Type A
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Code |
Competences Specific | | A5 |
Dominar la llengua anglesa des d’un punt de vista teòric i pràctic i expressar-s’hi oralment i per escrit de manera fluida i precisa. |
| A6 |
Analitzar les obres més rellevants de la literatura en llengua anglesa en els seus diversos entorns culturals. |
Type B
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Code |
Competences Transversal |
Type C
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Code |
Competences Nuclear |
Type A
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
| A5 |
Mostra un maneig de la llengua anglesa (de forma oral i/o escrita) en contextos diversos a un nivell superior.
| | A6 |
Adquireix la capacitat d’establir la relació entre forma i contingut a les obres d’autors en llengua anglesa.
Analitza i comenta textos literaris de forma oral i/o escrita.
Coneix els principals moviments literaris i la seva inserció en els diversos contextos culturals i històrics.
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Type B
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
Type C
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
Topic |
Sub-topic |
The Nature of Theatre |
Drama and theatre
Text and performance
Elements of a play |
Introduction to English Drama |
Medieval Drama
Renaissance and Restauration
Modern English Drama
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Twentieth Ceentury English Drama |
Realism and Humour
Commedy of Manners and Social Content
J. P. P Priestley, An Inspector Calls
Realism and Absurd
H. Pinter, The Birthday Party |
Introduction to American Drama |
Early Tweentieth-Century Drama
Realism and lyricism
Tennessee Willimas, A Street Car Named Desire.
From Modernism to Postmodernism
Edward Albee, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Ethnic Theatre
Race, gender and society
Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun |
Methodologies :: Tests |
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Competences |
(*) Class hours
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Hours outside the classroom
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(**) Total hours |
Introductory activities |
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1 |
1 |
2 |
Problem solving, classroom exercises |
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26 |
53 |
79 |
Lecture |
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29 |
20 |
49 |
Assignments |
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1 |
6 |
7 |
Seminars |
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1 |
6 |
7 |
Personal tuition |
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2 |
4 |
6 |
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(*) 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
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Description |
Introductory activities |
A session at least will be devoted to explain the aim of the course, objectives, methodology, etc. |
Problem solving, classroom exercises |
To focus on specific topics and how to develop them. |
Lecture |
To provide general and specific information. |
Assignments |
To narrow down topics and write about them. |
Seminars |
To focus on subtopics and how to present them. |
Personal tuition |
Personal meeting at my office in order to clarify academic points. |
Description |
There will be office hours. Students should take benefit of them in order to ask questions, querries, discuss details of the syllabus and content of the course. |
Methodologies |
Competences
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Description |
Weight |
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Problem solving, classroom exercises |
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Exercises to be written in class |
60% |
Assignments |
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Assignments |
30% |
Others |
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Class attendance and participation |
10% |
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Other comments and second exam session |
The students who do not reach the 50% of the above-mentioned requirements will have a scheduled second chance, as well as those who have not opted to go through the continuos assessment (for further details see the course syllabus). This second chance will be the same for all students ( both those who failed the continuous assessment and those who opted for the final class exercise), and will consist in a final class exercisel of 20 questions (100%). These questions will be based on the units included in the syllabus (short definitions of concepts, identifications of names, titles, characters, short contextualizations of excertps from the texts analyzed ...). |
Basic |
Montgomery, Martin et alia , Ways of Reading , 2000, Routledge
Oscar Wilde , The Importance of Being Earnest, 2000, Penguin
Harold Pinter, The Birthday Party, 2000, Methuen
Tennessee Williams, A Street Car Named Desire, 2000, Penguin
Lorraine Hansberyy, A Raisin in The Sun, 2012, A Signet Book
David Lane, Contemporary British Drama, 2010, Edinburgh University Press
Kenneth Pickering, Studying Modern Drama, Second Edition, Palgrave MacMillan
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Edward Albee, Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf, 2010, Penguin Books
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Complementary |
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Subjects that continue the syllabus |
INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH LITERATURE/12274121 |
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(*)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. |
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