Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
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 philosophical questions raised by studying human and non-human relations
- the historical and ethical contexts for our depiction of the non-human in literature
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- use poetry analysis as a prompt for creative work
- draw on philosophical and ethical arguments in literary analysis
- plan and develop a research essay on poetry
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
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Follow-up work | 10 |
| Completion of assessment task | 30 |
| Wider reading or practice | 53 |
| Teaching | 27 |
| Preparation for scheduled sessions | 30 |
| Total study time | 150 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Cheryll Glotflety and Harold Fromm (1996). The Ecocriticism Reader. University of Georgia.
Laurence Buell (1995). The Environmental Imagination. Harvard University Press.
Mike Malay (2018). The Figure of the Animal in Modern and Contemporary Poetry. Palgrave Macmillan.
Tom L. Beauchamp and R.G. Frey, (2014). The Oxford Handbook of Animal Ethics. Oxford University Press.
Alisdair Cochrane (2010). An Introduction to Animals and Political Theory. Palgrave Macmillan.
Onno Oerlemans (2018). Poetry and Animals: Blurring and Boundaries with the Human. Columbia 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