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Cardiff School of English, Communication, and Philosophy (ENCAP) English Literature Year One Course Guide and Style Guide Course Guide for all students taking: English Literature I English Literature II Medieval and Renaissance English Literature in Year One 2012-13 2 CONTENTS 1. YEAR ONE ENGLISH LITERATURE ........................................................................................ 4 1.1 English Literature at Cardiff University ..................................................................... 4 1.2 Year One Subjects ........................................................................................................ 6 1.3 Year One Seminars ...................................................................................................... 7 1.3.1 Seminar Guidelines ...................................................................................................... 8 1.4 Research Seminar Series .......................................................................................... 10 1.5 Our Role in Managing the Degree ............................................................................ 11 1.6 Your Role in Managing the Degree........................................................................... 11 2. PRACTICAL MATTERS ........................................................................................................... 13 2.1 Sources of Information and Help.............................................................................. 13 2.2 The Year One Administrative Office ......................................................................... 13 2.3 Our Contact Details .................................................................................................... 14 2.4 Your Contact Details .................................................................................................. 14 2.5 Office Hours and E-Hours ......................................................................................... 14 2.6 Asking Staff for References ...................................................................................... 14 2.7 Attendance .................................................................................................................. 15 2.8 Academic Progress .................................................................................................... 15 2.9 Academic Progress Meetings ................................................................................... 15 2.10 Changing Year One subjects .................................................................................... 15 2.11 Disability and Disclosure .......................................................................................... 15 3. ASSESSED WORK, FORMATIVE WRITING, AND FEEDBACK ........................................... 16 3.1 Formative Writing and Feedback.............................................................................. 16 3.2 Summative Assessment and Feedback ................................................................... 16 3.3 Feedback ..................................................................................................................... 16 3.4 Assessment Regulations and Procedures .............................................................. 17 4. ACADEMIC ESSAY CONVENTIONS / STYLE GUIDE .......................................................... 18 4.1. Academic English ...................................................................................................... 18 4.2 Plagiarism ................................................................................................................... 18 4.3 Referencing your sources ......................................................................................... 19 4.4 Required Format ......................................................................................................... 19 4.5 Essay Checklist .......................................................................................................... 36 5. Year One Module Descriptions and Timetable Information ............................................... 37 5.1 Module Descriptions for English Literature I ................................................................ 37 5.2 Module Descriptions for English Literature II ............................................................... 45 5.2 Module Descriptions for Medieval and Renaissance English Literature ................... 50 APPENDIX 1: Year One Assessment Criteria .......................................................................... 55 APPENDIX 2: Electronic Submission of Assessed Work via Learning Central .................... 56 APPENDIX 3: Academic Staff Details ........................................................................................ 57 APPENDIX 4: Key Dates .............................................................................................................. 58 Please contact the administrative staff in room 2.67 if you require this Course Guide in an alternative format, e.g. large print, coloured paper, etc. 3 Foreword Welcome to Year One English Literature. The Board of Studies for English Literature teaches three subjects in Year One (English Literature I, English Literature II, Medieval and Renaissance English Literature). Whether you are doing one, two, or all three of these subjects, this Guide contains important information about your course, so please read it carefully and keep it for future reference. This Guide should be read in conjunction with the ENCAP Undergraduate Handbook, which contains full information on a number of more general topics not covered here. It is essential that you download and read the Handbook. Each of our Year One subjects is taught by a mixture of lectures and seminars. Your lecturers have specialist research interests in the material they teach; they actively publish in these areas and will introduce you to ideas at the cutting-edge of literary studies. Seminars provide the opportunity for discussion in smaller groups and enable you to develop essential skills in literary analysis and academic writing (see further sections 1.3 and 1.3.1 below). The seminars in Year One are led by postgraduate tutors who receive nationally recognised training on ENCAP‟s Learning to Teach programme. Section 4 of this Guide provides very important information about how to present your written work and how to reference the sources of your essays. It is most important that you follow these instructions on referencing your work and so avoid problems of plagiarism. There is much information in this Guide to help and support you. Section 2.1 lists other sources of support. If you have any problems or questions either about your work or about personal matters, please don‟t hesitate to approach a lecturer, your seminar tutor, your personal tutor, or the Deputy Director for Year One. Your lecturers and personal tutor have regular office hours in which you can arrange to see them about any issue: see the „Office Hours‟ notices on the noticeboards outside their offices. We hope that you will enjoy studying English Literature at Cardiff and that you will find your course stimulating and rewarding. Professor Carl Phelpstead Director of Studies for English Literature Dr Heather Worthington Deputy Director of Studies for Year One English Literature You will find an electronic version of this Course Guide and the School Undergraduate Handbook on the ENCAP website: http://www.cf.ac.uk/encap/degreeprogrammes/courseinformation/index.html . For a map of the University buildings, visit: www.cf.ac.uk/locations/maps/index.html. If you have any suggestions for improvement of this Guide, please email them to Carl Phelpstead (phelpsteadc@cf.ac.uk). 4 1. YEAR ONE ENGLISH LITERATURE 1.1 English Literature at Cardiff University English Literature at Cardiff University is taught by staff with an international reputation for innovative and influential research. Our passion for the subject and the strength and range of our scholarship enable us to offer degrees which are:  Inclusive. We teach across the whole chronological span of English literature, from the Anglo- Saxon period to the twenty-first century; we teach writing in English from England, Wales, Ireland, Scotland, America, the Caribbean, India, and Australia. We are intrigued by the connections between literature and film, art, music, history, language, and popular culture, and our teaching reflects these interests.  Challenging. Research-led teaching means students engage with new ideas that are helping to shape the future of the discipline. We see the study of literature and culture in their various contexts as broadening horizons.  Diverse. After Year 1 there are no compulsory modules. We give you choice – but we also give you the skills and knowledge to make informed choices. You have the freedom to construct a traditional programme covering multiple periods and genres or to build a more distinctive mix of modules combining literary study with analysis of other cultural forms. Our teaching is varied, too, ranging from traditional-style lectures to smaller-group seminars in which students develop their writing and presentational skills in a supportive environment designed to help them take responsibility for their own learning.  Engaged. At Cardiff we do not think of literature as isolated from the rest of culture or separate from society. We are proud of our reputation for theoretically informed reading, bringing texts from all periods into dialogue with contemporary concerns about gender, identity, sexuality, nationality, race, the body, the environment, and digital technology. We also maintain a strong tradition in Creative Writing, taught by writers making their mark on contemporary culture. Year 1 is a foundation year designed to equip you with the skills for advanced study and to give you an overview of the subject that will enable you to make informed choices from the modules available in Year 2 and final Year. In Year 2 you select from a range of period-, genre- or theme-based modules in which you will build on the foundation year, reading a variety of texts in their historical and cultural contexts. In Final Year there is a range of more specialised modules in which you can pursue interests developed in the previous two years and engage with current issues in research and scholarship, enabling you further to develop analytical and presentational skills that employers will value as well as equipping you for postgraduate study. The focus throughout the degree is on becoming a careful, attentive, and informed reader of both written texts and other cultural media, sensitive to the nuances 5 of language and style and able to articulate your responses to texts in writing which is precise, stylish, and effective. The general guidelines about the aims and learning outcomes of degree courses have been agreed nationally and set out in Subject Benchmark Statements. The Statement for English goes into considerable detail about the informing principles of the subject, about what a student might be expected to get out of an English degree, and about what a student should know and be able to do by the end of the degree. The Benchmark Statement is available online at: http://www.qaa.ac.uk/Publications/InformationAndGuidance/Documents/English07.pdf Five points from the Subject Benchmark Statement seem to us to convey the essence of the learning experience in an English Literature degree: · Critical skills in the close reading and analysis of texts · Ability to articulate knowledge and understanding of texts, concepts and theories relating to English studies · Competence in the planning and execution of essays and project-work · The capacity for independent thought and judgement · Research skills, including scholarly information retrieval skills, involving the ability to gather, sift and organise material independently and critically, and evaluate its significance. These points relate closely to the three key areas of knowledge, skills and understanding. By the end of the three years of an English degree, a student should have acquired: A considerable body of knowledge about and understanding of literary texts, knowledge about the historical context in which these texts were produced, and knowledge about critical and theoretical approaches to these texts. Implicit in this is an awareness of the complexity, uncertainty, ambiguity and limits of knowledge. Intellectual (analytic and cognitive) skills. These are thinking skills, and will be reflected in an ability to work closely with, uploads/Litterature/ cardiff-english-course-guide.pdf