Class Test 10% (Learning Outcome: 1-3)

Portfolio 90% to include:
Poster Presentation (Learning Outcome: 1-5)
Small-Group Presentation (Learning Outcomes 1 & 3-5)
Coursework Essay, 1500 words [Learning Outcomes 1-3). The essay is the final assessment

Key Information Set Data:
10% written exams
90% coursework and practical exams

The module will introduce students to a range of writing from two key 'moments' in the development of English literary culture. Teaching Block 1 will focus on the poetry and drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, with texts by William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne and others. In Teaching Block 2, students will study Romantic poetry and its relationship to the social and political revolutions of the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries, through works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron and Shelley. Throughout the module, students will explore the relationship between examples of key literary forms and the wider cultural and social contexts of the period.

Networked PC
DVD/Video Projection
Library
Internet
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Weekly 2hr workshop sessions divided flexibly between staff-led introduction of texts, contexts and critical concepts, group development of reading/analytical skills, and the planning and development of group presentations

Key Information Set Data:
16% scheduled learning and teaching activities
84% guided independent learning

Julia Briggs This Play-Stage World (1997)
Howard Felperin Shakespearian Romance (1972)
Stephen Greenblatt Renaissance Self-fashioning (1980)
Fiona Stafford, Reading Romantic Poetry, Oxford: Blackwell, 2012
John Livingston Lowes, The Road to Xanadu: A Study in the Ways of the Imagination [1930], London: Picador, 1978
Uttara Natarajan (ed.) The Romantic Poets. A Guide to Criticism, Oxford: Blackwell, 2007