EH4718 ELIZABETHAN-JACOBEAN THEATRE
FINAL YEAR SEMESTER 2 2015-2016
(Dr Eóin Flannery, Dr John McDonagh)
Students must make themselves familiar with the details of MICL/UL policies about attendance at
lectures and tutorials, submitting written work on the designated date/time, and presenting themselves on
the designated dates/times for all the tests and examinations involved in the assessment procedures for
this course. Similarly, students must know and observe the MIC/UL regulations forbidding copying,
syndication and plagiarism. All students who take this course must be available for all parts of the
assessment procedures as they are timetabled. Essays must be typed and presented in the proper
academic format.
In the case of ‘Open Book’ exams, students MUST have a clean copy of the text, without any notes or
writing whatsoever on those texts. All essays must be referenced as per the department style sheet, the
Harvard Style Sheet, available on the departmental website.
Students seeking “I” grades for undelivered essays/unattended tests, examinations etc. must conform
exactly with the MICL/UL regulations for obtaining “I” Grades. Knowing and implementing these
regulations is the responsibility of each student. All recognized doctors’ and/or bereavement certificates
requesting an “I” Grade for undelivered essays/unattended tests, examinations etc. must be handed in to
the Registrar.
“I”Grades awarded for undelivered essays, unattended tests, examinations etc., and all failing grades,
may be cleared only by the assessment procedures linked to the autumn examinations.
In the autumn examinations, 100% of the marks for the module will be available for repeating students
(i.e. no tutorial mark will be counted). Material that was formerly examined by essay will be examined by
exam questions in the autumn examinations which will have 3 questions and last for 135 minutes.
“I” Grade students will take the above examination, answering whatever section(s) they have “I” Grade(s)
for and being marked out of the same percentage of marks as was originally assigned to the section which
was missed; if the “I” Grade is for an undelivered essay, the same topic will be covered by an exam
question in the autumn examinations.
Plagiarism, or any form of unreferenced copying, will be dealt with by the MIC policy on plagiarism.
Students may be asked to submit an electronic copy of any essay, which will be screened electronically
through ‘Turnitin’, a plagiarism detection system.
Lecturers:
Weeks 1-4 (inclusive): Tuesday January 26th to Thursday February 18th Dr John McDonagh
Weeks 5-12 (inclusive): Tuesday February 23rd to Thursday April 21st Dr Flannery.
Lectures will take place on:
Tuesday
10.00 a.m.
T118
Wednesday
11.00 a.m.
G37
Thursday
12.00 p.m.
T116
[one of these periods will become an “ad usum” period; you will be informed in class.]
Tutorials will begin in Week 3 and continue until Week 12 inclusive. Up to 10% of the final grade will be awarded
for attendance and participation. Tutorial groups/times/locations will be published towards the end of Week 2.
Students must remain in the groups to which they are assigned.
The sections of the module are as follows:
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Section A: Elizabethan Revenge tragedy and Hamlet
Section B: Jacobean Tragedy (King Lear), Elizabethan Comedy (Twelfth Night) and Shakespeare’s
Political Histories (I Henry VI)
Assessment Procedures for EH4718:
(a)
(b)
40% of the final grade will be awarded for an in-class, mid-semester examination (45 minutes) on
Thursday February 18th. Students will be required to answer one question in this examination. This
is not an “open-book” examination.
Essay Section: (Section B and C):
50% of the final grade will be awarded for an in-term essay, which will be set on Thursday April 7th,
during the 11.00 a. m. lecture. Personal attendance is required and the roll may be taken. This
essay, typed in the proper academic format, must be handed in personally at the Arts’ Office (RG1)
before 3.00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 21st. Students must sign the register when handing in the
essay. Students must hand up the original version of the essay and keep a copy. As the essay is part of
the official examination process, it is not returned. Essay must be submitted on time.
Late essays: (a) if submitted within 24 hours of the above deadline, the essay will forfeit one
University grade below the grade awarded the essay by the lecturer; (b) if submitted within 48 hours of
the above deadline, the essay will forfeit two University grades below the grade awarded the essay by
the lecturer. (c) If not submitted within 48 hours of the above deadline, the essay will not be accepted
for grading.
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