Programme Specification
BA (Hons) English with a Minor in Business Studies (2012 entry)
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) |
Programme title | English with a Minor in Business Studies |
Programme code | EAUB012 |
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) msut be taken after satisfactory completion of Part B and before commencement of Part C. |
UCAS code | Q3N1 |
Admissions criteria | http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/courses/departments/english-drama/englishwithaminorinbusinessstudies/ |
Date at which the programme specification was published | Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:53:39 BST |
1. Programme Aims
- To provide students with an intellectually stimulating environment within which they can develop knowledge, understanding and skills of English and Business management.
- To enhance students’ career and employment prospects by developing a range of transferable skills embedded in the programme.
- To ensure that graduates are trained to think independently, to reason critically, to weigh the importance of alternative arguments and perspectives, and to analyse critically different forms of discourse.
2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external reference points used to inform programme outcomes:
- The English Benchmark Statement
- The Benchmark Statement for General Business and Management
- 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 in the following areas:
- Substantial knowledge of a range of authors and texts from different periods of literary history, including those before 1800.
- An understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the different literary genres of fiction, poetry and drama, and an appreciation of the structure and functions of the English language.
- An appreciation of the power of imagination in literary creation and an awareness of the range and variety of contemporary approaches to literary study.
- An understanding of theories, principles and practice, developed from study of core management areas of human resources, finance, marketing and organisational behaviour.
- Knowledge of the importance of policy, planning and management in business.
- The behaviour, management and development of people within organisations.
3.2 Skills and other attributes
a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:
On successful completion of the programme students should be able to:
- Appreciate the central role of language in the creation of meaning, and have gained rhetorical skills of effective communication and argument.
- Present bibliographic skills appropriate to the discipline, and be practised in the accurate citation of sources and in the use of scholarly conventions in the presentation of scholarly work.
- Use critical thinking, analysis and syntheses to evaluate and apply concepts and insights from business disciplines, including comprehension of complex scenarios.
- Relate theory to practice.
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
- Create, evaluate and/or assess a range of options in a business situation, applying ideas and knowledge from a variety of sources.
c. Key transferable skills:
On successful completion of this programme, students should have acquired the following generic skills:
- Effective communication
- Effective organisational and time-management skills
- Effective use of information technology
- Management of self-development
- Numeracy skills
- Effective team-working skills
4. Programme structure
Part A - Introductory Modules
Semester 1 English Modules |
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Compulsory (30 credits) |
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EAA101 |
Critical Studies 1 |
10 credits |
EAA102 |
An Introduction to Language |
10 credits |
EAA104 |
Introduction to Poetry 1 |
10 credits |
Optional (10 credits) |
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EAA016 |
The Essay |
10 credits |
EAA015 |
Introduction to Short Narrative |
10 credits |
EAA002 |
Women’s Voices |
10 credits |
Semester 2 English Modules |
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Compulsory (40 credits). Students may choose to take either EAA011 or EAA004. They cannot do both |
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EAA201 |
Critical Studies 2 |
10 credits |
EAA204 |
Introduction to Poetry 2 |
10 credits |
EAA011 |
Writing in History or |
20 credits |
EAA004 |
Language in Context |
20 credits |
Optional - NONE |
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Semester 1 Business Modules |
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Compulsory (20 credits) |
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BSA505 |
Organisational Behaviour |
10 credits |
BSA512 |
The Leisure Market |
10 credits |
Optional - NONE |
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Semester 2 Business Modules |
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Compulsory (20 credits) |
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BSA506 |
Management of Human Resources |
10 credits |
BSA510 |
Environment of Leisure Management |
10 credits |
Optional - NONE |
Part B - Degree Modules
Students should choose a maximum of 40 optional English Credits across the year. 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. Only 10 credits of optional Business modules can be taken in semester two. All other Business modules at Part B are compulsory.
Semester 1 English Modules |
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Compulsory (20 credits) |
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EAB001 |
British Drama 1576-1737 |
20 credits |
Optional (10 or 30 credits) |
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EAB154 |
Chivalry from Chaucer to Shakespeare |
20 credits |
EAB046 |
Dwelling in the Novel |
20 credits |
EAB039 |
Nineteenth-Century American Writing |
20 credits |
EAB113 |
Introduction to Linguistics |
20 credits |
EAB038 |
Satire |
20 credits |
EAB032 |
Sensation Fiction |
20 credits |
EAB109 |
Contemporary Poetry |
10 credits |
EAB020 |
Diverse Voices |
10 credits |
EAB203 |
Renaissance Lyric Poetry** (also available to Part C students) |
10 credits |
Semester 2 English Modules |
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Compulsory (20 credits) |
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EAB008 |
Victorian Literature |
20 credits |
Optional (10 or 30 credits) |
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EAB153 |
British Renaissance Drama |
20 credits |
EAB012 |
African American Culture |
20 credits |
EAB016 |
Language in Society (EAB113 pre-requisite) |
20 credits |
EAB114 |
Elephants and Engines: An Introduction to Creative Writing |
20 credits |
EAB050 |
Philosophy, Literature and the Arts |
20 credits |
EAB018 |
Women’s Writing in the 17th Century |
20 credits |
EAB002 |
Writing of the 1790s: The Gothic and Revolution |
20 credits |
EAB110 |
Introduction to Multimodality |
20 credits |
EAB026 |
Slavery and Empire1750-1850 |
10 credits |
EAB062 |
Moby Dick |
10 credits |
EAB040 |
New Woman Writing of the Fin de Siècle |
10 credits |
Semester 1 Business Modules |
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Compulsory (20 credits) |
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BSB530 |
Financial Reporting |
10 credits |
BSB520 |
Principles of Marketing for Sport and Leisure |
10 credits |
Optional - NONE |
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Semester 2 Business Modules |
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Compulsory (10 credits) |
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BSB522 |
The Marketing Mix for Sport and Leisure |
10 credits |
Optional (10 credits) |
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BSB532 |
Accounting for Managers |
10 credits |
BSB550 |
Company Finance |
10 credits |
BSB590 |
The Contemporary Business Environment |
10 credits |
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.
Semesters 1 and 2 |
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Compulsory (total modular weight 30) |
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EAC009 |
Dissertation |
30 credits |
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Semester 1 |
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Compulsory (total modular weight 20) |
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EAC103 |
Modernisms |
20 credits |
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Optional (10 or 20 credits) |
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EAC012 |
America at War |
20 credits |
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EAC900 |
Analysing Work Experience in the Creative Industries |
20 credits |
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EAC003 |
Decadence |
20 credits |
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EAC042 |
Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics |
20 credits |
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EAC023 |
Libertines and Libertinism |
20 credits |
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EAC214 |
Maps and Motors |
20 credits |
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EAC228 |
Modern Subjects: Conrad, Hardy, Woolf |
20 credits |
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EAC227 |
Myth and History: Milton’s Paradise Lost |
20 credits |
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EAC024 |
Writings of Intimacy |
20 credits |
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EAC016 |
Cruel and Unusual: Punishment on Trial in American Culture |
20 credits |
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EAC222 |
Writing for Performance |
20 credits |
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EAC035 |
Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Literature |
10 credits |
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EAB203 |
Renaissance Lyric Poetry** (cannot be chosen if studied in Part B) |
10 credits |
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EAC022 |
Ulysses |
10 credits |
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Semester 2 |
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Compulsory - NONE |
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Optional (10 or 30 credits) |
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EAC900 |
Analysing Work Experience in the Creative Industries |
20 credits |
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EAC014 |
Contemporary Irish Texts |
20 credits |
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EAC703 |
Myths of America: Ideology and American Drama |
20 credits |
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EAC228 |
Modern Subjects: Hardy, Conrad, Woolf |
20 credits |
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EAC013 |
Postmodern America |
20 credits |
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EAC109 |
Romantic Writings 1815-1832 |
20 credits |
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EAC027 |
An Unexpected Light: Writing Afghanistan |
20 credits |
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EAC041 |
W B Yeats |
10 credits |
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EAC026 |
The American West |
10 credits |
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EAC516 |
Bollywood! Bollywood! |
10 credits |
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Semester 1 Business Modules |
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Compulsory (20 credits) |
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BSC522 |
Entrepreneurship and Innovation |
10 credits |
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BSC565 |
Fundamentals of Strategic Management |
10 credits |
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Optional - NONE |
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Semester 2 Business Modules |
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Compulsory (20 credits) |
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BSC524 |
Entrepreneurship and Small Business |
10 credits |
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BSC575 |
Leadership and Interpersonal Skills |
10 credits |
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Optional - NONE |
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 at 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.
.3 To be eligible for the award of an Honours degree, 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.