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If you participate assiduously in this module, attending both lectures and weekly tutorials, you should, on its completion, be able (1) to understand, describe, analyse, and discuss the interplay of language, form, and meaning within literary narrative texts in French; (2) to write a clearly structured critical analysis of a given passage from a longer work you have studied; (3) to show significant broadening of your command of French idiom, vocabulary and syntax through having paid close and detailed attention to a sizeable corpus of high-quality writing in French.
A weekly lecture and tutorial, the former demonstrating and the latter practising in a workshop setting how to read literary prose critically and how to write an analysis of an extract from a longer work you have read.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 12 |
Tutorial | 12 |
Specified Learning Activities | 48 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 50 |
Total | 122 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Essay: Write a critical analysis of an extract from one of the texts studied on the programme (NB NOT an essay on the whole work). Choose one of two extracts. | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | No | 65 |
Assignment: A critical analysis of a short extract (the extract will be 10-15 lines long) from a short story previously studied. | Week 7 | n/a | Graded | No | 35 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Autumn | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
Class test feedback provided individually in tutor's written comments on returned work and also globally in final lecture.
Name | Role |
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Assoc Professor Douglas Smith | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |