Programme Specification
MA English
Academic Year: 2014/15
This specification provides a concise summary of the main features of the programme and the learning outcomes that a typical student might reasonably be expected to achieve and demonstrate if full advantage is taken of the learning opportunities that are provided.
This specification applies to delivery of the programme in the Academic Year indicated above. Prospective students reviewing this information for a later year of study should be aware that these details are subject to change as outlined in our Terms and Conditions of Study.
This specification should be read in conjunction with:
- Reg. XXI (Postgraduate Awards) (see University Regulations)
- Module Specifications
- Summary
- Aims
- Learning outcomes
- Structure
- Progression & weighting
Programme summary
Awarding body/institution | Loughborough University |
Teaching institution (if different) | |
Owning school/department | Department of English and Drama - pre 2017 |
Details of accreditation by a professional/statutory body | |
Final award | MA/ PGDip /PGCert |
Programme title | English |
Programme code | EAPT31, EAPT32 |
Length of programme | The minimum duration of the programme is one calendar year full-time, two calendar years part-time. |
UCAS code | |
Admissions criteria | http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/courses/departments/englishanddrama/english/ |
Date at which the programme specification was published | Mon, 09 Jun 2014 17:19:59 BST |
1. Programme Aims
- to provide an intellectually stimulating environment and an academic context in which critical analysis of written texts is valued;
- to provide students with a comprehensive introduction to current thinking and debate in the key areas of literary and linguistic studies;
- to enable students to gain a deeper knowledge and understanding of language and literature through specialist study and research;
- to develop students’ skills and competences in the full range of research methods and techniques relevant to the investigation of language and literature;
- to enhance students’ ability to question existing theories and research findings on the basis of a thorough knowledge and understanding of relevant theoretical frameworks and research methods;
- to enable students to appreciate alternative models, perspectives and procedures within literary and language studies;
- to require students to demonstrate their command of relevant concepts, theories and methods by undertaking a series of coursework assignments, and devising and executing a sustained piece of original writing on a topic of their choice to be presented in their dissertation;
- to enhance students’ career and employment opportunities on graduating.
2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external reference points used to inform programme outcomes:
- The Benchmark Statement for English
- Framework for Higher Education Qualifications (FHEQ)
3. Programme Learning Outcomes
3.1 Knowledge and Understanding
On successful completion of the programme, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in the following areas:
- the major traditions, theories and frameworks of inquiry relevant to the analysis of texts;
- contemporary debates on appropriate frameworks and theories;
- the cultural and socio-historical contexts in which texts are produced and read;
- the multi-faced nature of the discipline and its relationship to other disciplines and forms of knowledge.
3.2 Skills and other attributes
a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- demonstrate an awareness of generic conventions;
- employ bibliographic skills appropriate to the discipline, including accurate citation of texts and scholarly conventions of presentation;
- apply and adapt conceptual frameworks to literary texts;
- understand how different social and cultural contexts affect the nature of language and meaning.
b. Subject-specific practical skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to
- demonstrate a capacity to develop appropriate strategies to address ideas or themes in self-chosen projects;
- engage with and evaluate major philosophies and doctrines and the impact these have on texts;
- analyse new and emerging trends in the study of English;
- assess the relevance of current critical thinking to the interpretation of texts.
c. Key transferable skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to
- retrieve information from both electronic and hard-copy sources and critically evaluate these sources;
- comprehend and develop intricate ideas in an open-ended way;
- demonstrate well-developed writing and interpersonal communication skills;
- deliver required work to a given brief, format, length and deadline.
4. Programme structure
4.1 To be eligible for consideration for these awards, students must obtain appropriate credit from the following compulsory and optional modules.
Compulsory modules account for a total of 80 credits to 130 credits, depending on Pathway. Other credits should be chosen from the list of optional modules so as to bring the total number of credits to 180.
Negotiated Pathway
Students are permitted to register for the Negotiated Pathway, and select, with guidance from the Programme Tutor, a combination of modules that is not available on any other Pathway, but which has academic coherence. (Please see table overleaf for list of modules.)
Students on the Negotiated Pathway are not permitted to study more than one asterisked* module per semester.
Semester 1
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Compulsory |
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EAP010 |
Research Methods |
20 credits |
Semester 2 |
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Compulsory |
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EAP018 |
Dissertation |
60 credits |
Semester 1 |
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Optional |
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EAP002 |
Departures* |
20 credits |
EAP003 |
Victorian Views |
20 credits |
EAP006 |
Special Subject 1 (by prior arrangement only) |
20 credits |
EAP011 |
History, Nation and Difference |
20 credits |
EAP012 |
Modernist and Contemporary Genres |
20 credits |
EAP020 |
Early-Modern Texts in Performance |
20 credits |
EAP021 |
Early-Modern Contexts: Power, Gender, Religion and Race |
20 credits |
EAP041 |
Discourse as Social Practice |
20 credits |
EAP045 |
Critical Thinking |
20 credits |
EAP046 |
Perspectives* |
20 credits |
EAP052 |
On the Road: American Travel and its Meanings |
20 credits |
Semester 2 |
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Optional |
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EAP001 |
Diversions* |
30 credits |
EAP005 |
Modern and Contemporary Texts in Performance |
30 credits |
EAP007 |
Special Subject 2 |
30 credits |
EAP013 |
The American Novel Now |
30 credits |
EAP023 |
Writing and the English Revolution |
30 credits |
EAP024 |
Restoration Writings |
30 credits |
EAP027 |
Court Cultures |
30 credits |
EAP028 |
History and History Plays: Description, Desire & Prescription |
30 credits |
EAP029 |
(Im)politeness: Theories and Applications |
30 credits |
EAP047 |
Exploring the Early-Modern Body |
30 credits |
EAP053 |
Writers and the Writing Industries* |
30 credits |
EAP055 |
Romantic Representations of the South Pacific |
30 credits |
EAP057 |
Food and Early-Modern Literature |
30 credits |
EAP059 |
Literary Londons |
30 credits |
EAP070 |
The Romantic Orient |
30 credits |
EAP071 |
Romantic Lives and Afterlives |
30 credits |
EAP072 |
Weird Fiction |
30 credits |
EAP073 |
Thinking Feeling: Contemporary Bodies and the Affective Turn |
30 credits |
EAP074 |
Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries |
30 credits |
Modern and Contemporary Pathway
Students will study 100 credits of compulsory modules, with a further 50 credits to be chosen from a selected list of optional modules (20 credits in semester 1 and 30 credits in semester 2). The remaining 30 credits can be chosen either from the selected list of optional modules for this Pathway, or from a wider list of optional modules (see table for Negotiated Pathway).
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Compulsory |
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EAP010 |
Research Methods |
20 credits |
EAP012 |
Modernist and Contemporary Genres |
20 credits |
Optional |
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EAP011 |
History, Nation and Difference |
20 credits |
EAP045 |
Critical Thinking |
20 credits |
Semester 2 |
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Compulsory |
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EAP018 |
Dissertation |
60 credits |
and one or two of the following optional modules: |
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EAP005 |
Modern and Contemporary Texts in Performance |
30 credits |
EAP013 |
The American Novel Now |
30 credits |
EAP055 |
Romantic Representations of the South Pacific |
30 credits |
EAP059 |
Literary Londons |
30 credits |
EAP070 |
The Romantic Orient |
30 credits |
EAP071 |
Romantic Lives and Afterlives |
30 credits |
EAP072 |
Weird Fiction |
30 credits |
EAP073 |
Thinking Feeling: Contemporary Bodies and the Affective Turn |
30 credits |
EAP074 |
Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries |
30 credits |
American Pathway
Students will study 100 credits of compulsory modules, with a further 50 credits to be chosen from a selected list of optional modules (20 credits in semester 1 and 30 credits in semester 2). The remaining 30 credits can be chosen either from the selected list of optional modules for this Pathway, or from a wider list of optional modules (see table for Negotiated Pathway).
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Compulsory |
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EAP010 |
Research Methods |
20 credits |
EAP052 |
On the Road: American Travel and its Meanings |
20 credits |
Optional |
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EAP011 |
History, Nation and Difference |
20 credits |
EAP045 |
Critical Thinking |
20 credits |
Semester 2 |
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Compulsory |
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EAP018 |
Dissertation |
30 credits |
and one or both of the following optional modules: |
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EAP013 |
The American Novel Now |
30 credits |
EAP074 |
Poetry in the 20th and 21st Centuries |
30 credits |
Victorian Pathway
Students will study 100 credits of compulsory modules, with a further 50 credits to be chosen from a selected list of optional modules (20 credits in semester 1 and 30 credits in semester 2). The remaining 30 credits can be chosen either from the selected list of optional modules for this Pathway, or from a wider list of optional modules (see table for Negotiated Pathway).
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Compulsory |
||
EAP003 |
Victorian Views |
20 credits |
EAP010 |
Research Methods |
20 credits |
Optional |
||
EAP011 |
History, Nation and Difference |
20 credits |
EAP045 |
Critical Thinking |
20 credits |
Semester 2 |
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Compulsory |
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EAP018 |
Dissertation |
60 credits |
and one or both of the following optional modules: |
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EAP059 |
Literary Londons |
30 credits |
EAP072 |
Weird Fiction |
30 credits |
Early-Modern Writing Pathway
Students will study 120 credits of compulsory modules, with a further 30 credits to be chosen from a selected list of optional modules. The remaining 30 credits can be chosen either from the selected list of optional modules for this Pathway, or from a wider list of optional modules (see table for Negotiated Pathway).
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Compulsory |
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EAP010 |
Research Methods |
20 credits |
EAP020 |
Early-Modern Texts in Performance |
20 credits |
EAP021 |
Early-Modern Contexts: Power, Gender, Religion and Race |
20 credits |
Semester 2 |
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Compulsory |
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EAP018 |
Dissertation |
60 credits |
and one or two of the following optional modules: |
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EAP023 |
Writing and the English Revolution |
30 credits |
EAP024 |
Restoration Writings |
30 credits |
EAP027 |
Court Cultures |
30 credits |
EAP028 |
History and History Plays |
30 credits |
EAP047 |
Exploring the Early-Modern Body |
30 credits |
EAP057 |
Food and Early-Modern Literature |
30 credits |
Creative Writing Pathway
Students will study 130 credits of compulsory modules, with a further 50 credits to be chosen from a list of optional modules (20 credits in semester 1 and 30 credits in semester 2 -- see table for Negotiated Pathway).
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Compulsory |
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EAP002 |
Departures |
20 credits |
EAP010 |
Research Methods |
20 credits |
and one semester 1 optional module – see table for Negotiated Pathway* |
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Semester 2 |
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Compulsory |
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EAP001 |
Diversions |
30 credits |
EAP018 |
Dissertation |
60 credits |
and one semester 2 optional module – see table for Negotiated Pathway* |
*Please note that you cannot study both Perspectives in semester 1 and Writers and the Writing Industries in semester 2; you can only choose a maximum of one of these modules.
4.2 The subjects for the Dissertation module (EAP018) must be approved in advance by the Programme Leader or nominee, and dissertations must be submitted by a specified date in the first half of September. The dissertation should be a maximum of 15,000 words in length.
5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award
5.1 In order to be eligible for the award, candidates must satisfy the requirements of Regulation XXI.
5.2 Students will normally be permitted to proceed to the Dissertation module (EAP018) only after successfully accumulating 120 credit units.
5.3 Students taking the Dissertation module may also be required to take an oral examination on the work submitted.
5.4 In accordance with Regulation XXI, candidates who have the right of reassessment in a module will be offered an opportunity to be reassessed in the University’s special assessment period.