Module Details

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Title RENAISSANCE ROUGH GUIDES: EARLY ENGLISH TRAVEL WRITING
Code ENGL392
Coordinator Prof N Das
English
N.Das@liverpool.ac.uk
Year CATS Level Semester CATS Value
Session 2022-23 Level 6 FHEQ First Semester 15

Aims

To explore the range of travel-related writing produced in England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. To examine texts of both real and imaginary travel produced in this period of voyages and discoveries. To investigate the ways in which such texts engaged with real cultural and political changes, including Renaissance England’s connections with other nations in both the Old world and the New, and the construction of concepts such as ‘Englishness’ and the ‘foreign’. To ask questions about the relationship between travel writing and various other areas of debate (its relationship with fiction, for instance, or with colonialism, and gender).


Learning Outcomes

(LO1) Demonstrate a knowledge of the various forms of travel-related writing from the period.

(LO2) Understand and analyse the relationship between the texts and larger cultural and political issues.

(LO3) Identify and critique the structural and rhetorical strategies used in the texts.

(LO4) Present own research and analysis of texts through presentations and written work in a critically informed manner.

(S1) Improving own learning/performance - Personal action planning

(S2) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Presentation skills – oral

(S3) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Presentation skills - written

(S4) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Listening skills

(S5) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Influencing skills – argumentation

(S6) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Influencing skills – persuading

(S7) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Report writing

(S8) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Communicating for audience

(S9) Time and project management - Personal action planning

(S10) Critical thinking and problem solving - Critical analysis

(S11) Critical thinking and problem solving - Creative thinking

(S12) Working in groups and teams - Group action planning

(S13) Working in groups and teams - Negotiation skills

(S14) Research skills - All Information skills

(S15) Skills in using technology - Using common applications (work processing, databases, spreadsheets etc.)

(S16) Skills in using technology - Information accessing

(S17) Skills in using technology - Online communications skills

(S18) Personal attributes and qualities - Initiative

(S19) Personal attributes and qualities - Assertiveness

(S20) Personal attributes and qualities - Self-efficacy (self-belief/intrinsic motivation)

(S21) Global citizenship - Cultural awareness


Syllabus

 

Topics covered will typically include a choice of texts from the following selection:
Advice to travellers: Sidney’s letter to his brother on travel; Bacon, ‘Of Travel’;

Africa and the Americas: Selections from Hakluyt’s Voyages; Africanus; Raleigh; Montaigne; Beaumont and Fletcher’s play, The Sea Voyage ; Drayton, ‘Ode to the Virginian Voyage’; Marvell, ‘Bermudas’; Spenser’s Faerie Queene, Book II, Proem;

The English in Italy: Roger Ascham’s ‘Italianate Englishman’; Thomas Coryat; Anthony Munday: English Roman Life; Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller

India and the Ottoman Empire: Selections from Edward Terry’s Voyage to East India; Shirley’s Travels into Persia; John Day, William Rowley and George Wilkins: The Travels of the Three English Brothers; Richard Daborne’s The Christian Turn’d Turk;

Stranger in your own land: Selections f rom John Lyly’s Euphues in England; Henry Peacham’s The Art of Living in London; Dekker’s Bellman of London.


Teaching and Learning Strategies

Teaching Method 1 - Seminar
Description:
Attendance Recorded: Not yet decided
Notes: The seminars are designed to explore the travel texts, and will include mini-lectures and groupwork. They will enable you to clarify and develop your understanding of the reading, and provide opportunities to explore and extend your overall grasp of exisiting work and research opportunities.

Teaching Method 2 - Tutorial
Description:
Attendance Recorded: Not yet decided
Notes: Individual drop-in tutorials will be available while you are planning your two pieces of assessment, and to discuss your feedback on assessment 1.

Teaching Method 3 - Online
Description:
Attendance Recorded: Not yet decided
Notes: You will be given guidelines to explore online material through the university library provisions in preparation for the seminars, and will be asked to contribute to group discussions online on a regular basis. This will provide important opportuniti es to ensure your preparedness for the assessment tasks.

Teaching Method 4 - Assessment
Description:
Attendance Recorded: Not yet decided
Notes: For assessment 1, you will have to present your research to the group in a conference-style session and respond to questions, and contribute to the question and answer sessions involving other students.


Teaching Schedule

  Lectures Seminars Tutorials Lab Practicals Fieldwork Placement Other TOTAL
Study Hours   24

1

    6

4

35
Timetable (if known)              
Private Study 115
TOTAL HOURS 150

Assessment

EXAM Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
             
CONTINUOUS Duration Timing
(Semester)
% of
final
mark
Resit/resubmission
opportunity
Penalty for late
submission
Notes
Assessment 2 There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. Assessment Schedule (When) :Semester 1    60       
Assessment 1 There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. Assessment Schedule (When) :Semester 1    40       

Recommended Texts

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