Course Details in 2023/24 Session

Module Title	LC Creative Ecologies A: Literature and the Environment
School	Lan, Cult, Art Hist & Music
Department	Modern Languages
Module Code	09 37024
Module Lead	Antonio Sánchez and Elisenda Marcer
Level	Certificate Level
Credits	10
Semester	Semester 1
Pre-requisites
Co-requisites	LC Creative Ecologies B: Literature and the Environment - (09 37025)
Restrictions	None
Contact Hours	Lecture-10 hours Seminar-5 hours Tutorial-1 hours Guided independent study-84 hours Total: 100 hours
Exclusions
Description	This module explores early notions of borders and limits between the human and the environment, geographical behaviour, philosophical encounters with the sublime, and the role of the virtual landscape in our culture in recent years. Part A will focus on the role of landscape and its various representations in texts and visual art from the Antiquity to the Enlightenment period in Europe. These topics will be examined through a close-reading perspective by analysing a broad range of key texts, artistic artefacts and visual materials which will form the subject for seminar discussion.
Learning Outcomes	By the end of the module students should be able to: Demonstrate a sound understanding of the issues surrounding critical and scholarly literature and debates about the relationship between human communities and their environment, with particular emphasis on their relation with their physical landscape; Demonstrate a broad knowledge of said issues and their changes over time and across cultures; Engage with and analyse critically a range of texts, artefactS, historical events, buildings and visual art which exemplify and foreground the relation between the human and the environment.
Assessment
Assessment Methods & Exceptions	Assessment: 7 (minimum) to 10 (maximum) minute video-presentation in English (30%); 1500-word Essay in English (70%). Reassessment: Resubmission of failed component.
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