Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the “constructedness” of the past
- the reasons for which different stories are told and retold
- appropriation, imitation, and invention, and how these differ from plagiarism
- the continuities and discontinuities between traditions of literature across centuries
- the dissemination and circulation of cultural items through different media
- the connections between high and popular culture, the notions of cultural authority, appropriation, imitation, and invention, and how these differ from plagiarism
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- acquire, select, structure, and present materials in relation to a particular critical argument
- compare and contrast apparently similar material from different periods
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- analyse and relate to each other complex written texts and associated visual images
- evaluate, and criticise tendentious claims for the naturalness or authority of cultural traditions
- analyse and explain the artifice of texts and visual images
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 47 |
Completion of assessment task | 49 |
Wider reading or practice | 18 |
Seminar | 11 |
Lecture | 11 |
Follow-up work | 9 |
Teaching | 5 |
Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
General Resources
Module readings will vary from year to year.. Authors studied will range from Homer, Virgil, Spenser and Milton, to Alexander Pope, Alfred Tennyson, James Joyce, Ndebele and Madeleine Miller. Students will be given a complete bibliography of primary and secondary material for their year.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 70% |
Critical Analysis | 30% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Critical Analysis | 30% |
Essay | 70% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External