Degree | Type | Year |
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English Studies | OB | 3 |
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1.Americans at home:
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947)
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949)
John Cheever, “The Swimmer” (1964)
Louise Glück, selections from The Seven Ages (2001)
2. Love, Loss and Loneliness:
Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (1956)
Sylvia Plath, selections from Ariel (1965) and Winter Trees (1971)
Elizabeth Bishop, selections from Questions of Travel (1965) and Geography III (1976)
Grace Payley, “The Loudest Voice” (1959) and “Faith in the Afternoon” (1960)
Raymond Carver, “Intimacy” (1986)
3. Rewriting History:
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5 (1969)
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)
Louise Erdrich, “Shamengwa” (2002)
Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
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Type: Directed | |||
Lectures, readings and debates | 50 | 2 | 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 |
Type: Supervised | |||
Writing academic texts, assessment activities in the classroom | 25 | 1 | 2, 4, 5, 6 |
Type: Autonomous | |||
Reading and Studying | 50 | 2 | 9, 4, 7, 8 |
Sessions will be organized around close reading of the texts. A historical, social and cultural context of the United States in the period studied 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 | 10 | 17 | 0.68 | 9, 2, 3, 4, 6 |
Essay | 45 | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 9, 4, 5, 7, 8 |
Exam | 45 | 4 | 0.16 | 1, 9, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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.
USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI): This subject entirely prohibits theuse of AI techonologies in all of its activities. Any submitted work that contains content generated using AI will be considered academic dishonesty; the corresponding task will be awarded a zero, without the possibility of reassessment. In cases of greater infringement, more serious action may be taken.
EXAMINATION DATES AND SUBMISSION DEADLINES: Requests to change examination dates or submission deadlines for personal reasons will not be granted unless they are illness related and a doctor's certificate can be provided; Erasmus and exchange students who cannot take an exam or submit an essay for justifiable reasons will need to submit to their teacher(s) written proof of the latter issued by their home university.
1.Americans at home:
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) *
Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949) *
John Cheever, “The Swimmer” (1964)
Louise Glück, selections from The Seven Ages (2001)
2. Love, Loss and Loneliness:
Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café (1951)
James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room (1956) *
Sylvia Plath, selections from Ariel (1965) and Winter Trees (1971)
Elizabeth Bishop, selections from Questions of Travel (1965) and Geography III (1976)
Grace Payley, “The Loudest Voice” (1959) and “Faith in the Afternoon” (1960)
Raymond Carver, “Intimacy” (1986)
3. Rewriting History:
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse 5 (1969) *
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970) *
Louise Erdrich, “Shamengwa” (2002)
IMPORTANT:
Students must buy the texts marked with an asterisc (*). The rest of texts will be provided by the teacher.
Specialized bibliography for each work will be provided during the semester.
Not applicable.
Please note that this information is provisional until 30 November 2025. You can check it through this link. To consult the language you will need to enter the CODE of the subject.
Name | Group | Language | Semester | Turn |
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(PAUL) Classroom practices | 1 | English | second semester | morning-mixed |
(TE) Theory | 1 | English | second semester | morning-mixed |