LT204-5-AU-CO:
Criticism: Practice and Theory
2021/22
Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies
Colchester Campus
Autumn
Undergraduate: Level 5
Current
Thursday 07 October 2021
Friday 17 December 2021
15
07 May 2021
Requisites for this module
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BA W800 Creative Writing,
BA W801 Creative Writing (Including Year Abroad),
BA W803 Creative Writing (Including Placement Year),
BA W808 Creative Writing (Including Foundation Year),
MLITQ392 Creative Writing
The module is intended to familiarise students with how we think about and analyse artworks and human identity in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Our primary texts on this module are not works of fiction by novelists, filmmakers or dramatists, but the writings of theorists and cultural thinkers. We examine how these thinkers have addressed the changing world we live in, and its impact on who we are and how we write, read, envisage, and imagine.
We explore how theories of class, gender, race, sexuality and the unconscious have altered not only our conceptions of identity, but also how we analyze texts and images. We ask how technology, migration, and environmental disaster have changed not only our representations in literature, film, or theatre, but also our ways of interpreting.
The aims of this module are:
1. To equip students with a broad array of conceptual tools which they can apply to their own critical and creative work
2. To introduce students to the thinkers and thinking behind such key concepts, showing the links between them
3. To provide students with the conceptual and analytical tools to explore how particular theories can help us to analyse artworks in novel and unexpected ways.
After successful completion of the module, students should be able to:
1. demonstrate a thorough knowledge and understanding of a wide variety of approaches to works of literature and art
2. critically evaluate and apply theoretical frameworks in practice
3. analyse and interpret artistic and cultural works.
No additional information available.
Anticipated teaching delivery for 2021-22: Weekly 1-hour lecture and 1-hour class
This module does not appear to have a published bibliography for this year.
Assessment items, weightings and deadlines
| Coursework / exam |
Description |
Deadline |
Coursework weighting |
| Coursework |
Online portfolio (Weekly submissions to Moodle) |
|
25% |
| Coursework |
1-hour test (on Moodle) OR reflective portfolio of 1,000 words [students choose ONE of these] |
|
30% |
| Coursework |
Essay (2,000 words) |
|
40% |
| Practical |
Participation |
|
5% |
Exam format definitions
- Remote, open book: Your exam will take place remotely via an online learning platform. You may refer to any physical or electronic materials during the exam.
- In-person, open book: Your exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer to any physical materials such as paper study notes or a textbook during the exam. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, open book (restricted): The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may refer only to specific physical materials such as a named textbook during the exam. Permitted materials will be specified by your department. Electronic devices may not be used in the exam.
- In-person, closed book: The exam will take place on campus under invigilation. You may not refer to any physical materials or electronic devices during the exam. There may be times when a paper dictionary,
for example, may be permitted in an otherwise closed book exam. Any exceptions will be specified by your department.
Your department will provide further guidance before your exams.
Overall assessment
Reassessment
Module supervisor and teaching staff
Dr Joanna Rzepa, email: joanna.rzepa@essex.ac.uk.
Dr Joanna Rzepa
LiFTS General Office - email liftstt@essex.ac.uk.
Telephone 01206 872626
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Prof Duncan James Salkeld
University of Chichester
Professor of Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature
Dr Doug Haynes
University of Sussex
Reader in American Literature and Visual Culture
Available via Moodle
Of 51 hours, 44 (86.3%) hours available to students:
7 hours not recorded due to service coverage or fault;
0 hours not recorded due to opt-out by lecturer(s), module, or event type.
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