ENG4523 - Understanding Literary Genres

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:

This module is designed to develop awareness of genre and to encourage students to analyse contemporary fiction in terms of particular genres and their historical development; it is also designed to develop student confidence in reading and engaging with pre-1900 writing.

For each genre, two or more core texts from different periods will be introduced, read, discussed and compared across half a semester. This would include, for example, a novel in a popular contemporary genre and a pre-1900 novel which is recognisably in the same genre. For example, a Twentieth-Century detective novel (e.g. Agatha Christie) may be analysed and compared to a Victorian detective story; or a contemporary vampire novel may be analysed and compared to Bram Stoker’s Dracula or Sheridan Le Fanu’s Carmilla.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Lectures
Hours: 10
Intended Group Size: 30

Seminars
Hours: 40
Intended Group Size: 30

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further details relating to assessment
Each report may be submitted as an academic essay or as creative writing with commentary.

Classes will be devoted in each semester to peer and tutor review of draft presentations and essays, which will constitute formative feedback, as well as ‘assessment unpacking’.

Integrated assessment will be formulated according to programme, focusing on elements of English Literature and Creative Writing.

Please note that where the module is taken by visiting/study abroad students, there is no requirement to do the Integrated Assessment. Other assessments by negotiation with module tutor.

Assessment:

001 Report 1; 1,500 words; end of semester 1 35%
002 Report 2; 1,5000 words; end of semester 2 35%
003 Integrated assessment; 1,000 words; end of semester 2 30%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Juliette Taylor-Batty
Level - 4
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 4YL

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