ENG6533 - Austen, the Brontës and Woolf

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 will give students the opportunity to study a range of works by a group of significant novelists from three centuries. Students will study a substantial body and range of writings by Austen, the Brontës and Woolf, putting these into historical and biographical contexts, engaging with critical responses and theoretical approaches, and looking at their international reception. The module will also give students the opportunity to develop their research skills by devising a project on a topic of their choice arising from course content.

Learning and Teaching Information:

Seminars 20 x 2 hours
Hours: 40
Intended Group Size: 12

Virtual Cafes 20x30 mins
Hours: 10
Intended Group Size: 12

Guided independent study
Hours: 250

Further details relating to assessment
Essay 1 will relate to the first author studied on the module (e.g. Austen).

Essay 2 (the longer 3,000-word essay) will be on a topic of the students’ choice, but will require some reflection on all authors covered through the exploration of an overarching theme, e.g. women writers and literary tradition.

There will be an early opportunity for some formative exercises that will help unpack the assessment, clarifying the nature of the task and the marking criteria.

Assessment:

001 Essay; 2,000 words; mid-semester 1 30%
002 Essay; 3,000 words; end of semester 2 70%

Fact File

Module Coordinator - Richard Storer
Level - 6
Credit Value - 30
Pre-Requisites - NONE
Semester(s) Offered - 6YL

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