Programme Specification for the 2024/5 academic year
BA (Hons) English with Study Abroad
1. Programme Details
Programme name | BA (Hons) English with Study Abroad | Programme code | UFA4EGLEGL10 |
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Study mode(s) | Full Time Part Time |
Academic year | 2024/5 |
Campus(es) | Streatham (Exeter) |
NQF Level of the Final Award | 6 (Honours) |
2. Description of the Programme
The English programme offers you the opportunity to study a wide and exciting range of modules in literature and creative writing. Adopting both critical and creative approaches, the programme seeks to develop your understanding of a wide range of genres and literatures in English. Modules are taught by staff with expertise in literature from the Middle Ages to the present and in creative writing practices in poetry, prose and screen-writing. The programme moves from an initial foundation year towards greater choice and a higher degree of specialisation in the latter years. You will develop to the stage where, in your final year, what you study, how you approach it, and how you communicate what you have found are closely aligned with the practices of the research-active academics who teach you during seminars.
Our programmes at Exeter encourage you to ask challenging questions about the nature of literary and other texts. When you read Troilus and Criseyde and Jane Eyre, you will be prompted to ask not only what they mean, but also how they make those meanings. Who were they written for? How do they compare with other works of the same or different periods? How do they relate to the historical and social conditions in which they were produced? At the end of three years, you will have acquired a wide and detailed knowledge of English. You will also have developed into the sort of independent, self-motivated researcher who is ready for postgraduate study and for a broad range of graduate employment.
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 aims to:
- engage you imaginatively in the process of understanding and analysing complex and sophisticated literary and non-literary texts.
- involve you in a wide range of teaching programmes with broad historical coverage, content, and methodology
- promote a sense of the complex social, cultural, and aesthetic interactions between the production and reception of literary and non-literary texts.
- encourage you to acquire the critical tools necessary to reflect upon the production and reception of texts.
- provide an intellectually stimulating and satisfying experience of learning and studying, whilst encouraging a sense of the distinctive social and cultural importance of English.
- provide a basis for further study in English or related disciplines, and for teachers of English at all levels.
- develop a range of subject specific, academic and transferable skills, including high order conceptual literacy and communication skills of value in graduate employment and to enable you to develop your career paths through these means.
4. Programme Structure
5. Programme Modules
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/study/studyinformation/
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.
You may take elective modules up to 30 credits outside of the programme in any stage of the programme 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
90 credits of compulsory modules, 30 credits of optional modules
Compulsory Modules
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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EAS1032 | Approaches to Criticism | 30 | No |
EAS1035 | Beginnings: English Literature before 1800 | 30 | No |
EAS1038 | The Poem | 15 | No |
EAS1040 | Academic English | 15 | No |
Optional Modules
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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EAS SH Stage 1 Option Modules 2024-5 | |||
EAS1035 | Beginnings: English Literature before 1800 | 30 | No |
EAS1016 | Digital Creativity | 15 | No |
EAS1037 | The Novel | 15 | No |
EAS1041 | Rethinking Shakespeare | 15 | No |
EAS1042 | Write after Reading | 30 | No |
EAS1044 | Imagine This: Prompts for Creative Writing | 15 | No |
EAS1045 | The Essay: Form and Content | 15 | No |
HUM1001 | Enter the Matrix: Digital Perspectives on the Humanities | 15 | No |
LIB1105 | Being Human in the Modern World | 30 | No |
Stage 2
120 credits of optional modules.
Optional Modules
a You must choose at least one module from this group : you may select 30-60 credits of optional modules from this group
b You may select 0-60 credits of optional modules from this group (although you are not required to choose any from this group)
c You must choose at least one module from this group : you may select 30-60 credits of optional modules from this group
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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EAS Stage 2 Pre-1750 Option Modules 2024-5 [see note a 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 |
EAS Stage 2 Post-1750 Option Modules 2024-5 [see note b 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 |
EAS 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 |
LIB2000 | Think Tank | 15 | 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? |
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HUM3999 | Year Abroad | 120 | No |
Stage 4
60 credits of compulsory modules, 60 credits of optional modules
Compulsory Modules
d You must select EAS3003: Dissertation or EAS3122: Creative writing Dissertation or EAS3510 Dissertation by Collaborative Project (you cannot choose more than one module from this group).
e You must select either EAS3195: Acts of Writing: From Decolonisation to Globalisation, EAS3179: Life and Death in Early Modern Literature or EAS3234: Citizens of the World
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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EAS3003 | Dissertation [see note d above] | 30 | No |
EAS3122 | Creative Writing Dissertation [see note d above] | 30 | No |
EAS3510 | Dissertation by Collaborative Project [see note d above] | 30 | No |
EAS3195 | Acts of Writing: From Decolonisation to Globalisation [see note e above] | 30 | No |
EAS3179 | Life and Death in Early Modern Literature [see note e above] | 30 | No |
EAS3234 | Citizens of the World [see note e above] | 30 | No |
Optional Modules
Code | Module | Credits | Non-condonable? |
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EAS 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 |
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 |
EAS3415 | The Development of British Childrens Literature | 30 | No |
EAS3421 | Picturing the Global City: Literature and Visual Culture in the 21st Century | 30 | No |
EAS3500 | American Counterculture in Literature | 30 | No |
EAS3502 | Shakespeare and Crisis | 30 | No |
EAS3503 | Migration, Literature and Culture | 30 | No |
EAS3504 | Surrealism and its Legacies | 30 | No |
EAS3507 | Writing Song Lyrics | 30 | No |
EAS3414 | Jane Austen: In and Out of Context | 30 | No |
EAS3194 | Resource Fictions: Oil, Water and Conflict in the World-System | 30 | No |
EAS3196 | Charles Dickens: Novelist, Journalist and Reformer | 30 | No |
EAS3228 | Romance from Chaucer to Shakespeare | 30 | No |
EAS3253 | Modern Irish Literature: Rebels and Radicals | 30 | No |
EAS3312 | Adventures in Technique (Poetry) | 30 | No |
EAS3100 | Hardy and Women Who Did: the Coming of Modernity | 30 | No |
EAS3246 | Food and Literature in Early Modern England | 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 |
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... | |
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...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
1. Identify English as a broad subject discipline | A1-8 are acquired through lectures, seminars, workshops, 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. Modules at stage 4 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 presentations and participation in seminars, log-books, web-based assessments, essays, exams, other written reports/projects, and a dissertation or final project. Essays, exams and presentations are especially significant within the programme because they assess each of the skills, A1-A8. The assessment criteria pay full recognition to the importance of the various skills outlined.
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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... | |
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...accommodated and facilitated by the following learning and teaching activities (in/out of class): | ...and evidenced by the following assessment methods: | |
9. Apply critical skills in the close reading and analysis of texts | These skills are developed throughout the programme in all modules, with the emphasis becoming more complex as students move from stage to stage. They are developed through lectures and seminars, written work, and oral work (both in presentation and seminar discussion), and reinforced through the range of modules across the programme. They will culminate in the substantial and independent research skills demonstrated within the dissertation or final project. | 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 or final project. |
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... | |
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...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 or final project. Outcomes C16-21 are also strongly developed in the course of the portfolio of assessed essays and other written work produced through the programme. 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. Outcome C22 is associated especially with the range of group presentations taking place in modules during the programme. 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. C23-24 are also accomplished in the course of ‘real-time’ formal assessments such as presentations which occur through the programme as well as the final dissertation/project. C25 is embedded in all our modules. C26 is particularly related to the optional module ‘Humanities in the Workplace’, to the study abroad and/or employment experience variants of the programme and/or to the workplace-facing final project that may be taken in lieu of the traditional dissertation. |
7. Programme Regulations
Programme-specific Progression Rules
To progress to Stage 2 you must also achieve an average mark of at least 60% in Stage 1, otherwise you will be required to transfer to the relevant 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 with Study Abroad. If you fail the Year Abroad module your degree title will be commuted to BA English. 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
8. College Support for Students and Students' Learning
All students within English have a personal tutor for their entire programme of study and who are available for at least three hours a week at advertised ‘office hours’. There are induction sessions to orientate students at the start of their 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.
9. University Support for Students and Students' Learning
10. Admissions Criteria
11. Regulation of Assessment and Academic Standards
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
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 with Study Abroad
19. UCAS Code
Q313
20. NQF Level of Final Award
6 (Honours)
21. Credit
CATS credits | ECTS credits |
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22. QAA Subject Benchmarking Group
[Honours] English
23. Dates
Origin Date | 31/01/2005 |
Date of last revision | 24/06/2021 |
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