Undergraduate Course: Contemporary American Fiction (ENLI10172)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is an interrogation of what it means to be American in a contemporary multicultural society, through the close critical examination of nine novels of the last 20 years; these novels are selected to illustrate the diversity of American cultures in the late twentieth century, and to ask how their aesthetic qualities are related to the social and political challenges that they dramatise. |
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 30 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 20,
Other Study Hours 10,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
166 )
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| Additional Information (Learning and Teaching) |
one hour per week Autonomous Learning Group
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
1 coursework essay of 2,500 words (30%);
1 practical assessment (10%)
1 take home final essay of 3,000 words (60%) |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- - develop a knowledge and understanding of a range and variety of contemporary American novelists in terms of region, class, gender and ethnicity, and an appreciation of how these writers dramatise the problems and issues of what it means to be American in the context of theories of the contemporary such as identity politics and postmodernity.
- - acquire a detailed knowledge of the aesthetic qualities of the novels, in the context of contemporary debates about American cultural politics.
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Ken Millard
Tel: (0131 6)50 8304
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Course secretary | Miss Helene Thomsen
Tel: (0131 6)50 3618
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