Delivery Type	Delivery length / details
Seminars / Tutorials	15 Hours. (10 x 1.5 hour seminars)
Lecture	5 Hours.

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.

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

Course Delivery

Assessment

Learning Outcomes

Aims

Brief description

Content

Reading List

Notes