Special Project (Text, Context, Intertext)

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• formulate and communicate an argument;
• research and plan independently;
• write a sustained piece of work.
• summarise and assess textual arguments;

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• a specific aspect of a text or group of texts in a particular literary period or field of enquiry;
• dominant, important, and emerging critical and theoretical approaches to rhetoric within a literary period or field of enquiry;
• the significance of these texts within the larger context of English literary studies, and other relevant and broader contexts of cultural production.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• find resources of relevance to any given topic related to the specific aspect of rhetoric in English literary studies;
• distil, summarise and assess extant approaches to rhetoric within the subject of English literary studies.
• creatively and persuasively present your own approach to text or group of texts within the subject of English literary studies.

This module allows you to undertake independent research, with guidance from the Special Project convenor/s. The content , scope, and methodology of each project will be developed by the student in discussion with their assigned supervisor/module convenor.

Teaching methods include:

• up to three one-to-one meetings or up to eight group meetings with members of staff with particularly deep knowledge in a field.

Learning activities include

• individual study and research time;
• accessing research materials (possibly including archival material) and on-line resources;
• preparation of written assignments, or equivalent, in consultation with the Special Project convenor/s.
• the opportunity to undertake in-depth independent research into a topic of your own choosing

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.