1) This module seeks to enable students to critically evaluate a range of texts and media about the Beatles
2) This module aims to enable to students to develop the skills to analyse and discursively appraise dominant narratives, tropes and mythologies attributed to the Beatles, their career and their history
3)This module will embody an approach to learning which explores the complexities around the Beatles and their 'legacy' from a range of perspective and voices
4) This module will support a wider agenda of new research and scholarship about the Beatles, their career and the implications for the music and creative industries.

(LO1) By the end of the module students will be able to critically evaluate a range of texts and media about the Beatles

(LO2) Students will be able to analyse and discursively appraise dominant narratives, tropes and mythologies attributed to the Beatles, their career and their history

(LO3) Students will understand the complexities around the Beatles and their 'legacy' from a range of perspective and voices

(LO4) Students will create new research and scholarship about the Beatles, their career and the implications for the music and creative industries.

(S1) Communication, listening and questioning respecting others, contributing to discussions, communicating in a foreign language, influencing, presentations developed by participation in class lectures, discussions and debates, reading/viewing a range of texts and media and actively engaging in guest lectures and field visits (where relevant).

(S2) Information literacy online, finding, interpreting, evaluating, managing and sharing information developed by using the full range of library resources as well as developing independent online research skills.

(S3) Media literacy online critically reading and creatively producing academic and professional communications in a range of media developed by undertaking independent research, fieldwork and writing and directed learning relevant to module content and coursework.

(S4) Positive attitude/ self-confidence A 'can-do' approach, a readiness to take part and contribute; openness to new ideas and the drive to make these happen developed by actively engaging in the university’s global citizenship aims, learning to develop original ideas and being an active participant in lectures and related activities.

(S5) Problem solving/ critical thinking/ creativity analysing facts and situations and applying creative thinking to develop appropriate solutions developed by learning to develop original ideas and being an active participant in lectures and related activities.

(S6) Self-management, readiness to accept responsibility (i.e. leadership), flexibility, resilience, self-starting, initiative, integrity, willingness to take risks, appropriate assertiveness, time management, readiness to improve own performance based on feedback/reflective learning/ developed by learning to develop original ideas and being an active participant in lectures and related activities.

Indicative topics this module may cover include:
*Academic scholarship about the Beatles
*1960s music press coverage of the Beatles
*The Beatles in popular media
*The Beatles and fandom
* Post-breakup narratives
*Solo careers and 'Ex-Beatles'
*The Beatles and the music industries
*After 1980: The Beatles and Popular Memory
*Apple and the Beatles industry
* The Beatles and discourses of Gender
*The Beatles and discourses of Race
*The Beatles and discourses of Class
*The Beatles and discourses of Politics

The module will be delivered via weekly 2-hour lectures and discussion supported by a substantial amount of self-directed learning. Where necessary, a blended, hybrid pattern of face-to-face and/or online learning will be adopted.

Lecture: 12 lectures (24 hours)
Self-Directed Learning: 276 hours