Undergraduate Course: Understanding Fiction 2 (LLLG07013)
Course Outline
School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
Summary | This is a for-credit course offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL); only students registered with OLL should be enrolled.
This course aims to provide a deeper understanding of how stories work. It offers a survey of the key categories of fiction, with a view to giving students a theoretical and critical toolkit necessary in the analysis of works of fiction. |
Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will be able to:
¿ demonstrate the theoretical vocabulary of the discussion of fiction.
¿ use acquired close reading skills
¿ identify and discuss methods of constructing plots and developing characters
¿ evaluate the relationships between fiction theories and the fictional text
¿ understand the mechanisms of fictional genres
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
Course organiser | Dr Caroline Bamford
Tel: (0131 6)50 4322
Email: Caroline.Bamford@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Marie Craft
Tel: (0131 6)50 3943
Email: marie.craft@ed.ac.uk |
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