| Unit name | Literature and Community Engagement in Practice 2 |
|---|---|
| Unit code | ENGL20105 |
| Credit points | 20 |
| Level of study | I/5 |
| Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 4 (weeks 1-24) |
| Unit director | Dr. Gareth Griffith |
| Open unit status | Not open |
| Pre-requisites |
None |
| Co-requisites |
None |
| School/department | Department of English |
| Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit aims to support students in continuing to run a community engagement project. Where the project established in earlier units was unsuccessful and/or where it has been discontinued for any reason, students may set up a new project or undertake work to support and evaluate other projects running within the programme. This is the final practice-based community engagement unit, so there will be a particular emphasis on evaluating the success of a project and its impacts or consequences and on its sustainability, e.g. transferring the project to a student in another year or ensuring that it is able to continue independent of support.
Upon successful completion of this unit, students will be able to demonstrate:
1) the ability to continue running a community engagement project
2) the ability to finish and reflect on their practical work in this area
3) the ability to reflect on whether the project is sustainable and how best it might be supported in continuing beyond the unit
Through the year:
5 x 3-hour seminar
1 x 4.5-hour day school
1 x 4.5 hour conference
1 x 1-hour one-to-one meeting with tutor
1 x reflective assignment, normally based partly on interviews with 2-3 participants in the project in depth or a similar mode of evaluating a range of perspectives on the project (4000 words). [ILOs 1-3]
Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle, This Thing Called Literature (Routledge, 2015).
Jeremy Brent, Searching for Community (Policy Press, 2009).
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Penguin, 1996).
Tehseen Noorani et al, Problems of Participation (ARN Press, 2013).
