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School of English
Module Choice Handbook
2013-14
Level 2
Contents
Degree requirements according to degree programme
- English Language and Linguistics P4
- English Language and LiteratureP5/6 & 7
- EnglishLiterature (Single)P8/9
- English Literature (Duals)P10
- English and Theatre P11/12
- Theatre and Performance P13
Module Descriptions
Module Description informationP14
EGH202 History of PersuasionP15
EGH206 Introduction to Modern IrishP16
EGH207 Writing The realP17
EGH223 Radical TextsP18
ELL207 PhoneticsP19
ELL216 Language Politics and Language PlanningP20
ELL217 SociolinguisticsP21
ELL221 SyntaxP22
ELL222 SemanticsP23
ELL225 Introduction to Old EnglishP24
ELL226 First Language AcquisitionP25
ELL227 Language AttitudesP26
ELL228 Language and CognitionP27
ELL229 The Triumph of EnglishP28
ELL231 Issues in Language Change P29
ELL234 Sense of Place: Local and Regional IdentityP30
LIT204 Criticism and Literary TheoryP31
LIT207 Restoration and 18th Century LiteratureP32
LIT217 European GothicP33
LIT218 Chaucer's Comic Tales P34
LIT219 Creating Poetry P35
LIT224 Representing the Holocaust P36
Degree requirements according to degree programme (continued)
LIT233 Road Journeys P37
LIT234 Renaissance LiteratureP38
LIT241 Adaptation: Theory and Theatrical Practice (open to English and Theatre and Theatre & Performance students only) P39
LIT243 Applied Theatre Design (open to English and Theatre and Theatre & Performance students only) P40
LIT244 Storying Sheffield P41
LIT251 British Theatre of the 1960sP42
LIT252 International Avant-Gardes1874-1949P43
LIT254 Christopher Marlowe P44
LIT255 John Donne P45
LIT259 Restoration DramaP46
LIT260 Post-War British Realist CinemaP47
LIT264 America in the 1960’sP48
LIT265 Between Literature and ScienceP49
LIT266 Secrets and Lies: Victorian Life- WritingP50
LIT267 Darwin, Evolution and the 19th Century NovelP51
LIT268 The Graphic Novel and the Love of (Super) PowerP52
LIT2000 GenreP53
LIT2004 Satire and Print P54
Faculty of Arts and Humanities Interdisciplinary modules unrestricted
FCA2000 Interdisciplinary Research in PracticeP55
FCA2005 100 ObjectsP56
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS for English Language and Linguistics (Single and Dual)
Level 2 modules
There are no core modulesat Level 2 for English Language and Linguistics.
Single Honours students will choose 120 credits from the modules available.
Dual students will choose 60 credits from the modules available
All modules are 20 credits
Autumn(Semester 1)
EGH202 The History of Persuasion
EGH206 Introduction to Modern Irish
ELL207 Phonetics
ELL216 Language Politics and Language Planning
ELL217 Sociolinguistics
ELL221 Syntax
ELL228 Language and Cognition
ELL229 The Triumph of English?
ELL234 A Sense of Place: Local and Regional Identity
Spring(Semester 2)
EGH207 Writing the Real
ELL222 Semantics
ELL225 Introduction to Old English
ELL226 First Language Acquisition
ELL227 Language Attitudes
ELL231 Issues in Language Change
LIT218 Chaucer’s Comic Tales
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS for English Language and Literature
Level 2 modules
Autumn Semester 1Core Module / Spring Semester2 Core ModuleEGH202 The History of Persuasion / EGH207 Writing the Real
All modules are 20 credits
Choose 20 credits from the following Literature shortlist:
LIT204 Criticism and Literary Theory
LIT234 Renaissance Literature
LIT2000 Genre
LIT207 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
Choose 20 Credits from the Language shortlist:
EGH206 Introduction to Modern Irish
ELL207 Phonetics
ELL216 Language Politics and Language Planning)
ELL217 Sociolinguistics
ELL221 Syntax
ELL222 Semantics
ELL225 Introduction to Old English
ELL226 First Language Acquisition
ELL227 Language Attitudes
ELL228 Language and Cognition
ELL229 The Triumph of English
ELL231 Issues in Language Change
ELL234A Sense of Place: Local and Regional Identity
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS for English Language and Literature
Level 2 modules (continued)
All modules are 20 credits
Choose 20 credits of optional modules from the following list:
ELL207 Phonetics
ELL216 Language Politics and Language Planning
ELL217 Sociolinguistics
ELL221 Syntax
ELL222 Semantics
ELL225 Introduction to Old English
ELL226 First Language Acquisition
ELL227 Language Attitudes
ELL228 Language and Cognition
ELL229 The Triumph of English
ELL231 Issues in Language Change
ELL234 A Sense of Place: Local and Regional Identity
LIT204 Criticism and Literary Theory
LIT207 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
LIT204 Criticism and Literary Theory
LIT217 European Gothic
LIT218 Chaucer's Comic Tales
LIT219 Creating Poetry
LIT224 Representing the Holocaust
LIT233 Road Journeys
LIT234 Renaissance Literature
LIT244 Storying Sheffield
LIT251 British Theatre of the 1960s
LIT252 International Avant-Gardes1874-1949
LIT254 Christopher Marlowe
LIT255 John Donne
LIT259 Restoration Drama
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS for English Language and Literature
Level 2 modules (continued)
All modules are 20 credits
LIT260 Post-War British Realist Cinema
LIT264 America in the 1960’s
LIT265 Between Literature and Science
LIT266 Secrets and Lies: Victorian Life- Writing
LIT267 Darwin, Evolution and the 19th Century Novel
LIT268 The Graphic Novel and the Love of (Super) Power
LIT2000 Genre
LIT2004 Satire and Print
You may choose ONE unrestricted module (20 credits) outside English or a further 20 credits from the options above.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS for English Literature (Single)
Level 2 modules
Autumn Semester 1Core Modules / Spring Semester2 Core ModulesLIT204 Criticism and Literary Theory / LIT2000 Genre
LIT234 Renaissance Literature / LIT207 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
All modules are 20 credits
Choose 40 credits English Literature optional module
Autumn Semester1
EGH202 The History of Persuasion
EGH206 Introduction to Modern Irish
LIT219 Creating Poetry
LIT233 Road Journeys
LIT252 International Avant-Gardes1874-1949
LIT254 Christopher Marlowe
LIT259 Restoration Drama
LIT260 Post-War British Realist Cinema
LIT264 America in the 1960’s
LIT265 Between Literature and Science
LIT266 Secrets and Lies: Victorian Life- Writing
Spring Semester 2
EGH207 Writing the Real
LIT2004 Satire and Print
LIT217 European Gothic
LIT218 Chaucer's Comic Tales
LIT224 Representing the Holocaust
LIT244 Storying Sheffield
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS for English Literature (Single)
Level 2 modules
(Continued)
All modules are 20 credits
LIT251 British Theatre of the 1960s
LIT255 John Donne
LIT267 Darwin, Evolution and the 19th Century Novel
LIT268 The Graphic Novel and the Love of (Super) Power
You may choose ONE unrestricted module (20 credits) outside English Literature in place of the optional module.
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS for English Literature (Duals)Level 2 modules
You must choose 40 credits of Literature core modules from the 80 credits available.
Autumn Semester 1Core Modules / Spring Semester2 Core ModulesLIT204 Criticism and Literary Theory / LIT2000 Genre
LIT234 Renaissance Literature / LIT207 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
All modules are 20 credits
You have the option of choosing 20 credits from the following list:
Autumn Semester1
EGH202 The History of Persuasion
EGH206 Introduction to Modern Irish
LIT219 Creating Poetry
LIT233 Road Journeys
LIT252 International Avant-Gardes1874-1949
LIT254 Christopher Marlowe
LIT259 Restoration Drama
LIT260 Post-War British Realist Cinema
LIT264 America in the 1960’s
LIT265 Between Literature and Science
LIT266 Secrets and Lies: Victorian Life-Writing
Spring Semester 2
EGH207 Writing the Real
LIT2000 Genre
LIT207 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
LIT2004 Satire and Print
LIT217 European Gothic
LIT218 Chaucer's Comic Tales
LIT224 Representing the Holocaust
LIT244 Storying Sheffield
LIT251 British Theatre of the 1960s
LIT255 John Donne
LIT267 Darwin, Evolution and the 19th Century Novel
LIT268 The Graphic Novel and the Love of (Super) Power
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS for English and Theatre
Level 2 modules
Autumn Semester 1Core Modules / Spring Semester2 Core ModulesEGH221 Theatre Practice: Performancei / EGH236 Theatre Practice: Performanceii
All modules are 20 credits
You must choose 40 credits of Literature core modules from the 80 credits available
Autumn Semester 1 / Spring SemesterLIT204 Criticism and Literary Theory / LIT2000 Genre
LIT234 Renaissance Literature / LIT207 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
Choose 40 credits from the following:
Autumn Semester 1
EGH202 The History of Persuasion
EGH206 Introduction to Modern Irish
EGH223 Radical Texts
LIT219 Creating Poetry
LIT233 Road Journeys
LIT243 Applied Theatre Design
LIT252 International Avant-Gardes1874-1949
LIT254 Christopher Marlowe
LIT259 Restoration Drama
LIT260 Post-War British Realist Cinema
LIT264 America in the 1960’s
LIT265 Between Literature and Science
LIT266 Secrets and Lies: Victorian Life-Writing
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS for English and Theatre
Level 2 modules (continued)
All modules are 20 credits
Spring Semester 2
EGH207 Writing the Real
LIT2000 Genre
LIT207 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
LIT2004 Satire and Print
LIT217 European Gothic
LIT218 Chaucer's Comic Tales
LIT224 Representing the Holocaust
LIT241 Adaptation: Theory and Theatrical Practice
LIT244 Storying Sheffield
LIT251 British Theatre of the 1960s
LIT255 John Donne
LIT267 Darwin, Evolution and the 19th Century Novel
LIT268 The Graphic Novel and the Love of (Super) Power
DEGREE REQUIREMENTS for Theatre and Performance
Level 2 modules
Autumn Semester 1Core Modules / Spring Semester2 Core ModulesEGH221 Theatre Practice: Performance i / EGH236 Theatre Practice: Performanceii
EGH223 Radical Text
All modules are 20 credits
Choose 60 credits from the following
LIT241 Adaptation: Theory and Theatrical Practice
LIT243 Applied Theatre Design
LIT251 British Theatre of the 1960s
OR choose 40 credits from English and 20 credits unrestricted module (20 credits) outside English
Module Descriptions
Level 2
On the following pages you will find in alphabetical order module description information. The module description gives a brief overview of the module, the teaching and learning methods, assessment and the contact details for the tutor. You may wish to contact a tutor to discuss the module in more detail.
This information is to help you to make an informed choice regarding the modules you wish to study for the next academic year.
The School will also be holding module briefing sessions on Wednesday 10 April 2013, (see emails for further information). The briefing sessions will consist of a 30 minute talk informing you about module choice, plus there will be an opportunity for you to ask questions about individual modules.
The School on-line module choice forms will be available on Friday 12 April and will close on Friday 19 April
You will be notified by email of your allocated modulesonThursday 25 & Friday 26 April
The University on-line module approval will open on Monday 29 April
EGH202 History of Persuasion
Semester 1 (20 Credits)
Module Description
This module looks at various different types of writing: news reports, campaign journalism, adverts, political speeches, sermons, science writing, and philosophy. It uses the tools of stylistic analysis to explore the language use typical of each type of text and consider what approaches to language use have been seen as particularly persuasive in each area. We shall read examples of each type of writing, some from earlier periods and some from the present. We’ll examine material by John Donne, William Shakespeare, Isaac Newton, and Queen Elizabeth I, as well as speeches by Martin Luther King and Barack Obama, adverts from some of the country's biggest advertising agencies, and journalism from the Guardian, the Telegraph, and the Times.
We’ll cover techniques of analysis relevant to each type of writing, exploring narrative structure, identifying 'other voices' in the text, examining the relationship between words and pictures, learning about traditional rhetoric, thinking about how 'personal' particular texts are, and considering how texts can affect us emotionally. We hope that you will finish the module with a grasp of some new tools of textual analysis and a clearer sense of how texts project their own authority and assert the validity of what they say.
Teaching and learning methods
There will be two lectures every week in which I shall (i) introduce you to examples of the different text types covered in the module, (ii) explain key analytical concepts, (iii) provide some discussion of the texts’ historical contexts, and (iv) demonstrate the kinds of analysis that I want to you to learn to do. There will also be a weekly seminar focusing on material covered in the previous week’s lectures. The MOLE site will offer a range of electronic resources that you can use in your private study time and these will include a range of podcasts intended to help you consolidate your learning on the trickier topics and extend your knowledge beyond the basics. It is also important that you do plenty of extra reading in order to consolidate and build up your understanding. We provide a range of useful texts in digital format and lecture handouts will indicate to you which reading is relevant to which topic.
Assessment
There are two components to the assessment:
(1)A 2,000-word essay (worth 50% of the final module mark)
You will need to choose two texts from the areas of either journalism or advertising make a comparative analysis of the language used in these texts, discuss how the
texts’ original readers might have experienced them – would they have found the style persuasive, for example? – and discuss how the texts’ historical contexts might have influenced their stylistic character.
(2)An exam (also worth 50% of the total mark)
You will need to write stylistic analyses of two short passages that you have already seen. (I shall distribute them before the end of the teaching period in December so that you can work on them over the vacation.) The two texts will be similar to ones that we have looked at in the second half of the module. You will also need to write an essay about the history of one of the types of writing we have looked at during the module. You can choose from questions covering the whole module, not just the second half, but you won’t be able to write on the type of text you discussed in your coursework.
Contact:
Dr Richard Steadman-Jones
Room 4.02 Jessop West-
EGH206 Introduction to Modern Irish
Semester 1 (20 Credits)
Module Description
This module provides students with an introduction to the Irish language. On its completion, students should possess a basic spoken fluency and good listening comprehension skills. They will have achieved a certain competence in reading and in producing simple sentences, and will have mastered a good portion of the verbal system. Teaching is through seminars and independent study, and assessment by means of written assignments, quizzes, and exam.
Teaching and learning methods
To promote speaking and listening skills, in the seminars emphasis will be placed on encouraging participation from all students, with small-group and pairs work incorporated into most sessions. Listening exercises will be used to increase comprehension. Short presentations from the instructor will introduce grammar points. Independent study will be guided by the instructor, with specific recommendations made for each week’s reading, listening and written work.
Assessment
Written exam (2 hrs)60%
Written assignments (3)20%
Quizzes (3, 15 mins ea.)10%
Oral exam10%
Contact
Dr. Kaarina Hollo,
Room 4.13 (SLC Wing)
EGH207 Writing the Real
Semester 2 (20 Credits)
Module Description
This second-year module (core for Language and Literature students) explores the often problematic relationship between literature and ‘the real world’, using a range of theoretical and stylistic approaches. We will consider why ‘realism’ is such a difficult term to get to grips with; why describing a text or film as ‘realistic’ can be a very politically charged act; how ideas of ‘the real’ have changed over time; and what effects the inclusion of ‘real’ materials into fictional works may have. The module will be divided into two parts; in the first half we will focus on how ‘the real’ and ‘the non real’ are represented in prose fiction, using Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five as a particularly rich case study, while in the second half we will explore notions of realism a wide range dramatic texts and films, including works by Harold Pinter and Ken Loach.
Aims
- To encourage you to think about what ‘realism’ means in discussions of film and literature, and to recognise that it is a term that has been used in relation to a wide range of literary texts and films
- To enable you to recognise that ideas about ‘realism’ change over time, and that different styles might be considered ‘realistic’ in different contexts
- To enable you to analyse the different techniques through which an effect of ‘realism’ is achieved by writers and filmmakers
- To introduce you to theoretical approaches that might help you to think about ‘realism’
- To help you conduct your own small-scale analyses, and present them in an appropriate manner in essays
Teaching and Learning Methods
The module will be taught by 2 lectures a week, and 1 seminar.
Assessment
This module will be assessed by a 1,500 word essay (30%) and a 2,500 word essay (70%).
For the first essay, you will be given a choice of passages from the core text in the first part of the module, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, and asked to conduct a close stylistic analysis, investigating how the strategies of realism and non-realism which we have introduced are evidenced in the passage.
For the second essay, you will be asked to respond to a discursive question about some aspect of realism (e.g. realism in relation to a specific genre, writer or period). You can write about either the prose fiction or the drama sections of the module. To answer the question, you will identify appropriate material to talk about, and analyse the material using the theoretical frameworks and stylistic analyses introduced in the course of the module.
Contact:Dr Joe Bray
Room 2.21 Jessop West
EGH223 Radical Texts: transforming performance, 1920s to the present
Semester 1 (20 Credits)
Module description
What makes a dramatic text or a theatrical performance ‘radical’? How, or how far, can performance cause people to become radical? Is radicalism in art (still) possible within the economic, cultural and physical structures of the established theatre? Do different kinds of radical performance have elements in common? What are the conditions through which radical performance might thrive?
This module introduces you to diverse texts for and about performance that have vitally shaped the development of 20th and 21st century practice. We examine the work of selected directors, writers and theatre makers in and beyond Europe and explore fundamental issues raised (directly and implicitly) by their practices. Such issues will include: the ability of art to express and confront contemporary tensions produced by globalisation, consumerism, the diversity of cultural difference; the potential of performance for celebration and for protest; the redefinition of roles/responsibilities of ‘actor’ and ‘spectator’ in the 20th and 21st century; the limits and constraints of ‘theatre’ versus the seeming boundlessness of ‘performance’.
Material to be studied is likely to include: (i) manifestos and other key writings by influential practitioners (e.g. Grotowski, Brook, Boal); (ii) texts and documents of performance practices situated beyond the confines of theatre buildings (e.g. the Workers’ Theatre Movement, Welfare State International); and (iii) case studies of radical experimentation within the theatre, in the form of modern and contemporary ‘post-dramatic’ performance (e.g. the Wooster Group, Forced Entertainment).
Teaching and learning methods
Weekly lectures and seminars; occasional film screenings. The module also aims to incorporate a theatre visit (subject to programming).