FR4127 Nineteenth-Century French Narratives of the Sea

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

To be arranged.

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Module coordinator

Prof M M Orr

Prof M M Orr
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Module Staff

Prof M Orr

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Module description

This module takes students into new realms of engagement with (i) thematic criticism, and (ii) Nineteenth-century hybrid narrative forms blending fact and fiction that develop in response to different understandings of the natural world. By investigating how the sea has been variously seen, read, recorded and written in the century that established modern French natural/marine science disciplines, students will everywhere harness and step outside disciplinary frames for 'Modern Language' study. The 4 representative narratives on the module -- maritime travel writing, historiography, adventure narrative, submarine science fiction -- will be studied in different non-ML University classrooms e.g. MUSA, Gatty to contextualise students' investigations of particular issues, themes, topics, representations etc. concerning the sea covered in the module. Spearheaded by the course texts/contexts, students undertake an investigative project developing an aspect of 'sea writing' and its importance.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

PERMISSION OF THE HONOURS ADVISOR

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Coursework =100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 x 90-minute workshop seminar and 1 surgery hour (x 11 weeks)

Scheduled learning hours

27

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

Guided independent study hours

123

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