EH4727 Interpreting Literature Final Year Semester 1 2017-2018

(Dr Eugene O’Brien, Dr John McDonagh, Dr Marita Ryan)

Students must make themselves familiar with the details of MICL/UL policies in regard to attendance at lectures and tutorials, submitting written work on the designated date/time, and presenting themselves on the designated dates/times for all the tests and examinations involved in the assessment procedures for this course. Similarly students must know and observe the MIC/UL regulations forbidding copying, syndication and plagiarism. All students who take this course must be available for all parts of the assessment procedures as they are timetabled. Essays must be typed and presented in the proper academic format.

In the case of ‘Open Book’ exams, students MUST have a clean copy of the text, without any notes or writing whatsoever on those texts. All essays must be referenced as per the department style sheet, the Harvard Style Sheet, available on the departmental website.

Students seeking “I” grades for undelivered essays/unattended tests, examinations etc. must conform exactly to the MICL/UL regulations for obtaining “I” Grades. Knowing and implementing these regulations is the responsibility of each student. All recognized doctors’ and/or bereavement certificates requesting an “I” Grade for undelivered essays/unattended tests, examinations etc. must be handed in to the Registrar.

“I”Grades awarded for undelivered essays, unattended tests, examinations etc., and all failing grades, may be cleared only by the assessment procedures linked to the autumn examinations.

In the autumn examinations, 100% of the marks for the module will be available for repeating students (i.e. no tutorial mark will be counted). Material that was formerly examined by essay will be examined by exam questions in the autumn examinations which will have 3 questions and last for 135 minutes.

“I” Grade students will take the above examination, answering whatever section(s) they have “I” Grade(s) for and being marked out of the same percentage of marks as was originally assigned to the section which was missed; if the “I” Grade is for an undelivered essay, the same topic will be covered by an exam question in the autumn examinations.

Plagiarism, or any form of unreferenced copying, will be dealt with by theMIC policy on plagiarism.

Students may be asked to submit an electronic copy of any essay which will be screened electronically through ‘Turnitin’, a plagiarism detection system.

Lectures will take place on:

Tuesday 10.00 a.m. T116

Wednesday 12.00 p.m. T118

Thursday 11.00 a.m. T117

One of the above times will become an “ad usum” period. You will be informed in class.

Assessment Procedures for EH4727:

Tutorials will begin in Week 3. All students must attend the tutorial group assigned them. Up to 10% of the total final grade will be awarded to each student attending the tutorial who can demonstrate his/her knowledge of the assigned tutorial material to the satisfaction of the tutor. Those attending the tutorial without knowing the assigned material will get no marks. Every student should familiarize herself/himself with groups, dates, times, places for tutorials.

Tuesday 5th September to Thursday 28th September will be taught by Dr Eugene O’Brien. The course is divided into two sections: Deconstruction and Psychoanalysis

Section 1 will be examined by an Essay for 30% of total final grade will be set by Dr O’Brien during the 11.00 a.m. lecture on Thursday 28th September. There will be a roll call at this lecture. You must be personally present. This essay, typed in the proper academic format, must be personally handed in before 12.00 p.m. at the Arts Office (RG1) on Tuesday 31st October. Students must hand up the original version of the essay and keep a copy.

GENERAL ENGLISH DEPARTMENT RULE: Late essays: (a) if submitted within 24 hours of the above deadline, the essay will forfeit one University grade below the grade awarded the essay by the lecturer; (b) if submitted within 48 hours of the above deadline, the essay will forfeit two University grades below the grade awarded the essay by the lecturer. (c) If not submitted within 48 hours of the above deadline, the essay will not be accepted for grade.

Tuesday 3rd October until Wednesday 25th October will be taught by Dr Marita Ryan. She will deal with

Feminist literary theory.

Tuesday 31st October until Thursday 23rd November will be taught by Dr John McDonagh. He will deal with Postcolonial theory and literature.

Dr Ryan’s part of the course course (30%) and Dr McDonagh’s part of the course (30%) will be examined in the official Examination Period at the end of the semester, as decided by the Registrar, MIC. Students must answer two questions one from each section, in a 90 minute examination