School of Humanities Part-Time Programme

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1 Department of English School of Humanities School of Humanities Part-Time Programme Short Courses Reading English Literature Mastering English Literature The Monthly Read Ways Into History Short Courses in Bath Literature for Life: Hidden Lives Fiction Writing Workshop Day Courses European Literature in Translation: Dr Zhivago Bristol s Romantic Connections The Poetry of Thomas Hardy conferences and events English Department

2 Department of English School of Humanities Literature & Creative Writing Part-Time Programme Short Courses and Day Courses Many people start their journey back into education with a part-time course in the English Department at the University of Bristol. There are over 65 students enrolled on our part-time degree in English Literature and Community Engagement, and each year as many as 300 people enrol on our day and short courses. Our students range in age from and our student community crosses all barriers of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, social class and prior educational achievement. The English Department has an international reputation for its scholarship and teaching. Our part-time courses take place during the week, in the evenings and at weekends, in Bristol and in Bath. This ensures that the work we do is accessible to a wide range of people. Courses include Literature for Life and Fiction Writing Workshops, Wednesday afternoon Monthly Reads, and Saturday workshops and study days. For anyone over 18 considering further study, the Reading English Literature evening short course offers the opportunity to progress to an undergraduate degree, and the Mastering English Literature short course offers graduates the opportunity to progress to an MA in English. Whatever your previous experiences or qualifications, we look forward to welcoming you.

3 Short Courses Reading English Literature Amy Laurent Wednesday evenings 6pm - 9pm 15 meetings from January to May 2016 Course Fee 370 This course aims to be an enjoyable and confidence-building experience for anyone over 18 returning to study. It offers the opportunity to progress to an undergraduate degree or other further study. You do not need any previous qualifications to apply, just explain in your personal statement on the application form why you would like to study on the course. Mastering English Literature Stephen Derry Wednesday evenings 6pm - 8pm 10 meetings from January to May 2016 Course Fee 580 This course is designed for graduates in any discipline to sharpen their study skills and gain a taste of the University s expertise in Romantic and Victorian literature, modern and contemporary poetry, and women s writing. Students who wish to progress to an MA in English will be given guidance on the pathways to further study. How to apply Class venue bristol.ac.uk/english/part-time Please follow the link to the application pack. Department of English, 3/5 Woodland Road BS8 1TB

4 Short Courses The Monthly Read: The Thirties... A Dishonest Decade? Stephen Derry An ideal format for readers who can spare a Wednesday afternoon each month between 1.30pm and 4pm. 13 January, 17 February and 16 March 2016 We will explore three novels from the Thirties: Stella Gibbons Cold Comfort Farm, Evelyn Waugh Scoop, Graham Greene Brighton Rock. Course fee Class time Class venue conferences and events English Department 100 per term Wednesdays 1.30pm 4pm Department of English, 3/5 Woodland Road BS8 1TB

5 History Part-Time Programme Ways Into History: A Pathway to Further Study Dr. Richard Stone Short Course Wednesday evenings 6pm - 9pm 15 meetings from January to May 2016 Course Fee 400 Classes held at the English Department, 3/5 Woodland Road BS8 1TB Ways Into History is a short course designed primarily to help mature students progress to a degree in the History department. You do not need any previous qualifications to apply, just explain in your personal statement on the application form why you would like to study on the course. This course will consider the history of slavery, with a particular focus on the role of the city of Bristol in the slave trade. We will compare slavery on the West Indian and American Plantations to other historic slave systems. We will also look at the broader impact of the slave trade, how the slave trade has been remembered and how commemoration has become intertwined with modern day political concerns. Throughout, our aim will be to tackle difficult questions about both the historic realities of slavery and the slave trade, and the ways in which it s been remembered. How to apply bristol.ac.uk/history/part-time Please follow the link to the application pack. If you would like further information please or telephone

6 Short Courses in Bath Literature for Life: Hidden Lives 2 Barbara Grodecka Lewis 19 January to 15 March 2016 Tuesdays 10.30am 12.30pm 115 per term Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, Queen s Square, Bath BA1 2HN How much do we know or understand ourselves and our predicaments? We shall study three very different novels about self-knowledge and selfdetermination: Jane Austen Persuasion (1818), Franz Kafka The Trial (1925), Eudora Welty The Optimist s Daughter (1972). Course Fee Class time Class venue 115 per term Tuesdays 10.30am 12.30pm Bath Royal Literary & Scientific Institution, 16/18 Queen s Square, Bath BA1 2HN Fiction Writing Workshop 3 Rachel Bentham 15 April to 10 June 2016 Fridays 10.30am 12.30pm 115 per term Percy Community Centre, New King Street, Bath BA1 2BN This course aims to inspire, encourage and support students in writing fiction. Through writing exercises and examples from literature, students will be offered help in developing characters and plots, and improving style and structure. Course Fee Class time Class venue 115 per term Fridays 10.30am 12.30pm Percy Community Centre, New King Street, Bath BA1 2BN

7 Day Course Saturday 5 March 2016 European Literature in Translation: From Russia with Lovatt Steven Lovatt Boris Pasternak Doctor Zhivago, translation by Max Hayward and Manya Harari. An introduction to one of the most justly famous works of European literature. Come prepared to share your ideas! conferences and events English Department Course fee 30 Class time pm Saturday 5 March 2016 Class venue Department of English, 3/5 Woodland Road BS8 1TB

8 Day Course Saturday 5 March 2016 Bristol s Romantic Connections Sue Edney This day course celebrates Bristol s Romantic connections in poetry and prose, and in the range of inventive and creative outputs by well-known and less familiar Romantic period Bristolians and their imaginative friends. Bristol bookseller, Joseph Cottle, published Samuel Taylor Coleridge s Poems on Various Subjects (1796) with contributions from Coleridge s two friends Robert Southey, born in Wine Street an unlikely Romantic setting today and Charles Lamb. The Lyrical Ballads, often considered the primary Romantic text, a collaboration between Coleridge and William Wordsworth, was also published anonymously by Cottle in Yet Bristol has a wider, diverse and radical history of connection with the Romantic period in practice and in spirit. Ann Yearsley ( ), the Milkwoman of Bristol, and an outspoken poet against the Bristol slave-trade was, apparently, discovered by Hannah More in a Clifton cowshed. Hannah More herself was also a local girl, born in Fishponds, living in Wrington and finally Clifton; she, too, was a keen abolitionist and a determined advocate for education in the Bristol area. Thomas Chatterton ( ), whose crumbling birthplace near St Mary Redcliffe mirrored the poet s unstable life until very recently, used Bristol as the basis of his interrogation of the London-centric literary establishment. Scandalous Mary Robinson, the celebrated Perdita of the London stage, was born in Bristol in 1757 and felt Chatterton s Bristol influence on her poetry, as did Coleridge. And, down in Hotwells, Humphry Davy gave Coleridge his first experience of laughing gas, which he found amusing. conferences and events English Department Course fee 30 Class time pm Saturday 5 March 2016 Class venue Department of English, 3/5 Woodland Road BS8 1TB

9 Day Course Saturday 5 March 2016 A Man Who Used to Notice Such Things : The Poetry of Thomas Hardy Philip Lyons This day course will explore and celebrate the range of Hardy s poetry. Using Claire Tomalin s selection Poems of Thomas Hardy, we shall consider the themes into which poems are grouped and discuss individual poems in more detail. Please bring a copy of the book with you. conferences and events English Department Course fee 30 Class time pm Saturday 5 March 2016 Class venue Department of English, 3/5 Woodland Road BS8 1TB

10 What do our students think? I have very much enjoyed this course. It has enabled me to read books in more depth. This course motivated me to start writing again. The balance of instruction and writing was just right. The course is excellent. Well planned, detailed, stimulating. The course was challenging, thought provoking and very satisfying. What I have learnt will stay with me and influence my reading of literature from now on. A patient, thought provoking teacher. An inspiring, delightful and intellectually stimulating tutor. The tutor has a gift for respecting the comments of each student and empowering the group. An excellent course of proven standing and beneficial to all those with a love of literature.