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2016/17 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

ENGL3395 T.S. Eliot

20 creditsClass Size: 10

School of English

Module manager: Professor Paul Hammond
Email: p.f.hammond@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2016/17

Module replaces

ENGL3329

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Objectives

To acquire and develop an understanding of the poetry of T. S. Eliot.

Learning outcomes
Students will have developed:
- the ability to use written and oral communication effectively;
- the capacity to analyse and critically examine diverse forms of discourse;
- the ability to manage quantities of complex information in a structured and systematic way;
- the capacity for independent thought and judgement;
- critical reasoning;
- research skills, including the retrieval of information, the organisation of material and the evaluation of its importance;
- IT skills;
- Efficient time management and organisation skills;
- the ability to learn independently.

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 provides an opportunity to study in detail the poetry of T. S. Eliot. From the fragmented rewriting of European culture in The Waste Land (1922) to the mystical vision of time and place in Four Quartets (1936-42), it was principally Eliot's poetic voice which more than any other defined the modernist ethos and aesthetic in Britain. His oeuvre is not large, so we shall be able to take our time over the major poems, but the poetry demands - and repays - close attention. Seminars will be devoted mainly to the careful reading of the principal poems, and will address Eliot's texts in the light of the large questions which recur across his work: the deployment of different poetic voices and experimentation with poetic form; the development of a radically new poetic language; his journey from agnosticism to acceptance of Christian belief; the paradox of the American who reinvents himself as the spokesman for English culture. In addition to the major poems, we shall read selected critical essays by Eliot, which will be provided as photocopies.

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

Teaching will be through weekly seminars (10 x 1 hour) plus up to five additional hours which will be used for advice on the preparation/development of the assessed essay.

Private Study: Reading, seminar preparation and essay writing.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

- Seminar contribution
- Feedback on 500 word unassessed piece of work

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Essay	4000 words including quotations and footnotes, but excluding the bibliography. In addition a short 500 word piece of unassessed work will be required, for example a commentary or a book review. This does not form part of the assessment for this module, but is a requirement and MUST be submitted. Students who fail to submit the unassessed essay will be awarded a maximum mark of 40 for the module (a bare Pass).	100.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

In addition a short 500 word piece of unassessed work will be required, for example a commentary or a book review. This does not form part of the assessment for this module, but is a requirement and MUST be submitted. Students who fail to submit the unassessed essay will be awarded a maximum mark of 40 for the module (a bare Pass).

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 01/04/2016

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