University of St Andrews

Key information

SCOTCAT credits : 30

ECTS credits : 15

Level : SCQF level 9

Semester: 1

Planned timetable: Tuesday & Thursdays 11am - 12 noon

This module aims to develop appreciation of the Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's last work and today his most popular. This most sophisticated product of fourteenth-century English literature is a collection of stories related by many voices as part of a tale-telling competition during a pilgrimage to Canterbury. This module builds on the study of medieval and specifically Chaucerian literature in sub-honours, and contributes to the study of medieval literary culture offered by other modules in the School. (Group A)

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisite(s): Before taking this module you must pass EN2003 and pass EN2004

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact: 2 hours (either 1 x 2-hour seminar or 1 lecture and 1 seminar), and 2 optional consultative hours.

Assessment pattern

As used by St Andrews: 2-hour Written Examination = 30%, Coursework = 70%


Re-assessment: exam = 100%

Personnel

Module coordinator: Dr C E Flynn
Module teaching staff: Dr Caitlin Flynn
Module coordinator email cef7@st-andrews.ac.uk

Intended learning outcomes

• Display a detailed knowledge of the set text
• Learn how to place the set text within more general critical and theoretical contexts.
• Demonstrate familiarity with a range of differing literary genres exhibited in the set text and with the culture from which these arose
• Display a basic understanding of the historical conditions in which medieval literature was produced and received