Animal Forms: poetry and the non-human

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• plan and develop a research essay on poetry
• draw on philosophical and ethical arguments in literary analysis
• use poetry analysis as a prompt for creative work

Cognitive Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• debate philosophical questions drawing upon cultural knowledge
• develop intellectual and creative links between culture and ethics
• respond creatively to questions of historical and current importance

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• design and implement your own intellectual and creative projects
• develop creative confidence
• explore and identity patterns across a range of different textual material

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• a range of poetic forms and techniques
• 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

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.