IDENTIFYING DATA 2019_20
Subject (*) ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTS II Code 12274120
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009)
Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
6 Compulsory Second
Language
Anglès
Department English and German Studies
Coordinator
STYLE , JOHN GLENMORE
E-mail liz.russell@urv.cat
john.style@urv.cat
marnilynne.manegre@urv.cat
Lecturers
RUSSELL BROWN, ELISABETH
STYLE , JOHN GLENMORE
MANEGRE , MARNI LYNNE
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General description and relevant information This course is designed to develop the critical reading skills for successful completion of optional literature courses in the English degree course. It will suggest a way of approaching literary and other texts in a methodical manner. It will concentrate on drama as a literary genre. It will also make reference to film as "texts" for comparative purposes

Competences
Type A 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 Code Competences Transversal
 CT4 Work autonomously and as part of a team with responsibility and initiative.
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

Learning outcomes
Type A 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 Coneix les principals tècniques literàries de diverses expressions de la literatura en llengua anglesa.
Analitza i comenta textos literaris de forma oral i/o escrita.
Type B 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.
Type C Code Learning outcomes

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Poetic form Rhyme and sound patterning
Verse, metre and rhythm
Parallelism
Deviation

Texts: selection de poems
Narrative Narrative
Narrative point of view
Speech and Narration
Narrative Realism

Text: "Daisy Miller" by Henry James
The Nature of Theatre & the Script The play
Seeing a play
Reading a play
Plot
Character
Characterization
Thought
Diction
Music
Spectacle

Text: "Educating Rita" by Willie Russell
Film Film and Narration
Film amd Drama
Visual Image, Verbal Signs, Sounds and Music.

Text: "Citizen Kane", directed by Orson Welles

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
Hours outside the classroom
(**) Total hours
Introductory activities
2 2 4
Lecture
A5
A6
26 20 46
Seminars
A5
A6
30 40 70
Assignments
A5
A6
1 24 25
Personal attention
1 4 5
 
 
(*) 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 Preliminary discussion will outline the contents and methodology of the class, and will ascertain the students' level of previous knowledge of the subject, through discussion and exercises.
Lecture Lectures will cover the topics in each subsection of the prescribed text, "Ways of Reading", and will form the theoretical input of the course. A final section will cover basic film theory, which is not covered in the set text.
Seminars Seminars (practical classes) will encourage group discussion of the specified text, and will allow students to practice the analysis of example texts, along the theoretical lines proposed in the theory classes. In order to participate fully, students must come to the seminars already familiar with the text under consideration. Texts to be discussed will be announced in the Course Timetable (available on Moodle)
Assignments Students will be asked to present written assignments, which may be required to be written in class, on a specific day, or at home. Each assignment will be about a specific texts, or part thereof, and will allow the student to show their ability to apply the theory presented in the lecture to the practical analysis of texts.
Personal attention Students will be required to come to the tutor's office at specified times in order to receive personalized feedback on their assignments and course work in general.

Personalized attention
Description
You are welcome to contact the tutors via email at any moment during the course, about any issue arising from the course. Tutors will also be available during their office hours for consultation without appointment. As part of the course, students will be ascribed individual times for interviews, at which they will receive feedback on their work and progress in general.

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Assignments
A5
A6
An assignment will consist of a 600-word analysis of a short text, specified by the tutors. The analysis, which, at least in the early stages of the course, will follow clear guidelines, will allow students to apply the relevant theory to a text. In later stages of the course, the structure will be more guided, rather than specific. An acceptable level of language accuracy is a prerequisite for an assignment to be evaluated. By "acceptable level" is meant the complete absence of simple errors belonging to the categories listed on a document that will be made available on the first day of class. Students will have only one opportunity to rectify language errors in an assignment in the course. Students will write these assignments, at home. 70%
Others  

Students will take two tests on the Theory component of the course. These will consist of short questions on the range of theory on poetry, narrative, drama and film expounded in class. Each test will be a maximum of one hour, and each test will be 15% of the overall course score for Continuous Assessment

30%
 
Other comments and second exam session

1. In the WAs, students must present work appropriately formatted, with correct quotation and reference, and a properly presented Bibliography. When a Style Sheet document is provided on Moodle stipulating the correct forms these elements must take, failure to comply with these stipulations will result in a WA not being evaluated.

2. Basic language errors are to be avoided at all times in students' writing. The categories of what are considered Basic Language Errors are set out in a document on Moodle. In a WA, if a student makes three or more errors from these categories, marks will be deducted, 1 point for every three basic errors. For work written in class, the PRs, marks will not be deducted for language errors. However, in both in the WAs and PRs students must provide correction and appropriate linguistic explanations for all their errors in each piece of work. These must be submitted to the teacher within a week after the work has been returned. If a student is not in class to collect their work, it is their responsibility to collect their work from the teacher's office, during office hours or by agreement. If the language errors are not corrected by the student, to a level which implies the student fully understands the error that has been made, by the end of the teaching period, then the piece of work, WA or PR, will NOT be evaluated.

3. Any instance of plagiarism, copying a text or ANY PART OF A TEXT from another source without proper reference or citation, so that effectively the work of another person is presented as the student's own, or as any part of it, will result in the piece of work in which the instance occurs being evaluated as a '0'. This will lead to failure of the Continuous Assessment component of the course. The use of translation software or other language apps, or language assistance from another person, to produce a text which is above the student's 'natural' level (as demonstrated when they write in class with no possible assistance) is considered cheating, and will also result in a paper which has received this extra, artificial help during its preparation being evaluated as a '0'.

4. Students must submit ALL the WAs and PRs and do the two Tests in order to be eligible for a mark in the Continuous Assessment (CA) system of the course. If a student does not submit any WA or PR or misses any test, even if their overall CA score calculated with the missing mark(s) is above a 5, they will not be pass the Continuous Assessment part of the course, and must pass the Final Exam.

5. A student must score a minimum of 30% of the pass mark for EACH element in the CA, in each one of the 4 WAs, the 3 PRs and the 2 Tests, to be able pass the course on the basis of the Continuous Assessment.

6. Unless, the teacher enters into a specific agreement with the class, or group, to the contrary, any work to be submitted must be uploaded to the appropriate place on Moodle before the deadlines, as stipulated in the Pla de Treball, and in the Calendar on Moodle, or the Rough Timetable document offered by the teacher on Moodle. If a student has difficulty in submitting work through Moodle, and they choose to send it via an email to the teacher or submit it through the consergeria, it is their responsibility to make sure that the piece of work is evaluated and returned to them at the same time equivalent work is returned to their classmates. Where Moodle is the agreed channel for submission, the teacher will not accept responsibility for any work that is not submitted through Moodle, and is under no obligation to evaluate it, unless the teachers expressly agrees to accept the student's work, in writing.

7. Segona Convocatòria Exam contents. There will be 20-25 questions of the sort used in the two theory tests, Multiple choice questions, True or False, and Short answers of a word or two, or a short paragraph. The questions will be based on the powerpoints used in the theory part of the course, although some examples will come from the course text book, Ways of Reading. This should take about 45 minutes to complete.

Then there will be a poem to analyse, in which your answer should explain both the form of the poem (rhyme, rhythm, stanza shape) and its contents, and how these two elements interract to create the 'meanings' of the poem. Finally there will be essays questions on the narrative text, the drama text, and the film text, similar to the ones you were asked in the Practicals and in the WAs.


Sources of information

Basic Martin Montgomery et alia, Ways of Reading 4th edition, 2013, London: Routledge

Students are highly recommended to buy the course text "Ways of Reading" (see list above for details) in the specified edition, as it will form the backbone of the two 'Anàlisi de Texts' courses in the second year. Be careful to buy the 4th edition, if you are buying it new. If you buy it second-hand, any addition will do, but the later edition the better. There are copies in the library, but every theory class will make reference to the book, and you will be expected to have read the relevant chapters/sections before each theory class.

Students are required to buy Educating Rita in the edition specified.If students wish to buy a paperback edition of Daisy Miller, they are recommend the specific edition (Penguin Classics, NOT World Classics) as it has excellent notes, and introduction. However, the text is available through Project Gutenburg on-line, so can be easily downloaded for free.The Film text we shall study is Citizen Kane, by Orson Welles. The film script is downloadable; however, our focus will be on the film itself, as a text. There are various copies available from the CRAIs of the URV.There will be an anthology of additional texts made available through the Campus Catalunya photocopy service, which is a compulsory purchase for students following the course. It will be available from the first day of the course.

Complementary

Recommendations


 
Other comments
While regular attendance in class and participation are not given marks directly in the Continuous Assessment part of the course, it is understood that it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED that students attend all classes and participate fully in them. It is further understood that to do so will automatically increase the students' likelihood of getting good results in their course work. Students who are unable to attend class on a regular basis because of work or a clash of timetables with other subjects should contact the teacher from the start of the course so that the impact of these obligations upon the student's potential performance can be assessed with the teacher, and recommendations made. When a student misses a deadline for work to be submitted or a test, they must present written justification from their doctor, or another appropriately authorized source, in order to justify an extension to a deadline or the possibility of being tested at a later date.
(*)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.