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.
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 & 7
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Seminars 8 & 9
William and Dorothy Wordsworth: The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
Seminars 10 & 11
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
Reading Lists
Books
** Should Be Purchased
Christopher Marlowe (1998) Doctor Faustus and Other Plays
Oxford World's Classics 0192834452
Alexander Pope (1990) The Rape of the Lock (Oxford Student Texts series)
Oxford University Press 0198319584
Dorothy and William Wordsworth (2002) The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
Oxford World's Classics 0192840622
Virginia Woolf (ed. Stella McNichol) (1996) To the Lighthouse
Penguin Modern Classics 0141183411
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 4