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
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2021-22 Level 4 FHEQ Second Semester 30

Aims

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

(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.

(LO2) Ability to construct and support argument in written or spoken forms suitable for academic work and ability to participate constructively in group discussions.

(LO3) Awareness of cultural, theoretical and historical contexts of literature and language use.

(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.

(S1) Critical Reading

(S2) Academic Research and Writing (including Referencing)

(S3) Communication and teamwork

(S4) Digital fluency


Syllabus

 

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

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.
Description: Workshops introduce topics, methods, materials and resources to the whole cohort and will be typically focused on 1-2 texts each week; tutorials are small groups (6-9 students, led by a tutor) of a more interactive nature designed to elicit developing discussion of set reading, normally of one text each week. Tutors will also be the directors of students’ individual learning development through the module.
Scheduled directed student hours: 36
Unscheduled directed student hours: 50 (specified reading for workshops and tutorials; preparation for group work)
Attendance recorded: TBC in accordance with latest SotA advice
Notes:
Description of how self-directed learning hours may be used:
Extra preparation for lectures and tutorials (beyond what is directly specified) and independent research towards assessment (reading primary and secondary texts as part of independent research; exploration of Liverpool and other places; practice in using digital tools for presentation).


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
 
    60 mins X 2 totaling 22
 
 
Private Study 267
TOTAL HOURS 300

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
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         
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

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