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 |
| 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 |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | 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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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Essential Course Texts |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 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 |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Additional Notes |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| At the end of the course the students should be able to be aware of the possibilities of the form and considering published works in the light of their own practice. |
Assessment Information
| 4000 word essay (70%) and and 3 x 500 word blogs (30%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
The following will be discussed in weekly webinars:
1. Nicolai Gogol, Diary of a Madman, the Government v 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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| 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 |
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
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| Keywords | creative writing, short stories |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Dylis Rose
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Course secretary | Miss Sarah Harvey
Tel: (0131 6)51 1822
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