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Teaching Romanticism
This survey should be downloaded to your desktop before viewing – to download right click and choose ‘Save Target As’ then save to your PC – however you must have an internet connection active when viewing the presentation to access the hyperlinked response data.
As part of the conference organised in conjunction with the English Subject Centre on ‘Teaching Romanticism’, which took place in London 17–18 March 2006, Romanticists across the UK were asked to fill in a questionnaire about the way that they taught Romanticism in their institution.
Question 1
• Name– Response – not available in this presentation
Question 2
• Email Address– Response – not available in this presentation
Question 3
• Institution name– Response
Question 4
• Are you happy to have any comment you make on this questionnaire attributed to you personally when the results of the questionnaire are published and discussed?– Response – not available in this presentation
Question 5
• Please confirm that a Romanticism module is taught in your institution – Response – not available in this presentation
Question 6
• Title of Romanticism module– Response
Level of Module
9, 11%
44, 55%
23, 28%
5, 6%
Level One (first year undergraduate)
Level Two (second yearundergraduate)
Level Three (third yearundergraduate)
MA Level (taught postgraduate)
Question 7
Approximate number of students
17, 21%
28, 34%
18, 23%
6, 8%
4, 5%
7, 9%
1–20
20–50
50–100
100–150
150–200
200+
Question 8
How is the module taught?
58, 36%
68, 41%
27, 17%
10, 6%
Lectures
Seminars
Tutorials
Other (please specify)
Question 9
Is the module team taught?
0
37
41
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5
10
15
20
25
30
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40
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Is the module team taught? No Yes (please give details of team teaching)
Question 10
Is it compulsory for students to take this module
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10
20
30
40
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60
70
1 2 3 4
Yes
No
Question 11
• Do you expect your students to have completed any other module before they begin this one? (i.e. are there any pre-requisites?)– Response
I think it is inappropriate for teaching to be influenced by an individual’s research.
Further Comments
3, 5%
6, 9%
56, 86%
Strongly agree
Agree
Strongly Disagree
Question 36
I think it is impractical for teaching to be
influenced by an individual’s research.
Further Comments
0, 0%
11, 19%
48, 81%
Strongly agree
Agree
Strongly Disagree
Question 37
I regard my research as too specialised/difficult for
it to play a role in my teaching
Further Comments
1, 2%
10, 17%
49, 81%
Strongly agree
Agree
Strongly Disagree
Question 38
Students expect their tutor’s research to
feature in the module they are taught.
Further Comments
4, 7%
33, 55%
23, 38%
Strongly agree
Agree
Strongly Disagree
Question 39
Do you use any electronic resources in your
teaching?
Other (please specify)
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19
13
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28
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8
21
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0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
Corvey Project
Eighteenth-Century Collections Online(ECCO)
Project Gutenberg
Romantic Circles
NINES
Romanticism on the Net
Chadwyck Healey Literature Online (LION)
Times Digital Archive
Literature Compass
Author websites
Other (please specify)
Question 40
If you use author websites in your teaching,
which ones do you use
Other (please specify)
26
6
14
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
Blake Archive
Wordsworth Variorum Archive
Other (please specify)
Question 41
On this module do you teach any literature
from: Scotland
Yes (please specify)
33
37
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
No Yes (please specify)
Question 42
On this module do you teach any literature from: Ireland
Yes (please specify)
48
21
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
No Yes (please specify)
Question 43
On this module do you teach any literature from: Wales
Yes (please specify)
59
10
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
No Yes (please specify)
Question 44
On this module do you teach any literature from: United States
Yes (please specify)
62
7
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
No Yes (please specify)
Question 45
On this module do you teach any literature from: Mainland Europe
Yes (please specify)
52
17
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
No Yes (please specify)
Question 46
On this module do you teach any literature from: anywhere else other than England.
Yes (please specify)
41
25
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
80
90
100
No Yes (please specify)
Question 47
Do you think that you cover the following themes/ideas in your module?
34
39
39
51
60
48
61
63
62
45
64
58
37
61
38
31
20
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Orientalism
Slavery
Empire
The Gothic
The Sublime
The Enlightenment
The Imagination
Romanticism (as a concept)
Gender
Sexuality
Nature
The Self
Education
Revolution
War
Environment
Other (please specify)
Other (please Specify)
Question 48
Does you module extend beyond the period usually defined as Romantic (i.e. before1770 after 1830)
35
0
1
14
14
1
5
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
No
Into the sixteenth century
Into the seventeenth century?
Into the eighteenth century?
nto the nineteenth century?
Into the twentieth century?
Other (please specify)
Other (please specify)
Question 49
Would you consider your module to be
interdisciplinary.
38
32
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
No Yes (please specify)
Question 50
• Is there anything about your module that you think is particularly noteworthy / unusual / new that you would like to tell us about?– Responses
Question 51
Are there any particular ways in which you feel the module could be improved, recognising that improvement may be beyond your means or control?
15
49
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
No Yes (please specify)
Yes (please specify)
Question 52
How is the module assessed? (You may tick as many
boxes as apply.)
60
7
17
20
53
1
17
1210
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
70
By essay -Notwritten under
exam conditions
By essay -Written under
exam conditions
By exam Unseen exam Seen or pre-released exam
Open bookexam
Dissertation Oralpresentation
Oralcontributions in
class
By other means(please specify)
By other means (please specify)
Question 53
• If you offer an undergraduate dissertation module in your department, could you estimate what percentage of students taking the dissertation choose to write on literature of the Romantic period?– Response was an average of around 9%
Question 54
• Do you have any PhD students writing on Romantic topics? If so, approximately how many?– Approx total of 63 PhD students identified
writing on Romantic topics nationally
Question 55
• If you are happy to send a list of the lecture or seminar topics covered on the module, or any other information about it, this can be pasted into this text box. – Response not available
Question 56
• If you have any further comments that you would like to add on the subjects covered by this questionnaire, please add them here