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Undergraduate Course: Introducing Literature 2 (LLLG07016)

Course Outline
SchoolCentre for Open Learning CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis is a for-credit course offered by the Office of Lifelong Learning (OLL); only students registered with OLL should be enrolled.

This course examines some well-known texts including Robert Louis Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde, John Osborne's Look Back in Anger and Shakespeare's King Lear as well as a selection of poetry. Students will be encouraged to read in depth and discuss the texts in small groups and as a class. Study and essay-writing skills will be further developed. New students welcome.
Course description WEEK 1: Study Skills Introduction: time Management, reading: close and skim
Introductory lecture and brainstorming: How do we tackle Shakespeare?
WEEK 2: Mind maps and note taking
Lecture: Shakespeare and tragedy King Lear discussion
WEEK 3: Writing a literature essay I: Preparation, planning and writing
King Lear
WEEK 4: Writing a literature essay II: Presentation, bibliography and using Turnitin
King Lear
WEEK 5: Practice close reading: Poetry
Lecture: Stevenson and the nineteenth-century novel:Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
WEEK 6: Practice close reading: Drama
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Brainstorming: Narration
WEEK 7: Review practice essay
Look Back in Anger Lecture: Osborne in context
WEEK 8: Practice close reading: Novel
Look Back in Anger
WEEK 9: Moving On with Study Skills
POETRY (Seamus Heaney)
WEEK 10: Essay planning workshops
POETRY (Carol Ann Duffy & Simon Armitage)
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
Learning outcomes
By the end of the course, students will have acquired the skills to:
* write in a variety of ways from critical evaluations to thematic answers (students will not be allowed to write the same type of essay twice);
* confidently discuss a variety of texts and genres;
* assess literature based, to a certain extent, on their own close reading;
* place literature in its historical context;
* understand a broader notion of tragedy in literature;
* express the differences between dramatic text and dramatic performance.
Reading List
Essential
Stevenson, Robert Louis. 2008. Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde and Other Tales, Oxford: Oxford World's Classics.
Shakespeare, William. 1997. King Lear, London: Arden Shakespeare.
Osborne, John. 1996. Look Back in Anger, London: Faber and Faber.
Poetry will be available to download from LEARN
Recommended
Alexander, Michael. 2013. A History of English Literature, London and Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Northedge, Andrew. 2005. The Good Study Guide, Milton Keynes: Open University.
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills * Study Skills: note taking, essay preparation, planning
* Critical reading and analysis
* Small group working
* Setting literature in its social, historical and political context
* Wide reading
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMs Rachael King
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Course secretaryMs Kameliya Skerleva
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