Undergraduate Course: Booker Prize Novels 3 (LLLG07019)

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 look at winners of the prestigious Booker Prize. Our texts for this year will be William Goldingżs novel about human savagery Rites of Passage, Graham Swiftżs touching Last Orders and DBC Pierreżs black comedy, Vernon God Little. We will also discuss Margaret Atwoodżs complex novel-within-a-novel, The Blind Assassin and finish up in India for Ruth Prawer Jhabvalażs 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
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Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to: ż discuss texts confidently; ż assess literature based, to a certain extent, on their own close reading; ż place literature in its historical context; ż understand the various issues which affect the awarding of literary prizes.