Undergraduate Course: Reading English Literature (Credit Plus) (ENLI07001)
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 course is for HSS International Foundation Programme students only; it is not available to undergraduate students. Reading English Literature (Credit Plus) is designed to introduce students on the HSS International Foundation Programme to the study of English Literature. They will study literary texts in each of the three genres: prose, poetry and drama. Students will have the opportunity to read a novel, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, a play, Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and selected poetry including Scottish poetry and the World War I poets. Combining study skills such as note taking and essay writing with close reading, this course will provide strong foundations for the further study of Literature at university level.
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| Course description |
Each week, one class will be devoted to study skills and two to literature.
Week one
Study skills: Time management and close reading
Literature one: Introductory lecture. Brainstorming: how to analyse a novel
Literature two: Extracts from novels: practise analysis of openings
Week two
Study skills: Principles of close reading: novel
Literature one: Lecture on Doyle
Literature two: View excerpts from film version of The Hound of the Baskervilles
Week three
Study skills: Essay writing I: planning and preparation
Literature one: Doyle: themes
Literature two: Doyle: close reading
Week four
Study skills: Essay writing II: quotations and presentation
Literature one: Doyle: character
Literature two: Doyle: close reading
Week five
Study skills: Principles of close reading: poetry
Literature one: Introducing poetry: Blake
Literature two: Poetry: Larkin and Auden
Week six
Study skills: Note taking and mind maps
Literature one: Scottish Poetry: Leonard and Dunn
Literature two: WW1 Poetry: Owen and Sassoon
Week seven
Study skills: Principles of close reading: drama
Literature one: Lecture on Wilde
Literature two: View excerpts from film version of The Importance of Being Earnest
Practice essay to be handed in
Week eight
Study skills: Exam technique
Literature one: Wilde: themes
Literature two: Wilde: close reading
Week nine
Study skills: Practice unseen
Literature one: Wilde: characters
Literature two: Wilde: close reading
Week ten
Study skills: Practice unseen review
Literature one: Revision: novel
Literature two: Revision: poetry
Week eleven
Study skills: Seen essay plan review
Literature one: Revision: Wilde
Literature two: Unseen assessment
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Students must only be enrolled by the Office of Lifelong Learning |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 12 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 49,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
48 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Assessment Methods
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment 1: unseen classroom assessment in the final week of the course, worth 25% of the total course mark.
Assessment 2: 2000 word essay (seen assessment) submitted after the course finishes, worth 75% of the total course mark.
To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 30% in each assessment and an overall combined mark of 40% minimum. |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Read texts with perception, using language necessary to ease that understanding;
- Describe a broad picture of nineteenth-century literature;
- Express their understanding both orally and in writing;
- Use skills for reflective independent learning, including reading texts critically, taking notes, planning and writing essays, and writing timed unseen answers.
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Reading List
Essential
Doyle, Arthur Conan. 2008. The Hound of the Baskervilles. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Wilde, Oscar. 1998. The Importance of Being Earnest in The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. Oxford: Oxford World's Classics.
Recommended
Alexander, Michael. 2007. A History of English Literature. London and Basingstoke: Macmillan.
Mullan, John. 2006. How Novels Work. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Close reading of passages from texts.
Small group working and participation in seminar-style discussions.
Setting literature in its historical, social and political context.
Reflective learning.
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| Special Arrangements |
Students must only be enrolled by the Office of Lifelong Learning |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mrs Anthea Coleman-Chan
Tel: (0131 6)51 1589
Email: Anthea.Coleman-Chan@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Diane Mcmillan
Tel: (0131 6)50 6912
Email: D.McMillan@ed.ac.uk |
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