Gwybodaeth Modiwlau
Course Delivery
Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 10 x 2 hour seminars |
Assessment
Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
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Semester Assessment | 1 single-essay (1 text from sessions 1-5) (2,500 words) 1 single-essay (1 text from sessions 6-10 and 1 other) (2,500 words) Continuous Assessment: | 100% |
Supplementary Assessment | Resubmit any failed elements and/or make good any missing elements. Where this involves re-submission of work, a new topic must be selected. | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this module, studens should be able to:
1. demonstrate a broad knowledge of American literature in the 20th century and an understanding of the social and political contexts in which the set texts were written;
2. describe issues of gender, class, and/or race in relation to ethnic and regional experiences of America during the period, and examine their reprsentation in the set texts;
3. engage in coherent oral discussion of the texts;
4. read literary texts in an informed and critical manner;
5. write about the subject in a well-structured and argued manner.
6. engage in coherent oral discussion of the texts;
7. write about the subject in a well-structured and argued manner.
Brief description
Week 2. World War One - `The Italian Front'
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Week 3. `The Roaring Twenties'
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories
Week 4. `The Great Depression'
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Week 5. World War Two - `The American Dream'
Arthur Miller, All My Sons
Week 6. `Post-war American Identity'
Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Week 7. `Narrating War'
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Week 8. `Paranoia and Cultural Chaos'
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Week 9. `Hyphenated Americans'
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
Week 10. `Urban Consumer Culture'
Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
Content
Week 2. World War One - `The Italian Front'
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Week 3. `The Roaring Twenties'
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories
Week 4. `The Great Depression'
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Week 5. World War Two - `The American Dream'
Arthur Miller, All My Sons
Week 6. `Post-war American Identity'
Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Week 7. `Narrating War'
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Week 8. `Paranoia and Cultural Chaos'
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Week 9. `Hyphenated Americans'
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
Week 10. `Urban Consumer Culture'
Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
Aims
Week 2. World War One - `The Italian Front'
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
Week 3. `The Roaring Twenties'
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and Other Stories
Week 4. `The Great Depression'
William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying
Week 5. World War Two - `The American Dream'
Arthur Miller, All My Sons
Week 6. `Post-war American Identity'
Sloan Wilson, The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Week 7. `Narrating War'
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
Week 8. `Paranoia and Cultural Chaos'
Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49
Week 9. `Hyphenated Americans'
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood among Ghosts
Week 10. `Urban Consumer Culture'
Jay McInerney, Bright Lights, Big City
Module Skills
Skills Type | Skills details |
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Application of Number | N/A |
Communication | Written communication in the form of essays; Oral presentations in small groups; Oral communication in seminars. |
Improving own Learning and Performance | Developing own research skills; Time Management. |
Information Technology | Use of electronic resources and e-learning technologies (electronic databases and Blackboard); Power Point for group presentations; Production of written work using word-processing program. |
Personal Development and Career planning | Critical self-reflection; Development of transferable communication and research skills. |
Problem solving | Formulating and developing an argument. |
Research skills | Independent research for presentations; Independent research for assisgnments. |
Subject Specific Skills | Ability to "compare and contrast" between texts; Ability to comment on realtionship between society and literary forms. |
Team work | Group work for oral presentations. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6