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Program(s) |
Course Type(s) |
Seminar |
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| Module Group | English Literature |
Duration |
two-semester module, starting each spring |
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Assessment |
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Language of Instruction |
English |
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Prerequisites
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Students are required to have passed an introductory module in literature at Bachelor-level. The level of English language skills required for this course should correspond to the level achieved on successful completion of the Language Skills and Culture introductory module. |
| Content | This module focuses on Anglophone literature as shaped by a centuries-long history of colonial expansion, oppression, and exchange, placing particular emphasis on postcolonial and/or transnational approaches to the study of literature (e.g. poetry in colonial America, the Canadian novel, an introduction to Liberian literature, the transatlantic slave trade in contemporary fiction and drama, etc.) |
| Learning outcomes | Students will be able to: (a) outline the key theoretical concepts relevant to the topic of their course; (b) comment on - and position themselves within - major controversies surrounding these terms; (c) formulate sustained literary critical arguments that employ and engage with some of these core concepts; (d) write mid-length literary critical essays; (e) present the findings of their literary critical research and theoretical explorations in other formats (e.g. short input papers, posters, visual essays, short presentations, leading a class discussion, etc.); (f) engage in open and constructive academic debates with their peers; (g) list a number of useful techniques to read and understand difficult secondary texts. |
