Unit name | Surrealism: Pleasure and Provocation in 1920s Textual and Visual Culture |
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Unit code | FREN30040 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | H/6 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24) |
Unit director | Professor. Harrow |
Open unit status | Not open |
Units you must take before you take this one (pre-requisite units) |
None |
Units you must take alongside this one (co-requisite units) |
None |
Units you may not take alongside this one |
None |
School/department | Department of French |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit explores the explosive Surrealist project of the 1920s through key works in literature (poetry, narrative and theatre), visual culture and film. Taking as our immediate starting-point the historical pressures and the possibilities of the post-First World War period, we look at how seismic shifts in critical thought (in particular, the theories of Freud) and in aesthetic practice (the international avant-garde projects including Futurism and Dadaism) precipitated the Surrealist moment. The Unit focuses on close reading of selected key texts and images in the Surrealist adventure. It takes those close readings forward in the context of a longer diachronic view that will enable us to situate Surrealism as part of a transhistorical, transnational project.
The aims are:
By the end of the Unit, students will be able to
A mixture of ‘open’ lectures and seminars with student participation in both formats actively encouraged. (2 hours per week: 1 lecture, 1 seminar)
Tasks which count towards your unit mark (summative):
One group-assessed curated digital mini-exhibition (40%) [ILO’s 1-5]
One timed assessment (60%) [ILO’s 1-5]
When assessment does not go to plan
When required by the Board of Examiners, you will normally complete reassessments in the same formats as those outlined above. However, the Board reserves the right to modify the form or number of reassessments required. Details of reassessments are normally confirmed by the School shortly after the notification of your results at the end of the academic year.
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How much time the unit requires
Each credit equates to 10 hours of total student input. For example a 20 credit unit will take you 200 hours
of study to complete. Your total learning time is made up of contact time, directed learning tasks,
independent learning and assessment activity.
See the Faculty workload statement relating to this unit for more information.
Assessment
The Board of Examiners will consider all cases where students have failed or not completed the assessments required for credit.
The Board considers each student's outcomes across all the units which contribute to each year's programme of study. If you have self-certificated your absence from an
assessment, you will normally be required to complete it the next time it runs (this is usually in the next assessment period).
The Board of Examiners will take into account any extenuating circumstances and operates
within the Regulations and Code of Practice for Taught Programmes.