FR10120 Reading Short French Texts: Literary Analysis

Academic Year 2021/2022

This is a level-one module in French Literature, which focuses on short genres, namely fables and poems. It concentrates on the skills of close critical reading, and develops those skills through the analysis of texts from the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.

Teaching takes place at a weekly lecture and a weekly seminar. It is essential that students attend both weekly sessions, as the seminar 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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Curricular information is subject to change

Learning Outcomes:

On completion of this module, students should be able to understand, describe, analyse, and discuss the form, meaning and contexts of a number of important short literary texts in French. They should be able to demonstrate their active development of these skills orally in their weekly seminars and in their completion of the assessments for the module.

Indicative Module Content:

Range of short texts from 16th to 20th century.

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; seminar discussions; group work; reflective learning; 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 the genres studied on the programme - fables and poems. Coursework (End of Trimester) n/a Graded No

60
Assignment: Analytical questions on a Fable. Week 7 n/a Graded No

40

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 7 and also globally in lectures, particularly in the final lecture, prior to the completion of the final assignment.

Name Role
Professor Mary Gallagher Lecturer / Co-Lecturer