Module Information
Course Delivery
| Delivery Type | Delivery length / details |
|---|---|
| Lecture |
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | Assessed Essay | 70% |
| Semester Assessment | short text analysis excersises | 30% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
The nature and purpose of the early Welsh heroic poetry, and its relationship to other heroic literatures, especially in Anglo-Saxon england and Ireland, and the Classical tradition.
The political and cultural framework of early Wales and North Britain in the immediate post-Roman centuries.
A close study of key texts (some in translation, but a representative sample in the original) and study of their main literary, stylistic and metrical features.
An introduction to the current debatess concerning the poetry, especially those turning on problems of text transmission and dating. An overview of the manuscript sources for early welsh poetry
Content
1. The nature and purpose of the early Welsh heroic poetry, and its relationship to other heroic literatures, especially in Anglo-Saxon England and Ireland, and the Classical tradition. 2. The political and cultural framework of early Wales and North Britain in the immediate post-Roman centuries. 3. A close study of key texts (some in translation, but a representative sample in the original) and study of their main literary, stylistic and metrical features. 4. An introduction to the current debates concerning the poetry, especially those turning on problems of text transmission and dating. An overview of the manuscript sources for early Welsh poetry.
Brief description
An introduction to early Welsh poetry ( the Gododdin, the praise poems from Rheged, Powys and Gwynedd to c. 650) in its political and cultural context.
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Communication | presentations to seminar group, group discussions, writing assessments; assessed in 1 and 2 |
| Improving own Learning and Performance | through engagement with lecturer and with others in seminars; through feedback and discussion with lecturer |
| Information Technology | use of catalogues and assessment of web material: assessed in 1 |
| Personal Development and Career planning | personal advice on career goals offered on a one-to-one basis: not assessed |
| Problem solving | reading texts and interpreting them; tackling problems of dating texts — assessed in 1 and 2 |
| Research skills | assessing scholarship in the field; using libraries for printed and manuscript materials; assessed in 1 and 2 |
| Subject Specific Skills | Old and Middle Welsh language |
| Team work | some work set to be tackled jointly: no formal assessment |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 7