Welcome to the English Literature Degree Program at Royal Holloway

2. Welcome!

3. Outline of today’s session • Welcomeby Head of Department: Professor Tim Armstrong. • Introduction to the degree: Academic Co-ordinator, Dr Roy Booth and First Year Tutor, Dr Agnes Woolley.

4. 3. Broadening your horizons English Literature Society: Zara Gillick Writing Society: Christos Dexiades Introduction to SU: Daniel Curran The Library: Rachel Sleeman Careers: Ed McLean

5. 4. Supporting your studies The Foundation Programme: Deputy Head of Department: Professor Judith Hawley. ‘Things I wish I had known in my first year …’ Exit poll

6. Introduction to the degree: Academic Co-ordinator, Dr Roy Booth and First Year Tutor, Dr Agnes Woolley.

7. Departmental Registration tomorrow: in the pack all students will get: • Highlighted timetable and seminar lists • Details of who their personal tutors are and where their offices are. • Campus map • A ‘Declaration of Academic Integrity’ form. • FAQ sheet • Photo release form • A novel (ahead of Dr Doug Cowie’s book reading).

8. https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/informationforcurrentstudents/undergraduate/home.aspxhttps://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/informationforcurrentstudents/undergraduate/home.aspx Undergraduate Handbook 2016-17 will be here, under the ‘Course Information’ tab.

9. https://moodle.royalholloway.ac.uk/ ‘Moodle’ is Royal Holloway’s Virtual Learning Environment. Some of you may have prior experience of it, or its rival VLE, ‘Blackboard’. Once you are an enrolled student, when you open ‘Moodle’, it will then offer you (left hand pane) ‘My courses’.

10. You will access Moodle using your College User number and password

11. You should check Moodle at least twice a week for each of your courses: Moodle will have resources, links to articles, reading requirements ahead of seminars, etc.

12. The text books you will need • There’s a ‘Book Exchange’ scheduled for this Friday. You may get lucky with first year set texts, though people tend to hand on to their Norton Shakespeare. • These are not cheap books, but being very commonly used across the UK HE system, have excellent resale value (if you can ever bear to part…)

13. Order Norton books directly from http://www.wwnorton.co.uk/ enter the code WN394 and you will get a discount.

14. EN1101 ‘Thinking as a Critic’ You are expected to have read this; a teaching pack will also be distributed. (Please note that the e-book version of Professor Eaglestone’s book is designed for the North American university system)

15. For the Spring term

16. EN1107: Re-orienting the Novel Tutors: Professor Judith Hawley, Dr James Smith and Dr Agnes Woolley This is a full course-unit, running over terms 1 and 2. All Single Honours and Joint Honours students take this course. The course introduces students to the origins, developments and innovations of the novel form through a range of contemporary, eighteenth- and nineteenth- century novels. The course will provide a grounding in literary history and allow students to make formal and thematic connections between texts and their varying socio-cultural contexts. Set texts are listed on Moodle and on the Department Webpage: click through from Information for Current Students.

17. EN 1106 Shakespeare full unit Tutors: Dr Deana Rankin and Dr Harry Newman. A full unit, running in term 1, for Single Honours first year students. (Many Joint Honours students take this course in their second year.) You will need to have a copy of Shakespeare's complete works. We recommend that you buy The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt.

18. EN1101 Thinking as a Critic Course Leader: ProfessorRobert Eaglestone This is a half course-unit, running during term 1. Concepts include questions about interpretation, periodization, form, genre, canon, value, intention, narrative, voice, framing and identity.

19. SPRING TERM EN1010 Medieval Literature Tutors: Dr Jennifer Neville, Dr Catherine Nall, and Dr Alastair Bennett This is a full course-unit, taught over one term, in Term 2 Provides students with elementary knowledge of the cultural, linguistic and literary contexts of Old and Middle English literature, examines representative works from the rich variety of verse, prose and drama of the period. The books you need to buy are listed on the Department Webpage: click through from Information for Current Students.

20. OTHER DEGREES (JOINT HONOURS) ENGLISH AND FILM STUDIES – Programme Director: Dr Christie Carson (Dr Roy Booth, Autumn Term Deputy) The Joint Honours degree in English and Film Studies has an English syllabus based on the same principles as the Single Honours English degree, insofar as this is possible with half as many course units. EN1106 Shakespeare EN1107 Re-Orienting the Novel

21. ENGLISH AND HISTORY – Programme Director: Dr Betty Jay (Dr Roy Booth, Autumn Term Deputy) The Joint Honours degree in English and History has an English syllabus based on the same principles as the Single Honours English degree, insofar as this is possible with half as many course units. EN1001 Introduction to Medieval Literature (whole unit Spring Semester) EN1106 Shakespeare (Autumn semester)

22. English-Drama Year 1 • EN1107 Re-Orienting the Novel (full unit) • EN1101 Thinking as a Critic (half unit) • EN1112 Introduction to English Poetry (half unit)

23. https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/informationforcurrentstudents/undergraduate/home.aspxhttps://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/informationforcurrentstudents/undergraduate/home.aspx The separate online handbook for English-Drama students

24. ENGLISH/CREATIVE WRITING Creative Writing Students will take BOTH of the following courses: CW1010: Introduction to Creative Writing (Fiction, Playwriting, Poetry) CW1020: Why Write? The History and Theory of Creative Writing • Each of these courses is one unit in value, and will take the form of seminars/workshops.  For information on these two courses please see the specific Programme Information for 2015-16. English Students will take the following courses: EN1107: Reorienting the Novel FULL UNIT: BOTH TERMS EN1112: Introduction English Poetry HALF UNIT: SPRING TERM EN1011: Thinking as a Critic HALF UNIT: AUTUMN TERM

25. ENGLISH ANDCLASSICS/PHILOSOPHY/LANGUAGES/MUSIC/ COMPARATIVE LITERATURE AND CULTURE Programme Director: Dr Betty Jay (Dr Roy Booth, Autumn Term Deputy) The Joint Honours degree in English has an English syllabus based on the same principles as the Single Honours English degree, insofar as this is possible with half as many course units. • EN1107 Re-orienting the Novel • EN1011 Thinking as a Critic (half unit Autumn Semester) • EN1112 Introducing English Poetry (half unit Spring Semester)

26. ENGLISH WITH PHILOSOPHY – Programme Director: Dr Betty Jay (Dr Roy Booth, Autumn Term Deputy) This English Major Degree with a Minor in Philosophy has an English syllabus based on the same principles as the Single Honours English degree. You are required to follow the first-year courses in Introduction to Medieval Literature, Thinking as a Critic, Introducing English Poetry and Reorienting the Novel. These courses are compulsory core courses for the first year of this pathway. Alongside these courses you will also take a unit in Philosophy to the value of 30 credits. • EN1001 Introduction to Medieval Literature (whole unit Spring Semester) • EN1011 Thinking as a Critic (half unit Autumn Semester) • EN1107 Re-orienting the Novel • EN1112 Introducing English Poetry (half unit Spring Semester)

27. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATUREProgramme Director: Professor Tim Armstrong Stage one: Students must take the following mandatory courses: • EN1401 (1 unit) Introducing America, 1600-1900 (1 unit) • EN1106 Shakespeare (1 unit) • EN1107 Re-orienting the Novel (1 unit) • EN1112 Introduction to Poetry (0.5 unit) • EN1011 Thinking as a Critic (0.5 unit)

28. https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/informationforcurrentstudents/undergraduate/home.aspxhttps://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/informationforcurrentstudents/undergraduate/home.aspx The student handbook is too lengthy for the department to distribute in hard copies. The following slides are just meant to give you some idea of what it contains.

29. Undergraduate Handbook • Section 2 is ‘Communication’, including 2.1 e-mails, 2.2 student pigeonholes and 2.5 Personal advisers • Section 3 is ‘Teaching’, including 3.3 ‘Attending classes and engaging with your studies’; and 3.3.4 ‘Missing classes’. • Section 4 is ‘Degree Structure’. • Section 6 is ‘Coursework essays and dissertation’; including 6.8 ‘Referencing and Footnotes’; 6.12, ‘Marking Criteria’.

30. Section 7 is ‘Assessment Information’, including 7.1 ‘Illness or other extenuating Circumstances’; 7.3 ‘Extensions to deadlines’; 7.4 ‘Penalties for late submission of work’; and 7.6 ‘Penalties for over-length work’. • Section 8 is ‘Student Support’.

31. From 2., ‘Communication’ • Departmental e-mails will be sent only to your RHUL e-mail address. You will not get e-mails from us to gmail, hotmail or other any private e-mail addresses.

32. To ensure that our messages to you get through without being ambushed and diverted into ‘Clutter’, you will be getting this sheet of instructions telling you how to turn ‘Clutter’ off!

33. From 7., ‘SS1000 Writing Skills’ This test is part of everybody’s degree Year 1 Arts and Social Science Faculty Writing Quiz (SS1000) This quiz is zero-weighted but is compulsory for progression to the next year of study. The quiz is delivered through on RHUL’s electronic teaching platform, Moodle. It will open early in the autumn term (date to be confirmed) and will run until early in the summer term. You may take the test as often as you wish until you pass – the quiz consists of 25 randomly generated questions out of a pool of over 150by the end of the academic year: • You must have achieved a pass mark of 60% or more on this quiz in order to be eligible to progress to your second year of study. • If you achieve a mark of 80% or more, you will be awarded a certificate of distinction. More information on the test, and its role as a teaching tool, can be found on the MOODLE Writing Skills (SS1000) webpage.

34. From 6.7 • With some exceptions, your essays (many of the formative ones and most of the assessed), will be marked using the ‘Grademark’ facility on ‘Turnitin’. • It is IMPERATIVE that the work you upload has your candidate number at the top of the document.

35. Among your Moodle resources should be one on ‘Turnitin’

37. file:///C:/Users/User/Downloads/TurnitinStudentGuide2016.pdf

38. Late work Section (13) (4) In the absence of acceptable extenuating cause, late submission of work will be penalised as follows: for work submitted up to 24 hours late, the mark will be reduced by ten percentage marks;* forwork submitted more than 24 hours late, the mark will be zero. • *eg. an awarded mark of 65% would be reduced to 55% and a mark of 42% would be reduced to 32%.

39. You get penalised for submitting over-length work too. Section 13 (5) Work which exceeds the upper word limit set will be penalised as follows: • for work which exceeds the upper word limit by up to 10%, the mark will be reduced by ten percent of the mark initially awarded; • for work which exceeds the upper word limit by more than 10% but less than 20% ,the mark will be reduced by twenty percent of the mark initially awarded; • for work which exceeds the upper word limit by more than 20%, the mark will be reduced by thirty percent of the mark initially awarded.

40. 3. Broadening your horizons English Literature Society: Zara Gillick Writing Society: Christos Dexiades Introduction to SU: Daniel Curran The Library: Rachel Sleeman Careers: Ed McLean

41. The Foundation Programme • Foundation Studies • Academic Skills Resources • Pastoral Support • Your Future All the information can be found on the English Department Home Page: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/english/foundationprogramme/home.aspx

42. ‘Things I wish I had known in my first year …’