EN1004 Empires and Revolutions: Literature 1680-1830

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

20

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SCQF level

SCQF level 7

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Planned timetable

11.00 am

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Module coordinator

Dr P Mackay

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Module Staff

Team taught

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Module description

This module introduces a range of works from the period 1680-1830. Looking at travel, colonialism, and different constructions of man's natural estate in the early eighteenth century, the module traces the development of these themes into Romanticism's passion for literal and figurative journeys, its revolutionary critique of human enslavement by society, and its fascination with the power of Nature.

Assessment pattern

2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%

Re-assessment

3-hour Written Examination = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

3 lectures and 1 tutorial, and 2 optional consultative hours.

Scheduled learning hours

43

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

157

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Exercise and develop skills in reading texts closely and thinking critically about them;
  • Develop a closer awareness of the socio-historical contexts in which literary works are produced and received, and the operation of different critical discourses (e.g. regarding race, class, and gender) within literature and responses to it;
  • Develop their ability to construct arguments in response to primary and secondary material, and to articulate these in written essays and group discussion;
  • Develop their ability to use library resources and to consult critical works.