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ENG-20068 - Module Specification
School of Humanities
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

For academic year: 2024/25 Last Updated: 24 April 2024

ENG-20068 - Culture and Barbarism: Literature in the Victorian Age
Coordinator: Jonathon Shears Tel: +44 1782 7 33014
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 5
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 733147

Programme/Approved Electives for 2024/25

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2024/25


Aims
To equip students with knowledge of the work of a range of writers from the Victorian age.
To enable students to engage with the key historical, political and philosophical contexts within which literature of the Victorian age was produced.
To give students insight into the major theoretical and critical traditions that have shaped our understanding of literature of the Victorian age.
To enable students to carry out contextualised close reading of literature of the Victorian age.
To offer students the opportunity to make comparisons between literary texts of the Victorian age and construct arguments around these comparisons.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Show sensitivity to the complexity of literary language and critical discourse: 1,2
Demonstrate research and planning skills and the ability to present that research effectively: 1,2
Employ skills in close analysis of form and content: 1,2
Demonstrate the ability to articulate arguments about literature of the Victorian age: 1,2
Demonstrate the ability to engage with critical traditions that have shaped our understanding of literature of the Victorian age: 1,2
Apply knowledge of the historical factors that influenced the production of nineteenth-century literature: 1,2

Study hours

12 hours: seminars
24 hours: lectures/workshops (including session on podcasting)
14 hours: research/writing for podcast
30 hours: essay writing and preparation
70 hours: seminar preparation

School Rules

None

Description of Module Assessment

1: Short Paper weighted 40%
Podcast
Students will record a short (c. 7-minute) individual podcast on one text studied on the module. They will be required to script their podcast and to submit a transcript. They are assessed on the audio submission alone.

2: Essay weighted 60%
Essay
Students will write an essay of 1,200 words. They will choose from a list of approx. 10 questions.

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Last Updated: 24 April 2024