Course learning outcomes and assessment criteria

This course considers a range of textual forms typical of the modern and contemporary period, being concerned with poetry, fiction and drama in the twentieth/twenty-first centuries. The course will develop your understanding of change and continuity in the literary culture of the period, provide a context for the application of a wide range of critical approaches to the literature of the period, and enable you to handle with confidence a range of terms used in contemporary readings of twentieth- and twenty-first-century literature (terms such as ‘modern’, ‘postmodern’, ‘postcolonial’ and so on).

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course you should:

Mode of assessment

One three-hour unseen examination.

Assessment criteria

You will be assessed according to your ability to: