EN4416 Virginia Woolf

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

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Availability restrictions

Not automatically available to General Degree students

Planned timetable

3.00 pm - 5.00 pm Thu

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Module coordinator

Prof E S Sutton

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Module Staff

Dr Emma Sutton (ESS2)

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Module description

The course offers a survey of Woolf's fiction, complemented by study of her non-fiction including fiction and polemical pieces. The set texts include the majority of Woolf's novels and selections from her short fiction. It is also essential to read a biography of Woolf - the one by Hermione Lee is recommended - and a selection of her essays, but especially the essay 'Mr Bennett and Mrs Brown'. (Group E)

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

BEFORE TAKING THIS MODULE YOU MUST PASS EN2003 AND PASS EN2004

Assessment pattern

2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%

Re-assessment

exam = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 lecture and 1 seminar/tutorial, and 2 optional consultative hours.

Scheduled learning hours

44

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

Guided independent study hours

256

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