Soran University
Faculty of Arts
English Department
(Literary Criticism)
General Information
Title
Type
Code
ECTS Credits
6
Semester
Faculty
7TH
Level
Department
BA
English
Module Leader Nyaz Ahmed Faris
Academic
Assistant Lecturer
Title
Tutor
Peer Reviewer
Offer in academic year
E-mail
Qualification
Arts
nyaz.faris@visitors.soran.edu.iq
MA in English Literature
E-mail
E-mail
Module Description
Relation with other Modules
Pre-requisites
course code
Module Description and Learning Outcomes
The course of Schools of Criticism offers units on prominent trends of literary criticism,
theories, texts, and ideological movements. Throughout the academic year, the literary
related movements and thoughts, are taught with relation to literary theory and criticism.
The course provides a basic frame of reference that studies the historical advent of
Description
criticism, including a survey of the leading critics that develop criticism and its theories.
Another phase of the course covers the contemporary development of critical theories
thereby
lecturing
Formalism,
reader-oriented
criticism,
Feminism,
Marxism,
Psychoanalysis, Structuralism and Deconstruction, New Historicism, postcolonialism,
and Ecocriticism
Learning
Outcomes
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
1. Identify, analyze, interpret and reflect on literary texts of different literary genres through
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critical lenses.
2. Think critically about both the intellectual trends and the literary texts altogether.
3. Write insightful, informative, academic essays on literary texts.
Learning and Teaching Strategies
Techniques used to accomplish the course objectives:
1. Lectures are presented interactively; datashow and whiteboard are used,
2. Students are supposed actively attending classes through essay writings, quizzes, group
working, project preparations, and preparing assignments.
3.Through student-centered approaches, students are given the opportunity to share, discuss and
explain their in-depth analyses about theoretical ideologies, and provide their reflections on the
covered topics.
Delivery
Lecture (hr/w)
Lab. (hr/w)
*SSWL (hr/sem)
3/1
Practical (hr/w) 3/1
Tutorial (hr/w)
104
*USSWL (hr/sem)
46
Total workload (hr/sem) 150
*SSWL= Structured Student Workload
*USSWL= Unstructured Student Workload
Course Assessment Mapping (Evaluation)
Task
Two quizzes
Relevant Learning Outcome
Weight (Marks)
10
Each quiz is out of 5
two Diary reflection
One exam
One presentation
Daily activity
16
20
10
4
Total
100%
Each diary is out of 8
Resources
Materials
Required
Texts
Recommen
ded Texts
Text
How to access? / e-link
1. Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Theory
and Practice By Charles Bresler
2. Essays on Literary Theory and Criticism by
Abraham Mathew
3. Michael Ryan’s An Introduction to Criticism:
Literature, Film, Culture.
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Weekly Syllabus
Weeks
Subject(s)
W1
Introduction: What is
literature?
W2
What is literary criticism:
Discussing Epistemology
W3
The Triangle of Author,
Reader, Text
W4
W5
W6
The New Criticism and
Russian Criticism
Reader-response criticism
Structuralism
Midterm Exam
W7
W8
W9
W10
Poststructuralism and deconstruction
Marxist Criticism
Psychoanalytic Criticism
W11
Feminist Criticism
W12
New Historicism
W13
W14
Short Description
Postcolonial criticism
Ecocritical criticism
W15
Revision and teach-back activity
W16
Final exam
Course Policy
Students are required to:
- Prepare prior to the classes
- Attend lectures
- Prepare presentations, take the exams and quizzes
- They need to respect different ideas and opinions expressed by others during the class discussions.
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Guidelines on grading policy
Definition
US Grade
ECTS Grade
Outstanding performance
A
Above average with some
errors
Sound work with notable
C - Good
errors
Fair but with major
D – Satisfactory
shortcomings
Work meets minimum
E – Sufficient
criteria
More work required but
FX - Fail
credit awarded
Considerable amount of
F- Fail
more work required
*Bologna process guideline
B
A – Excellent
90-100% 90-100%
Grade
point
Average
5.0
80-89%
80-89%
4.0
75-79%
70-79%
3.0
70-74%
60-69%
2.0
60-69%
50-59%
1.0
0-49
0.0
US %
B – Very Good
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C+
C
D
IRQ%
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