Understanding Narrative

Overview

Framework:
Access to HE
Level:
Level 3
Unit No:
Not available
Credits:
3
Guided learning hours:
Not available

Qualification Grading Type

Graded

Grade Descriptors

  • GD1-Understanding the subject
  • GD2-Application of knowledge
  • GD5-Communication and presentation
  • GD7-Quality

Unit Learning Outcomes

1.

Understand the concept of plot.

Assessment Criteria

  • 1.1
    Analyse the significance of plot for a narrative.
2.

Understand a variety of narrative strategies, including narrative viewpoint.

Assessment Criteria

  • 2.1

    Analyse the use of narrative strategies, including narrative viewpoint.

3.

Understand the nature of characterisation.

Assessment Criteria

  • 3.1
    Analyse the main characters in a narrative showing how characterisation is achieved.
4.

Understand the use of setting in a narrative.

Assessment Criteria

  • 4.1
    Analyse setting in relation to a narrative.
5.

Understand the way language has been used in a narrative.

Assessment Criteria

  • 5.1
    Analyse a narrative investigating the writer's key stylistic features of language.
6.

Understand the historical and cultural contexts of the narrative.

Assessment Criteria

  • 6.1
    Explain the significance of historical and cultural contexts of a narrative.
7.

Understand a range of alternative interpretations of/approaches to narrative.

Assessment Criteria

  • 7.1
    Analyse the meaning of narrative bearing in mind alternative interpretations and approaches.