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 | | CT4 |
Work autonomously and as part of a team with responsibility and initiative. |
Type C
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Code |
Competences Nuclear |
Type A
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
| A5 |
Elabora un discurs oral i/o escrit concís i coherent a fi de comunicar els resultats del treball realitzat a un nivell intermedi-alt.
| | 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.
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Type B
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
| CT4 |
Identify the role they play in the group and understand the group’s objectives and tasks.
Communicate and act within the group in such a way that they facilitate cohesion and performance.
Commit to the group’s tasks and agenda.
Participate in the group in a good working environment and help to solve problems.
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Type C
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
Topic |
Sub-topic |
Ways of Reading, Ways of Looking & Ways of Obtaining Knowledge.
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(1) identify characteristics of literary genres
(2) recognize and understand critical and literary terms
(3) develop methods and strategies for analysing and interpreting texts
(4) demonstrate a command of these methods and strategies in written work.
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FICTION: The Short Story & Novel (extracts) |
Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia Woolf, Alasdair Gray, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, George Orwell, among others. |
The Reading Process: how to negotiate meaning. |
Author / Text / Reader
Male/Female author.
The Text.
Male/Female reader. |
PROSE & FICTION. |
Sigmund Freud: "The Uncanny", Martin Luther King: "I Have a Dream", Ossie Davis, among others. |
POETRY |
Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, e.e. cummings, Benjamin Zephaniah, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Ishmael Reed, John Updike, among others.
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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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2 |
2 |
4 |
Seminars |
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25 |
59 |
84 |
Presentations / oral communications |
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15 |
25 |
40 |
Personal attention |
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2 |
0 |
2 |
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Multiple-choice objective tests |
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10 |
2 |
12 |
Extended-answer tests |
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6 |
2 |
8 |
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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 |
What does TEXT mean and how does it mean? Learning how to read and analyse a text. The author / the Text / the reader.
Form & Function. |
Seminars |
The seminars will consist of active in-class analyses of texts. |
Presentations / oral communications |
Students will be asked to form a group (3 or 4 students per group). Each group will then choose a subject for their Oral Presentation. The topic will then be discussed in a tutorial with me. After the Oral Presentation, each group member has to write an essay and hand it in on the following week. Precise instructions will be set out in Moodle. |
Personal attention |
My office hours will be posted on Moodle but I would prefer you to contact me at least the day before to arrange for a meeting. You can do this by e-mail or office phone: 977.559527
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Description |
I am usually in my office every morning and many afternoons. Please contact me by e-mail before you come and see me, if possible. |
Methodologies |
Competences
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Description |
Weight |
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Seminars |
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TWO CLASS ESSAYS: During the course you will be asked to write 2 essays in class. |
50% |
Presentations / oral communications |
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ORAL PRESENTATION: This consists of a group presentation. Assessment will be based on Content, Structure, Delivery and Fluency. Please look at Moodle for full instructions on how to do your Oral Presentation.
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20% |
Multiple-choice objective tests |
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TESTS: There will be three theoretical tests throughout the semester. The tests will assess how much you have understood and learned from the topics discussed and analysed in class. |
30% |
Others |
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PLEASE NOTE THAT EVIDENCE OF PLAGIARISM WILL MEAN THAT YOUR WORK WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED. |
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Other comments and second exam session |
- If students pass all the course work ( with more than 5/10) and attend classes regularly, they will not have to take the Final Exam in January (${1}iSegona Convocatòria${1}i).
- For the Continuous Assessment, it is compulsory to complete the 3 parts of the course evaluation (3 tests, 2 essays, 1 oral presentation).
- If students have a grade less than 3/10 in one of the tests or essays, they will have to take the Final Exam in January.
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Basic |
, Course contents on Moodle, ,
Martin Montgomery et al, Ways of Reading, Fourth edition, 2007
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It is very important that you have a copy of the textbook Ways of Reading (4th Edition!). *Ways of Reading(Fourth Edition). You will need it, not only for Anàlisi de Textos I but also for Anàlisi de Textos II, both of which are compulsory subjects in Semesters One and Two. In the first semester, we shall be studying the main points in Sections 1-3, although we shall also be looking at other theories which are important for this module. *Moodle Many of the classes will be given as seminars, some as lectures. Power Point presentations on various topics will be uploaded on Moodle, also website addresses where you can access interesting and relevant information.
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Complementary |
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Subjects that continue the syllabus |
ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTS II/12274120 |
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Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously |
COMMUNICATION SKILLS: READING AND WRITING I/12274109 |
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Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before |
LITERATURE AND SOCIETY/12274009 | ENGLISH I/12274002 | LITERATURE/12274001 | ENGLISH II/12274003 |
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Other comments |
It is very important that you read in English and listen to films in English. The URV stock many books in English, not only in the English Studies section but also in other disciplines, such as Anthropology, Media Studies, History and so on. |
(*)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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