| Competències |
| Codi | |
| A1 | Conèixer la llengua anglesa i la literatura en anglès en profunditat |
| A3 | Conèixer la tradició de la crítica literària i l'estat actual |
| A14 | Saber analitzar textos orals i escrits des del punt de vista lingüístic, sociològic i literari |
| A15 | Poder formar-se una opinió crítica sobre un text |
| A16 | Saber expressar una opinió amb claredat i concisió sobre un text oral o escrit |
| B1 | Aprendre a aprendre |
| B3 | Aplicar pensament crític, lògic i creatiu |
| B4 | Treballar de forma autònoma amb iniciativa |
| B5 | Treballar de forma col·laborativa |
| C1 | Dominar l’expressió i la comprensió d'un idioma estranger |
| Objectius d'aprenentatge |
| Objectius | Competències | ||
| * To introduce you to the major literary forms in prose. * To show the relationship between form and content in written works. * To show the similarities and differences in style and theme in the works of a wide range of authors. * To help you develop tools for critical analysis, evaluation, and enjoyment of literature. * To improve your reading and writing skills. | A1 A3 A14 A15 A16 |
B1 B3 B4 B5 |
C1 |
| Continguts |
| Tema | Subtema |
| 1. The Anglo-Saxon period | - Historical background - Old English poetry: the Elegies, Beowulf, etc - Old English prose: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Bede's History. |
| 2. The Medieval period | - Historical background - Medieval Lyrics and Themes - Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales, especially, The General Prologue, The Miller's Tale and The Wife of Bath's Tale. - Medieval Drama: Mystery plays and Morality plays. |
| 3. The Elizabethan period | - Shakespeare's sonnets and drama. - Studying Shakespeare's "Othello" |
| 4. The 17th Century | - Historical background - Metaphysical poetry - Milton's 'Paradise Lost' - Restoration Drama |
| 5. The Enlightenment period | - Enlightenment poetry and satire: Pope's 'Rape of the Lock' and 'Essay on Man', Swift's 'A Modest Proposal'. - The Birth of the Novel: social and aesthetic developments giving rise to this new genre, exemplified by Defoe, Richardson, Fiedling and Sterne. |
| 6. The Romantic period | - Historical background to English Romanticism. - Romantic poetry: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Byron. - Romantic prose: Mary Shelley and Jane Austen. - 'Pride and Prejudice'. |
| Planificació |
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| Competències | (*) Hores a classe | Hores fora de classe | (**) Hores totals | ||||||
| Activitats Introductòries |
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6 | 9 | 15 | |||||
| Seminaris |
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30 | 60 | 90 | |||||
| Presentacions / exposicions |
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6 | 48 | 54 | |||||
| Treballs |
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2 | 60 | 62 | |||||
| Sessió Magistral |
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30 | 45 | 75 | |||||
| Atenció personalitzada |
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2 | 2 | 4 | |||||
| (*) En el cas de docència no presencial, són les hores de treball amb suport vitual del professor. (**) Les dades que apareixen a la taula de planificació són de caràcter orientatiu, considerant l’heterogeneïtat de l’alumnat | |||||||||
| Metodologies |
| Descripció | |
| Activitats Introductòries | The introductory sessions will offer an overview of the coursework and will illustrate the methodology and difficulties involved in studying the early period of literature in English. |
| Seminaris | The seminars will be based on the reading and understanding of texts. It is important that you prepare the texts before they are discussed in class. The seminar will give you the opportunity to raise questions, iron out difficulties and learn. |
| Presentacions / exposicions | Students may be expected to discuss their written work in individual or small group tutorials. |
| Treballs | You will be given a total of 6 written assignments on different texts, through the course, three in each semester. Written work will be structured along lines indicated by the tutor, and ranging from answering reading comprehension question, to a more open critical essay format. |
| Sessió Magistral | The lecture-based classes will focus on close readings and a study of the mechanisms used in the construction of "English" literature. This will constitute the main theoretical input of the course, together with recommended readings, which will be tested 6 times throughout the course, each test corresponding to a part of the course. |
| Atenció personalitzada |
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| Avaluació |
| Descripció | Pes | ||
| Activitats Introductòries | There will be an introductory reading task on an Early English text, which will give students useful practice for future exercises. It will be corrected, but not contribute to the course mark. | 0 | |
| Seminaris | These sessions will provide practice in discussing key texts, which will then be tested in the 6 CA Tests. | 0 | |
| Presentacions / exposicions | You may be called to present or discuss your work with the tutor in a one-to-one interview or together with a small group of classmates. This will amount to a feedback session, intended to improve your results in future activities during the course | 0 | |
| Treballs | During the course, you will be asked to do 6 text commentaries, 3 per semester. Your scores will be averaged. In order to pass the course by Continuous Assessment you must present all 6 text commetaries for evaluation. If you do not you will be obliged to take the Final Exam. | 50% | |
| Sessió Magistral | These sessions will provide a substantial amount of the information to be tested periodically in the 6 Continuous Assessment Tests. | 0 | |
| Altres | There will be 6 CA tests during the course, 3 in each semester. An overall score of 45% of the course grade will be derived from the average these tests. They will test your knowledge on the course contents, as set out in the lectures and seminars, and in indicated further readings in the course materials. |
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In the CA Tests, students must achieve at least a '3.0' (out of 10) in each test in order to pass the course on the basis of CA. In other words, a student who has less than a '3.0' in one of the CA tests will be obliged to take the complete Final Exam. Students must average a 5 or over for the CA work of each semester in order to pass the course on the basis of CA. While the course mark from CA will be taken as an average of the two halves of the course, each half of the course must be passed separately for that overall average to be applicable. Where one part of the course is failed, the student must take the Final Exam. If you do not attend classes regularly and consequently do not complete the Continuous Assessment programme satisfactorily, you will have to take the final exam. The final exam will consist of text commentaries, based on the set texts of the course 50%, and short questions to test your background knowledge of English literary history and the theory related to studies in this field 50%. In cases of results which are borderline, regular attendance (80%+) may be taken into consideration, at the tutors discretion. |
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| Fonts d'informació |
| Bàsica |
William Shakespeare, Othello, New Cambridge Shakespeare, Cambridge Uni Press
Austen, Jane, Pride and Prejudice, World's Classics, 2004, Oxford
Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford history of English literature, , 2004, Oxford, Clarendon
, http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp, , |
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| Complementària |
Rogers, Pat, (ed.), An Outline of English Literature, , Oxford, Oxford UP, 1992
Barnard, Robert, A Short History of English Literature, 2nd, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994
Ford, Boris, et al.,, The New Pelican Guide to English, , London, Penguin, 1984
Various, The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland, , London, Routledge, 1997 |
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