| CODE | ENG1177 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Studying English Literature at Undergraduate Level | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | English | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | This study-unit seeks to ease students’ transition to undergraduate studies in literature, making students aware of some of the main differences between studying English at Advanced Level and studying English at undergraduate level and providing an introduction to some of the skills and key resources that are indispensable at this level. Students are first given a brief introduction to the different kinds of reference texts and electronic resources that are helpful when reading English at university. Paraphrasing skills, the appropriate formatting of footnotes and bibliographies, and some other essay writing skills are also considered. The main part of the study-unit aims to provide first year undergraduates with a more comprehensive understanding of the history of English literature, tracing some of its developments from the Old English Period to the present, mainly through a discussion of extracts from the work of major authors from each period. Students will be encouraged to consider the extent to which the creation of the literature of the future is dependent on a dialogue with the literature of the past and how literary history puts the present in perspective. The study-unit is therefore an opportunity for discovery, comparison and wider reading. After having followed this course, students should be able to confidently assign single literary works to a context, and will have gained a clearer sense of what English literature consists of as well as of how different authors and texts are related to others chronologically and stylistically. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims to: - ease students’ transition to undergraduate studies in literature; - specify and clarify the main differences between studying English at Advanced Level and studying English at undergraduate level; - provide an introduction to some of the skills and key resources that are indispensable at this level; - trace the history of English literature from the Old English Period to the present, mainly through a discussion of extracts from the work of major authors from each period. Learning Outcomes: At the end of the study-unit, students should be able to: - assign single literary works to a literary and historical context; - discriminate among different literary styles; - list the most significant authors and styles associated with different literary periods; - compare and contrast the literature of different historical periods; - identify and describe the ways in which literary history puts the present in perspective; - recognize how different authors and texts are related to others chronologically and stylistically; - format footnotes and bibliographies appropriately; - write a successful paraphrase of a critical text. Reading List: - Andrew Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994) - Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (London: Routledge, 2015) Course Pack (provided at the beginning of each study-unit) |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Norbert Bugeja Marija Grech |
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