Module Details

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Title WAYS OF READING
Code ENGL113
Coordinator Dr MA Raines
English
M.A.Raines@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2020-21 Level 4 FHEQ Second Semester 15

Aims

1. To allow students to consider the ways in which we read and write about literary texts in different contexts (political, historical, theoretical and aesthetic).

2. To encourage students to consider how different methods of reading and interpretation improve understanding and analysis of literary texts.

3. To introduce students to critical issues related the creation and reception of literary texts.


Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Students will acquire analytical skills and vocabulary appropriate to university-level work and be able to use them appropriately in relation to a range of sources from different historical periods and social contexts.

(LO2) Students will gain the ability to construct and support argument in written or spoken forms suitable for academic work and be able to participate constructively in group discussions.

(LO3) Students will gain awareness of cultural, theoretical and historical contexts of literature and language use.

(LO4) Students will understand and apply critical, cultural and literary theory.

(S1) Students will gain the ability to analyse and interpret sophisticated texts closely and critically.

(S2) Students will gain the ability to construct and support argument in both written and spoken forms.

(S3) Students will gain the ability to write with appropriate subject knowledge, using appropriate approaches and terminology.

(S4) Students will gain the ability to make use of digital media to present ideas.


Syllabus

 

Topics are typically taken from the following: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, Narratology, Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, Environmental Humanities, Posthumanism, Marxist Critical Theory, New Historicism, Structuralism.


Teaching and Learning Strategies

1-hour F2F with small group (~9 per group)
1-hour remote online workshop with whole cohort


Teaching Schedule

  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours     11

    11

2

24
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 126
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment

EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
Version of video submitted for feedback  Minutes 5 minimum -          
Video and accompanying write-up. This is not an anonymous assessment and there is an opportunity to resit. A single mark is given for both.  5-7 mins and 900-110    40       
Take-home paper submitted through turn-it-in. Not managed by SAS. Summer resit opportunity. Anonymous.  Students will have 4    60       

Recommended Texts

Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module.