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This course offer the opportunity to study key critical concepts and practices in English Literature, with a focus on critical categories and methodologies for approaching texts.

1 x 2hr workshop per week over ten weeks as scheduled on MyCampus.

Available to all students fulfilling requirements for Honours entry into English Literature, and by arrangement to visiting students or students of other Honours programmes who qualify under the University's 25% regulation.

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The standard assessments for this course are: 

■ Close reading exercise (1500 words): 35%

■ Essay: close reading and reflective commentary (2500 words): 65%

If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available: 

■ There are no alternatives to the assessments, but flexible deadlines can be offered as reasonable adjustment (Students should follow the usual process for extensions). 

Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor.  

This course aims to:

■ facilitate the study of a range of influential concepts and practices that have informed and shaped the discipline of English literature

■ enable students to reflect on developments in the use of a range of key critical concepts and practices

■ enable students to critically reflect on their own practice as readers and writers.

By the end of this course students will be able to:

■ critically reflect on a range of textual categories and methodologies as they inflect reading practice;

■ apply this knowledge in the interpretation of literary texts from a range of different periods;

■ articulate their own critical perspectives regarding these concepts.