CO3001 Comparative Literature: Contours and Constellations I

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

15

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SCQF level

SCQF level 9

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Planned timetable

Tuesday 14:00 - 15:30

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Module coordinator

Dr N Sreenan

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Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

This module situates and interrogates the discipline of Comparative Literature and explores a range of major theories and practices common in the field. Key areas will typically be drawn from the history of Comparative Literature as a discipline and includes theoretical and critical approaches such as world literature, translation studies, Marxian criticism, psychoanalytic theory, and post/de-colonial thought. Students will be encouraged to engage with the history of Comparative Literature as a discipline and to formulate their own disciplinary definitions and approaches.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

PERMISSION OF THE COMPARATIVE LITERATURE HONOURS ADVISER

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

Written Coursework = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 seminar and 1 surgery hour.

Scheduled learning hours

16

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

Guided independent study hours

134

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