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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Centre for Open Learning : Literature, Languages and Cultures

Undergraduate Course: Booker Prize Novels 3 (LLLG07019)

Course Outline
SchoolCentre for Open Learning CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis 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 look at winners of the prestigious Booker Prize. Our texts for this year will be William Golding¿s novel about human savagery Rites of Passage, Graham Swift¿s touching Last Orders and DBC Pierre¿s black comedy, Vernon God Little. We will also discuss Margaret Atwood¿s complex novel-within-a-novel, The Blind Assassin and finish up in India for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala¿s iconic Heat and Dust. Come along and discuss these novels in a relaxed atmosphere.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
¿ discuss texts confidently;
¿ assess literature based, to a certain extent, on their own close reading;
¿ place literature in its historical context;
¿ understand the various issues which affect the awarding of literary prizes.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Caroline Bamford
Tel: (0131 6)50 4322
Email: Caroline.Bamford@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Marie Craft
Tel: (0131 6)50 3943
Email: marie.craft@ed.ac.uk
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