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EN2003   Medieval and Renaissance Texts

Academic year(s): 2025-2026

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 20

ECTS credits : 10

Level : SCQF level 8

Semester: 1

Availability restrictions: Not available to First Year students.

Planned timetable: 4.00 pm

In the first half of this module students will learn to read early forms of English language and literature, using specially edited texts from Old English, Middle English and Older Scots. In the other half of the module students will encounter and gain a critical understanding of Renaissance verse, via the study of John Donne's poems and Milton's Paradise Lost.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisite(s): No pre-requisites when taken as a 'stand alone' module, but EN2003 is not available to students in their first year

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 3 lectures and 1 tutorial, and 2 optional consultative hours.

Scheduled learning hours: 40

Guided independent study hours: 160

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: 2-hour Written Examination = 50%, Coursework = 50%


Re-assessment: 3-hour Written Examination = 100%

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr G J Pertile
Module teaching staff: Team taught
Module coordinator email gjp4@st-andrews.ac.uk

Intended learning outcomes

  • Demonstrate a broadly based knowledge of the set texts gained by reading unabridged primary texts in the original language and following up primary reading with critical reading on each author studied.
  • Present an informed discussion of these texts in the light of contextual evidence such as social, political and wider historical developments. This skill is developed during tutorial presentations and tested by assessed essays and examination.
  • Analyse the literary and linguistic techniques and structures of the set texts and base critical interpretations on this analysis.
  • Display a range of relevant practical and presentational skills, both written and oral (oral skills will be practised in group discussions and individual presentations; written skills will be practised and tested by means of essays and semester examinations).