ENG5515 - Postcolonial Literature

Objectives:

Assessment tasks are designed to enable students to demonstrate the Learning and Employability outcomes for the relevant level of study. Level Learning Outcomes are embedded in the assessment task(s) at that level. This enables a more integrated view of overall student performance at each level.

Content:

In this module, students will develop an understanding of postcolonialism as a political, critical, theoretical and literary concept. They will examine a range of literature from postcolonial countries after WW2 in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Students will engage with topics such as: cultural identity and nationhood, political resistance, hybridity, liminality, diaspora, migration and exile, intertextuality.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Seminars
Hours: 25
Intended Group Size: 25

Guided Independent Study Hours: 25

Further details relating to assessment
Presentation questions will be designed so that the first assignment provides grounding and preparation for the second assignment by requiring students to focus on a key topic/theme. Students will choose from a range of questions provided. They will present on one of the primary texts covered in the first half of the module. Feedback on the presentation will specifically include formative feedback that is relevant to the second assignment.

Essay: students will write about one or two texts from the module, from a selection of questions provided. Essay questions will build on topics covered in the presentations.

Assessment support will be provided, including assessment unpacking exercises. Formative feedback will be provided through peer and tutor review of presentation and essay plans.

Assessment:

001 Presentation; 7 minutes; mid semester 1 40%
002 Essay; 2,000 words; end of semester 1 60%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Juliette Taylor-Batty
Level - 5
Credit Value - 15
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5S1

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