Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- the ways in which literature and other art forms respond to, and can shape, social change
- a variety of modes and forms through which writers and artists intervene in social change contexts
- the varied historical, social, political and economic contexts which shape writing and other art forms engaging with social change movements.
- how literary texts and other art forms represent intersections between environment and human culture
- how literary and cultural texts reflect and shape social change both historically and in the present.
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge of important issues in the role of art on social change contexts
- undertake close reading and analysis of literary texts and other art forms
- compose historically and culturally-informed analyses of texts and creative artefacts
- situate literary and artistic interventions into social change movements within their broader historical, cultural, and theoretical contexts
- evaluate the efficacy of key theories and critical methods pertinent to analysis of literary and other forms of cultural analysis
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- research a topic or an issue independently
- carry out a sustained analysis of a subject across relevant forms of evidence
- construct a reasoned argument based on research and analysis
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Independent Study | 280 |
Teaching | 20 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Rob Nixon (2011). Slow violence and the environmentalism of the poor.
Randy Martin (2015). The Routledge Companion to Art and Politics. Routledge.
Lynn Hunt (2008). Inventing Human Rights: A History. Norton.
(2018). Unthinking mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial entanglements . Duke University Press.
Jacques Rancierre (2010). Dissensus: On politics and aesthetics. Bloomsbury.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 85% |
Critical commentary | 15% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Essay | 85% |
Critical commentary | 15% |
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.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Critical commentary | 15% |
Draft essay | 85% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External