Unit name | English Language through Literature: Exploring Short Stories |
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Unit code | LANG14020 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | C/4 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Ms. Taylor |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
Students require a proficiency of at least 6.0 in IELTS (min. 5.5 in writing and 5.0 in other components). |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Centre for Academic Language and Development |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This course is designed for international L2 students who have an advanced knowledge of and proficiency in English and would like to enhance their literary reading, writing and speaking skills through the study of literary texts, specifically the short story genre. It aims also to develop students' critical thinking and discourse analysis skills as well as enable them to use literary critical theory to analyse a group of short stories.
In detail, this unit aims to:
At the end of this module students should:
ILO1: Have an understanding of the short story genre and the works of several English-writing authors;
ILO2: Have a better understanding of style, literary language, structure and grammar of the genre;
ILO3: Have enhanced skills for independent reading;
ILO4: have developed critical and discourse analysis skills;
ILO5: Be better able to express themselves in an academic written and spoken context
There will be one two hour session per week for one teaching block. It is in the form of a seminar session, which will consist of a series of mini-lectures interspersed with discussion of the content of the mini-lectures and the reading or other set material for that week. Students will be taught using a communicative approach and will be in groups no larger than 16 to allow for such discussion.
This unit will be assessed through the submission of two pieces of coursework,
two essays, and assessment, a presentation. The essays will assess ILOs 1, 2, 3 4 and 5. The individaul presentation is based on the student coursework and will assess ILOs 1, 2, 4, and 5.
Weighting:
Coursework
Essay 1 (600- 800 words) 25%
Essay 2 (1,200 words) 50%
Assessment:
Individual Presentation 25%
du Maurier, D. ‘Don’t Look Now in Don’t look Now and Other Stories. London: Penguin
Don’t Look Now (1973). [film]. Directed by Roeg. N. London: Casey Productions.
Hughes, T. (1947). The Rain Horse. London: Faber & Faber.
Foster Wallace, D. (1989). The Girl With Curious Hair. London: W.W.Norton & Company
Foster Wallace, D. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men. London: Little, Brown & Company.
Perrault, C. (1697). Little Red Riding Hood
Self, W. (1991). The North London Book of the Dead in The Quantity Theory of Insanity. London: Bloomsbury.
The Company of Wolves (1984) [film]. Written by Carter, C. and directed by Jordan, N. Surrey: Shepperton Studios
Walker. A. (1988). The Flowers. New York: Harcourt