Special Project

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• summarise and assess textual arguments;
• research and plan independently;
• formulate and communicate an argument;
• evaluate a wide range of material and engage critically with that material;
• write a sustained piece of work.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• find resources of relevance to any given topic related to the specific genre of English literary studies;
• distil, summarise and assess extant approaches to a given genre within the subject of English literary studies;
• creatively and persuasively present your own approach to any given genre within the subject of English literary studies.
• develop a distinctive and significant approach to both primary material, and to dominant and emerging critical trends.

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• specific theoretical or cultural questions that emerge from a particular literary period or field of enquiry;
• the dominant, important, and emerging critical and theoretical approaches to a text or set of texts within a literary period or field of enquiry;
• a specific theoretical or cultural approach within the larger context of English literary studies, and other relevant and broader contexts of cultural production.

The Special Project module will allow you to produce a written assignment or equivalent on a topic of your choice, undertaking independent research with individual guidance from the convenor. Meetings will be focussed on readings selected in consultation with the convenor. In consultation with your supervisor, you will be encouraged to identify resources from the undergraduate curriculum which will help you to build your knowledge and understanding. This may be an entire module, individual lectures (recorded or live), or guidance provided on Blackboard from a single module or from a range of modules.

Teaching methods include:

• 3 group meetings
• 1 individual supervision session

Learning activities include

• individual study and research time;
• accessing research materials (possibly including archival material) and on-line resources;
• preparation of written assignments, or equivalent, in consultation with the Special Project convenor/s.
• the opportunity to undertake in-depth independent research into a topic of your own choosing

Innovative or special features of this module:

• the opportunity it offers you to undertake in-depth independent research into a topic of your own choosing;
• access to sustained, individual or small group teaching from members of staff with particularly deep knowledge in a field.

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.