EN3112 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales

Academic year

2023 to 2024 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

Tuesday & Thursdays 11am - 12 noon

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Module coordinator

Dr C E Flynn

Dr C E Flynn
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Module Staff

Dr Caitlin Flynn

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Module description

This module aims to develop appreciation of the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's last work and today his most popular. This most sophisticated product of fourteenth-century English literature is a collection of stories related by many voices as part of a tale-telling competition during a pilgrimage to Canterbury. This module builds on the study of medieval and specifically Chaucerian literature in sub-honours, and contributes to the study of medieval literary culture offered by other modules in the School. (Group A)

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS EN2003 AND PASS EN2004

Assessment pattern

2-hour Written Examination = 30%, Coursework = 70%

Re-assessment

exam = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

2 hours (either 1 x 2-hour seminar or 1 lecture and 1 seminar), and 2 optional consultative hours.

Scheduled learning hours

20

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

280

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Display a detailed knowledge of the set text
  • Learn how to place the set text within more general critical and theoretical contexts.
  • Demonstrate familiarity with a range of differing literary genres exhibited in the set text and with the culture from which these arose
  • Display a basic understanding of the historical conditions in which medieval literature was produced and received