- UCAS course code
- QQ36
- UCAS institution code
- M20
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
BA Latin and English Literature
Duration: 3 years
Year of entry: 2025
UCAS course code: QQ36 / Institution code: M20
- Key features:
Study with a language
- Typical A-level offer: ABB including specific subjects
- Typical contextual A-level offer: ACC including specific subjects
- Refugee/care-experienced offer: ACC including specific subjects
- Typical International Baccalaureate offer: 34 points overall with 6,5,5 at HL including specific subjects
Course unit details:
Long Essay
| Unit code | ENGL30001 |
|---|---|
| Credit rating | 20 |
| Unit level | Level 3 |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 1 |
| Available as a free choice unit? | No |
Overview
This course gives students the freedom to formulate their own research topic and produce a 6000 word long essay on it. They are also required to produce an annotated bibliography to assist them in the formulation of a suitably focused research question.
Pre/co-requisites
THIS COURSE IS COMPULSORY FOR STUDENTS ON BA (HONS) ENGLISH LITERATURE
THIS COURSE IS OPTIONAL FOR STUDENTS ON JOINT HONOURS ENGLISH LITERATURE PROGRAMMES.
Aims
- To enable students to formulate a suitable topic for research based on their own interests;
- To develop students' abilities to research their chosen topic in order to meet the demands of an extended piece of written work;
- To develop the personal skills involved in defining, undertaking and completing a project
- To encourage students to assess, evaluate and deploy in their own work the available critical material on their chosen topic;
- To develop students' writing skills by encouraging them to think about the demands, in terms of form and complexity, of an extended piece of written work.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this course unit the successful student will have demonstrated:
- Independence in her/his ability to formulate a suitable research topic based on her/his own interests;
- Resourcefulness - including an ability to use electronic resources - in her/his ability to research that topic;
- The ability to assimilate and critically deploy critical material on that topic;
- The formal and intellectual skills requisite to the production of an extended piece of written work.
- An ability to undertake and complete an extended individual project
Teaching and learning methods
Three personal supervision meetings during Semester 2.
Employability skills
- Analytical skills
- Students taking this unit will be able to analyse and evaluate arguments and texts. Above all, committed students will emerge from this course unit with an advanced capacity to think critically, i.e. knowledgeably, rigorously, confidently and independently.
- Innovation/creativity
- On this unit students are encouraged to respond imaginatively and independently to the questions and ideas raised by texts and other media.
- Project management
- Students taking this unit will be able to work towards deadlines and to manage their time effectively.
- Research
- Students on this unit will be required to digest, summarise and present large amounts of information. They are encouraged to enrich their responses and arguments with a wide range of further reading.
- Written communication
- Students on this unit will develop their ability to write in a way that is lucid, precise and compelling.
Assessment methods
| Bibliographical essay | 15% |
| Long Essay | 85% |
Feedback methods
Written and face-to-face (upon arrangement)
Recommended reading
Students are encouraged to begin thinking about a research topic over the summer. Defining and forming a question, in consultation with a member of the academic staff, will be undertaken before the winter break. Further details on this will be distributed early in semester 1.
Study hours
| Scheduled activity hours | |
|---|---|
| Project supervision | 3 |
| Independent study hours | |
|---|---|
| Independent study | 197 |
Teaching staff
| Staff member | Role |
|---|---|
| Clara Dawson | Unit coordinator |