Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2500245 English Studies | OT | 3 | 0 |
2500245 English Studies | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501801 Catalan and Spanish | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501801 Catalan and Spanish | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501902 English and Catalan | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501902 English and Catalan | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501907 English and Classics | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501907 English and Classics | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501910 English and Spanish | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501910 English and Spanish | OT | 4 | 0 |
2501913 English and French | OT | 3 | 0 |
2501913 English and French | OT | 4 | 0 |
Prerequisites:
This subject does not require prior knowledge of German language. The works will be read in Catalan or Spanish translation, and will be discussed in these languages. Eventually the originals will be compared with the translations in order to comment on specific aspects.
Objectives:
Learning objectives: the course aims to offer, through six authors, an approach to one of the most brilliant periods of the German expression literature, starting from the repercussions of the First World War and continuing its evolution during the interwar period.
We will comment authors from different German-speaking territories and focus on the diversity of aesthetic and ideological approaches that we find in their literary proposals: Ödön von Horváth, F. Kafka, B. Brecht, A. Seghers, J. Roth and Rilke.
The analysis will include the comparison with the other Western literatures of the same period.
Contents:
The course is a review of the main trends, authors and works of German literature of the interwar period. The works will be read in Catalan or Spanish translation.
The seminar will be based on the commentary and analysis of the following books (eventually a dossier with copies of short texts will be used)
1- Franz Kafka: In the Penal Colony
2- Joseh Roth: Flight without End
3- Rilke: Poetic anthology
4- Ödön von Horváth: A child of our time
5- Bertolt Brecht: The good person of Sezuan
6- Anna Seghres: The Dead Girl's Class Trip
Methodology:
The subject will be based on reading, searching for information, commenting and exchanging opinions.
The students will assume different roles in the seminar, which we will distribute throughout the course: present biographical information about an author and the context of creation of a work, the analysis of a text, a secondary source; the comment of a passage, etc.
At the end of a reading a comment scheme will be proposed: each student will have to present two comments throughout the course.
A paper will be elaborated about one of the readings proposed in the course.
The structure of the course will be more of a seminar than a master class.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Classes of analysis and interpreation of texts in the group | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 4, 13, 12, 8, 7 |
Elaboration of comments and critical essays. Paper | 15 | 0.6 | 13, 8, 11, 14, 5 |
Master classes with active student participation and collective discussion | 30 | 1.2 | 1, 5 |
Presentations in groups or individuals | 13 | 0.52 | 13 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Support tutorials | 15 | 0.6 | 13 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading books and secondary bibliography | 15 | 0.6 | 4, 7 |
Use of Campus Virtual and Internet | 10 | 0.4 |
Evaluation:
Attendance to he sessions is obligatory.
The evaluation of the course will result from the mark obtained in each of the reading comments (30%); of the paper on one of the books (40%) and of the presentation and participation in class (30%).
The reading comments and papers, personal and individual, and related to the results of the analysis in class will be presented 10 days after the end of the discussion in class. The teachers will give the pertinent indications in each case.
If after the deadline for the delivery of the works, a comment is pending submission, it will be necessary to make the recovery through a comment on the day set for the recovery of the subject at the end of the semester.
Recovey: the presentation, the paper on one of the books and the comments are recoverable, as long as the student does not have any of those tasks as not presented. Only 30% of the subject can be recovered.
Students will obtain a Not assessed/Not submitted course grade unless they have submitted all the assessment items.
In the event that evaluative activities 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.
Score review process
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.
PLAGIARISM
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.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Papers written at home | 70% | 20 | 0.8 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 13, 12, 6, 9, 10, 8, 7, 11, 14, 5 |
Presentation in class | 30% | 2 | 0.08 | 2, 1, 3, 4, 13, 12, 6, 9, 10, 8, 7, 11, 14, 5 |
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Ferran Gallego, De Múnich a Auschwitz. Una historia del nazismo, 1919-1945., ed. Plaza Janés, Barcelona, 2001.
Mª Isabel Hernández, Manuel Maldonado Alemán, Literatura alemana: época y movimientos desde los orígenes hasta nuestros días, Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 2003.
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