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This module introduces you to the scholarly requirements of study in HE and some of the core elements that underpin the study of both literature and creative writing. The module concentrates on key requirements in terms of study skills (e.g. writing styles, giving a presentation), research skills (retrieving and referencing information) and self-management skills (knowing your learning style, identifying areas for improvement, producing a personal development plan). The module will also enable you to identify some of the social and cultural factors that determine the creation and analysis of writing: class, gender, culture, and media, for example. In order to outline the significance of both scholarly skills and these contextual aspects to English and Creative Writing disciplines, these skills and ideas will be explored within the context of a particular area of content central to that particular subject. The module will seek to develop not only knowledge but also the various practical and conceptual tools that will provide you with a firm foundation for future success in your degree programme.

This module introduces you to the scholarly requirements of study in HE and some of the core elements that underpin the study of both literature and creative writing. The module concentrates on key requirements in terms of study skills (e.g. writing styles, giving a presentation), research skills (retrieving and referencing information) and self-management skills (knowing your learning style, identifying areas for improvement, producing a personal development plan). The module will also enable you to identify some of the social and cultural factors that determine the creation and analysis of writing: class, gender, culture, and media, for example. In order to outline the significance of both scholarly skills and these contextual aspects to English and Creative Writing disciplines, these skills and ideas will be explored within the context of a particular area of content central to that particular subject. The module will seek to develop not only knowledge but also the various practical and conceptual tools that will provide you with a firm foundation for future success in your degree programme.

This module offers an innovative, research-led approach to critically examining themes of gender, sex and criminality in the Victorian period. Active participants in practice-based research collaboration, students will explore a range of canonical texts in combination with a diverse and rich array of archival, digitised online resources. Students will have the opportunity to examine contemporary materials such as literary magazines, newspaper articles and visual imagery, in order to explore how such sources help to contextualise and enrich our interpretation of canonical texts. With advanced research skills and methods embedded within the teaching delivery, the module will consider how this kind of research may fill the textual gaps of the canonical writings, concluding with an examination of how the Victorians are re-imagined in the twenty-first century. Finally, students will develop their own areas of research interest in relation to the key themes explored on the module, presenting a record of their ongoing research findings and therein re-presenting the Victorians.