English Literature

Assessment

The course aims to develop four key areas: • Competence in writing and reading and expressing yourself effectively and appropriately; • Criticism: being able to apply ideas and to read analytically, with insight; • Connection: to be able to draw effective comparisons within and between texts; • Context: to understand how the background to a text and the experience of its author and the situation of the reader are part of the experience of literature. The course has four components, three of which are assessed at the end of the course. It aims to develop your critical skills, while engaging your enthusiasm and imagination as you explore a diverse range of texts from various literary periods and genres. All the examinations are ‘open book’ which allows you to take a clean copy of your set text into the examinations.