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BA English Language and Sociology with Foundation Year (LITU23)     FT

2019 - 2020

 
 

Year 1


units (70 credits)
1A
A student will take

Semester 1
ELL112  The Sounds of English AUT SEM 10 credits
ELL113  The Structures of English AUT SEM 10 credits
SCS1001  The Sociology of Everyday Life AUT SEM 10 credits
SCS1002  The Sociological Imagination Seminar AUT SEM 10 credits
SCS1008  Introduction to Social Research AUT SEM 10 credits

Semester 2
SCS1011  Classical Sociological Theory SPR SEM 10 credits
SCS1012  Exploring Classical Social Thought Seminars SPR SEM 10 credits

units (20 credits)
1B
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
ELL110  Varieties of English AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
ELL114  History of English SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL120  Linguistic Theory SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (30 credits)
1C
A student will take 30 credits from this group.

Semester 1
SCS1003  Understanding Inequality AUT SEM 10 credits
SCS1004  Social Divisions Seminar AUT SEM 10 credits
SCS1007  Introducing Criminology AUT SEM 10 credits

Semester 2
SCS1005  Gender, Sexuality and Society SPR SEM 10 credits
SCS1013  Globalisation and World Cultures SPR SEM 10 credits
SCS1029  Welfare Politics and the State SPR SEM 10 credits
a student can take unrestricted F4 units to the value of 20 credits.

Year 2


units (20 credits)
2A
A student will take

Semester 1
SCS2001  Sociological Theory and Analysis AUT SEM 20 credits

units (40 credits)
2B
A student will take a minimum of 40 and a maximum of 80 credits from this group.

Semester 1
EGH202  The History of Persuasion AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL207  Phonetics AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL221  Syntax AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL228  Language and Cognition AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL239  Big Data: Language & Digital Corpra AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL240  Historical Linguistics AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
EGH207  Writing the Real SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL217  Sociolinguistics SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL225  Exiles and Monsters: An Introduction to Old English SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL226  First Language Acquisition SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL232  Phonology SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL234  A Sense of Place: Local and Regional Identity SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (20 credits)
2C
A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 60 credits from this group.

Semester 1
SCS2009  The Sociology of Crime and Deviance AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS2016  Sociology of the Media AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS2022  Dynamics of Social Change and Policy AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS2025  Men, Feminism and Gender relations AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
SCS2005  Race, Immigration & Multiculturalism SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS2006  Sociology of the Family SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS2017  Sociology of Work SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS2021  Crime, Justice and Social Policy SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS2023  Social Problems: Policy and Practice SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS2024  Digital Media and Social Change SPR SEM 20 credits

Year 3


3

There are two routes through Level 3 of this programme.  Students must either select Route A and take units listed at 3Ai, 3Aii and 3Aiii or Route B and take units listed at 3Bi, 3Bii and 3Biii.


units (20 credits)
3Ai
Route A
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
SCS3003  Extended Essay in Sociology AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
SCS3003  Extended Essay in Sociology SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (20 credits)
3Aii
Route A
A student will take a minimum of 20 and a maximum of 60 credits from this group.

Semester 1
SCS3003  Extended Essay in Sociology AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3012  Southern Childhoods: Rights, Policies and Practices AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3018  The Sociology of Surveillance AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3021  Whiteness, Power and Privilege AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3025  Sociology of Evil AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3038  Organised Crime & Illicit Markets AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3046  Digital Identities AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
SCS3000  The Value of Sociology SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3003  Extended Essay in Sociology SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3028  Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3034  What it means to be human SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3036  Intimacy and Personal Relationships SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3042  Social Media, Data and Society SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3043  Digital Health SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3047  Protest, Movements and Social Change SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3053  Perspectives on inequalities SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3054  Queer Theory and the Media SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (40 credits)
3Aiii
Route A
A student will take a minimum of 40 and a maximum of 80 credits from this group.

Semester 1
EGH303  Research Practice AUT SEM 20 credits
EGH310  Psychology of Language AUT SEM 20 credits
EGH321  Dialect in Literature and Film AUT SEM 20 credits
EGH326  Text-Worlds AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL310  Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL344  Language and Gender AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL361  Advanced Syntax AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
EGH302  Dissertation SPR SEM 20 credits
EGH317  Researching Readers SPR SEM 20 credits
EGH328  Experiments in Digital Story-Telling SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL326  Special Subject SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL352  Approaches to Discourse SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL357  Second Language Acquisition SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL360  Historical Pragmatics SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL362  World Englishes SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (40 credits)
3Bi
Route B
A student will take 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
EGH303  Research Practice AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
EGH302  Dissertation SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units
3Bii
Route B
A student will take up to 40 credits from this group.

Semester 1
EGH310  Psychology of Language AUT SEM 20 credits
EGH321  Dialect in Literature and Film AUT SEM 20 credits
EGH326  Text-Worlds AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL344  Language and Gender AUT SEM 20 credits
ELL361  Advanced Syntax AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
EGH317  Researching Readers SPR SEM 20 credits
EGH328  Experiments in Digital Story-Telling SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL326  Special Subject SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL357  Second Language Acquisition SPR SEM 20 credits
ELL362  World Englishes SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (40 credits)
3Biii
Route B
A student will take a minimum of 40 and a maximum of 80 credits from this group.

Semester 1
SCS3003  Extended Essay in Sociology AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3012  Southern Childhoods: Rights, Policies and Practices AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3018  The Sociology of Surveillance AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3021  Whiteness, Power and Privilege AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3025  Sociology of Evil AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3038  Organised Crime & Illicit Markets AUT SEM 20 credits
SCS3046  Digital Identities AUT SEM 20 credits

Semester 2
SCS3000  The Value of Sociology SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3003  Extended Essay in Sociology SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3028  Sociology of Health, Illness and Medicine SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3034  What it means to be human SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3036  Intimacy and Personal Relationships SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3042  Social Media, Data and Society SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3043  Digital Health SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3047  Protest, Movements and Social Change SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3053  Perspectives on inequalities SPR SEM 20 credits
SCS3054  Queer Theory and the Media SPR SEM 20 credits

Year 0


units (80 credits)
0(a)
A student will take

Full academic year
ACE0340  Academic Literacy and Communication Skills ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0344  Foundations of Sociology ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0345  Maths and Statistics ACAD YR 20 credits
ACE0348  Foundations of English ACAD YR 20 credits

units (20 credits)
0(b)
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 2
ACE0349L  Extended Project (EGH) SPR SEM 20 credits
ACE0349S  Extended Project (SCS) SPR SEM 20 credits
AND

units (20 credits)
0(c)
A student will take 20 credits from this group.

Semester 1
ACE0350  Introduction to the Social Sciences AUT SEM 20 credits
ACE0351  Introduction to the Humanities AUT SEM 20 credits

0(d).

Before proceeding to Level 1, a student will attain both 120 credits and a weighted mean grade of 60.0 or above; a student with 120 credits and a weighted mean grade of between 57.0 and 59.9 may be permitted to proceed at the discretion of the Board of Examiners and the cognate department.

 
 
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