This course is available as an outside option to students on all undergraduate programmes, and to General Course students.?Students can take this course in any year of their studies,?subject to their own programme regulations.
This course is available as an outside option to students on all undergraduate programmes, and to General Course students.?Students can take this course in any year of their studies,?subject to their own programme regulations.
10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the MT. 10 hours of lectures and 10 hours of classes in the LT. 1 hour of lectures and 1 hour of classes in the ST. Structured activities during the reading week in the MT and LT. Revision workshops and tutorals in the ST. This course has reading weeks in week 6 of Michaelmas and Lent terms.
Students will be expected to produce 2 essays and 1 presentation in the MT and LT.
Literature: Douglas Coupland, Generation X; Viktor Pelevin, Generation P (Babylon); Vesna Goldsworthy Gorsky (Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby); Milan Kundera, Ignorance; Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist; Marina Lewicka A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian; Monica Ali, Brick Lane; Jonathan S. Foer?Everything ?Is Illuminated; Zadie Smith,?White Teeth; Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Gloria;?John le Carr?, A Most Wanted Man. Films: Good Bye, Lenin! (2003); Everything Is Illuminated (2005);?Borat (2006);?The Riot Club (2014);?Loveless (2018).
Exam (70%, duration: 3 hours) in the summer exam period. Essay (30%, 2500 words) in the LT.