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98 modules found

  2. EN1003 - Culture and Conflict: An Introduction to Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Literature
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    1000
    Timetable
    11.00 am
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%

    In this module students are introduced to a range of texts, in prose and verse, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasis is laid upon (i) close reading; (ii) the…

  3. EN1004 - Explorers and Revolutionaries: Literature 1680 - 1830
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    1000
    Timetable
    11.00 am
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr K E Treen

    This module introduces a range of works from the period 1680-1830. Looking at travel, colonialism, and different constructions of man's natural estate in the early eighteenth…

  4. EN1901 - Reading English
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    1000
    Timetable
    Thu 6.30 - 9.30 pm
    Assessment
    Coursework = 100%
    Coordinator
    Dr H A R Archer

    In this module students are introduced to a small number of texts, in prose and verse, from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasis is laid on (i) practical criticism,…

  5. EN2003 - Medieval and Renaissance Texts
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    2000
    Timetable
    4.00 pm
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%

    In this module students will learn to read early forms of English language and literature, using specially edited texts from Old English, Middle English and Older Scots. In the…

  6. EN2004 - Drama: Reading and Performance
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    2000
    Timetable
    4.00 pm
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr J S F Haddow

    This module is designed to provide an introduction to a small number of representative plays from the Renaissance period and from the twentieth century. Special emphasis will be…

  7. EN2901 - Comedy in English Literature
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    20
    Level
    2000
    Timetable
    Thu 6.30 - 9.30 pm
    Assessment
    Coursework = 100%
    Coordinator
    Dr H A R Archer

    This module builds on the work of EN1901 (Reading English) to give extended and deeper understanding of major literary texts, in drama, verse and prose, from the sixteenth century …

  8. EN3111 - Beowulf
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    3000
    Timetable
    10.00 am - 11.00 am Fri, 1.00 pm - 3.00 pm Tue
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr C Rauer

    This module introduces students to one of the strangest works of medieval literature, Beowulf. The hero's struggles against monsters, and the text's depiction of pagan…

  9. EN3111 - Beowulf
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    3000
    Timetable
    10.00 am - 11.00 am Fri, 1.00 pm - 3.00 pm Tue
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr C Rauer

    This module introduces students to one of the strangest works of medieval literature, Beowulf. The hero's struggles against monsters, and the text's depiction of pagan…

  10. EN3113 - Older Scots Literature to 1560
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    1
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    3000
    Timetable
    10.00 am Mon and 10.00 am Wed
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 30%, Coursework = 70%
    Coordinator
    Prof R Purdie

    This module introduces students to the lively but little-known world of literature in Older Scots before the cultural watershed of the 1560 Reformation. Works to be studied…

  11. EN3141 - Tragedy in the Age of Shakespeare
    Year
    2020-2021
    Semester
    2
    SCOTCAT credits
    30
    Level
    3000
    Timetable
    S1 - 12.00 noon Tue and 12.00 noon Thu
    Assessment
    2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%
    Coordinator
    Dr A C Reynolds

    This course explores a range of dramatic and non-dramatic tragedy produced in Renaissance England, in dialogue with classical, early modern, and contemporary theories of genre.…