| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 2 hour seminars |
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 1 single-essay (1 text from sessions 1-5) (2,500 words) 1 single-essay (1 text from sessions 6-10 and 1 other) (2,500 words) Continuous Assessment: | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected. | 100% |
On completion of this module, studens should be able to:
1. demonstrate a broad knowledge of American literature in the 20th century and an understanding of the social and political contexts in which the set texts were written;
2. describe issues of gender, class, and/or race in relation to ethnic and regional experiences of America during the period, and examine their reprsentation in the set texts;
3. engage in coherent oral discussion of the texts;
4. read literary texts in an informed and critical manner;
5. write about the subject in a well-structured and argued manner.
6. engage in coherent oral discussion of the texts;
7. write about the subject in a well-structured and argued manner.
The main objective of this module is to provide a general introduction to and overview of the literature of the United States of America in the twentieth century. This module emphasises the way in which prose fictions record and respond to the social, political, and economic crises of the century, including World War One and Two, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. Emphasis will also be placed on the differing themes and formal strategies that develop from the various ethnic and regional experiences of Americans during the century, and issues of gender, race, and class will be systematically examined through the study of both canonical and non-canonical authors.
This module is a level 3 option module that, due to programme changes, is offered to both Year Two and Year Three students (Year Two students take the 20-credit form; Year Three take the 30-credit form). The difference between the two is determined by assessment, not by course content or delivery. It remains suitable for both English and American Studies students, but is intended primarily for American Studies students.
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Application of Number | N/A |
| Communication | Written communication in the form of essays; Oral presentations in small groups; Oral communication in seminars. |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | Developing own research skills; Time Management. |
| Information Technology | Use of electronic resources and e-learning technologies (electronic databases and Blackboard); Power Point for group presentations; Production of written work using word-processing program. |
| Personal Development and Career planning | Critical self-reflection; Development of transferable communication and research skills. |
| Problem solving | Formulating and developing an argument. |
| Research skills | Independent research for presentations; Independent research for assisgnments. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Ability to "compare and contrast" between texts; Ability to comment on realtionship between society and literary forms. |
| Team work | Group work for oral presentations. |
This module is at CQFW Level 6