Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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4313157 Advanced English Studies | OT | 0 | 1 |
-Students should be interested in reading classic and modern texts
-Previous knowledge and reading of English and American literature
To understand the deep changes that have affected novels and short stories between the late 19th century and the beginning of 21st century. The course will be focused on one of the greatest themes in Western literature: the links between love and death.
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Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Textual analysis, interpretation, debates. | 50 | 2 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 7, 10 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Tutorials | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 7, 10 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading of primary and secondary sources | 40 | 1.6 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 9, 5, 6, 8, 10 |
Students will be assessed with a series of exercises:
-An essay written in class 20%
-A final paper 30%
-4 short essays with several questions to choose from 40%
-Participation: debates, discussions and oral presentations 10%
On carrying out each assessment activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
Students will obtain a Not assessed/Not submitted course grade unless they have submitted more than 40% of the assessment items.
In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.
In the event that tests or exams cannot be taken onsite, they will be adapted to an online format made available through the UAB’s virtual tools (original weighting will be maintained). Homework, activities and class participation will be carried out through forums, wikis and/or discussion on Teams, etc. Lecturers will ensure that students are able to access these virtual tools, or will offer them feasible alternatives.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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4 short essays | 40% | 15 | 0.6 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10 |
Final paper | 30% | 18 | 0.72 | 1, 2, 3, 9, 5, 6, 8, 10 |
In-class essay | 20% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 3, 9, 8 |
Participation | 10% | 10 | 0.4 | 3, 4, 9, 7 |
This is only a selection of some background bibliography. As the course progresses, students will receive other author/topic-specific bibliography.
FIEDLER, Leslie. Love and Death in the American Novel. New York: Stein and Day, 1975.
GRAY, Richard. A History of American Literature. Malden: Blackwell, 2004.
KALAIDJIAN, Walter. The Cambridge Companion to American Modernism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005.
LAMB, R.P. A Companion to American Fiction 1865-1914. Malden: Blackwell, 2005.
ROUGEMONT, Denis de. Love in the Western World. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1983.
SOLLORS, Werner. A New Literary History of America. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.