Postgraduate Course: Literature and Modernity I: Modernist Aesthetics (ENLI11181)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
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 |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This is the core course for MSc Literature and Modernity and is restricted to students on that programme.
This course provides an overview of key concepts and movements in modern thought with particular attention paid to close reading of writings and thinkers who have been influential for current understandings of culture. Areas to be studied will include liberalism, democracy, psychoanalysis, Marxism and feminism. One or two key essays or chapters will be analysed in each weekly seminar. The course encourages students to focus in detail on one specific movement or thinker in their final assessment. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
Web Timetable |
| Course Start Date |
16/09/2013 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
200 )
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
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| No Exam Information |
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
| Students should develop the capacity to read and criticise complex theoretical texts and arguments. They should also acquire a critical vocabulary for the analysis of literary texts. In addition, students should also possess a broad understanding of the main movements and schools in modern thought along with some knowledge of the relevance of pre-twentieth-century critical movements for contemporary theory. After completion of the course students should be able to read further and more widely in literary and cultural theory, having gained the requisite background knowledge and critical vocabulary. |
Assessment Information
| One essay of 4,000 words (100%) |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
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| Keywords | LaM1 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Prof Randall Stevenson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4288
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Course secretary | Miss Natalie Carthy
Tel: (0131 6)50 3030
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