Module Information
Module Identifier
EN10320
Module Title
THE STUDY OF ENGLISH
Academic Year
2008/2009
Co-ordinator
Semester
Semester 1
Other Staff
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | 15 Hours. (10 x 1.5 hour seminars) |
| Lecture | 5 Hours. |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 2 x 2000 word essays | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit or resit failed elements and/or make good any missing elements |
Learning Outcomes
On the completion of this module students should typically have developed:
1. their skills of close critical reading of texts;
2. their understanding of and ability to work with a range of critical approaches;
3. their skills of oral presentation;
4. their essay writing skills.
Aims
This module aims to equip students with a range of discipline-specific and transferable skills, including:
1. close reading of literary texts;
2. ability to access and use critical material;
3. skills of oral presentation;
4. writing skills.
1. close reading of literary texts;
2. ability to access and use critical material;
3. skills of oral presentation;
4. writing skills.
Brief description
This Part 1 English module has been devised as an 'apprenticeship' module for the discipline. Its aim is to lay the basis of the skills needed for enjoyable and successful study in the field of English - Reading Text, Reading Critics, and Writing about the Text.
Content
There is an introductory lecture, one lecture for each of the four set books and IT sessions, together with weekly seminar workshops for ten weeks. There are four set texts: one from each of the 'core' periods which feature in Part 2 of the degree.
_SEMINAR PROGRAMME
_Seminar 1
Introductory
_Seminars 2, 3 & 4
Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
_Seminars 5 & 6
William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
_Seminars 7, 8 & 9
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
_Seminars 10 & 11
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
_SEMINAR PROGRAMME
_Seminar 1
Introductory
_Seminars 2, 3 & 4
Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
_Seminars 5 & 6
William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
_Seminars 7, 8 & 9
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
_Seminars 10 & 11
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Reading List
Should Be PurchasedAlexander Pope (2007) The Rape of the Lock (Oxford Student Texts series) Oxford University Press Primo search Christopher Marlowe (1998) Doctor Faustus and Other Plays Oxford World's Classics Primo search Dorothy and William Wordsworth (2002) The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals Oxford World's Classics Primo search Virginia Woolf (ed. Stella McNichol) (1996) To the Lighthouse Penguin Modern Classics Primo search
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 4