Module assessment brief

Choosing a topic for your essay is an important prt of your module learning. Early planning is vital and will help you pace your work throughout the year. You should discuss your ideas for an essay topic thoroughly with your tutor well in advance of the deadline.

Your essay should address the learning outcomes for the module:

• Articulate an informed perspective on the concept of the Anthropocene in its ecological, political and literary-cultural aspects.
• Refine a sense of the theoretical, methodological and interpretive stakes of reading world literature within the context of the Anthropocene.
• Develop a focused understanding of the literary challenges in responding to such topics as climate change, environmental despoliation, species extinction and media ecology.
• Adapt the theoretical debates surrounding the Anthropocene to further research in a variety of subfields.

Essays should be 6,000 words. Marks will be deducted for essays that exceed the word-length plus or minus 10%.

In marking, examiners will reward cogency of argument, the use of appropriate material, stylistic excellence and good presentation. Candidates must also satisfy examiners that they have carried out the work required by the module and met the learning outcomes.

You are advised to write your essays using MLA conventions; if you choose another style format, please make sure you are consistent within the essay submitted.

All essays and dissertations must have a Bibliography or Works Cited. There should also be correct and full referencing of sources as in-text citation, as footnotes or as endnotes.