Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
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2504212 English Studies | OT | 3 | 0 |
2504212 English Studies | OT | 4 | 0 |
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An essential requirement is a C2 level of English in accordance with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, Teaching, Assessment.
A level of English at C2 allows students to understand with ease virtually everything heard or read; to summarise information from distinct spoken and written sources; to reconstruct arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation; and to express themselves spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations.
Students who register for this subject should have passed the obligatory literature subjects of our degree.
The main aim of the subject is to bring up the question “How can we read literature?” to final year students, so that they can answer by considering all the elements acquired during their degree.
However, a further purpose is that of introducing the students to literary theory applied to the critical reading, thus providing advanced critical tools for the analysis and comprehension of literary texts.
The course starts with a revision and analysis of several especially relevant theoretical approaches, their origins, their objectives and drawbacks. At a second stage, three contemporary novels in English will be read, in order to understand how these texts can be read in a constructive way through a better understanding of the theory.
At the end of the course, the students will have acquired practical and efficient skills on how to apply the fundamental literary theory to the analysis and discussion of literature.
1) Structuralism and Post-structuralism
2) Deconstruction
3) Marxism and Formalism
4) Reader-response criticism
5) Psychoanalytic criticism
1 crèdit ECTS = 25 hs teaching x 6 credits = 150 h.
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 | |||
Critical debate | 5 | 0.2 | |
Lectures | 50 | 2 | |
Type: Supervised | |||
Bibliographical research | 10 | 0.4 | |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Individual reading and study | 60 | 2.4 |
All the exercises are COMPULSORY. An exercise not handed in or an exam the student has not taken will count as ‘NP’ (‘no presentat’ or ‘no evidence’), i.e., 0. This means that all activities are compulsory and that submission of the essay (35%) automatically excludes the possibility of obtaining “No avaluable” as a final grade.
Single assessment
Single assessment will consist of the following activities:
A written exam which will include all the theoretical perspectives offered in the course (50 %).
An oral commentary on a chosen text, based on all of the critical perspectives offered in the course. (50 %)
The same re-assessment method as continuous assessment will be used.
IMPORTANT (PLAGIARISM and IRREGULARITIES)
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.
Irregularities refer, for instance, to copying in an exam, copying from sources without indiacting authorship, or a misuse of AI such as presenting work as original that has been generated by an AI tool or programme. These evaluation activities will not be re-assessed.
Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Critical text Commentary | 35 % | 3 | 0.12 | 1, 15, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12 |
Exam | 50% | 2 | 0.08 | 1, 13, 15, 2, 3, 5, 4, 14, 6, 7, 9, 10, 8, 11, 12 |
Participation in in-class debates | 15% | 20 | 0.8 | 1, 13, 15, 2, 3, 5, 4, 14, 6, 7, 9, 10, 8, 11, 12 |
Theory:
Rivkin, Julie & Ryan, Michael, Literary Theory: An Anthology. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell; 2nd Revised edition, 2004.
An anthology from this book will be given to the students via Moodle.
Literary Materials:
Edgar Allan Poe, Poems (1830-49)
Lev Tolstoi, The Death of Ivan Ilich (1886)
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis (1815)
James joyce, Fragments from Ulysses (1922)
No specific software will be used.