ENGL102-15S1 (C) Semester One 2015

Great Works

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 23 February 2015
End Date: Sunday, 28 June 2015
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 8 March 2015
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 May 2015

Description

This course introduces students to university-level English by exploring in depth a sequence of works that have earned the label 'great' for some or all of the following reasons: because of their enduring, wide and deep cultural influence; because of the originality of their creative conception; because of the power of their language; because of the power and appeal of the stories they tell or the characters or images they contain.

Theme for 2015: Metamorphosis

Metamorphosis occurs throughout literature: gods become human or vice versa; beggars become princes and princesses or vice versa; people turn into trees, rocks, monsters, birds, beetles…. Language itself is based on metamorphosis: the transformation of ideas and things into words and figures of speech. By paying attention to the many kinds of metamorphosis at work in a diverse range of ‘great works’, this course will aim to develop students’ understanding of how various kinds of change — cultural, social, psychological — shape and are shaped by their representation in literature.

Learning Outcomes

  • In this course you will learn:
  •  Acquisition of skills in advanced critical reading
  •  Improvement of skills in essay writing
  •  Increased knowledge of specific texts and their historical and cultural contexts
  •  Familiarity with concepts integral to the study of English at university level.

Course Coordinator

Philip Armstrong

Lecturer

Christopher Thomson

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Attendance 10%
Two Short Writing Exercises 20%
Formal Essay 30%
Take-Home Test 40%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts
• Bronte, Emily; Wuthering Heights
• Shakespeare, William; A Midsummer Night's Dream  
• Stevenson, Robert Louis; The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Course readings will also be provided online, including poems and short fiction by Franz Kafka, Audre Lorde, John Donne, Elizabeth Bishop, Emily Dickinson and Allen Curnow.

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $697.00

International fee $2,913.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

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