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This course explores travel journals and travel in fiction. It also introduces students to key debates surrounding the definition of travel writing. Through close readings of a selection of works by four French-language authors, as well as a variety of secondary readings from the fields of Francophone literary studies, travel writing studies, philosophy, and other relevant cross-disciplinary perspectives, students will be able to discuss and analyse travel as a driving force in literary production in the period studied.

20 x 1-hour seminars as scheduled on MyCampus.

This is one of the Honours options in French and may not run every year. The options that are running this session are available on MyCampus.

Available to all students fulfilling the requirements for Honours entry into French, and by arrangement to visiting students or students of other Honours programmes.

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The standard assessments for this course are:

■ Essay (2000 words) semester 1 (50%)

■ Essay (2000 words) semester 2 (50%)

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

■ There is no alternative to the Essay, but extensions to the 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.

It is the default expectation that all courses will offer opportunities for reassessment or deferred assessment. Where it is not possible to offer this in some assessment components, the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade, and any exceptions for this course are described below.

[No exceptions]

This course will provide the opportunity to:

■ study travel-writing from a research-led perspective

■ engage with a range of methodological approaches, drawing on fields such as travel writing studies, literary studies, philosophy and other cross-disciplinary perspectives as appropriate to the set texts

■ explore the broader intellectual and artistic context of the set works

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

■ discuss set texts in detail

■ offer close critical readings of French-language travel writing

■ exercise critical judgement through selective, appropriate and accurate reference or citation

■ discuss the formal elements and generic conventions of travel writing, as well as the shaping effects of historical and social context on literary production

■ judiciously apply an appropriate range of critical terminology and concepts