ENG32510

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this module, students should be able to articulate with clarity, precision, and depth the core course concepts and themes as well as be able to demonstrate in writing:
· a growing confidence in your ability to analyse primary and secondary texts that situate the representation of Dublin as a city in literature from the nineteenth to the twenty-first centuries in poetry, prose, and drama;
· an understanding of the historical, political, economic, social, and gendered contexts related to the development of Dublin as a city as well as its figuration in literature as a site of change, revival, and stasis;
· a better understanding of the relationship between the dynamic cultural forces and developing aesthetics that have shaped Dublin over the past two centuries and continue to do so today;
· an understanding of how the experience of Dublin as a city has been and still is shaped by the evolution of various literary genres;
· the ability to articulate some of the key concepts at the intersection of urban studies and cultural geography as they have developed from the nineteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Student Effort Hours:

Approaches to Teaching and Learning:

Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.

Module Requisites and Incompatibles

Assessment Strategy

Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Written and oral feedback will be provided on all written assignments post submission; this will clearly indicate strengths and weaknesses prior to the final exam. Group/class feedback will further support the continuous assessment process.