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 |
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Year | CATS Level | Semester | CATS Value |
Session 2022-23 | Level 6 FHEQ | First Semester | 15 |
Aims |
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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 |
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(LO1) Demonstrate a knowledge of the various forms of travel-related writing from the period. |
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(LO2) Understand and analyse the relationship between the texts and larger cultural and political issues. |
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(LO3) Identify and critique the structural and rhetorical strategies used in the texts. |
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(LO4) Present own research and analysis of texts through presentations and written work in a critically informed manner. |
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(S1) Improving own learning/performance - Personal action planning |
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(S2) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Presentation skills – oral |
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(S3) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Presentation skills - written |
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(S4) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Listening skills |
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(S5) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Influencing skills – argumentation |
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(S6) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Influencing skills – persuading |
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(S7) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Report writing |
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(S8) Communication (oral, written and visual) - Communicating for audience |
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(S9) Time and project management - Personal action planning |
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(S10) Critical thinking and problem solving - Critical analysis |
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(S11) Critical thinking and problem solving - Creative thinking |
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(S12) Working in groups and teams - Group action planning |
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(S13) Working in groups and teams - Negotiation skills |
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(S14) Research skills - All Information skills |
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(S15) Skills in using technology - Using common applications (work processing, databases, spreadsheets etc.) |
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(S16) Skills in using technology - Information accessing |
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(S17) Skills in using technology - Online communications skills |
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(S18) Personal attributes and qualities - Initiative |
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(S19) Personal attributes and qualities - Assertiveness |
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(S20) Personal attributes and qualities - Self-efficacy (self-belief/intrinsic motivation) |
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(S21) Global citizenship - Cultural awareness |
Syllabus |
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Topics covered will typically include a choice of texts from the following selection: 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 |
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Teaching Method 1 - Seminar Teaching Method 2 - Tutorial Teaching Method 3 - Online Teaching Method 4 - Assessment |
Teaching Schedule |
Lectures | Seminars | Tutorials | Lab Practicals | Fieldwork Placement | Other | TOTAL | |
Study Hours |
24 |
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6 4 |
35 | |||
Timetable (if known) | |||||||
Private Study | 115 | ||||||
TOTAL HOURS | 150 |
Assessment |
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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 |
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Assessment 2 There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. Assessment Schedule (When) :Semester 1 | 0 | 60 | ||||
Assessment 1 There is a resit opportunity. Standard UoL penalty applies for late submission. Assessment Schedule (When) :Semester 1 | 0 | 40 |
Recommended Texts |
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Reading lists are managed at readinglists.liverpool.ac.uk. Click here to access the reading lists for this module. |