BA (Hons) Modular Degree Routes, NEWI
This page is designed to provide you with brief details of the modules which are available on the BA (Hons) programme at NEWI for 1997/8.
General
Business Management modules
English modules
Geography modules
History modules
Media Studies modules
Psychology modules
Welsh Studies modules
Tutor Contacts
The programme is a modular one, with each student taking one of a series of "named routes", a combination of two main subjects. This might include, for example, 'English with Psychology', 'Media Studies/Business Management' or 'History and Welsh Studies'.
All students take a total of 36 modules for the degree. Joint Honours students take up to a total of 18 modules in their two chosen subject areas. Major Students take up to 24 modules in their chosen area, and the Minor strand up to 12. In the final year of the programme all students write an 8,000-word Dissertation in an area of their choice: this counts for 2 of the total 36 modules. In Year 3 modules are generally offered as double-modules.
Throughout the programme all students, whether Joint or Major, may take up to 6 'electives', in other words, 6 modules in subjects outside of the two specialist areas, which might include modules from the subjects listed below, or additional subjects such as Information Technology or Transferable Skills.
The programme has been designed to allow the fullest possible flexibility of choice: students normally register for a named degree route at the start of their degree studies, but there is some scope for this to be changed as they progress through the programme.
Assessment is by a variety of methods, including formal essays, seminar presentations, course logs, portfolios, field reports and documentary studies, in addition to unseen examinations. Level I is a foundation year, which students must pass in order to proceed, whereas Level II and Level III work contributes to the final degree classification.
Further Information regarding the programme as a whole can be obtained by contacting:
Dr Richard Dover, Field Leader (Humanities)
North East Wales Institute,
Plas Coch,
Mold Road,
Wrexham,
LL11 2AW
tel: 01978-293272 email doverr@newi.ac.uk
For more information about contact names for questions regarding particular subject areas please see the section on
Tutor Contacts
Module Details
Subjects and Modules currently offered or proposed are as follows:
Available as a Joint subject with Media Studies
Level 1
Business Finance 1
Small Business Applications
Quantitative Methods
Introduction to Management
Business Finance 2
Marketing Theory and Practice
Introduction to Economics
Level 2
- Employment Law I
- Human Resource Planning and Employment
- Operations Management
- Employment Law 2
- Business Strategy
- European Case Study
Level 3
- Managing the Marketing Plan
- Employee Relations Strategy
- Business Taxation or Environmental Strategies for Business
- Business Planning and Control
- Consumer Law or International Marketing or Organisational Change and Development
- Project (Double Module)
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Available as a Major, Joint or Minor Subject, and also as
Single Honours
Level
1
- Introduction to Poetry
- Introduction to Drama
- Introduction to Narrative
- "Between the Acts": British Writing Between the Wars
- Chaucer
- Contemporary Women Writers
- Process, Practice and Product I (Creative Writing)
- Victorian and Edwardian Writing
- Edwardian and Modernist Writing
- Popular Fiction
- Modern European Drama
Level 2
- Shakespeare I: Histories and Comedies
- Romantic Poetry
- Critical Theory
- The Nineteenth Century Novel
- Eighteenth Century Prose Narrative
- Shakespeare II: Tragedies and Romances
- Romantic Narrative and Criticism
- The Modern Novel.
Level 3
- Literature from 1590 to the Restoration (Double Module)
- Modern Poetry (Double Module)
- Ancient and Modern Tragedy (Double Module)
- Modern and Contemporary Writing (Double Module).
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Available as a Minor or Joint subject
Level 1
- An Introduction to Human Geography
- The United Kingdom Economy
- The Environment in Crisis
- Environmental Economics or Global Issues
- The Local Environment: Skills and Statistics (Double Module)
Level 2
- The Global Economy
- Settlement Geography
- Population and Resources
- Population Geography
- Geographic Information Systems
- Level 3
Choice of 2 of the following
:
- The Regional Development of the European Union (Double Module)
- Third World Issues (Double Module)
- Urban Issues and Planning (Double Module)
- Rural Issues and Planning (Double Module)
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Available as a Single Honours, Major, Joint or Minor subject
Level 1
- Themes in European History: 1870-1930
- Historical Skills and Approaches (Double module)
- Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Britain
- Medieval Life and Society
- Themes in European History: 1930-1995
- European Antecedents: Europe's Intellectual Roots
- Crime and Punishment in Nineteenth Century Britain.
- Level 2
- The Matter and Making of Europe: 1400-1650
- Elizabethan State and Society
- A Perspective on the World: European Exploration in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
- Faith and Ideology in Elizabethan England and Wales
- Colonial America
- The Mind and Memory of Europe: 1500-1750
- Science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
- Land and Wealth in Eighteenth Century Britain
Level 3
- Revolution and Readjustment (Double Module)
- Nationalism (Double Module)
- A Developing Country: Nineteenth Century Wales (Double Module)
- The Rise of a New Society: Industrial Britain from the mid Eighteenth Century (Double Module).
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Available as a Minor or Joint subject. For further details see
module descriptions
Level 1
- Introduction to the Study of the Media
- Historical Perspectives on Media Development
- Introduction to the Analysis of Film
- Introduction to the Study of Television
- Representing 'the Other': Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror
- International Mass Media Perspectives
- Level 2
- Media, Culture and Society in Britain: 1939-1995
- Image and Reality: Propaganda and Politics in the Twentieth Century
- Hollywood: 1939-1959
- European Cinema I
- Hollywood: 1959 to the Present Day
- European Cinema II
Level 3
- Women and the Media (Double Module)
- Pacific Rim Cinema (Double Module)
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Available as a Minor Subject
Level 1
- What is Psychology?
- History of Psychology
- Developmental Psychology 1
- Developmental Psychology 2
- Social Psychology 1
- Social Psychology 2
Level 2
- Personality
- Emotion
- Psychology of Stress
- Abnormal Psychology 1
- Abnormal Psychology 2
Level 3
- Social Psychology 3 (double module)
- Communication and Counselling (double module)
- Crisis and Loss (double Module)
- Health Psychology (double module)
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Available as a Minor or Joint subject
Level
1
- Wales: The Search for a Definition
- Wales: A Nation in Europe
- The Word: The Media from Thomas Gee to S4C
- Explorations and Explanations in Nineteenth Century Wales
- Cultural Crossroads: Language, Culture and Class in Nineteenth Century Wales
- Education: From 'Welsh Not' to 'Welsh Yes'
Level 2
- Society and Culture in the Middle Ages
- Arthur and Medieval Welsh Mythology
- Investigating Urban Society
- Society and Culture in Early Modern Wales
- The Lives and Homes of the Welsh Gentry
- Routes: Migration in Nineteenth Century Wales.
Level 3
- Society and Culture in the Eighteenth Century (Double Module)
- Literary Perspectives, Past and Present (Double Module)
- "For Wales, see England": A Special Relationship (Double Module)
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The following tutors should be contacted for further information regarding individual subjects:
Business Management, Tina Stephens, 01978-293132
English: Dr Richard Dover, 01978-293272
Geography: Jane Griffiths, 01978-293129
History: Geraint Thomas, 01978-293277
Media Studies: Dr Jonathan Rayner, 01978-293271
Psychology: Alan Preston, 01978-293112
Welsh Studies: Geraint Thomas, 01978-293277
You can write to any of the above tutors at the main NEWI address:
NEWI
Plas Coch
Mold Road,
Wrexham,
LL11 2AW
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