Undergraduate Programme Specification
BA English and Film Studies
Academic Year 2022/23
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Programme Title | BA English and Film Studies | Final Award (exit route if applicable for Postgraduate Taught Programmes) |
Bachelor of Arts | |||||||||||
Programme Code | ENG-BA-JS | UCAS Code | QW36 | HECoS Code |
100058 - Film studies - 50 100320 - English studies - 50 |
ATAS Clearance Required | No | |||||||||||||
Mode of Study | Full Time | |||||||||||||
Type of Programme | Joint Honours Single | Length of Programme |
Full Time - 3 Academic Years |
Total Credits for Programme | 360 | |||||||||
Exit Awards available | No |
Institute Information
Teaching Institution |
Queen's University Belfast |
School/Department |
Arts, English and Languages |
Quality Code Higher Education Credit Framework for England |
Level 6 |
Subject Benchmark Statements The Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications of UK Degree-Awarding Bodies |
Communication, media, film and cultural studies (2008) |
Accreditations (PSRB) |
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No accreditations (PSRB) found. |
Regulation Information
Does the Programme have any approved exemptions from the University General Regulations |
Programme Specific Regulations Each level must include 60 CATS in English and 60 CATS in Film Studies. |
Students with protected characteristics |
Are students subject to Fitness to Practise Regulations (Please see General Regulations) No |
Educational Aims Of Programme
The Joint Programme in English and Film Studies is designed to provide students with::
•an intellectual training in the separate and overlapping disciplines of English and Film Studies which, while discrete subjects, are also complementary and mutually enriching;
•a discipline-specific perspective enabling the acquisition of knowledge and understanding of the inter-relationship between texts and contexts, a familiarity with debates surrounding culture and identity, both individual and communal, and skills in synthesising and developing ideas and arguments from diverse literary and other contemporary sources;
•a range of skills which together foster the ability to practise self-motivated learning and increase the capacity to undertake independent learning in a progressive way.
•a university curriculum, in accordance with the national English and Film Studies benchmarking statements, that reflects the chronological, cultural, and generic diversity of both Film and English literary and language studies, drawing, where applicable, on the unique character of Northern Ireland, and taking advantage of a variety of critical and pedagogical approaches;
•a flexible curriculum that develops new areas of teaching in response to advances in scholarship, interests and abilities of staff members, and student feedback;
•an atmosphere of intellectual inquiry, by offering modules which encourage a stimulating interchange of ideas;
•the necessary intellectual, practical, and key skills to enable students to develop as independent, reflective lifelong learners and able employees and entrepreneurs;.
•a broad yet enriching context for future employment, in which graduates appreciate the continuing value of an education in these disciplines.
More generally, the Joint Programme in English and Film Studies aims to:
•attract students from local, national, and international contexts, through a variety of entry routes, and deliver the best possible learning and teaching experience in an environment of equality, tolerance, and mutual respect;
•develop a broad context for future employment, in which graduates appreciate the continuing value of an education in these two disciplines.
Learning Outcomes
Learning Outcomes: Cognitive SkillsOn the completion of this course successful students will be able to: |
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recognise and appreciate the varying effects of different literary and filmic forms of expression; |
Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies Class discussion in which analysis and interpretation of texts takes place allows the students to develop a comparative understanding of different approaches to material. It allows for both tutor- and student-led opportunities for the discussion and comprehension of directed reading and secondary source information. Methods of Assessment Assessment is by a variety of traditional and innovative methods, including timed unseen written examinations, data analysis, essays, critical book/article reviews, portfolios, individual and group presentations, and seminar and tutorial reports and contributions. |
Learning Outcomes: Knowledge & UnderstandingOn the completion of this course successful students will be able to: |
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understand the key concepts that are used to undertake literary, textual and historical analysis; |
Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies Knowledge and understanding are developed through lectures, tutorials, seminars (many of which will be enhanced by learning aids such as handouts, and key readings available online through Queen’s Online) and through the assessment and feedback process. Methods of Assessment A range of assessment methods ensures that these skills are evaluated in different ways. |
Learning Outcomes: Subject SpecificOn the completion of this course successful students will be able to: |
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read texts with a developed awareness and appreciation of their formal, structural and generic properties; |
Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies Lectures provide specific contextual and theoretical information as well as offering practical examples of different critical approaches. Methods of Assessment Assessment is by a variety of traditional and innovative methods, including timed unseen written examinations, data analysis, essays, critical book/article reviews, portfolios, individual and group presentations, and seminar and tutorial reports and contributions. Assessment methods vary in accordance with the specific learning outcomes of particular modules as detailed below |
Learning Outcomes: Transferable SkillsOn the completion of this course successful students will be able to: |
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manage time efficiently and effectively; |
Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies Class presentations and student interaction hone communication and rhetorical skills. Student centred learning situations encourage and test the ability to present and summarise knowledge to their peers in a coherent, structured form, and inter-personal skills are developed in seminars and tutorials. Methods of Assessment Writing skills tutorials and lectures develop essay-writing on stylistic, rhetorical and bibliographical levels. The ability to source and collate information is developed through introductory training in the use of libraries and online resources. IT courses are available through the university and can be used to develop computing skills as required. All students are required to word-process essays, thus testing their acquisition of IT skills. |
display interpersonal skills and the ability to work productively in a group context; |
Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies Individual and group presentations; seminars offer a variety of tutor-led and student-led learning opportunities as well as a more sustained opportunity to debate and evaluate a breadth of knowledge gained independently from directed reading and from the sharing of resources and information. Methods of Assessment Assessment is by a variety of traditional and innovative methods, including timed unseen written examinations, data analysis, essays, critical book/article reviews, portfolios, individual and group presentations, and seminar and tutorial reports and contributions. |
understand the role and use of feedback in assessing and improving performance; |
Teaching/Learning Methods and Strategies Students receive oral, in-class as well as online feedback on their contributions, formative work and uploaded assignments and may seek further feedback in one-to-one meetings with tutors. Methods of Assessment Feedback (on Queen’s Online, on draft materials, or in class) provides students with an ongoing feedback experience throughout their degree. |
Module Information
Stages and Modules
Module Title | Module Code | Level/ stage | Credits | Availability |
Duration | Pre-requisite | Assessment |
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S1 | S2 | Core | Option | Coursework % | Practical % | Examination % | ||||||
Issues in Contemporary Fiction: Gender, Race, Ecology | ENG1002 | 1 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | YES | -- | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Screen Technologies | FLM1005 | 1 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | YES | -- | 80% | 20% | 0% |
English in Transition | ENG1001 | 1 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | YES | -- | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Introduction to Film Studies 2 | FLM1002 | 1 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | YES | -- | 60% | 0% | 40% |
Introduction to English Language | ENL1001 | 1 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | YES | -- | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Introduction to Film Studies 1 | FLM1001 | 1 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | YES | -- | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Film and Sound: History and Theory | FLM2014 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Mapping the Anglo-Saxon World | ENG2003 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Modern American Fiction: Race, Class, Gender, Sexuality | ENG2173 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Popular Genres | BCP2004 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 80% | 20% | 0% |
Diachronic Linguistics: Exploring language change | ENL2003 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 80% | 20% | 0% |
Documentary Film Studies | FLM2012 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Adaptation as Interdisciplinary Practice | AEL2002 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Modernism and Modernity | ENG2060 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
British Cinema: Nation, Identity and Industry | FLM2026 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Shakespeare and Co | ENG2050 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Principles of Business in Arts, Cultural and Creative Industries | SCA2002 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Enlightenment and its Discontents | ENG2064 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Gender, Culture, and Representation – Backwards & in Heels | AEL2001 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 60% | 40% | 0% |
An Introduction to Critical and Cultural Theory | ENG2000 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
World Cinema | FLM2013 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Romantic Poetry, 1789-1832 | ENG2063 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Utopia / Dystopia: The Future in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature | ENG2065 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Havoc and Rebellion: Writing and Reading Later Medieval England | ENG2041 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Language and Power | ENL2002 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 80% | 0% | 20% |
Fiction and the Novel (1660-1820) | ENG2061 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Foundations for Speech Analysis: The Phonetics of English | ENL2001 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 50% | 30% | 20% |
Inventing America | ENG2172 | 2 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 80% | 20% | 0% |
Dickens and the Cult of Celebrity | ENG2066 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Irish Literature | ENG2081 | 2 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Speech Worlds: Phonology in Acquisition and Disorder | ENL3003 | 3 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Cinema, Realism, and Modernism | FLM3034 | 3 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Women's Writing 1680-1830 | ENG3020 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 80% | 20% | 0% |
British Film: Mainstream and Fringe | FLM3032 | 3 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Contemporary Literature: Poetry and Precariousness in the Twenty-First Century | ENG3184 | 3 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Work-based Learning | AEL3001 | 3 | 20 | YES | YES | 24 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Special Topic in Irish Writing: Modern Irish Literature and the Primitive Sublime | ENH3020 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Hollywood Cinema 2 | FLM3019 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Representing the Working Class | ENG3064 | 3 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Contemporary US Crime Fiction: the Police, the State, the Globe | ENH3008 | 3 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Further Adventures in Shakespeare | ENG3182 | 3 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Film and Music: Theory and Criticism | FLM3024 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Analysing Language: Exploring linguistic structures of English | ENL3001 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 80% | 20% | 0% |
Double Dissertation English Literature | ENG3000 | 3 | 40 | YES | YES | 24 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Renaissance Performance, Gender, Space | ENG3181 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Stylistics: Analysing Style in Language | ENL3011 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 80% | 20% | 0% |
Double Dissertation English Language | ENL3000 | 3 | 40 | YES | YES | 24 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Irish Gothic | ENG3330 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Marvels, Monsters and Miracles in Anglo-Saxon England | ENG3011 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Writing New York, 1880-1940 | ENG3183 | 3 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Shakespeare on Screen | ENG3087 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Special Topic in Creative Writing | ENH3019 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Media and Time | BCP3003 | 3 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Stevens & Bishop | ENG3333 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Gender and Media | BCP3004 | 3 | 20 | -- | YES | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 90% | 10% | 0% |
Televising the Victorians | ENG3069 | 3 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Contemporary Irish and Scottish Fiction Devolutionary Identities | ENG3060 | 3 | 20 | YES | -- | 12 weeks | N | -- | YES | 80% | 20% | 0% |
Notes
Stage 3
In English, students must take modules worth 60 CATS and in Film, students must take modules worth 60 CATS.
Stage 2
In English, students must take modules worth 60 CATS and in Film, students must take modules worth 60 CATS.
Stage 1
All modules in Stage 1 are compulsory. In English, students must take modules worth 60 CATS (ENG1001, ENG1002 and ENL1001); and in Film, students must take modules worth 60 CATS (FLM1001, FLM1002 and FLM1005).