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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. |
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Type B
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Code |
Competences Transversal | | | CT3 |
Solve problems critically, creatively and innovatively in their field. |
| | CT4 |
Work autonomously and as part of a team with responsibility and initiative. |
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Type C
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Code |
Competences Nuclear |
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Type A
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
| | A5 |
Desenvolupa la capacitat d’expressió oral i/o escrita per a satisfer les necessitats que vagin més enllà de l’ús purament instrumental de la llengua anglesa a un nivell avançat.
| | | A6 |
Coneix els aspectes principals de la narrativa 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 |
| | CT3 |
Identify the situation as a problem in the field and be sufficiently motivated to face up to it.
Follow a systematic method to divide a problem into parts, identify the causes and apply the knowledge specific to the discipline.
Design a new solution by using all the resources necessary to cope with the problem.
Include the details of the proposed solution in a realistic model.
Reflect on the model proposed, find shortcomings and suggest improvements.
| | | 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 |
| 1. Reading Prose Fiction |
The novel vs The short story. |
| 2. Studying prose fiction; significant features |
Character, Narration, Language, Reader response. |
| 3. Narrative strategies |
a. Aspects of 19th century realism
b. Modernist fiction and 'Stream of Consciousness'
c. Postmodern fiction |
| Set reading: |
A Short Story: (to be announced)
Jeffrey Eugenides: The Marriage Plot
Jonathan Coe: Middle England
Julian Barnes: England, England |
Suggested reading for individual study and presentation.
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(Full list of possible titles to be provided at the beginning of the course) |
| 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 |
4 |
6 |
| Practical cases/ case studies in the classroom |
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33 |
58 |
91 |
| Scientific and/or communication events |
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15 |
10 |
25 |
| Assignments |
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3 |
3 |
6 |
| Presentations / oral communications |
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1 |
3 |
4 |
| Personal attention |
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2 |
4 |
6 |
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| Mixed tests |
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4 |
8 |
12 |
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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 |
Explanation of the course syllabus and procedure. Students’ assessment |
| Practical cases/ case studies in the classroom |
Seminar sessions for the analysis and discussion of the novels and short stories in the set reading list. Students will have read the texts beforehand, according to the course calendar, and to the guidelines suggested by the teacher. |
| Scientific and/or communication events |
The main concepts of fiction, and recurrent themes through the 19th and 20th centuries will be presented in class, or on-line, and then exemplified through specified texts, which the students are expected to have read beforehand. |
| Assignments |
Students will be asked to write written commentaries on three or four specified texts. These commentaries will be prepared at home, and either uploaded to Moodle, or written in response to specific questions in class. These maybe be written as group responses to set questions, and specific projects.
Knowledge of set texts may be tested also through oral discussion and short tests. |
| Presentations / oral communications |
Discussions and short presentations of set texts or parts of them may be ascribed to small groups. Depending on the number of students in class, and whether it is finally possible to do these classes in face to face format, this activity may be carried out in smaller or larger groups. The result of the individual /group work will be presented in class, before the whole group, or with just the teacher, forming part of the evaluation process. |
| Personal attention |
Students may consult the teacher in person on through an online connection about any aspect of the course, at a time agreed by email or in person. |
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Description |
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Due to the current emergency health situation, in the 2020-21 academic year students will be able to consult their teachers in individual and/or group tutorials if they have any questions or queries on subject-related issues. Students will receive a schedule for these tutorials at the start of the course and be informed what form they will take (i.e. whether they will be held face-to-face, online, via email or on Moodle, etc.). Each student will be given personal attention in the form of individual tutorials. The aim of these tutorials is to help students who may have doubts or difficulties in following the course. All students will be encouraged to visit their teacher whenever they have any doubts concerning the course. |
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Methodologies |
Competences
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Description |
Weight |
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| Practical cases/ case studies in the classroom |
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Seminar sessions: analysis and discussion of the fictional works studied.
Participation in discussion and bringing notes |
10% |
| Assignments |
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There will be at least three Assignments (Tasks) on commentaries and anlysis of specified texts, to be discussed in class in seminar form. Some of these tasks will be uploaded to Moodle. |
35% |
| Presentations / oral communications |
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The presentation in small groups of a novel or short story, or a project relate to the course content. |
25% |
| Mixed tests |
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Three short examinations which test knowledge and understanding of the concepts presented in class, and their practical application to extracts from texts already studied in class |
30% |
| Others |
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Other comments and second exam session |
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This teaching guide is provisional only. If any health emergency arises it will be adapted in order to comply with the directives issued by the competent bodies. Any modification will be announced via the news forum on the Moodle online campus. Students who do not attend classes regularly and consequently do not fulfil the requirements of the Continuous Assessment programme will have to take the final exam. The Final Exam will consist of: short questions related to types of narrative 20% questions to test understanding of concepts and related to the course contents 20% two essays on two or all three of the set texts. 30% + 30% Plagiarism: Any piece of work which contains an insert of a sentence or more from another person's work, or a piece of published work, that is not duly recognized by appropriate bibliographic referencing as coming from another source other than the student, will be considered to have plagiarized. The work in which this offence is committed will be evaluated with a '0'. A repetition of this offence will mean automatic failure of the Continuous Assessment, no matter what the student's score is in the Continuous Assessment at that moment. They will have to present themselves in the Final Exam. |
| Basic |
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Most of the reading material will be be provided via Moodle. However, the students are expected to buy their own copies of the following books: (please note the recommended editions, underlined below. You are strongly advised to buy the specified edition) set text: The Marriage Plot: Jeffrey Eugenides. Macmillan USA ( 2012) or eBook set text: Middle England: Jonathan Coe (2019) or eBook set text: England, England: Julian Barnes Vintage; 01 edition (2008). or eBook Other books for consultation: Sholmith Rimmon-Kenan, Narrative Fiction: Contemporary Poetics. New Accents, Roultedge (2nd edition, 2002) (some parts)
Mark Currie, About time. Narrative, Fiction and the Philosophy of Time. Edinburgh Univ Press, ed 2012 The following are good resources on the subject of narrative and narrative theory. They are available in the library for consultation: Atkins, G., Walsh, C., Watkins, S. (eds) (1995) Studying Literature. A Practical
Introduction, Hemel Hempsted: Harvester Wheatsheaf Eagleton, T. Literary Theory. An
Intrduction Minneapolis
: University of Minnesota Press, 1996 82"19".09
Eag Selden, Raman. Practising theory and reading literature : an introduction, New York [etc.]: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989. N1-7-15 |
| Complementary |
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| Other comments |
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Regular attendance in class is recommended.
There is a possibility of a Collaborative On Line International Learning (COIL) activity with a partner university from another country in the latter part of the course. If this happens, it will largely involve group work, and will cover the study of Julian Barnes' novel. At the moment, it depends on the health situation in the two countries and how they affect university classes in terms of attendance in the respective countries. It will be confirmed, as far as it can be, at the start of the course. |
(*)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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