Degree | Type | Year |
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2504212 English Studies | OB | 2 |
2504380 English and Catalan Studies | OB | 3 |
2504386 English and Spanish Studies | OB | 3 |
2504393 English and French Studies | OB | 3 |
2504394 English and Classics Studies | OB | 3 |
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Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures, readings and debates | 50 | 2 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Writing academic texts, assessment activities in the classroom | 25 | 1 | 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading and studying | 50 | 2 | 4, 7, 8, 10, 11 |
Sessions will be organized around close reading of the texts. A historical, social and cultural context of nineteenth century America provided in class (or on Moodle) will reinforce the textual analysis. Texts will be discussed in class (or on Moodle), so it is PARAMOUNT for students to have read the texts conscientiously before class sessions. Students are required to PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY in class discussions.
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.
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 | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Class participation and in-class activities | 10% | 17 | 0.68 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11 |
Exam | 45% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 |
In-class essay | 45% | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 |
Assessment is based on:
Exact dates for all assessment activities will be confirmed at the start of the course through a course calendar published on the class Moodle.
Please, note:
SINGLE ASSESSMENT:
REASSESSMENT CONDITIONS:
VERY IMPORTANT : Partial or total plagiarising will immediately result in a FAIL (0) for the plagiarised exercise (first-year students) or the WHOLE subject (second-, third- and fourth-year students).PLAGIARISING consists of copying text from unacknowledged sources -whether this is part of a sentence or a whole text - with theintention of passing it off as the student'sown production. It includes cuttingand pasting from internet sources, presented unmodified in the student's own text. Plagiarising is a SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors' intellectual property, always identifying the sources they may use; they must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own texts.
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.
Compulsory Reading:
HAWTHORNE, Nathaniel. The Scarlet Letter (*) We recommend the following editions: Oxford (ISBN: 9780199537808) or Penguin (ISBN: 9780142437261)
MELVILLE, Herman. "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
THOREAU, Henry David. "Resistance to Civil Government"/"Civil Disobedience"
JACOBS, Harriet. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (*) We recommend the folowing editions: Oxford (ISBN: 9780198709879) or Penguin (ISBN: 9780140437959)
1) Students must buy the texts marked (*). Teachers will give you the rest of texts.
2) ALL texts can be found via Project Gutenberg http://www.gutenberg. org or Many Books http://manybooks.net
Secondary Bibliography:
Crow, Charles (ed.). A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
Fisch, Audrey (ed.). The CambridgeCompanion to the African American Slave Narrative. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Gray, Richard (ed.). A Companionto the Literature and Culture of the American South. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2004.
Lamb, Robert Paul (ed.). A Companion to American Fiction: 1865-1914. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
Pizer, Donald (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to American Realism and Naturalism: Howells to London. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Spengemann, William. Three American Poets: Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and Herman Melville. Notre Dame, IN: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2010.
Sollors, Werner (ed.). A New Literary History of America. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009.
Specific bibliography will be provided by the teacher throughout the semester.
Websites:
American Literature Sites (Washington State University), http://public.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/
American Transcendentalism, http://www.vcu.edu/engweb/transcendentalism/
The American Renaissance and Transcendentalism, PBS, http://www.pbs.org/wnet/ihas/icon/transcend.html
Documenting the American South. Slave Narratives and Southern texts. http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/intro.html
Not applicable.
Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | English | second semester | morning-mixed |
(PAUL) Classroom practices | 2 | English | second semester | morning-mixed |
(PAUL) Classroom practices | 3 | English | first semester | morning-mixed |
(TE) Theory | 1 | English | second semester | morning-mixed |
(TE) Theory | 2 | English | second semester | morning-mixed |
(TE) Theory | 3 | English | first semester | morning-mixed |