Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- explore and identity patterns across a range of different textual material
- develop creative confidence
- design and implement your own intellectual and creative projects
Cognitive Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- debate philosophical questions drawing upon cultural knowledge
- respond creatively to questions of historical and current importance
- develop intellectual and creative links between culture and ethics
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the historical and ethical contexts for our depiction of the non-human in literature
- the philosophical questions raised by studying human and non-human relations
- a range of poetic forms and techniques
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- draw on philosophical and ethical arguments in literary analysis
- plan and develop a research essay on poetry
- use poetry analysis as a prompt for creative work
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Follow-up work | 10 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 30 |
| Wider reading or practice | 53 |
| Completion of assessment task | 30 |
| Teaching | 27 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Onno Oerlemans (2018). Poetry and Animals: Blurring and Boundaries with the Human. Columbia University Press.
Cheryll Glotflety and Harold Fromm (1996). The Ecocriticism Reader. University of Georgia.
Mike Malay (2018). The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan.
Laurence Buell (1995). The Environmental Imagination. Harvard University Press.
Alisdair Cochrane (2010). An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan.
Tom L. Beauchamp and R.G. Frey, (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. Oxford University Press.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External