Programme Specification
BA (Hons) English and Sports Science (2012 entry onwards)
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. XX (Undergraduate 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 | BA (Hons). BA (Hons) + DPS |
Programme title | English and Sports Science |
Programme code | EAUB09 |
Length of programme | The duration of the programme is 6 or 8 semesters. Candidates following the four year programme are required to spend an approved placement in professional industry leading to the award of Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS). The sandwich year (Part I) must be taken after satisfactory completion of Part B and before commencement of Part C. |
UCAS code | QC36 |
Admissions criteria | http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/departments/english-drama/englishandsportsscience/ |
Date at which the programme specification was published | Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:42:39 BST |
1. Programme Aims
The Department seeks to encourage in its students:
- a sense of enthusiasm for the subjects and a full understanding of their social and cultural significance
- the study of English and Sports Science as a means of developing the ability of students to read critically and to be both sensitive and disciplined in their approach to their studies
- educate students to think independently, to reason critically and to adopt a multi-disciplinary approach to the study of sport.
2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external reference points used to inform programme outcomes:
- English Benchmark Statement
- Hospitality, Leisure Sport and Tourism Benchmark Statement
- Framework for Higher Education Qualifications (FHEQ)
3. Programme Learning Outcomes
3.1 Knowledge and Understanding
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
1. a range of authors and texts from different periods of literary history, including those before 1800;
2. the distinctive characteristics of the different literary genres of fiction, poetry and drama, and should have an appreciation of the structure and function of the English language;
3. the power of imagination in literary creation and have an awareness of the range and variety of contemporary approaches to literary study;
4. the disciplines underpinning human structure and function;
5. the effects of sport and exercise intervention, and being able to appraise and evaluate these effects on the individual;
6. the skills required to monitor, analyse, diagnose and prescribe action to enhance the learning and performance of sport in both laboratory and field settings;
7. the variables involved in the delivery (teaching, instructing, coaching) of enhanced sport performance;
8. social, economic and political theory to explain the development and differentiation of sport in society.
3.2 Skills and other attributes
a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students will have acquired:
- the ability the read and analyse texts closely and critically;
- a thorough understanding of texts, concepts and theories relating to English Studies;
- an appreciation of the central role of language in the creation of meaning and will have gained rhetorical skills of effective communication and argument;
- bibliographic skills appropriate to the discipline and will be practised in the accurate citation of sources and in the use of conventions in the presentation of scholarly work;
- the ability to identify and analyse a broad range of human and situational variables operating in sport;
- the ability to consider the many factors which may have facilitative or debilitative effects upon sport performance.
b. Subject-specific practical skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- present cogent and persuasive arguments both in oral and written form;
- critically assess the effectiveness and value of a wide range of oral and written communications;
- demonstrate advanced and effective research skills, including the ability to access and assess electronic data;
- monitor and evaluate sports performance in laboratories and field settings;
- undertake laboratory and fieldwork efficiently and with due regard to safety and risk assessment;
- plan and execute appropriate techniques and skills in the practice of sport activities.
c. Key transferable skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should:
- possess and apply advanced analytical skills and be able to handle complex information in a structured and systematic way;
- be able to communicate effectively and work with others through the presentation of ideas and the collective negotiation of solutions;
- be able to understand and apply a variety of theoretical and interpretive positions, and should be able to weigh the importance of alternative perspectives;
- possess effective organisational and time-management skills and be able to present ideas using basic computational methods.
4. Programme structure
Part A - Introductory Modules
English and Drama
Semester 1 |
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Compulsory (total modular weight 30) |
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EAA101 |
Critical Studies 1 |
10 credits |
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EAA102 |
An Introduction to Language |
10 credits |
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EAA104 |
Introduction to Poetry 1 |
10 credits |
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Optional - NONE |
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Semester 2 |
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Compulsory (total modular weight 10) |
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EAA201 |
Critical Studies 2 |
10 credits |
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Optional (total modular weight 20) |
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EAA001 |
Introduction to Film Studies |
20 credits |
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EAA003 |
Introduction to the Short Story |
20 credits |
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EAA004 |
Language in Context |
20 credits |
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EAA108 |
The Search for Identity |
20 credits |
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EAA010 |
Writing Women |
20 credits |
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EAA011 |
Writing in History |
20 credits |
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EAA002 |
Women’s Voices |
10 credits |
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EAA015 |
Introduction to Short Narrative |
10 credits |
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EAA016 |
The Essay |
10 credits |
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EAA204 |
Introduction to Poetry 2 |
10 credits |
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School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Semester 1 and 2 |
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Compulsory (20 credits) |
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PSA001 |
Teaching and Coaching 1 |
20 credits |
Semester 1 |
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Compulsory |
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PSA011 |
Introduction to Pedagogies |
10 credits |
PSA024 |
Introduction to Sociology of Sport |
10 credits |
Semester 2 |
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Compulsory |
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PSA030 |
Introduction to Pysical Activity and Health |
10 credits |
PSA026 |
Foundations of Sport and Exercise Psychology |
10 credits |
Part B - Degree Modules
Candidates may choose optional modules so that as few as 50 or as many as 70 credit units are attempted in a semester, provided that 120 credit units are accumulated over the year.
Candidates may apply to the Head of Department for permission to undertake an approved course of study at a European University which is a member of the EU-approved Erasmus exchange programme. Candidates can only apply to take a single semester abroad not a full academic year. The exchange option would be in place of study at Loughborough for Semester 2 only during Part B of the degree programme.
If the 60-credit study abroad programme is taken, students must complete a full 60 credits of Sports Science modules in Semester 1 allowing them to take 60 Loughborough credits in English during their time at an Erasmus exchange institution. (Sports modules are not an option at any of our exchange universities.)
English and Drama
Semester 1 |
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Compulsory (total modular weight 20) |
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EAB001 |
British Drama 1576-1737* |
20 credits |
Optional |
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EAB154 |
Chivalry from Chaucer to Shakespeare |
20 credits |
EAB300 |
Interdisciplinary Perspectives |
20 credits |
EAB113 |
Introduction to Linguistics |
20 credits |
EAB039 |
Nineteenth-Century American Writing |
20 credits |
EAB032 |
Sensation Fiction |
20 credits |
EAB009 |
Theatre, Nation and Trauma: Contemporary Irish Drama |
20 credits |
EAB002 |
Writing of the 1790s: The Gothic and the Revolution |
20 credits |
EAB102 |
American Adaptations |
10 credits |
EAB020 |
Diverse Voices |
10 credits |
EAB918 |
Revolt Against Fate: Literature and Theatre of the Absurd |
10 credits |
EAB026 |
Slavery and Empire 1750-1850 |
10 credits |
EAB019 |
W B Yeats |
10 credits |
Semester 2 |
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Compulsory (total modular weight 20) |
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EAB008 |
Victorian Literature* |
20 credits |
Optional |
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EAB012 |
African American Culture |
20 credits |
EAB061 |
American Nightmare II: Horror Film |
20 credits |
EAB114 |
Elephants and Engines: An Introduction to Creative Writing |
20 credits |
EAB110 |
Introduction to Multimodality |
20 credits |
EAB016 |
Language in Society (pre-requisite EAB113) |
20 credits |
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EAB018 |
Women’s Writing in the Seventeenth Century |
20 credits |
EAB062 |
Moby Dick |
10 credits |
EAB203 |
Renaissance Lyric Poetry (also available at Part C) |
10 credits |
EAB101 |
Study Abroad |
60 credits |
*Students must take EITHER EAB001 in Semester 1 OR EAB008 in Semester 2
English and Drama optional modules are to be chosen such that the total number of credits for the year is 60, i.e. compulsory module weighted 20 plus optional modules weighted 40.
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Semesters 1 & 2 |
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Compulsory - None |
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Optional |
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PSB001 |
Teaching and Coaching 2 |
20 credits |
PSB010 |
Sport and Exercise Pedagogy |
20 credits |
Semester 1 |
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Optional |
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PSB024 |
Making Sense of Modern Sport |
10 credits |
PSB027 |
Acquiring Movement Skills |
10 credits |
PSB031 |
Psychological Issues and Strategies in Sport |
10 credits |
Semester 2 |
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Optional |
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PSB026 |
Psychological Factors in Competitive Sport |
20 credits |
PSB002 |
Structural Kinesiology |
10 credits |
PSB015 |
Sport, Ideologies and Values |
10 credits |
PSB032 |
Physical Activity, Sedentary Behaviour and Health |
10 credits |
*A one-semester version of Teaching and Coaching (PSB101) is available to students who choose the ‘Study Abroad’ option.
SSEHS optional modules are to be chosen such that the total number of credits for the year is 60.
Part I
Four year Sandwich Programme (DPS) route
Candidates will undertake an approved placement leading to the Diploma in Professional Studies.
Semesters 1 and 2 |
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EAI001 |
Industrial Training Placement |
120 credits |
Part C - Degree Modules
Candidates may choose optional modules so that as few as 50 or as many as 70 credit units are attempted in a semester, provided that 120 credit units are accumulated over the year. There are NO compulsory modules in Part C.
Candidates may not choose a total of more than 30 credits in the year that have a prefix of EAB.
English and Drama
60 credits of English and Drama optional modules must be chosen for the year.
Semesters 1 and 2 |
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Optional |
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EAC009 |
Dissertation |
30 credits |
Semester 1 |
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Optional |
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EAC012 |
America at War |
20 credits |
EAC900 |
Analysing Work Experience in the Creative Industries |
20 credits |
EAC003 |
Decadence |
20 credits |
EAC042 |
Dimensions of Texts: An Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics (pre-requisites EAA102 or EAB113) |
20 credits |
EAC023 |
Libertines and Libertinism |
20 credits |
EAC214 |
Maps and Motors: The Writing Portfolio (pre-requisite EAB114) |
20 credits |
EAC103 |
Modernisms |
20 credits |
EAC227 |
Myth and History: Milton’s Paradise Lost |
20 credits |
EAC034 |
Narratives of American Sport |
20 credits |
EAC300 |
Rare Shakespeare |
20 credits |
EAC024 |
The Writings of Intimacy |
20 credits |
EAC104 |
Aphra Behn |
10 credits |
EAC206 |
Clarissa |
10 credits |
EAC301 |
T S Eliot |
10 credits |
EAC035 |
Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Literature |
10 credits |
Semester 2 |
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Optional |
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EAC900 |
Analysing Work Experience in the Creative Industries (cannot be taken if studied in semester one) |
20 credits |
EAC806 |
The Child and The Book |
20 credits |
EAC014 |
Contemporary Irish Texts |
20 credits |
EAC228 |
Modern Subjects |
20 credits |
EAC703 |
Myths of Americ: Ideology and American Drama |
20 credits |
EAC229 |
Neo-Victorianism |
20 credits |
EAC013 |
Postmodern America |
20 credits |
EAC109 |
Romantic Writings: 1815-1832 |
20 credits |
EAC008 |
Woman's Drama |
20 credits |
EAC302 |
Emily Dickinson |
10 credits |
EAC808 |
Publishers, Authors and Agents |
10 credits |
EAC203 |
Renaissance Lyric Poetry (cannot be taken if completed at Part B) |
10 credits |
EAC022 |
Ulysses |
10 credits |
School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
60 credits of School of Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences optional modules must be chosen for the year.
Semester 1 and 2 |
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Optional |
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PSC100 |
Science and Elite Performance in Sport |
20 credits |
Semester 1 |
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Optional |
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PSC017 |
Equity and Inclusion in Contemporary Physical Education |
20 credits |
PSC031 |
Psychology of Sporting Excellence (pre-requisite PSB031) |
20 credits |
PCS028 |
Advanced Methods of Analysis in Sports Biomechanics |
10 credits |
PSC024 |
Sport, The Body and Deviance |
10 credits |
PSC025 |
Sport and Social Theory |
10 credits |
Semester 2 |
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Optional |
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PSC026 |
Exercise Psychology |
20 credits |
PSC032 |
Physical Activities and Health of Children |
20 credits |
PSC029 |
Mechanics of Sport Techniques |
10 credits |
PSC023 |
Sport, Celebrity and Place |
10 credits |
PSC027 |
Motor Control of Sports Movements |
10 credits |
5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award
In order to progress from Part A to Part B and from Part B to C and to be eligible for the award of an Honours degree, candidates must not only satisfy the minimum credit requirements set out in Regulation XX but also:
.1 In order to progress from Part A to Part B, obtain least 40% in all compulsory English modules.
.2 In order to progress from Part B to Part C, obtain at least 40% in all compulsory English modules.
Provision will be made in accordance with Regulation XX for candidates who have the right of re-assessment in any part of the Programme to undergo re-assessment in the University’s special assessment period.
6. Relative Weighting of Parts of the Programme for the Purposes of Final Degree Classification
Candidates' final degree classification will be determined on the basis of their performance in degree level Module Assessments in Parts B and C, in accordance with the scheme set out in Regulation XX. The percentage mark for each Part will be combined in the ratio Part B 40% : Part C 60% to determine the final percentage mark.