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2007/08 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ENGL3730 Reading Ireland: Contemporary Irish Writing

20 creditsClass Size: 20

School of English

Module manager: Dr Fiona Becket
Email: f.d.becket@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2007/08

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

This module is restricted to Level 3 students on named BA programmes with English and visiting students.

Objectives

On completion of this module, students should have acquired an understanding of a range of contemporary literary texts by Irish writers. They will have had the opportunity to examine writing of the 1990s in a variety of genres in terms of its aesthetic attributes and contemporary contexts, with reference to important issues in recent writing from Ireland. Students will also have had the opportunity to comment on aspects of contemporary critical writing about the texts on the module.

Skills outcomes
Skills for effective communication, oral and written.
Capacity to analyse and critically examine diverse forms of discourse.
Ability to acquire quantities of complex information of diverse kinds in a structured and systematic way.
Capacity for independent thought and judgement.
Critical reasoning.
Research skills, including information retrieval skills, the organisation of material, and the evaluation of its importance.
IT skills.
Time management and organisational skills.
Independent learning.

Syllabus

This module examines examples of writing out of Ireland published in the 1990s. It provides an opportunity to read, in detail, texts that assert new directions in Irish literary culture as the twentieth century draws to a close. In these texts, questions of self-definition are developed alongside understated but acute analyses of contemporary Irish consciousness. One critic has recently described Irish culture as '...geographically of Western Europe though marginal to it and historically of the decolonising world ...' (Lloyd, 1993: 2). We will see how different writers working in a range of genres examine the implications both of occupying these positions and re-working a tradition, giving rise to 1990s' Irish literary culture.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Meetings	5	1.00	5.00
Seminar	10	1.00	10.00
Private study hours			185.00
Total Contact hours			15.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			200.00

Private study

Reading, seminar preparation, essay writing.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Seminar contribution.

1st assessed assignment (submitted in Week 7 of the semester).

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	1,000 word critical commentary	20.00
Essay	3,000 word essay	80.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 05/03/2008

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