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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : English Literature

Postgraduate Course: Literary Studies Fiction Year Two (Online Learning) (ENLI11223)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeOnline Distance Learning AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryStudents 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.
Course description 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
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Essential course texts
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Full Year
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( 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 56 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) 2 x 500 word critical responses (10% each) and a 3000 word essay (80%)
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Initiate, direct and summarise discussion of literary texts
  2. Recognise how forms and techniques explored might be relevant and applicable to their own practice
  3. Identify ways in which language reinvents itself within different cultures and locations, and reshapes the corresponding literatures
  4. Demonstrate a solid grounding in key components of craft
  5. Synthesise a range of responses to diverse literary texts
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Students will have the ability to interrogate a wide range of literary texts; to assess and structure coherent arguments; to weigh up differing viewpoints and arrive at valid conclusions; and to navigate a wide variety of interpretations and opinions. In addition, they will be aware of how best to turn language to ends appropriate to a variety of situations, and will have learned to organise study around work or family, to manage their time in order to meet deadlines, and to work independently.
KeywordsLSF2
Contacts
Course organiserMs Dilys Rose
Tel:
Email: drose@staffmail.ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMiss Kara Mccormack
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
Email: Kara.McCormack@ed.ac.uk
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