Programme Specification
BA (Hons) Publishing with English (2007 to 2011 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/BA + DPS |
Programme title | Publishing with English |
Programme code | ISUB03 |
Length of programme | The programme is available by full-time study. The duration of the programme is normally either 6 semesters, or 8 semesters if students undertake a placement leading to the award of a Diploma in Professional Studies (DPS) which occurs between Part B and Part C. |
UCAS code | P4Q3 (3-year); P4QH (4-year) |
Admissions criteria | http://www.lboro.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/ |
Date at which the programme specification was published | Tue, 02 Sep 2014 11:56:13 BST |
1. Programme Aims
The programme aims to:
- advance students’ understanding of the professional, managerial and technical dimensions of work in the publishing industry;
- equip students with a sufficiently advanced command of the English language to enable them to undertake editorial work professionally in any English-speaking country;
- provide the core skills needed to obtain an entry-level professional position in the publishing industry;
- equip students with an awareness of legal, ethical and professional issues as they relate to the publishing industry;
- promote an understanding of the information needs of individuals and organisations and knowledge of the systems and technologies by which information is handled;
- provide an environment in which students are encouraged to think, read and reason critically, creatively and independently, and to weigh the importance of alternative arguments and perspectives;
- enhance students’ ability to analyse critically different forms of discourse;
- foster the ability to conduct independent research using appropriate methodologies and to present the results appropriately.
2. Relevant subject benchmark statements and other external reference points used to inform programme outcomes:
- QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for Librarianship and Information Management (2007)
http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/statements/librarianship07.pdf
- QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for English (2007) http://www.qaa.ac.uk/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/statements/English07.pdf
- Loughborough University, A Strategy for Teaching and Learning in the New Millennium http://www.lboro.ac.uk/admin/ar/policy/learning_and_teaching/
- Loughborough University Department of Information Science, Learning and Teaching Strategy
- QAA Framework for Higher Education Qualifications
3. Programme Learning Outcomes
3.1 Knowledge and Understanding
- design principles and production technologies as applied to printed and electronic publications;
- editorial and marketing roles as applicable to various categories of books and periodical publications;
- financial, human resources and general management principles and methods as applied in the publishing industry;
- the concepts and principles underlying the storage, retrieval and use of information held in both printed and electronic forms;
- the position of the publishing industry within the overall structure of the media industries world-wide;
- the structure and functions of the English language;
- the distinctive characteristics of different literary genres;
- a range and variety of contemporary approaches to literary study;
- the roles of information, information technology and information products in the 21st century.
3.2 Skills and other attributes
a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:
- critically analyse developments in the publishing industry;
- evaluate different information technology applications and their use;
- discuss the principles of management as applied to publishing in a variety of environments and institutional contexts;
- analyse data and synthesise information into value-added formats
- evaluate publishers’ customers’ needs in a variety of contexts and in relation to a range of printed and electronic information products;
- plan metadata and other retrieval tools to be assigned to publications;
- apply critical skills in the close reading and analysis of texts.
b. Subject-specific practical skills:
- demonstrate IT competence with a range of computer applications;
- use desktop publishing and computer graphics software;
- design publications (print and electronic) that will be marketable;
- undertake copyediting tasks confidently and with accuracy;
- apply legal and ethical procedures within the publishing industry;
- use financial and other management techniques appropriate to the publishing industry;
- 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.
c. Key transferable skills:
- plan and undertake independent research for a project in a defined project area;
- manage a range of information and data and present them effectively in a suitable format;
- communicate effectively the results of their studies and research in writing (reports and essays) and by means of oral presentation;
- work effectively in teams;
- utilise time management skills in planning work;
- use the English language both orally and in writing to present a persuasive argument;
- understand and apply a variety of theoretical and interpretive positions;
- use a variety of IT packages and applications confidently.
4. Programme structure
Candidates must take a total modular weight of 120 in each Part, with a minimum modular weight of 50 in each semester, taking into account both compulsory and optional modules.
4.1 Part A
COMPULSORY MODULE operating across both semesters (weight 20)
|
Title |
Credit Value |
ISA004 |
Introduction to Publishing |
20 |
Semester 1
COMPULSORY MODULES (weight 40)
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAA101 |
Critical Studies 1 |
10 |
ISA301 |
Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing |
10 |
ISA303 |
Management Problem Solving |
10 |
ISA309 |
Studying Information Science |
10 |
OPTIONAL MODULES (weight 10-20)
Modules to total 10 or 20 weight from the following:
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAA002 |
Women’s Voices |
10 |
EAA003 |
Introduction to Short Story |
20 |
EAA006 |
Introduction to American Literature |
20 |
EAA010 |
Writing Women |
20 |
EAA015 |
Introduction to Short Narrative |
10 |
EAA016 |
The Essay |
10 |
EAA108 |
The Search for Identity |
20 |
EAA023 |
Oral Communication |
20 |
EAA102 |
Introduction to Language |
10 |
EAA104 |
Introduction to Poetry 1 |
10 |
EAA503 |
Performance 1 |
10 |
Semester 2
COMPULSORY MODULES (weight 40)
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAA201 |
Critical Studies 2 |
10 |
ISA025 |
Organisational Theory |
10 |
ISA307 |
Website Design |
10 |
ISA310 |
The Information Society |
10 |
OPTIONAL MODULES (weight 10-20)
Modules to give a total for the year of 120 credit weight from the following:
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAA001 |
Introduction to Film Studies |
20 |
EAA002 |
Women’s Voices |
10 |
EAA010 |
Writing Women |
20 |
EAA011 |
Writing in History |
20 |
EAA015 |
Introduction to the Short Narrative |
10 |
EAA016 |
The Essay |
10 |
EAA003 |
Introduction to the Short Story |
20 |
EAA004 |
Language in Context |
20 |
EAA023 |
Oral Communication |
20 |
EAA108 |
The Search for Identity |
20 |
EAA204 |
Introduction to Poetry 2 |
10 |
EAA504 |
Performance 2 |
10 |
4.2 Part B
COMPULSORY MODULES
Modules operating across both semesters (weight 40)
|
Title |
Credit Value |
ISB026 |
Editing and Marketing |
20 |
ISB027 |
Publishing Design and Production |
20 |
Students must also take ONE of the following:
Semester One:
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAB001 |
British Drama 1576-1737 |
20 |
Semester Two:
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAB008 |
Victorian Literature |
20 |
EAB114 |
Elephants and Engines: an Introduction to Creative Writing |
20 |
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAB158 |
The Good Life? |
20 |
EAB001 |
British Drama 1576-1737 |
20 |
EAB060 |
American Nightmare 2: Horror Film |
20 |
EAB002 |
Writing of the 1790s: The Gothic and Revolution |
20 |
EAB102 |
American Adaptations |
10 |
EAB026 |
Slavery and Empire 1750 - 1850 |
10 |
EAB039 |
Nineteenth Century American Writing |
20 |
EAB109 |
Contemporary Poetry |
10 |
EAB113 |
Introduction to Linguistics |
20 |
EAB154 |
Chivalry from Chaucer to Shakespeare |
20 |
EAB203 |
Renaissance Lyric Poetry |
10 |
EAB027 |
Shakespeare: Page to Stage |
20 |
ISB006 |
Subject Analysis and Indexing |
10 |
ISB200 |
Advanced Web Design and Web Analytics |
20 |
ISB301 |
Informatics and Systems |
10 |
ISB304 |
Information and Knowledge Management 1 |
10 |
ISB404 |
People-Centred Information Service Design |
10 |
Semester 2
COMPULSORY MODULES (weight 20)
|
Title |
Credit Value |
ISB010 |
Research Methods |
10 |
ISB306 |
Human Resource Management |
10 |
Modules from the following, to give a total weight of 120 for Part B. Modules from the Department of English and Drama must not exceed a total weight of 40 for Part B.
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAB008 |
Victorian Literature |
20 |
EAB012 |
African American Culture |
20 |
EAB016 |
Language in Society - (pre-requisite EAB113) |
20 |
EAB018 |
Women’s Writing in the Seventeenth Century |
20 |
EAB020 |
Diverse Voices |
10 |
EAB009 |
Theatre, Nation and Trauma |
20 |
EAB033 |
Puppetry |
20 |
EAB035 |
The Weird Tale |
20 |
EAB040 |
New Woman Writing of the Fin de Siècle |
10 |
EAB050 |
Philosophy, Literature and the Arts |
20 |
EAB062 |
Moby Dick |
10 |
EAB110 |
Introduction to Multimodality |
20 |
EAB111 |
19th Century Novel |
20 |
EAB114 |
Elephants and Engines: an Introduction to Creative Writing |
20 |
EAB153 |
British Renaissance Drama |
20 |
EAB704 |
Modern and Contemporary British Drama |
10 |
ISB025 |
Information Retrieval |
10 |
ISB302 |
Systems Modelling |
10 |
ISB303 |
Database Design |
10 |
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAC809 |
Project |
30 |
or (by arrangement with the Programme Tutor only) |
||
EAC009 |
Dissertation |
30 |
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAC804 |
Legal and Professional Issues |
10 |
EAC805 |
The Book Trade |
10 |
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAC012 |
America at War |
20 |
EAC016 |
Cruel and Unusual |
10 |
EAC003 |
Decadence |
20 |
EAC023 |
Libertines and Libertinism |
20 |
EAC103 |
Modernisms |
20 |
EAC214 |
Maps and Motors: The Writing Portfolio |
20 |
EAC228 |
Modern Subjects: Hardy, Conrad, Woolf |
20 |
EAC042 |
Introduction to Systematic Functional Linguistics |
20 |
EAC227 |
Myth and History: Milton's Paradise Lost |
20 |
EAC035 |
Poetics and Politics of Contemporary Literature |
10 |
EAB203 |
Renaissance Lyric Poetry |
10 |
EAC222 |
Writing for Performance |
20 |
EAC024 |
Writings of Intimacy |
20 |
EAC806 |
The Child and the Book |
20 |
EAC803 |
Web Culture |
10 |
EAC002 |
Ulysses |
10 |
Semester 2
COMPULSORY MODULES (weight 20)
|
Title |
Credit Value |
ISC315 |
Electronic Information Use and Management |
10 |
EAC807 |
The Magazine Business |
10 |
|
Title |
Credit Value |
EAC013 |
Postmodern America |
20 |
EAC516 |
Bollywood Bollywood |
10 |
EAC026 |
The American West |
10 |
EAC014 |
Contemporary Irish Texts |
20 |
EAC703 |
Myths of America |
20 |
EAC109 |
Romantic Writings 1815-1832 |
20 |
EAC027 |
Unexpected Light: Writing Afghanistan |
20 |
EAC018 |
Women and Theatre |
10 |
EAC041 |
W B Yeats |
10 |
ISC318 |
Information and Knowledge Management 2 |
10 |
5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award
5.1.1 In order to progress from Part A to Part B, candidates must satisfy the minimum requirements as set out in Regulation XX, and also obtain at least 30% in all modules.
5.1.2 In order to progress from Part B to Part C, candidates must satisfy the minimum credit requirements set out in Regulation XX including a minimum of 20 credits from modules coded EA, and also obtain at least 30% in all modules.
5.1.3 To be eligible for the award of the Honours degree, candidates must satisfy the minimum credit requirements set out in Regulation XX and also obtain a minimum of 30% in all modules.
5.2 Provision will be made in accordance with Regulation XX for eligible candidates in any part of the programme to undergo re-assessment within the University’s special assessment period, except where fewer than 60 credits have been achieved.
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 average mark for each Part will be combined in the ratio Part B: 40%, Part C: 60% to determine the Programme Mark.