EN1S32 - Approaching Poetry 01 Sep 2022 - 31 Aug 2028 | Version 1
Associated Module Information
| Module Code: | EN1S32 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Module Title: | Approaching Poetry | ||
| Faculty: | Faculty of Business and Creative Industries | ||
| Faculty Group: | Culture and Animation | ||
| Faculty Sub Group: | Culture | ||
| Module Leader: | |||
| Module Team: | Nicholas Dunlop, Barrie Llewelyn | ||
| First Intended Intake: | SEP 2022 | Final Year of Intake: | 2027 |
| Date Closed: | |||
| Credit Value: | 20 | Credit Level: | 4 |
| Language: | English | ||
| Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: | 0 | ||
| Equivalent Module: | |||
| HECOS codes: | 100046 - creative writing | ||
| HECOS Code Weighting: | 100 | ||
Document Version Information
| Version | 1 |
|---|---|
| Valid From | 01 Sep 2022 |
| Valid To | 31 Aug 2028 |
Module Aims
The module will refine, complicate and enrich students’ responses to the poetic text, from creative/practical and critical/theoretical perspectives. It will encourage students’ creative and critical exploration of the processes and agents involved in the production and reception of poetry across a range of historical periods and reflecting a broad variety of genres, conventions and modes. It will familiarize students with a) relevant literary-critical and other kinds of approaches, methodologies and discourses; and b) the conventions required for effective and sustained creative and critical engagement with poetry at this level of study.
Content Summary
Exploration of the formal, literary-historical, creative and interpretative traditions of English language poetry through such topics as genre, form, voice, rhythm/rhyme, gender and cultural-political context/s. Students will be equipped with the tools necessary for both creative and critical responses to poetry, viewed through/against an appropriately broad range of formal, linguistic, generic and thematic concerns, including key works and authors in the English poetic canon, working in a variety of cultural-historical circumstances. Resources will include conventional and virtual texts, representing both primary and secondary materials, creative and scholarly works, and other kinds of germane resources.
This module contains a six-week immersive learning element.
Learning and Teaching Methods
| Activity Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Practical classes and workshops | 8 |
| Tutorial | 4 |
| Seminar | 12 |
| Lecture | 12 |
| Independent Study | 80 |
| Directed Study | 84 |
| Total Hours Selected | 200 |
Learning Outcomes
| # | Learning Outcome |
|---|---|
| LO1 | Show understanding of the complex relationship between language, its usages and form in the special literary environment of the poem, its contexts, and its production. |
| LO2 | Engage with module themes in written / oral form, meeting appropriate standards of expression and presentation in materials submitted for assessment tasks / activities. |
Module Requisites
N/A
Assessment Criteria
| Assessment Category | Assessment Type | Description | Duration | Word Count | Weight (%) | Best of? | Pass Mark |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asynchronous Assessment | Critique 1 | Essay critique | 0 | 2000 | 50 | No | 40 |
| Asynchronous Assessment | Creative writing 1 | Composition | 0 | 2000 | 50 | No | 40 |
Assessment Matrix
| Assessment Type | Learning Outcomes | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| LO1 | LO2 | ||
| Critique 1 | ✔ | ✔ | |
| Creative writing 1 | ✔ | ✔ | |