A qualification
of "Non Presentado" (Absent) will be obtained by not attending the exam
and/or by completing less than 50% of the coursework.
The
second opportunity of assesment (in July) will
consist of two sections: 1) a written exam (with identical design
and
criteria to those in the first opportunity) that
will evaluate the command over the contents seen throughout the
course and that
will be worth 50% of the grade; 2) written activities (to be
specified after the first opportunity) which will be worth the remaining
50%
of the grade and are due by the date of the final exam.
Students officially enrolled part-time who have been granted an official dispensation from attending
classes, as stipulated in the regulations of this University, will be
assessed in either of the opportunities according to the same criteria
specified above for the second opportunity.
Plagiarism in any activity will translate into
a grade of "0" in this activity.
Every assignment has to be
turned in in time and in the specified format in order to avoid a penalty of 25% on the grade obtained.

Subject competencies (Learning outcomes)	Study programme competences
To acquiere a diachronic vision of English literature from his origins until the end of the 17th century.	A7	B3 B7 B8	C2
To read in original English literary works of diverse genres and styles.	A6 A7	B6	C2
To analyse different aspects of the works studied applying basic foundations of literary criticism.	A1 A2 A6 A7 A15	B7	C2 C4
To elaborate, individually or in groups, different types of written activities in English.	A1 A6 A9 A15	B2 B4 B6 B7	C2 C4
To present both written and oral ideas, opinions and interpretations.	A2 A6	B4 B6	C2
To handle in a correct way the oral and written activities of the course in English.	A6	B4	C2 C7

Topic	Sub-topic
1. What is literature? What is English Literature.	1.1. The “Canon” of English Literature. 1.2. Periodization.
2. Introduction to the history of English literature previous to the 11th Century.	2.1. Sociocultural context. 2.2. Oral literature and manuscripts. 2.3. Epic and elegiac poetry. 2.4. Prose and translations. Readings: - Excerpts from Beowulf - Excerpts from “The Dream of the Rood”.
3. Medieval English Literature.	3.1. Sociocultural context. 3.2. Authorship. 3.3. Cultural institutions. 3.4. Linguistic conflict. Readings: - A selection of Medieval Lyrics.
4. Chaucer and his contemporaries.	4.1. Gower and Gawain. 4.2. Geofrey Chaucer and his work. Readings: - Excerpts from the “Prologue" in The Canterbury Tales, by Geoffrey Chaucer.
5. English religious drama.	5.1. The origins of English drama. 5.2. Medieval Mystery and Morality Plays. Readings: - Excerpts from Everyman.
6. XIV and XV Century English lyrics.	6.1. Medieval lyrics. 6.2. Courtly Love. 6.3. Medieval Romance.
7. XVI Century Engish poetry.	7.1. Introduction: Humanism, patronage and the court. 7.2. The English sonnet. 7.3. Wyatt and Surrey. 7.4. Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare. Readings: - A selection of sonnets by Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare.
8. Elizabethan Theatre.	8.1. Elizabethan Theatre: architecture, conventions and plays. 8.2. Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare. Readings: - William Shakespeare, Hamlet.
9. Metaphysical Poetry.	9.1. Metaphysical poets and "cavalier" poets. 9.2. John Donne and Andrew Marvell. Readings: - A selection of poems by John Donne and Andrew Marvell.
10. XVII Century prose.	10.1. Religious prose. 10.2. Autobiography and diaries. 10.3. Travel books. Readings: - Excerpts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys.

Methodologies / tests	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Directed discussion	14	0	14
Workbook	0	45	45
Guest lecture / keynote speech	21	0	21
Supervised projects	0	45	45
Seminar	7	14	21

Personalized attention	4	0	4

(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies	Description
Directed discussion	When dealing with literature, the debate is an essential tool to go in depth and assimilate the contents, as well as to exchange ideas and interpretations. It can take place occasionally in the general sessions, D.E. hours (classic teaching) or in small groups, T.G.R. hours (reduced groups). This will be the methodology on which the hours assigned to D.I. will be structured (Interactive teaching).
Workbook	In an English course, it is essential for each student to have read the daily readings before entering the classroom. In English Literature I, the time-table for the study of documents and the reading of texts (basically literary texts) will be shown through the Moodle platform. It is also important that the student be aware of the possible modifications both in the program of the subject and in the development of the course.
Guest lecture / keynote speech	In the D.E. sessions, the professor will expose the theoretical contents related to English literature from its origins until the end of the 17th century, as well as the basic concepts with which they will be analysed. All these contents will be developed later in the D.I. and T.G.R sessions.
Supervised projects	Individually and/or in small groups, students will have to carry out works of diverse type (summaries, analyses, etc.) that will be done in class. At home, each student will have to accomplish additional tasks, such as for instance, the readings, but he/she may also carry out review and edition activities, etc.
Seminar	In T.G.R. sessions, oral and written presentations will be debated, as it corresponds to this academic field, by paying attention to the interpretations generated by the readings and the resultant learning of D. I. sessions.

Methodologies	Description	Qualification
Directed discussion	Regular attendance will be worth up to 5%, but the student’s daily commitment to her/his learning will be valued up to 20%. To this end, the student’s active contribution to and performance in both oral and written, individual and group assignments will be taken into account, as well as the attention given to professors’ and other students’ explanations.	20
Supervised projects	In this category we include all those activities of individual character or developed in groups both in class and at home which are susceptible of being evaluated for the final mark: summaries, analyses of texts, reviews, etc. They will take place, mainly, in the classes of T.G.R., and will be carefully supervised.	30
Guest lecture / keynote speech	In addition to the works and activities developed throughout the academic year and evaluated in other categories, each student will have to show his command of the contents and skills defined for this course in a written exam that will take place in the official day of the final examination. It is necessary to obtain a minimum qualification of 4 out of 10 (never less than 1,75 out of 5 in any of the two parts of the exam) so that the resultant mark can be added to the one obtained in the rest of the activities.	50

Assessment comments
A qualification of "Non Presentado" (Absent) will be obtained by not attending the exam and/or by completing less than 50% of the coursework. The second opportunity of assesment (in July) will consist of two sections: 1) a written exam (with identical design and criteria to those in the first opportunity) that will evaluate the command over the contents seen throughout the course and that will be worth 50% of the grade; 2) written activities (to be specified after the first opportunity) which will be worth the remaining 50% of the grade and are due by the date of the final exam. Students officially enrolled part-time who have been granted an official dispensation from attending classes, as stipulated in the regulations of this University, will be assessed in either of the opportunities according to the same criteria specified above for the second opportunity. Plagiarism in any activity will translate into a grade of "0" in this activity. Every assignment has to be turned in in time and in the specified format in order to avoid a penalty of 25% on the grade obtained.

Basic
	Compulsory Readings: - Excerpts from Beowulf. - Excerpts from “The Dream of the Rood”. - A selection of Medieval Lyrics. - Excerpts from the “Prologue” in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer. - Excerpts from Everyman. - Sonnets by Sidney, Spenser and Shakespeare. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet. - Selection of poems by John Donne and Andrew Marvell. - Excerpts from the Diary of Samuel Pepys. At the beginning of the course a copy of the compulsory readings will be at disposal of the students (in Reprography, in Moodle, or in class), with the exception of Hamlet by Shakespeare, that each student will have to achieve or buy. It must be an original and complete version, in any one of the academic editions (ex., Oxford University Press, Penguin, Longman, Cambridge UP, among others). A bilingual edition can be used for the reading, but all the allusions to the work in oral/ written discussions must refer to the English version.
Complementary