Undergraduate Course: Understanding Fiction 2 (LLLG07013)

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 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: ż demonstrate the theoretical vocabulary of the discussion of fiction. ż use acquired close reading skills ż identify and discuss methods of constructing plots and developing characters ż evaluate the relationships between fiction theories and the fictional text ż understand the mechanisms of fictional genres