Body and Identity	30	No
EASM160	Renaissance Space	30	No
EASM171	Expanding Queerness: Critical Debates in Theory, Literature, Film and Television	30	No
EASM172	African American Avant-Gardes	30	No
EASM173	Postcolonial Studies: Literature, Theory, Practice	30	No
EGLS MA ELS Term 2 opt 2019-0
EAFM088	Sense, Sensation and Cinema	30	No
EASM100	The Cultures of American Modernism	30	No
EASM106	Criticism and Theory: Current Debates	30	No
EASM109	Bodies Politic: Cultural and Sexual Politics in England, 1603-1679	30	No
EASM150	Empire, Decadence and Modernity: Literature 1870-1910	30	No
EASM157	The Literature of Cold War America	30	No
EASM167	World Cinema / World Literature	30	No
EASM168	Victorian Things: Nineteenth-Century Material Culture	30	No
EASM169	Publishing and Power: Black and Asian Literary Networks in the UK	30	No
EASM170	Environmental Humanities: Cultures, Theories, and Methods	30	No
EGLS MA CW Term 1 opt 2019-0
EASM121	The Poetry of Events - Building a Plot	30	No
EASM144	Image, Shape and Music	30	No
EASM166	Prose Writing Workshop	30	No
EGLS MA CW Term 2 opt 2019-0
EASM122	Writing for the Screen	30	No
EASM133	The Structures of Realism	30	No
EASM166	Prose Writing Workshop	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. Demonstrate a sophisticated and intellectually mature ability to analyse literature and/or film and to relate its concerns and its modes of expression to its historical and other contexts 2. Demonstrate an advanced and autonomous ability to interrelate texts and discourses specific to their own discipline with issues in the wider context of cultural and intellectual history 3. Demonstrate an advanced and autonomous ability to understand and analyse relevant theoretical ideas, and to apply these ideas to literary texts and/or films 4. Demonstrate an advanced and precise ability to work from the detail of literary texts, with a full appreciation of their formal aspects 5. Demonstrate an advanced ability to digest, select, and organise interdisciplinary material and to trace the development of debate across disciplinary boundaries	The taught components of the MA English Literary Studies are delivered in the first two terms, leaving the third for your dissertation. Modules are taught in seminar groups, with lots of time for discussion and interaction. In seminars you will be expected to take part in debate and present your work. Seminars will be supported, where relevant, by film screenings, field trips and archival trips to the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum. We believe in collaborative, small group learning and teaching for your modules will be delivered through seminar groups. You will be encouraged to discuss your ideas and interact with your fellow students and academic staff. You will be expected to play an active role in debating and presenting your work. Throughout your programme you will develop and enhance your communication, analytical, and critical thinking skills. On your modules you will be assisted by the coursework you produce such as critical essays. The final assessment piece will be your dissertation, the culmination of your programme of study. You will conceive, plan, research and write an independently researched 15 000 word dissertation that will display your subject knowledge and methodological skills. The dissertation is your opportunity to explore a topic that interests you in greater detail, something which may form the basis of further research or other portfolio. Read more at http://www.exeter.ac.uk/postgraduate/taught/english/english-ma/#U66b3Hyy8h023XtQ.99	Modes of assessment are combined in a varied way across each module in line with the module’s intended learning outcomes. Students should consult module descriptors for a detailed breakdown of assessment modes within each module.The range of assessment modes employed across the programme include the following individual and group presentations research reports critical essay creative portfolio annotated bibliographies dissertation

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. Demonstrate a sophisticated and intellectually mature ability to analyse literature and/or film and to relate its concerns and its modes of expression to its historical and other contexts
2. Demonstrate an advanced and autonomous ability to interrelate texts and discourses specific to their own discipline with issues in the wider context of cultural and intellectual history
3. Demonstrate an advanced and autonomous ability to understand and analyse relevant theoretical ideas, and to apply these ideas to literary texts and/or films
4. Demonstrate an advanced and precise ability to work from the detail of literary texts, with a full appreciation of their formal aspects
5. Demonstrate an advanced ability to digest, select, and organise interdisciplinary material and to trace the development of debate across disciplinary boundaries

The taught components of the MA English Literary Studies are delivered in the first two terms, leaving the third for your dissertation. Modules are taught in seminar groups, with lots of time for discussion and interaction. In seminars you will be expected to take part in debate and present your work. Seminars will be supported, where relevant, by film screenings, field trips and archival trips to the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum.

We believe in collaborative, small group learning and teaching for your modules will be delivered through seminar groups. You will be encouraged to discuss your ideas and interact with your fellow students and academic staff. You will be expected to play an active role in debating and presenting your work. Throughout your programme you will develop and enhance your communication, analytical, and critical thinking skills.

On your modules you will be assisted by the coursework you produce such as critical essays. The final assessment piece will be your dissertation, the culmination of your programme of study. You will conceive, plan, research and write an independently researched 15 000 word dissertation that will display your subject knowledge and methodological skills. The dissertation is your opportunity to explore a topic that interests you in greater detail, something which may form the basis of further research or other portfolio.

Modes of assessment are combined in a varied way across each module in line with the module’s intended learning outcomes. Students should consult module descriptors for a detailed breakdown of assessment modes within each module.The range of assessment modes employed across the programme include the following

individual and group presentations
research reports
critical essay
creative portfolio
annotated bibliographies
dissertation

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:
6. Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the area under investigation, employing relevant conceptual frameworks and creative processes to the topic of investigation 7. Define a research topic and devise and sustain a complex process of independent research into the field of English Literary Studies and/or Film Studies 8. Engage critically and analytically with selected theoretical approaches appropriate to your chosen pathway (if applicable) and thereby gain an overview of your chosen field	As above	ILO 6: Methods 1-6 listed above ILO 7: Dissertation ILO 8: Methods 1-6 listed above

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:

6. Demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the area under investigation, employing relevant conceptual frameworks and creative processes to the topic of investigation
7. Define a research topic and devise and sustain a complex process of independent research into the field of English Literary Studies and/or Film Studies
8. Engage critically and analytically with selected theoretical approaches appropriate to your chosen pathway (if applicable) and thereby gain an overview of your chosen field

As above

ILO 6: Methods 1-6 listed above

ILO 7: Dissertation

ILO 8: Methods 1-6 listed above

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:
9. Demonstrate initiative and originality in problem solving, act autonomously at a professional level, and make decisions in complex and unpredictable situations 10. Work effectively in a group, clarifying tasks and making professional use of personal resources to negotiate and manage conflict, to achieve advanced research or creative tasks 11. Engage confidently in academic and professional discourse	As above	ILO 9: Methods 1-6 listed above, especially the dissertation ILO 10: group presentations; written group assignments ILO 11: Methods 1-6 listed above

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:

9. Demonstrate initiative and originality in problem solving, act autonomously at a professional level, and make decisions in complex and unpredictable situations
10. Work effectively in a group, clarifying tasks and making professional use of personal resources to negotiate and manage conflict, to achieve advanced research or creative tasks
11. Engage confidently in academic and professional discourse

As above

ILO 9: Methods 1-6 listed above, especially the dissertation

ILO 10: group presentations; written group assignments

ILO 11: Methods 1-6 listed above

7. Programme Regulations

Programme-specific Award Rules

Our flexible programme enables you to choose either a specific pathway or a selection of modules, which might be at a much later date than date of entry to the MA English Literary Studies. All students graduate with an MA English Literary Studies, but if you elect to specialise, you will have one of the following pathways named in your degree title:

American and Atlantic Studies

The programme comprises modules of at least 60 credits from these specialist modules and the EASM023: Dissertation module must be relevant to the field of American and Atlantic Studies:

Code	Title	Credits
EASM100	The Cultures of American Modernism	30
EASM157	The Literature of Cold War America	30
EASM172	African American Avant-Garde	30

Criticism and Theory

The programme comprises modules of at least 60 credits from these specialist modules and the EASM023: Dissertation module must be relevant to the field of Criticism and Theory:

Code	Title	Credits
EASM106	Criticism and Theory: Current Debates	30
EASM152	Criticism and Theory: Critical and Literary Theory in a Global Context	30
EASM171	Expanding Queerness: Critical Debates in Theory, Literature, Film and Television	30
EASM173	Postcolonial Studies: Literature, Theory, Practice	30

Enlightenment to Romanticism

The programme comprises modules of at least 60 credits from these specialist modules and the EASM023: Dissertation module must be relevant to the field of Enlightenment to Romanticism:

Code	Title	Credits
EASM142	Revival and Return: Using the Past from Pope to Keats	30
EASM154	The Body and Identity	30

Film Studies

The programme comprises modules of at least 60 credits from these specialist modules and the EASM023: Dissertation module must be relevant to the field of Film Studies:

Code	Title	Credits
EAFM081	Hearing Film: Film Sound and Music	30
EAFM088	Sense, Sensation, and Cinema	30
EASM167	World Cinema/World Literature	30

Modern and Contemporary Studies

The programme comprises modules of at least 60 credits from these specialist modules and the EASM023: Dissertation module must be relevant to the field of Modern and Contemporary Studies:

Code	Title	Credits
EASM151	Modernism and Material Culture	30
EASM171	Expanding Queerness: Critical Debates in Theory, Literature, Film and Television	30
EASM100	Cultures of American Modernism	30
EASM167	World Cinema/World Literature	30

Renaissance Studies

The programme comprises modules of at least 60 credits from these specialist modules and the EASM023: Dissertation module must be relevant to the field of Renaissance Studies:

Code	Title	Credits
EASM109	Bodies Politic: Cultural and Sexual Politics in England, 1603-85	30
EASM160	Renaissance Space	30

Victorian Studies

The programme comprises modules of at least 60 credits from these specialist modules and the EASM023: Dissertation module must be relevant to the field of Victorian Studies:

Code	Title	Credits
EASM150	Empire, Decadence and Modernity: Literature 1870-1910	30
EASM099	Making Progress? Literature in a Changing Environment 1830-1870	30

You may want to consider the two specialist modules below should you wish to complete 120 credits in Victorian Studies. These two modules are not pathway bearing:

Code	Title	Credits
EASM152	Criticism and Theory: Critical and Literary Theory in a Global Context	30
EASM168	Victorian Things: Nineteenth-Century Material Culture	30

World and Postcolonial Cultures

The programme comprises modules of at least 60 credits from these specialist modules and the EASM023: Dissertation module must be relevant to the field of World and Postcolonial Cultures:

Code	Title	Credits
EASM173	Postcolonial Studies: Literature, Theory, Practice	30
EASM167	World Cinema/World Literature	30
EASM169	Black and Asian British Publishing	30
EASM170	Environmental Humanities: Cultures, Theories, and Methods	30

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

Personal and Academic tutoring: It is University policy that all Colleges should have in place a system of academic and personal tutors. The role of academic tutors is to support you on individual modules; the role of personal tutors is to provide you with advice and support for the duration of the programme and extends to providing you with details of how to obtain support and guidance on personal difficulties such as accommodation, financial difficulties and sickness. You can also make an appointment to see individual teaching staff.

Student/Staff Liaison Committee enables students & staff to jointly participate in the management and review of the teaching and learning provision

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

18. Final Award

MA English Literary Studies

19. UCAS Code

C01F

20. NQF Level of Final Award

7 (Masters)

21. Credit

CATS credits		ECTS credits

22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group

23. Dates

Origin Date	01/01/2012	Date of last revision	19/08/2019

Programme Specification for the 2019/0 academic year

MA English Literary Studies

1. Programme Details

2. Description of the Programme

3. Educational Aims of the Programme

4. Programme Structure

5. Programme Modules

Stage 1

Compulsory Modules

Optional Modules

6. Programme Outcomes Linked to Teaching, Learning and Assessment Methods

Intended Learning Outcomes A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge

7. Programme Regulations

8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning

9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning

10. Admissions Criteria

11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards

12. Indicators of Quality and Standards

13. Methods for Evaluating and Improving Quality and Standards

14. Awarding Institution

15. Lead College / Teaching Institution

16. Partner College / Institution

Partner College(s)

Partner Institution

17. Programme Accredited / Validated by

18. Final Award

19. UCAS Code

20. NQF Level of Final Award

21. Credit

22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group

23. Dates

Intended Learning Outcomes
A: Specialised Subject Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes
B: Academic Discipline Core Skills and Knowledge

Intended Learning Outcomes
C: Personal/Transferable/Employment Skills and Knowledge