FR10120 Reading Short French Texts: Literary Analysis

Academic Year 2022/2023

This is a level-one module in French Literature that focuses on poetry. The primary aim to help you develop skills of close critical reading and develop those skills by analyzing poems in French from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. A single poem will be assigned each week for intensive study.

Teaching takes place at a weekly lecture and a weekly tutorial. It is essential that students attend both weekly sessions, as the tutorial hour aims to apply, in small groups, the knowledge and skills conveyed to the class as a whole during the lecture hour.

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Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module, students should be able to understand, describe, analyze, and discuss the form, meaning and contexts of a number of poems in French.

They should be able to demonstrate their active development of these skills orally in their weekly tutorials and in their completion of the assignments for the module.

Indicative Module Content:

A range of poems in French from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries.

Student Effort Hours: 
Student Effort Type Hours
Lectures

9
Small Group

9
Specified Learning Activities

36
Autonomous Student Learning

46
Total

100
Approaches to Teaching and Learning:
Lectures; tutorial discussions (including group work); weekly homework questions; supported autonomous learning. 
Requirements, Exclusions and Recommendations

Not applicable to this module.


Module Requisites and Incompatibles
Not applicable to this module.
 
Assessment Strategy  
Description Timing Open Book Exam Component Scale Must Pass Component % of Final Grade
Assignment: Analytical questions on a poem. Week 8 n/a Graded No

30
Continuous Assessment: You must submit answers displaying a reasonable effort to three sets of weekly tutorial questions. These must be submitted before the tutorial in the week in question. Throughout the Trimester n/a Pass/Fail Grade Scale No

10
Assignment: Analytical questions on a poem. Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

60

Carry forward of passed components
No
 
Resit In Terminal Exam
Spring No
Please see Student Jargon Buster for more information about remediation types and timing. 
Feedback Strategy/Strategies

• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

How will my Feedback be Delivered?

Feedback provided individually in tutor's written comments on returned assignment submitted in Week 8 and also globally in lectures, particularly in the final lecture, prior to the completion of the final assignment.

Name Role
Assoc Professor Derval Conroy Lecturer / Co-Lecturer
Professor Mary Gallagher Lecturer / Co-Lecturer