| Unit name | A Taste of Education 1 |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ENGL10021 |
| Credit points | 10 |
| Level of study | C/4 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
| Unit director | Professor. Tom Sperlinger |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of English |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will be offered, as part of the School of Humanities’ lifelong learning programme, at HMP Bristol and has been developed through discussions with staff and prisoners at that insitution. The aims, outcomes and assessment reflect the School’s wider practices. The content of the course will include contributions from subject areas in other Schools and Faculties and, to facilitate this, the unit will be delivered with the support of the University’s Centre for Public Engagement.
Students will have had an opportunity (i) to gain skills relevant to study within higher education and (ii) to gain a taste of different subject areas offered within the School of Humanities and beyond it. In addition, (iii) the final seminar of the unit will address ways in which students might continue their studies beyond the unit.
Seminars
Students will be asked to complete a formative assignment at the start of the unit, in which they will state their expectations of the various subject areas to be discussed within it. The summative assessment will be in the form of a reflective assignment of up to 2000 words in total (100%) in which students will respond to directed questions on how their experience of each subject area related to, or changed, their expectations of it (thus addressing outcome ii). The final question will ask students to respond at greater length (up to 1000 words) and in more depth to the issues raised in one of the seminars / subject areas and to reflect on how they might pursue further study in this area (thus addressing outcomes i and iii). The assignment will be marked on a pass/fail basis.
One seminar will be dedicated to each subject area and a short piece of reading relevant to each seminar will be provided
