Special Project (Text, Culture, Theory)

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• a specific theoretical or cultural approach within the larger context of English literary studies, and other relevant and broader contexts of cultural production.
• the dominant, important, and emerging critical and theoretical approaches to a text or set of texts within a literary period or field of enquiry;
• specific theoretical or cultural questions that emerge from a particular literary period or field of enquiry;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

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

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• creatively and persuasively present your own approach to any given genre within the subject of English literary studies.
• distil, summarise and assess extant approaches to a given genre within the subject of English literary studies;
• find resources of relevance to any given topic related to the specific genre 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.