2024/25 Taught Postgraduate Module Catalogue

ENGL5551M Yorkshire Literary Landscapes: Writing Places and Identities

30 creditsClass Size: 150

Module manager: Dr José A. Pérez Díez
Email: j.a.perezdiez@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

This module is not approved as an Elective

Module summary

The module explores how literary works engage with notions of space and location, real and fictitious. We examine a diverse range of texts and genres, canonical and controversial, from across English literary history. The module focusses on works written in or about the rich cultural heritage of Yorkshire. You will gain experience of articulating and communicating ideas in a fluent academic idiom at postgraduate level, to both popular and scholarly audiences.

Objectives

You will gain a deeper and advanced understanding of how place informs and is shaped by literary texts, considering the intersection of places and identities through the lens of authorship, audience, socio-historical context, afterlives, and other facets of literary craft and reception. Through this theme, you will accrue experience in working with texts of different genres and time-periods, working on diverse materials that encourage a breadth of perspectives and creativity in your interpretation. The module encourages the development of relevant information-gathering, analytic and writing skills. The assessments recognise and seek to support academic progression of MA students in the first semester, and anticipate the kinds of thinking and skills needed for independent research in the MA Research Project module.

Learning outcomes
On successful completion of the module students will be able to:

1. Evaluate diverse literary texts, drawing on theories and frameworks relevant to the module themes of ‘place’ and ‘identity’.

2. Apply analytic frameworks to literary texts, testing their viability and evaluating their usefulness for their understanding of the module themes.

3. Exhibit research skills, formulating, applying, testing and critiquing approaches used in literary studies to understand place and identity.


Skills learning outcomes

On successful completion of the module students will be able to:

4. Evaluate their own achievement and that of others; 
 
5. Learn independently and enhance their ability to work in a way which ensures continuing professional development; 
 
6. Engage critically with the development of professional/disciplinary boundaries and norms.

Syllabus

Details of the syllabus will be provided on the Minerva organisation (or equivalent) for the module

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Lectures	10	1.00	10.00
seminars	10	1.00	10.00
Private study hours			280.00
Total Contact hours			20.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			300.00

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Library research exercise – to submit for formative assessment

The Language Centre typically uses the substance of the first library research exercise as the basis for continuing formative feedback for students who sign up to their Academic Skills workshops.

In preparation for the second summative essay, students receive formative feedback on contribution to group discussion of their projects.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Assignment	1,000 words: blog post targeted at a popular audience	25.00
Assignment	3,000 words	75.00
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: 04/03/2024

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