Undergraduate Course: Introducing Literature 2 (LLLG07016)
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 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)
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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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.
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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 |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Anya Clayworth
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Course secretary | Mrs Sabine Murdoch
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
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