Module details
SC396-6-AU: THE LITERATURE OF ANTI-SLAVERY AND THE ORIGINS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
Year: 2013/14
Department: Sociology
Essex credit: 15
ECTS credit: 7.5
Available to Study Abroad / Exchange Students: Yes
| Staff |
| Supervisor: |
Professor Robin Blackburn |
| Teaching Staff: |
Professor Robin Blackburn |
| Contact details: |
Jane Harper, Undergraduate Administrator (Years 2/3), email: socugrad (Non essex users should add @essex.ac.uk to create the full email address), telephone: 01206 873052 |
| Module is taught during the following terms |
| Autumn |  | Spring |  | Summer | |
Module Description
The aim of this half-module is to consider literary texts - novels, plays and autobiographies - as sources of sociological and historical knowledge, especially as documents and testimony that illuminate the mentalities of the past. The module proceeds mainly through the examination and discussion of specific texts though there will be some general discussion of the sociology of literature. Both fictional and non-fictional texts will be considered and will include 'The Tempest' by William Shakespeare, Oroonoko by Aphra Behn, Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, The Interesting Narrative of Elaudah Eqiuano, Maria Edgeworth The Grateful Negro,Jane Austen Mansfield Park, The Narrative of Mary Prince, The Interesting Narrative of Frederick Douglass, Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. The half module will comprise ten lectures and classes.
Learning & Teaching Methods
2 hour seminar
Assessment
50 per cent Coursework Mark, 50 per cent Exam Mark
Exam Duration and Period
2:00 hour exam during Summer Examination period.
Other information
Literature and Sociology Course students must take this option plus another sociology ½ option if they are not taking SC831 (Sociology Third Year Project)
Further information
External Examiner Information
- Name: Prof Barry Godfrey
- Institution: THE UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL
- Academic Role: Professor
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