Module manager: Alex Ding
Email: a.ding@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
This module is not approved as an Elective
By completing the module, you will reach an in-depth understanding and be able to critique current knowledge and issues in academia, disciplines and English for Academic Purposes (EAP), related to the social, political, epistemological, and cultural forces and practices that configure higher education. You will also be asked to demonstrate your understanding of these factors that shape academic practices throughout the module and to show how you apply theory to specific contexts and issues.
In this core module you will examine how knowledge is constructed within and across disciplines, how academic cultures shape and are shaped by disciplinary epistemologies, and how macro and meso-social structures and forces shape academic practices.
You will also examine how the field of EAP is shaped by cultures, contexts, practices, epistemologies, and social structures and how these factors account for practitioners’ legitimation, recognition, and participation in academia.
1. Develop an informed understanding of the cultural, political, and social factors within/beyond EAP that shape pedagogical enactments of EAP.
2. Draw on theory to deepen understanding of EAP as a field and a discipline.
3. Demonstrate and employ reflexivity to discern and question the practices that underpin EAP as a field.
Skills Learning Outcomes
4. Employ theoretical frameworks and tools to evaluate academic communication, knowledge production and practices.
5. Undertake critical and independent research on (inter)disciplinary fields
Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Supervised Practice | 6 | 0.5 | 3 |
| Lecture | 10 | 1 | 10 |
| Seminar | 5 | 1 | 5 |
| Seminar | 22 | 1 | 22 |
| Independent online learning hours | 40 | ||
| Private study hours | 220 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 40 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 300 | ||
Students will negotiate their essay topics by week 8 and will have feedback on 1) scope of their essay, 2) readings, 3) structure and rationale of essay and 4) feedback on partial draft
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Coursework | Essay | 100 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
The reading list is available from the Library website
Last updated: 03/03/2025
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