ENG-20039: Satire

To introduce students to some of the main strategies of satire across a wide historical period up to the present.
To investigate the relationships between visual and verbal satire.
To develop students' abilities to apply theoretical ideas and historical contexts to the primary texts.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Write critically about their reading and independent research at various levels of detail and with different audiences or readers in mind. will be achieved by assessments: 1, 2, 3.
Demonstrate a knowledge of and sensitivity to the conventions of satire and to the shaping effects of the circumstances, authorship, textual and visual production and intended audience will be achieved by assessments: 1,2,3
Closely analyse early modern texts will be achieved by assessments: 1
Discuss verbal and visual text critically and historically will be achieved by assessments: 2, 3

Study hours

20 hours class time (seminars), 60 hours reading time, 10 hours watching video and/or researching pictures, 60 hours preparing and writing the three assessments.

Description of Module Assessment

01: Commentary weighted 20%

Close reading of an early verse satire (c.1,000 words)

02: Performance weighted 40%

Script for Radio 4 style broadcast
Why a pre-21st century satirist (chosen by the student) is still worthwhile and relevant today. The script should take ten minutes reading time. If the facilities are available, students will submit a podcast as well as a script.

03: Essay weighted 40%

1,800 word essay
A choice of questions that invite students to relate an example of contemporary or 20thc satire to a theory of satire or to an earlier text or cartoonist.

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