Details for ENG201 20th – 21st Century English Literature

This unit offers insight into the key arguments and contructs of English literature through technical compositions of key literary texts and their alignment with significant historical or social movements. Students will explore and interpret texts in their historical context from the 20th-21st century.

Quick Stats

• Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
• Course code: ENG201
• Credit points: 10

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Prerequisite

The following courses are prerequisites:

• At least 40 credit points

Unit Content

Outcomes

1. Identify connections between English texts and contexts;
2. Review the signature literary texts of the English language across the 20th-21st Centuries;
3. Analyse how ideas, perspectives, and values are represented in texts and how they are received by audiences;
4. Analyse and compare texts, through the identification of the structural, conventional, and language and stylistic features used by authors;
5. Examine evidence to develop, support, and justify a critical interpretation of a text;
6. Compose and defend arguments relating to the technical composition of two key English literary texts and a significant historical / social movement. 

Subject Content

• The centre cannot hold : Owen, Eliot, Joyce, Fitzgerald, Huxley, Orwell, Yeats, Langston Hughes, Plath and Capote
• The lost gods: Steinbeck, Cummings, Waugh, Greene, Byatt, Attwood and Mantel

This course may be offered in the following formats

• Face to Face (on site)
• E-Learning (online)
• Intensive

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

• Forum Posts (20%)
• Reading Review Journal (30%)
• Major Essay (50%)

Prescribed Text

• Please consult your lecturer before purchasing any texts