Course Details in 2023/24 Session

Module Title	LC Poetry
School	Eng, Drama, & Creative Studies
Department	English Literature
Module Code	09 26838
Module Lead	Andrew Hodgson
Level	Certificate Level
Credits	20
Semester	Semester 2
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-20 hours Seminar-20 hours Guided independent study-160 hours Total: 200 hours
Exclusions
Description	The key aim of the module will be to develop skills in close reading, informed by a sampled knowledge of the historical and geographical varieties of verse written in English. Each week’s work will be structured around a key text, or group of texts, which will form the basis of that week’s lectures; in seminars, these key texts will be related to, or contrasted with, a variety of extension texts, some suggested by the module convenor in the form of ‘flat pack’ teaching plans, and others by the seminar leaders’ own interests and enthusiasms .The key texts will be grouped by three themes, each of which will form the basis of three weeks’ work: Love, Loss and Location, allowing the students to shape arguments about change and variety in English verse around an idea of shared attention to related topics. Detailed attention to and development of the skills in close reading, and the conversations between poems that these enable, will be the chief outcome (and pleasure) of the module; its key technical and historical vocabulary will provided by a critical course book such as John Lennard, The Poetry Handbook, 2nd edn (Oxford, 2005), and its primary texts will be drawn from a commercial anthology.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Demonstrate an understanding of notions of form, content and style to specific poetry written in English; Identify and apply selected critical and theoretical approaches to the reading of poetry written in English; Analyse, closely and critically, poems written in English across a broad historical range.
Assessment	26838-01 : 22-23 Submission : Coursework (100%) 26838-02 : 23-24 Submission : Coursework (100%)
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Portfolio, 1,000 word (30%) Essay 2,000 words (70%) Reassessment: Resubmission of failed component(s)
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