Module Details |
The information contained in this module specification was correct at the time of publication but may be subject to change, either during the session because of unforeseen circumstances, or following review of the module at the end of the session. Queries about the module should be directed to the member of staff with responsibility for the module. |
Title | Literature and Place | ||
Code | ENGL102 | ||
Coordinator |
Dr N Hanna English N.Hanna@liverpool.ac.uk |
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Year | CATS Level | Semester | CATS Value |
Session 2021-22 | Level 4 FHEQ | Second Semester | 30 |
Aims |
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To introduce students to a range of literary texts in English from different genres and periods, linked by the thematic concept of Place. To consider these texts from a variety of historical and theoretical perspectives. To consider how texts from different locations and cultures, national and international, represent, generate and mediate the concept of place, and related ideas such as home, belonging, travel, and identity. To offer students introductory samples of literature of different types and historical contexts, reflecting Honours-level provision. To meet the hallmark criteria of Curriculum 2021. |
Learning Outcomes |
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(LO1) Analytical skills and vocabulary appropriate to university-level work and ability to use them appropriately in relation to a range of sources from different historical periods and social contexts. |
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(LO2) Ability to construct and support argument in written or spoken forms suitable for academic work and ability to participate constructively in group discussions. |
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(LO3) Awareness of cultural, theoretical and historical contexts of literature and language use. |
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(LO4) Understanding of the ways in which ‘place’ has been generated within literature and represented, understood, and debated in literary texts of different kinds across time. |
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(S1) Critical Reading |
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(S2) Academic Research and Writing (including Referencing) |
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(S3) Communication and teamwork |
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(S4) Digital fluency |
Syllabus |
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Key topics will include: writing about specific places, real and imaginary, local and national, built and undomesticated. Like the first semester, first year module, Literature and Time, it will cover a range of texts from different literary genres and periods (1350 to the present day), but under a different thematic focus and with appropriately different critical approaches (e.g. political, ecological, biographical). There will be a diverse range of Anglophone texts drawn from different versions of ‘English’ around the world. Almost all literary texts will be available in print or electronic versions through the library or through the VLE, using the Reading Lists system; specific extra learning resources (maps, pictures, guides) will be made available through the VLE. Students will have a set amount of required reading for the tutorial each week and will be guided on how to look for independent extra reading towards tutorials and how to find supplementary resources fo r assessment tasks. |
Teaching and Learning Strategies |
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Teaching method: 2 workshops delivered remotely (1 hour each) per week; one tutorial (1 hour) per week delivered F2F or online as can be accomodated. |
Teaching Schedule |
Lectures | Seminars | Tutorials | Lab Practicals | Fieldwork Placement | Other | TOTAL | |
Study Hours |
11 |
22 |
33 | ||||
Timetable (if known) |
60 mins X 1 totaling 11
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60 mins X 2 totaling 22
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Private Study | 267 | ||||||
TOTAL HOURS | 300 |
Assessment |
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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 |
Digital presentation via podcast, video or digital storytelling. No resit opportunity in this format; students who fail the module and are required to resit this component will do so via a written ex | 0 minutes | 25 | ||||
Draft Presentation Draft submission of the digital presentation, with feedback and review which can be incorporated into the write-up for final, summative, submission | 10 minutes | 0 | ||||
Essay on the theme of place analysing at least two texts from the module. Resit opportunity; anonymous | 2000-2500 words | 50 | ||||
Creative-critical piece responding to a place within Liverpool. Resit opportunity; anonymous. | 750-1000 words | 25 |
Recommended Texts |
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Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module. |