Life Scripting (CMII0127)

Key information

Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Teaching department: Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry
Credit value: 15

Restrictions: Not available to Affiliate Exchange Students
Timetable

Alternative credit options

There are no alternative credit options available for this module.

Description

This course will analyse the notion and development of lifescripting in a variety of historical contexts. The term is used to indicate a field of study that overlaps with and comprehends a variety of fields including biography, hagiography, sacred biography, historical life-writing (including the biography of 鈥榞reat men鈥� and hero-worship), literary biography, autobiography, ghost-writing, fake biography and ordinary people鈥檚 lives. Necessarily selective, this course will focus on some of the most notable examples and samples of these various 鈥榞enres鈥� over time. It will take a chronological approach, and assess and analyse the main characteristics of biography over an extended period of time, beginning with biography in the Ancient World and concluding with ordinary people鈥檚 lives in the contemporary era.

Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year

Intended teaching term: Term 2 听听听 Postgraduate (FHEQ Level 7)

Teaching and assessment

Mode of study: In person
Methods of assessment: 100% Coursework
Mark scheme: Numeric Marks

Other information

Number of students on module in previous year: 20
Module leader: Professor Steve Hart
Who to contact for more information: stephen.malcolm.hart@ucl.ac.uk

Last updated

This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.

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