Postgraduate Course: Ways and means: Novella, Novel in Stories, Novel (Distance Learning) (ENLI11166)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Online Distance Learning |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | English Literature |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Students will read one novel or novel in stories per month. On individual blogs they will write up a response to each text and, in autonomous learning groups, discuss the material 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. |
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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| Delivery period: 2014/15 Full Year, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: No |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
15/09/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 1,
Online Activities 105,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 25,
Formative Assessment Hours 8,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
133 )
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| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended 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. |
Assessment Information
| 3 x 500 word blogs (30%) and a 4000 word essay (70%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
11. Bohumil Hrabal, Too Loud a Solitude
12. Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
13. Machado de Assis: Epitaph of a Small Winner
14. Knut Hamsun, Hunger
15. Ken Saro-Wiwa, Sozaboy: A Novel in Rotten English
16. Michael Ondaatje, Coming Through Slaughter
17. Manuel Puig, Heartbreak Tango
18. Toni Morrison, Love
19. Janice Galloway, Clara
20. Yiyun Li, The Vagrants |
| Transferable 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. |
| Reading list |
Not entered |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Ways&Means |
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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