IDENTIFYING DATA 2013_14
Subject (*) NORTH-AMERICAN LITERATURE Code 12274216
Study programme
Graduate in English Studies
 Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
6 Optional First
Language
Anglès
Department English and German Studies
Coordinator
STYLE ., JOHN GLENMORE
 E-mail pere.gallardo@urv.cat
john.style@urv.cat
Lecturers
GALLARDO TORRANO, PEDRO
STYLE ., JOHN GLENMORE
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General description and relevant information This course will provide an overall review of American litarature from the beginnings to the present. In order to do so a selection of voices and traditions will be considered in an attempt to familiarize students with the major authors and trends of the literature of the United States.

Competences
Type A Code Competences Specific
 A12 Conèixer la varietat lingüística, literària i cultural anglòfona.
Type B Code Competences Transversal
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

Learning outcomes
Type A Code Learning outcomes
 A12 Adquireix la capacitat d'establir la relació entre forma i contingut en les obres de nombrosos autors en llengua anglesa
Type B Code Learning outcomes
Type C Code Learning outcomes

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Native American oral tradition
Anne Bradstreet
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
St. John de Crèvecoeur
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Washington Irving
J. Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar A. Poe
Harried Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglass
Henry D. Thoreau
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Emily dickinson
Mark Twain
Ambrose Bierce
Henry James
Kate Chopin
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Stephen Crane
Willa Cather
Jack London
Zitkala Sa
Snherwood Anderson
Eugene O'Neill
Zora Neale Hurston
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Richard Wright
Eudora Welty
Tennessee Williams
Ralph Ellison
Saul Bellow
Carson McCullers
Ray Bradbury
Flannery O'Connor
Ursula LeGuin
Toni Morrison
Thomas Pynchon
Rudolfo anaya
Maxine Hong Kingston
Gloria Anzaldúa
Alica Walker
Paul Auster
Amy Tan
Sandra Cisneros

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
 Hours outside the classroom
 (**) Total hours
Introductory activities
4 4 8
Presentations / expositions
A12
 55 50 105
Personal tuition
4 2 6
 
Objective short-answer tests
A12
 4 12 16
Extended-answer tests
A12
 2 6 8
Mixed tests
A12
 2 6 8
 
(*) On e-learning, hours of virtual attendance of the teacher.
(**) The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies
Methodologies
  Description
Introductory activities Students will be introduced to the particular ideosincratic nature of American literature at the beginning of the course.
Presentations / expositions In the course of each session students will be introduced to one author and some fragments of one of most representative works by him/her.
Personal tuition Students are welcome to use my visiting hours to come individually or in groups and discuss any relevant aspects of the course.

Personalized attention
Description
Students are encouraged to stop by the instructor´s office. They should always feel free to ask questions about the topics discussed in class.

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Extended-answer tests
A12
 Students will write an in-class essay on one novel they will have read on their own. 25%
Objective short-answer tests
A12
 Students will take two tests of this sort where they will have to recognize either works, authors or both. 30% each (30*2=60%)
Mixed tests
A12
 Students will produce--at least--one individual class presentation following the model determined by the teacher 15%
Others  
 
Other comments and second exam session

Students who do not pass the subject will have a second chance at the "Segona convocatòria". The length, nature and contents of that test will be announced at the beginning of the course.

Sources of information

Basic

Students will have access to the class readings through Moodle. Students will be able to download the novel they have to read on their own at www.gutenberg.org

 

 
Complementary

Recommendations


 
Other comments
Students are encouraged to come to class with their readings done. Regular class attendance is a requirement and class participation is highly recommended.
(*)The teaching guide is the document in which the URV publishes the information about all its courses. It is a public document and cannot be modified. Only in exceptional cases can it be revised by the competent agent or duly revised so that it is in line with current legislation.