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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.
Students will read texts within context through study of four periods. Students will examine literary works in relation to socio-cultural and political debates, and to understand the continuity and appropriation of specific narratives. Students will be introduced to texts such as Beowulf, Chaucer and the Gawain Poet, and works by Webster and Shakespeare. Drawing on the themes in these texts, students are encouraged to look at contemporary literature, media, film, etc. Students will then be introduced to a range of texts from the Victorian period, e.g. by Dickens, Collins, Gaskill and Conan Doyle, representing genres invented or refreshed in the Victorian period. They will finish with a selection of Postcolonial texts, such as Wide Sargasso Sea, which will be studied in cultural and theoretical contexts.
Lectures
Hours: 10
Intended Group Size: 30
Workshops
Hours: 40
Intended Group Size: 30
Guided independent study
Hours: 250
Further details relating to assessment
Students will learn through stages in their assessment, e.g. by negotiating their assignment, by presenting research informally and formally, and by scrutinising drafts in class, and through peer and tutor formative and final feedback. This provides opportunities for early assessment unpacking.
For Semester 1 the negotiated assessment will be on the topic of Medieval and/or Renaissance literature.
For Semester 2 the essay will be on Victorian and/or postcolonial literature.
001 Negotiated Assessment; 2,000 words or equiv; end of sem 1 50%
002 Report; 2,000 words; end of semester 2 50%
Module Coordinator - Amina Alyal
Level - 5
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 5YL