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Week
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Topics
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Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques
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Study Materials
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1. Week
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Social and Political Background: Industrial/competitive capitalism, ‘laissez faire’ economics, Ideas of expansionism (Boer War, Aborigins in Australia)
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Lecture
Six Hats Thinking
Brain Based Learning
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Seminar
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2. Week
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The Poetry of T. Hardy
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Homework Seminar
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3. Week
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Philosophies to reconcile the Reason and emotions/Utilitarianism and Humanism, Suffragate Movement; ideas of individualism and free thinking, etc.
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Seminar
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4. Week
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The idea of the Novelist as a social and intellectual worker whose task is to draw attention to social, economic, and political problems. The war of intellects
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Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Seminar
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5. Week
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Function and nature of the Novel between the polemical writers and such modernists as H. James, E. Pound, D.H.Lawrence, J. Joyce who called themselves the ‘Spiritualists’
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Homework Seminar
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6. Week
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H.G. Wells: The impact of Darwinism (C.Darwin, T. Huxley) on Wells’s ideas about the future of the ‘homo sapiens’, the concept of the Collective Mind, the Mind of the Race
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Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Seminar
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7. Week
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Science as an agent of salvation, fears of the misuse of Science, the concept of ‘homo sapiens’ as being composed of the Palæolithic Savage and the Civilised Man, the glorification of the Overman versus the Common Man, etc. (scientific fantasy, Utopia, social comedy)
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Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Seminar
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8. Week
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T.S. Eliot – “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Homework Seminar
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9. Week
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J. Galsworthy: a deep concern for the externals of life, a questioning of the attitudes and the values of the moneyed classes and the ethical problems arising from social issues. The Forsyte Saga sequence
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Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Speech Loop
Brain Based Learning
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Homework Seminar
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10. Week
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The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
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Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Homework Seminar
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11. Week
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Resentment for God being increasingly pushed into the background; a longing for the idyllic England of the Middle Ages; A way of thinking which is rather Aristotelian, scholastic, and Roman Catholic; a paradoxical treatment of the subject matter. Satirical fantasy (anti-utopia) . The Napoleon of Notting Hill, The Man who was Thursday
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Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Seminar
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12. Week
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E.M. Forster: rejecting over-commitment to science. Fear of Man as a slave to the Machine: critique of the disregard for mysticism in the human mind: disillusionment with the presentation of Jesus only as a social and spiritual illuminator and not as a religious character, belief in the need and possibility of free and creative intellectual activity; emphasis on intellectual energy, artistic sensibility, moral insight, love of freedom, and the need for personal relationships
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Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Homework Seminar
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13. Week
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A study of the differences of opinion among the writers who wrote to reform the outside world
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Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Seminar
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14. Week
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A study of the modernist elements in the works of the polemical writers who were refused to be regarded as Novelists (Artists) by the modernist writers.
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Lecture; Question Answer
Brainstorming; Opinion Pool; Large Group Discussion
Brain Based Learning
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Homework Seminar
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