UDESENLI - BA Education Studies and English Literature

The BA (Hons) Education Studies and English Literature can be taken as a full-time three-year course or part-time. The degree offers students an opportunity to ally a critical understanding of education as an academic discipline and set of practices with a knowledge and understanding of literature and the world (that includes education). Both subjects are examined through a rich interdisciplinary lens that offers students access both to particular historical, sociological, cultural and philosophical ways of seeing subject matter, as well as the added value that comes from the resultant holistic perspective on the world. The exercise of critical skills and the educated creative imagination lie at the heart of the programme and we are confident that graduates of the degree will be effectively prepared to embark on careers and/or further study as confident, competent and informed intellectuals and professionals. Many students will be enabled to enter careers as teachers of English across all sectors on the back of their studies.

The course is delivered by taught sessions at the university which comprise lectures (including guest speakers where appropriate), seminars and workshops, student’s presentations and individual supervisions. Taught sessions are complemented by field visits to schools, museums, libraries, galleries and other places of educational and literary production order to maximise interaction with loci of employability within the capital. Taught sessions are equally supported by full use of online resources, in particular moderated discussion and online assessment opportunities via weblearn, where course and module documentation, lecture summaries, licensed and scanned secondary reading material and selected links and prompts will also be accessible. In addition, each year offers three enhancement weeks where a variety of activities including guest events, readings and literature linked visits to London events and locations will supplement more conventional classroom learning.

Connectivity within the university is essential to the degree. The course requires strong and consistent use of the Library and Learning Centre, which has a subject-specific librarian offering workshops and one-to-one assistance with printed and online academic material. The Learning Centre, adjacent to Tower Building, offers private study space as well as academic material. Other study and conversation spaces are available at the Tower Building (location lectures, seminars and tutors’ offices), and students are expected to collaborate with each other regarding seminar topics, group or joint presentations, preparation of peer feedback, and networking (supported by subject staff) across undergraduate study years and disciplines. The course also builds on existing links with The Women’s Library, encouraging students to source and apply valuable primary and secondary resources available there for their critical and literary studies and creative practice.

The BA (Hons) Education Studies and English Literature can be taken as a full-time three-year course or part-time. The degree offers students an opportunity to ally a critical understanding of education as an academic discipline and set of practices with a knowledge and understanding of literature and the world (that includes education). Both subjects are examined through a rich interdisciplinary lens that offers students access both to particular historical, sociological, cultural and philosophical ways of seeing subject matter, as well as the added value that comes from the resultant holistic perspective on the world. The exercise of critical skills and the educated creative imagination lie at the heart of the programme and we are confident that graduates of the degree will be effectively prepared to embark on careers and/or further study as confident, competent and informed intellectuals and professionals. Many students will be enabled to enter careers as teachers of English across all sectors on the back of their studies.

The course is delivered by taught sessions at the university which comprise lectures (including guest speakers where appropriate), seminars and workshops, student’s presentations and individual supervisions. Taught sessions are complemented by field visits to schools, museums, libraries, galleries and other places of educational and literary production order to maximise interaction with loci of employability within the capital. Taught sessions are equally supported by full use of online resources, in particular moderated discussion and online assessment opportunities via weblearn, where course and module documentation, lecture summaries, licensed and scanned secondary reading material and selected links and prompts will also be accessible. In addition, each year offers three enhancement weeks where a variety of activities including guest events, readings and literature linked visits to London events and locations will supplement more conventional classroom learning.

Connectivity within the university is essential to the degree. The course requires strong and consistent use of the Library and Learning Centre, which has a subject-specific librarian offering workshops and one-to-one assistance with printed and online academic material. The Learning Centre, adjacent to Tower Building, offers private study space as well as academic material. Other study and conversation spaces are available at the Tower Building (location lectures, seminars and tutors’ offices), and students are expected to collaborate with each other regarding seminar topics, group or joint presentations, preparation of peer feedback, and networking (supported by subject staff) across undergraduate study years and disciplines. The course also builds on existing links with The Women’s Library, encouraging students to source and apply valuable primary and secondary resources available there for their critical and literary studies and creative practice.

The following learning outcomes incorporate and depend on systematic understanding of the key aspects of the knowledge base of Education Studies and of English Literature, including a coherent and detailed knowledge of some specialist areas in depth.

On successful completion of this course students will be able to:

• deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within Education Studies and English Literature;

• devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of Education Studies and of English Literature;

• describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in Education Studies and English Literature, recognising the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge;

• manage their own learning, and to make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to Education Studies and English Literature);

• apply the methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply their knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects;

• critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), to make judgements, and to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution - or identify a range of solutions - to a problem;

• communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences;

• exercise initiative and personal responsibility, including decision-making in complex and unpredictable contexts;

• undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature.

- Deploy accurately established techniques of analysis and enquiry within Education Studies and English Literature:

All English Literature modules (IP)

And

• Making Sense of Education (Level 4) (I)
• Becoming an Educationist: reading, writing and enquiry (Level 4) (IP)
• Qualitative Educational Research in Theory and Practice (level 5) (IP)
• Knowledge, Ideologies and Curricula (level 5) (P)
• Education Studies Dissertation (level 6) (IPA)
• Social Pedagogies and the Public Intellectual (level 6) (PA)
• Childhood, Youth and Education (level 6) (PA)

- Devise and sustain arguments, and/or to solve problems, using ideas and techniques, some of which are at the forefront of Education Studies and English Literature:

All English Literature modules (IPA)

And

• Becoming an Educationist: reading, writing and enquiry (Level 4) (IP)
• Qualitative Educational Research in Theory and Practice (level 5) (IP)
• Education Studies Dissertation (level 6) (IPA)
• Social Pedagogies and the Public Intellectual (level 6) (PA)
• Childhood, Youth and Education (level 6) (PA)

• Experiments in Radical Education (level 6) (I)
• Inclusion and Meeting Special Educational Needs (level 6) (IPA)
• Sport, Education and Society (level 6) (IA)
• Philosophy, Enlightenment and Education (level 6) (IA)

- Describe and comment upon particular aspects of current research, or equivalent advanced scholarship, in Education Studies and English Literature, recognising the uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge:

• Project (level 6) (PA)
• Literary London (level 6) (PA)
• The Literature of Childhood (level 6) (PA)
• Becoming an Educationist: reading, writing and enquiry (Level 4) (IP)
• Qualitative Educational Research in Theory and Practice (level 5) (IP)
• Knowledge, Ideologies and Curricula (level 5) (P)
• Education Studies Dissertation (level 6) (IPA)
• Social Pedagogies and the Public Intellectual (level 6) (PA)
• Childhood, Youth and Education (level 6)

- Manage their own learning, and to make use of scholarly reviews and primary sources (for example, refereed research articles and/or original materials appropriate to Education Studies and English Literature :

• Theory and Practice of Prose (level 4) (IP)

• Project (level 6) (PA)
• The Literature of Childhood (PA)

• Becoming an Educationist: reading, writing and enquiry (Level 4) (IP)
• Qualitative Educational Research in Theory and Practice (level 5) (IP)
• Education Studies Dissertation (level 6) (IPA)

- Apply the methods and techniques that they have learned to review, consolidate, extend and apply their knowledge and understanding, and to initiate and carry out projects:

• All English Literature modules (IPA)
And

• Becoming an Educationist: reading, writing and enquiry (Level 4) (IP)
• Qualitative Educational Research in Theory and Practice (level 5) (P)
• Education Studies Dissertation (level 6) (IPA)

- Critically evaluate arguments, assumptions, abstract concepts and data (that may be incomplete), to make judgements, and to frame appropriate questions to achieve a solution - or identify a range of solutions - to a problem:

• Theory and Practice of Prose (level 4) (I)
• Project (level 6) (PA)
• Literary London (level 6) (PA)

• Making Sense of Education (Level 4) (I)
• Becoming an Educationist: reading, writing and enquiry (Level 4) (IP)
• Qualitative Educational Research in Theory and Practice (level 5) (P)
• Education Studies Dissertation (level 6) (IPA)

- Communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialist and non-specialist audiences:

• All English Literature modules (IPA)

And

• Becoming an Educationist: reading, writing and enquiry (Level 4) (IP)
• Knowledge, Ideologies and Curricula (level 5) (P)
• Education Studies Dissertation (level 6) (PA)

- Exercise initiative and personal responsibility, including decision-making in complex and unpredictable contexts:

• Project (level 6) (PA)
• Literary London (level 6) (IPA)

And

• Working With Children and Young People (level 5) (P)
• Education Studies Dissertation (level 6) (PA)

- Undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature:

• Project (level 6) (PA)
• Literary London (level 6) (PA)
• Becoming an Educationist: reading, writing and enquiry (Level 4) (I)
• Knowledge, Ideologies and Curricula (level 5) (I)
• Education Studies Dissertation (level 6) (P)
• Social Pedagogies and the Public Intellectual (level 6) (P)
• Childhood, Youth and Education (level 6) (P)
• Inclusion and Meeting Special Educational Needs (level 6) (I)
• Sport, Education and Society (level 6) (I)

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Pages/Subject-benchmark-statement-Education-studies.aspx

http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/English07.pdf

Students’ learning of skills and subject matter is assessed by formative and summative strategies. Formative assessment includes: contribution to seminar and workshop, short exercises written in class or during independent learning hours and posted onto the weblearn discussion forum, presentations, essay plans and quizzes: all will receive oral and sometimes written feedback during and between class sessions. Summative assessments include academic essays, set presentations, group work, reviews, and portfolios of critical work. Written feedback on summative assessment is provided and tutorial time made available. Where possible, written feedback on assessments will be made available via weblearn, and tutors will also respond to queries by email and other social media as appropriate.

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Level 4:

• Theory and Practice of Prose
• Romantics to Victorians
• Making Sense of Education
• Becoming an Educationist: reading, writing and enquiry

Level 5:

• Victorians to Moderns
• Qualitative Educational Research in Theory and Practice
• Knowledge, Ideologies and Curricula

Level 6:

Either:

• Project (Eng Lit)

Or:

• Education Studies Dissertation

• Literary London (30 credit);

Students completing the programme will need to undertake further, postgraduate study to achieve Qualified Teacher Status (QTS).

This course combination means that after graduating you’ll be eligible to pursue Qualified Teaching Status as a secondary English specialist.

This degree also opens to door to a number of careers in publishing, arts, education and other administration, communications work and business, school teaching, community-based leadership and development involving children and young people.

This course is also excellent preparation for further research or study.

In addition to the University's standard entry requirements, you should have:

• At least 280 UCAS points from three or more A levels (e.g. BBC) or
• 320 UCAS points from a BTEC National (e.g. DDM), a Level 3 Diploma (or equivalent),
• An appropriate Access Course.

These requirements may be varied in individual cases.

We welcome applications from mature students who wish to develop career options related to education, teaching or community-based action and we can offer accreditation for prior experience/education.

All applicants must be able to demonstrate proficiency in the English language. Applicants who require a Tier 4 student visa may need to provide a Secure English Language Test (SELT) such as Academic IELTS. For more information about English qualifications please see our English language requirements.