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This course offers the opportunity to pursue specialist literary study in one area of research and teaching specialism offered within the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture.
| Study Type | Postgraduate | Level | 5 |
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| Term | Second Term | Credit Points | 30 credits (15 ECTS credits) |
| Campus | Aberdeen | Sustained Study | No |
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This course offers the opportunity to pursue specialist literary study in one area of research and teaching specialism offered within the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture. Students will pick one specialist topic from a range of options. Options vary from year to year, but include topics from across the major linguistic and cultural areas represented within the School. Students attend classes in which they engage with their area of specialism in depth, but also have the opportunity for one-to-one supervision to help them develop a short research project within the area of specialism.
Example: a student takes the option ‘Fairytales and Feminism’ (also offered as a taught course for German UG Senior Honours) and drawing on course content and class discussion develops a project engaging with retellings of ‘Snow White’, supported by the course tutor and their peers taking ‘Specialist Literary Study’. (Note that options will vary across any given year, but a range of specialist options will be available, and advice will be offered in relation to selecting options.)
Students taking ‘Specialist Literary Study 1’ and ‘Specialist Literary Study 2’ will present their project plans to other students on the course and will receive peer and tutor-led feedback, which will guide them in the development of their independent research project for this course.
Students on the MLitt in Comparative Literature will take both ‘Specialist Literary Study 1’ and ‘Specialist Literary Study 2’, selecting different areas of specialism for each course
Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 80 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 39 | Feedback Weeks | 42 | |
| Feedback |
Written feedback will be offered. |
Word Count | 3500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | You will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the topic chosen for specialist study |
| Factual | Analyse | You will demonstrate an ability to synthesise material from disparate sources and to take account of the wider cultural context of the topic under consideration |
| Procedural | Apply | You will acquire habits for autonomous learning, independently applying insights gained on the course to unfamiliar material |
| Procedural | Apply | You will conduct independent investigations using research methodology |
| Procedural | Apply | You will apply critical reading skills to various cultural, literary, filmic, sociological and anthropological texts |
| Procedural | Create | You will articulate your views in speech and writing using the appropriate discourse for the subject |
| Procedural | Evaluate | You will select, evaluate and organise primary and secondary material |
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 20 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 31 | Feedback Weeks | 32 | |
| Feedback |
Word count: 200 word abstract accombanied by a 5-8 min Oral Presentation Written and oral feedback will be offered. |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Conceptual | Understand | You will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the topic chosen for specialist study |
| Procedural | Apply | You will apply critical reading skills to various cultural, literary, filmic, sociological and anthropological texts |
| Procedural | Create | You will articulate your views in speech and writing using the appropriate discourse for the subject |
| Procedural | Evaluate | You will select, evaluate and organise primary and secondary material |
There are no assessments for this course.
| Assessment Type | Summative | Weighting | 100 | |
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| Assessment Weeks | 50 | Feedback Weeks | 52 | |
| Feedback |
3,500 word essay plus 200 word abstract (to be marked as single piece of assessment) |
Word Count | 3500 | |
| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Knowledge Level | Thinking Skill | Outcome |
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| Factual | Analyse | You will demonstrate an ability to synthesise material from disparate sources and to take account of the wider cultural context of the topic under consideration |
| Procedural | Apply | You will conduct independent investigations using research methodology |
| Conceptual | Understand | You will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the topic chosen for specialist study |
| Procedural | Create | You will articulate your views in speech and writing using the appropriate discourse for the subject |
| Procedural | Evaluate | You will select, evaluate and organise primary and secondary material |
| Procedural | Apply | You will acquire habits for autonomous learning, independently applying insights gained on the course to unfamiliar material |
| Procedural | Apply | You will apply critical reading skills to various cultural, literary, filmic, sociological and anthropological texts |
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