Undergraduate Course: Contemporary American Fiction (ENLI10172)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/literatures-languages-cultures/english-literature/undergraduate/current/honours |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course is an interrogation of what it means to be American in a contemporary multicultural society, through the close critical examination of nine novels of the last 20 years; these novels are selected to illustrate the diversity of American cultures in the late twentieth century, and to ask how their aesthetic qualities are related to the social and political challenges that they dramatise. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: 30 |
Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Class Delivery Information |
1 hour(s) per week for 10 week(s): attendance for one hour a week at Autonomous Learning Group - at times to be arranged. |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
196 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
75 %,
Coursework
25 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students who complete this course successfully will develop a knowledge and understanding of a range and variety of contemporary American novelists in terms of region, class, gender and ethnicity, and an appreciation of how these writers dramatise the problems and issues of what it means to be American in the context of theories of the contemporary such as identity politics and postmodernity. Students will acquire a detailed knowledge of the aesthetic qualities of the novels, in the context of contemporary debates about American cultural politics. |
Assessment Information
1 essay of 2,500 words (25%);
1 take home examination essay of 3,000 words (75%) |
Special Arrangements
| Numbers are limited and students taking degrees not involving English or Scottish literature need the written approval of the head of English Literature. |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Nina Engelhardt
Tel:
Email: nengelha@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Sheila Strathdee
Tel: (0131 6)50 3619
Email: S.Strathdee@ed.ac.uk |
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