Teaching Responsibility
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Humanities and Social Science
Learning Methods
Lecture
Seminar
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Workshop
Module Offerings
5102ENGL-SEP-MTP
Aims
1. To introduce students to a range of seventeenth-century writings in their historical and cultural context;
2. To enable students to recognise different forms and genres used in the period;
3. To facilitate students in understanding the concept of the Early Modern and issues of historical change and continuity;
Learning Outcomes
1.
Deploy an appropriate critical vocabulary in the analysis of seventeenth-century texts;
2.
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a diverse range of seventeenth-century literary texts and cultural forms in their historical context.
3.
Show understanding of principles and problems of textual editing
Module Content
Outline Syllabus:Teaching on the module will focus on how ideas surrounding the key themes of body, mind and soul are intertwined within the early modern period. Highlights of this journey through early modern England include an opportunity to enjoy great drama by playwrights from William Shakespeare and John Fletcher to William Wycherley; to discover the complexity of metaphysical poetry; consider the politics of land and the environment; experience more unfamiliar kinds of literary form, such as ballads, news sheets and the court masque; and examine early modern discourses of colonialism, race and gender.
Module Overview:
The aim of this module is to introduce you to a range of seventeenth-century writings in their historical and cultural context to enable you to recognise different forms and genres used in the period. This module will also facilitate an understanding the concept of the Early Modern and issues of historical change and continuity.
The aim of this module is to introduce you to a range of seventeenth-century writings in their historical and cultural context to enable you to recognise different forms and genres used in the period. This module will also facilitate an understanding the concept of the Early Modern and issues of historical change and continuity.
Additional Information:This module is intended to speak closely to our Programme Learning Objective relating to the teaching of diversity and race. In the module there will be significant aspects of our de-colonized curriculum, including the study of primary and secondary
texts with authors from BAME backgrounds. This module represents the revalidation of 5102ENGL Body, Mind & Soul: seventeenth-century literature and culture, currently running as a level 5 core module. This core module, among other topics, further examines (see 4105ENGL at previous level) global and colonial encounters between Europeans and non-Europeans in the early modern period, and the discourse of race and otherness, in (indicative example) John Fletcher’s ‘The Island Princess’ (c.1620)