Undergraduate Course: Understanding Fiction 2 (LLLG07013)

Course Outline
School	Centre for Open Learning	College	College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
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 provide a deeper understanding of how stories work. It offers a survey of the key categories of fiction, with a view to giving students a theoretical and critical toolkit necessary in the analysis of works of fiction.
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 the course students will be able to: ¿ demonstrate the theoretical vocabulary of the discussion of fiction. ¿ use acquired close reading skills ¿ identify and discuss methods of constructing plots and developing characters ¿ evaluate the relationships between fiction theories and the fictional text ¿ understand the mechanisms of fictional genres