Postgraduate Course: A Glimpse, In Passing: The Short Story (Distance Learning) (ENLI11164)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Students will read one collection of short stories per month. They will consider the history and development of the form, as well as stylistic and structural strategies. On individual blogs they will respond to each text and, in autonomous learning groups, further discuss the work in the light of their own process. The emphasis on this course is reading as a writer. Students will submit three sample blogs (each circa 500 words) at intervals throughout the year and, at the end of the year, an essay of 4000 words, based on reading, personal reflection and practice.
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| Course description |
1. Nikolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector and
Selected Stories
2. Anton Chekhov, About Love and Other Stories
3. Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories
4. Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro
5. Flannery O'Connor, The Complete Stories
6. Alice Munro, Selected Stories
7. T.C. Boyle, Wild Child
8. Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
9. Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek
10. Annie Proulx: Close Range
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential Course Texts |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 2,
Online Activities 40,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 12,
Formative Assessment Hours 6,
Summative Assessment Hours 3,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
133 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
3 x 500 word blogs (30%) and a 4000 word essay (70%) |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
| By the end of the course students should have increased their awareness of the possibilities of the forms explored and considered their applications in the light of their own practice. They should have gained skill and expertise in synthesising information and articulating their ideas by way of group discussion boards, personal blogs and an end-of-year essay.
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Reading List
T.C. Boyle, Wild Child
Anton Chekhov, About Love and Other Stories
Sandra Cisneros, Woman Hollering Creek
Nikolay Gogol, Diary of a Madman, the Government Inspector and Selected Stories
Ernest Hemingway, The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
Katherine Mansfield, Selected Stories
Alice Munro, Selected Stories
Flannery O¿Connor, The Complete Stories
Annie Proulx: Close Range
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students will learn to identify and summarise key structural, thematic and linguistic components of a literary text, to synthesise a range of responses to the work, and to compose and structure a coherent and relevant argument. These skills are applicable, in part, to a wide range of written material. |
| Keywords | GlimpsePassing |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Dilys Rose
Tel:
Email: drose@staffmail.ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Sophie Bryan
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Sophie.Bryan@ed.ac.uk |
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