Module Information

Module Identifier

WL35130

Module Title

WRITING CONTEMPORARY WALES

Academic Year

2012/2013

Co-ordinator

Dr Natasha Alden

Semester

Intended for use in future years

Other Staff

Course Delivery

Delivery Type	Delivery length / details
Seminars / Tutorials	10 x 2 hours, of which 1hr will be conducted as a discussion-based literature seminar, one as a practice-based 'workshop' drawing on the relevant literary texts.

Assessment

Assessment Type	Assessment length / details	Proportion
Semester Assessment	1 x 3000 word essay	50%
Semester Assessment	1 x 3000 word creative writing portfolio to include a commentary of 750-1000 words	50%
Supplementary Assessment	Resubmit failed and/or make good any missing elements	100%

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this module, students should be able to:

1. demonstrate a detailed knowledge of a range of Welsh Writing in english from 2000-present day;

2. articulate this knowledge in the form of reasoned critical analysis of particular texts

3. locate the texts studied in appropriate literary, historical and cultural contexts;

4. explain, and engage with, relevant aspects of recent scholarly and/or critical debates about the texts studies;

5. produce informed and creative work drawing on the stylistic and/or thematic features of the texts studies.

Content

Each seminar comprises a close literary critical focus, and a related creative interpretation, intervention or adaptation exercise, around key themes and the relevant texts. `Cross-currents' in critical thinking are to be encouraged by approaching the texts from more than one thematic angle. Themes to be considered might be:

Urban/noir: eg. Sheepshagger, Aberystwyth Mon Amour
Landscape and ecology: eg. The Claude Glass, Sheepshagger
Memory and childhood: eg. The Hiding Place, Sugar and Slate, The Claude Glass
Documentary/lifewriting: eg. Dial M for Merthyr, Blue Sky July, Sugar and Slate
Developments in poetry: The Pterodactyl's Wing (two seminars)
Developments in the short story: Urban Welsh, Wales Half Welsh (two seminars)
Myth and cultural inheritance: eg. Mr Vogel, The Pterodactyl's Wing

Brief description

Aims

Module Skills

Skills Type	Skills details
Application of Number	n/a
Communication	Written communication in the form of essays or portfolio or whatever the module contains. (Oral presentation, if applicable) Oral communication in seminars
Improving own Learning and Performance	Use of electronic resources (discussion board and use of online media resources), production of written work
Information Technology	Use of electronic resources (discussion board and use of online media resources), production of written work
Personal Development and Career planning	No, except insofar as this module is related to a research, academic or writing career
Problem solving	Formulating and developing an extended argument
Research skills	Developing advanced study
Subject Specific Skills	Detailed critical/ theoretical analysis of literary texts and evaluation of broad theoretical concepts.
Team work	n/a

Notes

This module is at CQFW Level 6