Lighthouse Academy's Advance Diploma in Literature is a conduit both for transmission of the University’s knowledge and research on the one hand and for enabling members of the public to access higher education courses, whether for personal interest or professional development, on the other. In these ways, it contributes significantly to the University’s public engagement and widening participation commitments. Professional Diploma for those who are interested in Literature. 2 semesters with a dissertation at the end of the diploma Two options to study, either online or on the campus. Literature of different ages is to be highlighted. Theoretical and practical sessions. Many lecturers are to be responsible for teaching this diploma. For more info, visit us on: http://www.lighthouseacademy.org/English%20literature%20Diploma%20ELD.html

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Lighthouse Academy
English Studies School
Course Description of Diploma in Literature
DiLit
Academic Year 2018-2019

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First Semester
Course Code Course Title Notes
DiLit001 Introduction to English literature
DiLit002 Introduction to Critical Theory
DiLit003 Introduction to Philosophy
DiLit004 Application of Critical Theory
DiLit005 Comparative Literature
DiLit006 Literature in the Puritan Era
Second Semester
Course Code Course Title Notes
DiLit007 Literature in the Renaissance Age
DiLit008 Shakespeare
DiLit009 Arnold Bennett (Novel)
DiLit0010 Literature in the Romantic Era
DiLit0011 American literature
DiLit0012 Methodology of Scientific Research
(MSR)

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Course Description:
- DiLit001: Introduction to English literature
English Literature: A Very Short Introduction considers such diverse topics as
the birth of the novel, the brilliance of English comedy, the deep Englishness
of landscape poetry, and the ethnic diversity of Britain's Nobel literature
laureates. English literature is known for its major literary movements such as
Romanticism and Modernism, and influential authors including Chaucer,
Donne, Johnson, Wordsworth, Austen, Dickens, and Woolf. The study of
English literature brings up fascinating questions. Why does literature matter?
How does narrative work? What is distinctly English about English literature?
How do literary texts change as they are transmitted from writer to reader?
Course curriculum:
- English Literature: A Very Short Introduction by Jonathan Bate
- DiLit002: Introduction to Critical Theory
This course traces the development of the major theoretical frameworks,
from classical Greek theories of mimesis to the present day concerns of
ecocriticism and postcolonialism, which are used to analyse texts within the
discipline of English literary studies. Apart from giving a comprehensive
overview of the salient features that inform each school of literary theory, the
course also connects these theoretical frameworks to the social, political, and
cultural contexts that underline them. It is hoped that this course will enable
the students to have a firm understanding of the various eclectic concepts
that inform the field of literary theory and also to engage with literature more
critically..
Course curriculum:
- Introduction to critical theory by David Held

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- DiLit003: Introduction to Philosophy
In a scholarly sense, philosophy is the study of the history of human thought.
It requires familiarity with great ideas understood through the various major
thinkers in world history. In its most general sense, philosophy is simply the
investigation of life's “big questions.”
Course curriculum:
- Philosophy: A Very Short Introduction by Edward Craig
- Postmodernism by Christopher Butler
- DiLit004: Application of Critical Theory
You will study in this course modern literary, psychoanalytical, and political
theories as well as theories of visual and aesthetic experience.
Course curriculum:
- Critical Literacy Practice: Applications of Critical Theory in Diverse
Settings by Yoon, Bogum, Sharif, Rukhsar
- DiLit005:Comparative Literature
Comparative literature course is going to be dealing with the study of
literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, and disciplinary
boundaries..
Course curriculum:
- Introducing Comparative Literature: New Trends and Applications by
Cesar Dominguez, Darío Villanueva, and Haun Saussy
- A Companion to Comparative Literature by Ali Behdad (Editor), Dominic
Thomas

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- DiLit006: Literature in the Puritan Era
believed in Calvin's predestination Genre and Style The main Genre of the
Puritan literary movement was religious. The main form of writing during this
time period were either sermons or letters. ... Puritan & Colonial Period
Authors William Bradford Came over on the Mayflower in 1620 as a
Separatist.
Course curriculum:
- American Enlightenments: Pursuing Happiness in the Age of Reason
(The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by
Caroline Winterer
- DiLit007: Literature in the Renaissance Age
The period focused on self-actualization and one's ability to accept what is
going on in one's life. The earliest Renaissance literature appeared in Italy in
the 14th century; Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Ariosto are notable examples of
Italian Renaissance writers.
Course curriculum:
- Lost Paradise by John Milton
- DiLit008: Shakespeare
William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely
regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's
pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the
"Bard of Avon".
Course curriculum:
- Many books and plays

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- DiLit009: Arnold Bennett (Novel)
Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English writer. He is best known as a novelist,
but he also worked in other fields such as the theatre, journalism, propaganda
and films.
Course curriculum:
- The Old Wives' Tale
- Anna of the Five Towns
- Hilda Lessways
- DiLit0010: Literature in the Romantic Era
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary,
musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end
of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate
period from 1800 to 1850.
Course curriculum:
- Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
- DiLit0011: American literature
This course studies the national literature of the United States since the early
19th century. It considers a range of texts - including, novels, essays, and
poetry - and their efforts to define the notion of American identity. Readings
usually include works by such authors as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David
Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, and Toni Morrison..
Course curriculum:
- Books for:
- Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Emily
Dickinson, and Toni Morrison.

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- DiLit0012: Methodology of Scientific Research (MSR)
Imre Lakatos' philosophical and scientific papers are published here in two
volumes. Volume I brings together his very influential but scattered papers on
the philosophy of the physical sciences, and includes one important
unpublished essay on the effect of Newton's scientific achievement. Volume II
presents his work on the philosophy of mathematics (much of it unpublished),
together with some critical essays on contemporary philosophers of science
and some famous polemical writings on political and educational issues. Imre
Lakatos had an influence out of all proportion to the length of his
philosophical career. This collection exhibits and confirms the originality,
range and the essential unity of his work. It demonstrates too the force and
spirit he brought to every issue with which he engaged, from his most abstract
mathematical work to his passionate 'Letter to the director of the LSE'.
Lakatos' ideas are now the focus of widespread and increasing interest, and
these volumes should make possible for the first time their study as a whole
and their proper assessment. .
Course curriculum:
- The Methodology of Scientific Research Programmes: Volume 1:
Philosophical Papers (Philosophical Papers Volume I) by Imre Lakatos
(Author), John Worrall (Editor), Gregory Currie (Editor)