WeIcome to Exeter University

CoIIege of Humanities
Department of EngIish
Professor Philip Schwyzer
Head of Department
P. A. Schwyzer@ex.ac.uk
W Professor !hiIip Schwyzer: Head of Department of English
W JuIia Davey: Senior Administrator, English
W Dr Jo GiII: Director of Education
W Dr Jo Harris: First Year Tutor
W Dr James Lyons: Student Support Officer
W RacheI WheeIer: College Employability Officer and
Dr !auI Young: Employability Tutor
W Imogen Sanders: Staff Student Liaison Committee (SSLC) Rep.
W EngIish Society: Representatives
hat our Students Say
9
th
/102 this year for teaching quality.
ulia Davey
Senior Administrator
Queens Room 221
j.l.davey@ex.ac.uk
Dr o Gill
Director of Education
Queens Room 205
j.r.gill@ex.ac.uk
Reading EngIish
What to Expect
Pace
Challenge
Variety
Seeing the familiar from an unfamiliar viewpoint,
and vice versa
nterdisciplinarity
Range of teaching and assessment methods
Quality of staff and programme
Opportunity to get involved . . .
Your ModuIes
Term 1
BEGINNINGS: 1 x 1 hour lecture; 1 x 2 hour seminar*
A!!ROACHES TO CRITICISM: 1 x 1 hour lecture
p/w; 1 x 2 hour seminar per fortnight
CRITICAL !RACTICE: 1 x 1 hour lecture per
fortnight; 1 x 2 hour seminar per week
* Combined Honours take "Beginnings only in Term 1
Term 2
THE !OEM: 1 x 1 hour lecture; 1 x 1 hour seminar;
on-line tutorials
And one option from:
FiIm Studies: 1 x 1 hour lecture per fortnight; 1 x
weekly 1 hour seminar; screenings
Creative Writing: 1 x 1 hour lecture per fortnight; 1 x
weekly 1 hour workshop
Shakespeare: 1 x 1 hour lecture per fortnight; 1 x
weekly 1 hour seminar
The NoveI: 1 x 1 hour lecture per fortnight; 1 x
weekly 1 hour seminar
Teaching and Learning
Lectures
Seminars / orkshops
Study Groups
ndependent Study
Tutorials (Office Hours)
Independent Study
For each timetabled hour, we expect you to
do another 3 - 4 hours of independent study
(reading, research, writing, tutorials).
The more you put in, the more you'll get out!
CIass !articipation
W Come prepared with questions and ideas for discussion.
Try to say at least one thing in seminars and study groups.
W f you are having trouble finding your voice speak to your
academic or personal tutor
W Don't think you are invisible in class tutors will notice if
you are not working on your class participation
W f you don't understand something, ask.
W f you understand something, try explaining it clearly to
your peers.
Attendance
W Attend aII scheduled seminars, lectures, study groups,
skills workshops, film screenings
W Ask permission in writing if you need to be absent during
term (including assessment periods)
W f you are unable to attend a seminar, inform your tutor by
email or phone, before or immediately after the seminar
W Tell your personal tutor if you think you need further
institutional or departmental support
W See the College Handbook for more info (via the ebsite
and ntranet)
Resources
Yourself
Your peers
Your tutors
Library and Electronic Library
ELE
Visiting Speakers / Research Seminars
riting Centre / Royal Literary Fellows /
Study Skills
Assessment
VARETY: Coursework, Essays, Reports, Literature Reviews,
Bibliographical Exercises, Close Readings, Screen Analyses,
Assessed Presentations, Exams . . .
ASSESSMENT CRTERA: READ the assessment criteria in
the English Handbook available via the ebsite and
ntranet.
CHECK the aims and outcomes listed on each Module
Description available via the ebsite and ntranet.
These tell you what we are looking for when we assess work.
DeadIines
Assessment deadlines are released at the beginning
of term. The assessment timetable is available via
the intranet. Check essay release, submission and
return dates carefully.
Notice when you have deadlines close to each other.
Plan ahead! Think about library resources, research,
writing, checking, printing and submission time.
Deadlines are final extensions can usually only be
approved by the College Office. Check the College
Handbook for details.
Feedback
e will always give you detailed written
feedback on your assessed work. Please
read this with care. You are invited to
discuss this feedback with your academic
tutor during their Office Hours so that you
can understand which areas you might
develop for the next piece of work.
Coming up . . .
Team Skills . . .
Student Support . . .
Employability . . .
Getting nvolved . . .
Dr ohanna Harris
First Year Tutor
j.i.harris@ex.ac.uk
What is "Team SkiIIs"?
hat you are doing later this week.
W A set of tasks that you complete with a group between
ednesday and Friday.
WThis group will become your 'Study Group' in the Beginnings
module during your first term.
W An introduction to the campus and to the city
WYour first piece of work: a portfolio of material to be produced by
this Friday, then presented in your first Beginnings seminar.
REMEMBER: Come along, as timetabled, this ednesday, where
you will meet your group and be given your tasks for Team Skills.
Remember to bring your University D card (for the library).
Other activities for
EngIish students.
The Exeter Award
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/exeteraward/index.html
Exeter English Care Homes Reading Project
'Meet Your Professor'
W Get to know a member of the department, their
research, and their life as an academic.
W Complete your group task by the end of eek 3.
!ASS) Scheme
!eer-Assisted Study Sessions
W Everyone taking the Approaches to Criticism
module will be assigned to a Study Group.
W For this module you will be joined by a 2
nd
or
3
rd
year undergraduate mentor, who will help
to guide and support your discussion in this
module, and to answer questions about
academic life at Exeter and within the
Department of English.
W You will be contacted in the coming weeks by
your mentor, to arrange a regular time that suits
your study group and your mentor to meet.
Dr ames Lyons
Student Support Tutor
james.lyons@ex.ac.uk
Rachel heeler, College Employability
Advisor and Dr Paul Young
English Employability Tutor
r.l.wheeler@ex.ac.uk
p.young@ex.ac.uk
EmpIoyabiIity
College Employability Officer Rachel heeler
27 September 2011
Don't Panic!
Designated Careers
Consultants:
Mark Armitage, Gill Neville and
Rachel Coombes
Academic Employability
Representative:
Dr Paul Young
here do start?
Register on the Exeter Award
www.exeter.ac.uk/exeteraward
W oin societies or clubs www.exeterguild.org
W Register with The orks for part-time work
www.studentjobsexeter.com
W Attend skills sessions, training activities and
employer talks
More nformation
Employability and Graduate Development:
www.exeter.ac.uk/employability
Employability section of the College intranet:
http://intranet.exeter.ac.uk/humanities
Community
- nternal
- External
Opportunity
- 1
st
Year Rep.
- Reading Project
(Exeter Award)
Contact us on:
Mark Gibbs mpg206ex.ac.uk
Charlie GriIIin crg208ex.ac.uk
Academic
- Revision
- Theatre
Social
- Balls
- Tickets
Good Luck!
We hope you will have a great time with us; that you will enjoy
the teaching and learning, and that you will feel able to
contribute in other ways too.
The first few weeks may seem a little strange to many of you.
Please do use your personal tutor to talk through any concerns
you may have. You can also see the Student Support Tutor. For
admin queries, please go and see Julia (Queens 221); for
queries about your modules, go and see your academic tutor or
the module convenor. For bigger queries, suggestions, etc come
and see me (drop-in Monday afternoons / Queens 205) or by
appointment.
REMEMBER!
Meeting with your personal tutor this afternoon (Queens
Building: 2.45, 3.15 or 3.45)
CH English and Film: Bill Douglas Centre tour (4.30
today)
Team Skills tomorrow (Queens Building) at the time
indicated on your timetable
ntroductory Lecture for Beginnings, Approaches and
Critical Practice (here on Thurs at 9am)
Library Talk (here on Thurs at 10am)
Mon 3
rd
October. Teaching starts (see personal
timetable)