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Type A
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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 |
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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 avançat.
| | | A6 |
Coneix els principals gèneres i formes literàries en llengua anglesa.
Es familiaritza amb les principals tècniques literàries de la narrativa, el teatre i la poesia.
Analitza i comenta textos literaris de forma oral i/o escrita.
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Type B
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
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Type C
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Code |
Learning outcomes |
| Topic |
Sub-topic |
| 1. The Old English and Middle English period |
a. Anglo-Saxon literature:
i. prose: Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and Bede' History
ii. poetry: the Elegies, and Epic - Beowulf
b. Medieval literature:
i. in prose allegories of Courtly Love and poetry.
ii. Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
iii. Mystery and Morality plays |
| 2. The Early Modern period |
a. Elizabethan sonnets, Spenser & Shakespeare
b. Shakespeare's drama.
c. Metaphysical poetry: Donne, Herbert, Marvell
d. Poetry and prose of the English Revolution: Milton |
| 3. The Age of Enlightenment |
a. Philosophical poetry of Alexander Pope
b. Political satire: Swift's 'Modest Proposal'
c. The Birth of the Novel: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding and Sterne
d. Jane Austen and the Romantic novel |
| 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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3 |
3 |
6 |
| Lecture |
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15 |
10 |
25 |
| Seminars |
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30 |
30 |
60 |
| Assignments |
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3 |
33 |
36 |
| Previous study |
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5 |
10 |
15 |
| Personal attention |
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1 |
1 |
2 |
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| Mixed tests |
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3 |
3 |
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 |
Introductory sessions will offer an overview of the coursework and will address key terms and concepts for discussing literature. |
| Lecture |
These lectures will constitute the main theoretical input of the course. Exemplification will often be with previously assigned readings. Familiarity with and understanding of the content of these lectures and how it applies to the texts studied will be tested in the three tests. |
| Seminars |
These sessions will provide practice in discussing key texts. It is important that you prepare the texts to be discussed before coming to class. The seminars will give you the opportunity to express your opinions and analysis orally, to raise questions, iron out difficulties and learn. |
| Assignments |
You will be given a total of three texts on which to write a commentary/essay for each. Written work will be structured along lines indicated by the tutor, and will range from answering comprehension questions, to a more open critical essay format. |
| Previous study |
These anticipatory studies will take the form of a journal, in which each student will record the impression and experience of reading assigned texts, and the issues they raise, before class discussion. They will also typically contain a reflection after the relevant class, recording how the student's understanding has been effected by the discussion in class. They are a record of personal learning. They are not a simple record of class discussion, or a collection of course notes. Students will be expected to make at least one or two entries per week of a minimum of 300 words total per week. These journals will be collected after the first three weeks, for orientation and feedback, and at the end of the course, for assessment. |
| Personal attention |
Students will be called for a brief interview with the tutor, in which they will be expected to answer questions on the course content, and specifically indicated texts. |
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Description |
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Your tutor will be using your official URV email address to contact you at certain moments of the course. It is essential that you check this regularly. Most course material will be uploaded to Moodle.
You are welcome to consult the tutor during the official published office hours, or by email at any time during the course. |
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Methodologies |
Competences
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Description |
Weight |
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| Assignments |
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To complete the CA requirements, you must hand in three written commentaries on the texts indicated by the tutor. These will increase in length and complexity and weight (proportional mark) as the course continues. If the three commentaries/essays are not handed in, you will not be eligible to pass on the CA alone. You must score a minimum of at least 3/10 for each piece of work, for it to count as completed for CA purposes. Good quality written English is a prerequisite to having your work's contents assessed. |
30% |
| Mixed tests |
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There will be three CA tests, done in class, one for each period studied in the course. You must take all three tests to be eligible to pass the course on the CA alone. Each test will have a Theory and Practical section, comprising questions requiring only short answers, and more extensive essay questions. Good quality written English is a prerequisite to having your test's contents assessed. |
30% |
| Others |
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A journal, in which each student will record their personal learning experience of the course and of their reading of assigned texts. There must be at least one or two entries per week of a minimum of 300 words total per week. These journals will be collected after the first three weeks, for orientation and feedback, so that the students know they have understood the purpose of the journal. At the end of the course, completed journals will be handed in for assessment. The quality of the Student's written English will be taken into account in the marking. Handing in a completed journal is an obligatory component of the CA, without which the Student will not be eligible to pass the course on CA alone. |
40% |
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Other comments and second exam session |
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In all CA tests and Written Commentaries, students must achieve at least a 3/10 in each piece of work, for the CA requirement to have been deemed complete. In other words, a student who has less than a '3.0' in one of the CA tests will be obliged to take the complete Final Exam, in the Segona Convocatoria. If you do not, or cannot, attend the class regularly and consequently do not complete the Continuous Assessment programme satisfactorily, you will have to take the Final Exam, in the Segona Convocatoria. The Final Exam, in the Segona Convocatoria, will consist of Theory and Practical sections, of equal weight. There will be questions with short answers of historical context, more extensive written answers of certain theoretical issues. In the Practical section there will be a combination of guided commentaries on specific, previously studied, texts, and essay questions, to test a wider-ranging understanding of the course content. The mark achieved by the student in this final exam will amount to 100% of their overall course mark. In cases where results are borderline, regular attendance (80%+) and active participation in class discussion may be taken into consideration, at the tutor's discretion. Cases of plagiarism will result in the automatic failure of the specific CA component of the course in which it is detected. This will imply the failure of the CA, and so will require the student to take the Final Exam. A recurrence of plagiarism in the same student's work will result in a '0' - Suspens being given as a final course mark. |
| Basic |
Shakespeare, William, edited by R A Foakes, A Midsummer Night's Dream, (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) Paperback – 1 May 2003 Press; Updated edition (9 Oct. 2003), 2003
Austen, Jane, Emma, Penguin Classics Rev Ed edition (30 Jan. 2003) ISBN-10: 0141439580, 2008
Sanders, Andrew, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Clarendon, Oxford, 2004
Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, BBC,
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http://vos.ucsb.edu/index.asp You will find most of the basic required reading texts available through Moodle, plus links to sites of interest. You are strongly recommended to buy the exact editions recommended here, as they are among the best in terms of quality, with excellent introductions and notes. Other editions vary greatly in quality, and the variation in page numbering will prove inconvenient. In the case of the Shakespeare text, the actual text may vary depending on the edition, so ONLY the NEW CAMBRIDGE SHAKESPEARE edition is recommended. Be careful when you buy this - Cambridge editions have other series of Shakespeare plays, for high school students etc, and these are NOT recommended. |
| Complementary |
Rogers, Pat, An Outline of English Literature, Oxford, OUP, 1992
Barnard, Robert, A Short History of English Literature, Oxford, Blackwell, 1994
Ford, Boris, et al.,, The New Pelican Guide to English, Penguin, London, 1984
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| Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously |
| NARRATIVE IN ENGLISH/12274122 | | ENGLISH THEATRE/12274214 |
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| Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before |
| ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTS I/12274119 | | ANALYSIS OF ENGLISH TEXTS II/12274120 |
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| Other comments |
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Regular attendance and participation in class are highly recommended, even thought there are no marks for these.
In order to a student to be able to complete the obligatory Journal component of this class, it requires the student to attend class, in order to be able to write a re-assessment of their first entry on a text in the light of the discussion and teacher's explanation in class. The journal entry must have these two entries per text, one written before and one written after the class. Irregular attendance makes this impossible. |
(*)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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