Programme summary

Awarding body/institution	麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网
Teaching institution (if different)
Owning school/department	School of the Arts, English and Drama
Details of accreditation by a professional/statutory body
Final award	BA (Hons) / BA (Hons) + DPS + DIntS
Programme title	Publishing and English
Programme code	EAUB03
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)or: an approved study at a University abroad leading to the award of the Diploma in International Studies (DIntS). The sandwich year (part I) must be taken after satisfactory completion of Part B and before the commencement of Part C.
UCAS code	P4Q3 (3-year); P4QH (4-year)
Admissions criteria	http://www.lboro.hslppt.com/study/undergraduate/
Date at which the programme specification was published	Thu, 14 Jun 2018 18:33:11 BST

1. Programme Aims

The programme seeks 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;

• foster the ability to conduct independent research using appropriate methodologies and to present the results appropriately;

• provide an intellectually stimulating experience of learning and studying;

• encourage in its students a strong sense of enthusiasm for the subject and a full understanding of its social and cultural significance;

• foster engagement with a wide and varied spectrum of reading, writing and visual sources, through a broad and diverse curriculum;

• encourage students to reflect critically upon the acts of reading and writing and on the history of textual production and reception;

• educate its students to think independently, reason critically, analyse different forms of discourse, and to weigh the importance of alternative arguments and perspectives;

• promote the understanding of verbal creativity and aesthetic features in literary and non-literary texts;

• instil in its students advanced competence in oral and written communication;

develop a range of subject specific and generic skills of value in graduate employment, including highly developed critical, analytical and research skills.

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.hslppt.com/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/statements/librarianship07.pdf)

• QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for English (2007)  (http://www.qaa.hslppt.com/academicinfrastructure/benchmark/statements/English07.pdf)
• 麻豆視頻_麻豆直播_麻豆传媒官网, A Strategy for Teaching and Learning in the New Millennium (http://www.lboro.hslppt.com/admin/ar/policy/learning_and_teaching/)

• QAA Subject Statement for Communication, media, film and cultural studies

(http://www.qaa.hslppt.com/en/Publications/Documents/Subject-benchmark-statement-Communication-media-film-and-cultural-studies.pdf)

• QAA Framework for Higher Education Qualifications

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…

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 position of the publishing industry within the overall structure of the media industries world-wide;

the roles of information, information technology and information products in the 21^st century.

the distinctive characteristics of the different literary genres offiction, poetry, drama and other kinds of writing and communication;

a range of authors and texts from different periods of history, including those before 1800;

the relationship between literature and other forms of cultural production;

the role of critical traditions in shaping literary history,and thei mportance of the linguistic, literary, cultural and socio-historical contexts in which literature is written and read;

the appropriate and precise use of critical, linguistic and stylistic terminology;

the range and variety of contemporary approaches to literary study which may include creative practice and its theorisation;

how literature and language produce and reflect cultural change;

the structure and functions of the English language and of its regional and global varieties.

 

3.2 Skills and other attributes

a. Subject-specific cognitive skills:

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to.

 

critically analyse developments in the publishing industry;

evalsuate 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;

evalsuate publishers’ customers’ needs in a variety of contexts and in relation to a range of printed and electronic information products;

demonstrate an awareness of legal, ethical and professional issues as they relate to the publishing industry;

use critical skills in the close reading and analysis of texts;

show sensitivity to generic conventions and the shaping effects on communication of circumstances, authorship, textual production and intended audience;

understand how different social and cultural contexts affect judgments about the nature of language and literature;

understand the critical and theoretical models that apply to their studies;

appreciate the central role of language in the creation of meaning;

use rhetorical skills of effective communication and argument.

b. Subject-specific practical skills:

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to.

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 copy-editing 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 written and oral form;

critically evalsuate the effectiveness and value of a wide range of oral and written communications;

demonstrate advanced and effective research skills, including the ability to access, work with and evalsuate digital sources;

demonstrate the capacity for independent thought and judgement through critical or creative practice;

deploy a broad range of critical vocabulary and appropriate theoretical terminology;

demonstrate bibliographic skills appropriate to the discipline,and expertise in accurately citing sources and using scholarly conventions in the presentation of work.

c. Key transferable skills:

On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to.

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;

demonstrate advanced analytical skills and be able to handle complex information in a structured and systematic way;

understand and be able to interrogate and apply a variety of theoretical and interpretive positions and be able to weigh the importance of alternative perspectives;

adapt and transfer the critical methods of their studies to a variety of working environments.

4. Programme structure

Part A

Compulsory Modules (total modular weight 100 credits)

Semester One (40 Credits)		Credit Weight	Semester Two (60 Credits)		Credit Weight
EAA700	Narrative Forms and Fiction	20 credits	EAA701	Literary and Critical Theories	20 credits
EAA809	Web Design, Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing	20 credits	EAA810	Introduction to Publishing and Bookselling	20 credits
			EAA811	Communications Law and Ethics	20 credits

 Optional Modules (In addition, students must choose a 20 credit optional module in semester one.)

Semester One		Credit Weight
EAA104	Introduction to Poetry	20 credits
EAA102	Introduction to Language	20 credits

Part B

Compulsory Modules (total modular weight 100 credits)

Students must choose at least one module from each semester from the four modules listed below.  One of these must be a pre-1800 module and one must be a post-1800 module.

Semester One (Min. 20 Credits)		Credit weight	Semester Two (Min. 20 Credits)		Credit Weight
EAB710	Renaissance Writings (pre-1800)	20 credits	EAB711	Eighteenth-Century Literature  (pre-1800)	20 credits
EAB008	Victorian Literature (post 1800)	20 credits	EAB712	Modernisms  (post-1800)	20 credits

 Compulsory Publishing Modules (Students will also be registered for the compulsory modules below)

Semester One		Credit Weight	Semester Two		Credit Weight
EAB801	Text, Editing and Design	20 credits	EAB805	Children and Young Adults' Reading	20 credits
			EAB807	Communicating Knowledge	20 credits

Optional Modules (In addition, students must choose an additional 20 credit optional module in semester one.

Optional modules will be available in the following subject areas:

• Publishing Histories

• Graphic Design and Desktop Publishing

• Publishing Industries

• Literature from 1350 to the present

• Language, Linguistics and Creative Writing

• American Literature

In the 2018-2019 academic year the available modules will be:

Semester One		Credit Weight
EAB039	Nineteenth Century American Literature and Culture	20 credits
EAB113	Introduction to Linguistics	20 credits
EAB154	Chivalry from Chaucer to Shakespeare	20 credits
EAB035	Weird Tale	20 credits
EAB001	From Fan Fiction to YouTube, Navigating the Digital Sphere	20 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
EAI001	Industrial Training Placement	120 credits

 

OR

 

DIntS Route

 

Candidates will undertake an approved study placement at a partner institution outside the United Kingdom leading to the Diploma in International Studies.

 

Semesters 1 and 2
SAI002	International University Placement (DIntS, non-credit bearing)	120 credits
EUI002	Work Placement (DIntS, non-credit bearing)	120 credits

 

Participation in either a work or study placement is subject to School approval and satisfactory academic performance during Parts A and B.

 

Part C

Compulsory Modules (Students must choose EITHER Dissertation OR Publishing Research Project. Total modular weight 60 credits)

Semester One		Credit Weight	Semester Two	Credit Weight
EAC009	Dissertation			(year-long, 40 credit module)
EAC809	Publishing Research Project			(year-long, 40 credit module)
EAC801	Marketing and the Magazine Business	20 credits

Optional Modules

If students choose EAC009 then they must choose a minimum of 20 credits with the prefix module code EAC8.

Optional modules will be available in the following subject areas:

• Publishing Histories

• Publishing Industries

• Literature from 1350 to the present

• Creative Writing

• American Literature

In the 2018-2019 academic year the available modules will be:

Semester One		Credit Weight	Semester Two		Credit Weight
EAC002	The Return of the King, Literature 1660 - 1714	20 credits	EAC024	Twenty-First Century Literature	20 credits
EAC016	Cruel and Unusual	20 credits	EAC300	Adapting Shakespeare	20 credits
EAC440	The Modern Poet	20 credits	EAC109	Romantic Writings 1815 - 1832	20 credits
EAC808	Publishers, Authors and Readers 1700 - 1939	20 credits	EAC701	Global America	20 credits
			EAC001	Radicals and Reactionaries: Writing Women in the 1890s	20 credits
			EAC806	The Child and the Book	20 credits
EAC900	Analysing Work Experience	20 credits	EAC900_2	Analysing Work Experience	20 credits

5. Criteria for Progression and Degree Award

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 40% in all compulsory modules.

2.    In order to progress from Part B to Part C, candidates must satisfy the minimum credit requirements set out in Regulation XX and at least 40% in all compulsory modules. 

3.    To be eligible for the award of the Honours degree, candidates must satisfy the minimum credit requirements set out in Regulation XX and achieve at least 40% in all compulsory modules.

4.   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 accumulated.

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.