Academic Year:
| 2015/6 |
Owning Department/School:
| Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies |
Credits:
| 6 |
Level:
| Honours (FHEQ level 6) |
Period: |
Semester 2
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Assessment Summary:
| CW 33%, ES 67% |
Assessment Detail: |
- Coursework (CW 33%)
- Essay (ES 67%)
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Supplementary Assessment: |
Like-for-like reassessment (where allowed by programme regulations)
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Requisites: |
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Description:
| Aims:
* To provide students with a critical understanding of the notion of political commitment in European culture in the 20th century and beyond
* To help students to understand the relationship between literary and filmic aesthetics and politically committed artistic practice
* To allow students to situate politically committed literature and film in its historical context.
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this unit, students will be able to:
* Analyse `politically committed¿ works of literature and film in their historical context;
* Draw critical comparisons between different approaches to politically writing and filmmaking;
* Engage with critical opinion on works of `politically committed¿ film and literature and produce their own responses to such opinion;
* Discuss the relationship between aesthetic form and political engagement.
Skills: Skills in critical analysis, conceptual thinking, precision in the use of written and spoken language, exercise of independent judgement, reasoned argument and the planning/conduct/reporting of non-quantitative research are developed and assessed in this unit.
Content: In the unit, students will have the opportunity to engage with a series of key examples of politically committed literature and filmmaking in the 20th century and beyond. These will include examples of various kinds of avant-garde practice, as well as the work of socialist realist, existentialist and critical Marxist authors and filmmakers. The selection of texts will also include contemporary examples of engagement with the notion of political commitment. They will also be introduced to theories of art and artistic commitment in the context of modernity and postmodernity.
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Programme availability: |
PL30108 is Optional on the following programmes:
Department of Politics, Languages and International Studies
- UHPL-AYB13 : BA(Hons) French and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB12 : BA(Hons) German and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB16 : BA(Hons) Italian ab inito and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB14 : BA(Hons) Italian and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB08 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and ab initio Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB09 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and ab initio Russian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB05 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and German) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB04 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB18 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (French and Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB06 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (German and ab initio Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB07 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (German and ab initio Russian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB02 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (German and Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB23 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (German and Spanish) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB20 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (Spanish and ab initio Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB22 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (Spanish and ab initio Russian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB19 : BA(Hons) Modern Languages and European Studies (Spanish and Italian) with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AFB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations (Year 3)
- UHPL-AAB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AKB30 : BSc(Hons) Politics and International Relations with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHPL-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics (Year 3)
- UHPL-AAB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Study year abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Politics with Economics with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHPL-AFB29 : BSc(Hons) Politics with International Relations (Year 3)
- UHPL-AKB29 : BSc(Hons) Politics with International Relations with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB15 : BA(Hons) Russian ab inito and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
- UHPL-AYB17 : BA(Hons) Spanish and Politics with Year Abroad (Year 4)
Department of Social & Policy Sciences
- UHSP-AFB16 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB16 : BSc(Hons) Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB05 : BSc(Hons) Social Sciences with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB04 : BSc(Hons) Sociology (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB04 : BSc(Hons) Sociology with Year long work placement (Year 4)
- UHSP-AFB10 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy (Year 3)
- UHSP-AKB10 : BSc(Hons) Sociology and Social Policy with Year long work placement (Year 4)
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