IDENTIFYING DATA 2015_16
Subject (*) NORTH-AMERICAN LITERATURE Code 12274216
Study programme
Bachelor's Degree in English Studies (2009)
 Cycle 1st
Descriptors Credits Type Year Period
6 Optional 1Q
Language
Anglès
Department Estudis Anglesos i Alemanys
Coordinator
GALLARDO TORRANO, PEDRO
 E-mail pere.gallardo@urv.cat
Lecturers
GALLARDO TORRANO, PEDRO
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General description and relevant information This course will provide an overall review of American litarature from the beginnings to the present. In order to do so a selection of voices and traditions will be considered in an attempt to familiarize students with the major authors and trends of the literature of the United States.

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
Type C Code Competences Nuclear

Learning outcomes
Type A Code Learning outcomes
 A5 Mostra un maneig de la llengua anglesa (de forma oral i/o escrita) en contextos diversos a un nivell superior.
 A6 Coneix els principals gèneres i formes literàries en llengua anglesa.
Analitza i comenta textos literaris de forma oral i/o escrita.
Coneix els principals moviments literaris i la seva inserció en els diversos contextos culturals i històrics.
Type B Code Learning outcomes
Type C Code Learning outcomes

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
Native American oral tradition
Anne Bradstreet
Jonathan Edwards
Benjamin Franklin
St. John de Crèvecoeur
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Washington Irving
J. Fenimore Cooper
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar A. Poe
Harried Beecher Stowe
Frederick Douglass
Henry D. Thoreau
Herman Melville
Walt Whitman
Emily dickinson
Mark Twain
Ambrose Bierce
Henry James
Kate Chopin
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Stephen Crane
Willa Cather
Jack London
Zitkala Sa
Snherwood Anderson
F. Scott Fitzgerald
William Faulkner
Ernest Hemingway
John Steinbeck
Tennessee Williams
Ralph Ellison
Saul Bellow
Carson McCullers
Ray Bradbury
Flannery O'Connor
Ursula LeGuin
Toni Morrison
Thomas Pynchon
Rudolfo Anaya

Planning
Methodologies  ::  Tests
  Competences (*) Class hours
 Hours outside the classroom
 (**) Total hours
Introductory activities
1 0 1
Seminars
A5
A6
 52 82 134
Personal tuition
1 0 1
 
Objective short-answer tests
A6
 2 4 6
Extended-answer tests
A6
 4 4 8
 
(*) 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 Students will be introduced to the particular ideosincratic nature of American literature at the beginning of the course.
Seminars Students will be exposed to an array of texts and authors so that they become familiar with the most important voices in American literature.
Personal tuition Students are welcome to use my visiting hours to come individually or in groups and discuss any relevant aspects of the course.

Personalized attention
Description
Students are encouraged to stop by the instructor´s office. They should always feel free to ask questions about the topics discussed in class.

Assessment
Methodologies Competences Description Weight        
Extended-answer tests
A6
 Students will write an in-class essay on one novel they will have read on their own. 30%
Objective short-answer tests
A6
 Students will take two tests of this sort where they will have to recognize either works, authors or both. 35% each (35*2=70%)
Others  
 
Other comments and second exam session

Students who do not pass the subject will have a second chance at the "Segona convocatòria". The length, nature and contents of that test will be announced at the beginning of the course.

Sources of information

Basic

Students will have access to the class readings through Moodle. Students will be able to download the novel they have to read on their own at www.gutenberg.org

 

 
Complementary

Recommendations


 
Other comments
Students are encouraged to come to class with their readings done. Regular class attendance is a requirement and class participation is highly recommended.
(*)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.