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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 | | | B1 |
Learning to learn |
| | B5 |
Teamwork, collaboration and sharing of responsibility |
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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 |
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 |
| | B1 |
Learn by asking questions and take an interest in clearing up doubts.
| | | B5 |
Help to define, organize and distribute the group’s tasks.
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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. |
Edgar Allen Poe, Virginia Woolf, Alasdair Gray, Margaret Atwood, Angela Carter, Irvine Welsh, James Kelman, James Thurber. |
| The Reading Process: how to negotiate meaning. |
Author / Text / Reader
Male/Female author.
The Text.
Male/Female reader. |
| PROSE |
Sigmund Freud, George Orwell, Ossie Davis, Martin Luther King. |
| POETRY |
Emily Dickinson, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Dorothy Parker, Sylvia Plath, e.e. cummings, Benjamin Zephaniah, Marlene Nourbese Philip, Ishmael Reed, Philip Larkin, John Updike.
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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 |
0 |
2 |
| Seminars |
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30 |
80 |
110 |
| Lecture |
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13 |
0 |
13 |
| Presentations / expositions |
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8 |
6 |
14 |
| Personal tuition |
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2 |
0 |
2 |
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| Objective multiple-choice tests |
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3 |
2 |
5 |
| Extended-answer tests |
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2 |
2 |
4 |
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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. |
| Lecture |
Lectures will be based on introducing tools and strategies which will help you to analyse texts with confidence. |
| Presentations / expositions |
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 tuition |
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 |
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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. |
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Methodologies |
Competences
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Description |
Weight |
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| Seminars |
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At the end of the course you will be given an ESSAY TOPIC which you can study for at home. This will be for the "Final Class Essay" which you will write in class - but without notes. Further instructions are given on Moodle. It is very important that you check Moodle regularly. |
30% |
| Presentations / expositions |
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Group Oral Presentation. You will be assessed individually, not as a group. Assessment will be based on Content, Structure, Delivery and Fluency. (20%)
WrittenSummary of the Group Presentation. This will also be assessed at an individual level. (20%) |
20% |
| Objective multiple-choice tests |
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TESTS: There will be three "10-question 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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WRITTEN SUMMARY of the whole group's oral presentation: Each group member will write a summary of the Oral Presentation. This will also be assessed at an individual level. Please follow instructions in the course Dossier on how to write this summary. |
20% |
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Other comments and second exam session |
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For students who attend classes regularly but fail the continuous assessment: If the sum of all your grades does not add up to 50%, you will have to take the resit exam which will consist of a 20 question test (20 marks) + 4 short essay questions (80 marks). The date of the exam will be registered on Moodle. Regular attendance means not missing more than 5 classes. Students who do not attend classes regularly will be asked to do the following: - A 20-question test based on the texts discussed in class, that is all the texts in your dossier and those on Moodle. (20 marks)
- You will have to take part in one of the regular oral presentations and write the summary (See Moodle for instructions). The class presentation will take place on the date agreed by your group. (40 marks)
- You will be required to write a final essay in the exam. The subject of the essay will be based on the material studied throughout the course. (40 marks)
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| Basic |
, "Dossier": Anthology of texts available from the Photocopying Room, ,
, 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. *Dossier The dossier contains all the reading texts we will be analysing throughout the course. Fiction, poetry and prose. You can obtain a copy of the Dossier in the Photocopying Room in September. The texts chosen have been selected because they are especially open to different theoretical frameworks. *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.
*Films: During the course, we shall also see one or two films which will be analysed through theories of "Ways of Looking": the gaze of the camera, landscape, genderscape, language. |
| 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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| Other comments |
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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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