| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture | 20 x 1 hour |
| Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 1 hour |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 1 x 2000 word essay. | 33% |
| Semester Exam | 3 Hours 2 question exam. | 67% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit or resit failed elements and/or make good any missing elements |
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Demonstrate knowledge of a representative range of literary texts from the twentieth century.
Locate these texts in appropriate cultural and historical contexts.
Artiulate a detailed critical analysis of individual texts from the period that shows an understanding of their distinctive qualities.
Relate texts from the period either to each other or to a common theme.
The module offers students the opportunity to engage with the range and variety of twentieth-century writing. By focusing on texts from a range of genres, it seeks to give a sense of teh movement between the poles of realism and experimentation over the course of the period. There is a 'Text' and a 'Context' lecture on each of the texts. The introductory and concluding lectures discuss a range of adjacent texts and relevant contexts, as appropriate, usually without explicit reference to the set texts. The 'Context' lectures on each set text also discuss a range of adjacent texts and relevant contexts, but keyed explicitly to the set text in question.
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Communication | (Written) in essays and examination answers students are encouraged to express their ideas articulately and fluently (Oral) seminars are based on group discussion and brief student presentations |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Students are encouraged to take more personal initiative in the planning and conduct of their preparation for assignments than at Level 1, and to make use of a broader range of resources; formal feedback on essays and informal feedback on seminar participation helps students measure their improvement |
| Information Technology | Substantial use is made of electronic text-databases (EEBO, LION), of electronic journals, and of Blackboard, and students are encouraged to familiarise themselves with these |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Only insofar as the module covers key areas of literature in which students intending to teach English would need to demonstrate competence; or which might be related to future academic research |
| Problem solving | In essays and examination answers: by formulating and putting into practice a critical approach appropriate to text and topic set |
| Research skills | In preparation for seminars, essays, and exams: by investigation of literary texts, associated critical and scholarly writing, and the relationship of literary texts to historical an cultural contexts |
| Subject Specific Skills | Close reading of literary texts; grasp of generic and intertextual relationships between texts; identification and analysis of appropriate historical and cultural contexts |
| Team work | Informal group work in seminars |
This module is at CQFW Level 5