| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
 Asignaturas |
| Literatura Norteamericana nos seus Textos |
| Resultados de aprendizaxe |
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| Datos Identificativos | 2013/14 | |||||||||||||
| Asignatura | Literatura Norteamericana nos seus Textos | Código | 613G03047 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptores | Ciclo | Período | Curso | Tipo | Créditos | |||||||||
| Grao | 2º cuadrimestre |
Cuarto | Optativa | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Competencias de materia (Resultados de aprendizaxe) | Competencias da titulación | ||
| To familiarize themselves with some of the most relevant authors and their corresponding texts. | A1 |
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| To be able to read critically. To be able to identify specific gender and race issues within the texts required. | A6 |
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| To know how to relate mainstream American literary discourse and recurrent topics with those which are particular of African American writers in general. | A11 A14 A16 A17 A19 A20 A21 |
B1 B2 B3 B4 B5 B6 B7 B8 B9 |
C2 C3 C4 C6 C7 C8 |
| To identify recurrent themes and/or literary discourses among the African American writers analyzed, and formulate their own conclusions. | A2 |
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| Use the appropriate bibliography (books, chapters of books, or literary magazines), as well as do some reserch via internet facilities | B1 |
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| Be fluent in English (C2). When students do written tests or exercises they should concentrate to make good use of English grammar. Written texts/exercises should be well organized, coherent, and readable. | A6 A18 |
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| To be able to compare and contrast texts written by different authors which deal with totally different issues. Students are taught how to point at main differences or similarities thrughout de semester. Their aim is to read in between the lines to highlight most relevant information, and check whether it can be compared and/or contrasted. This method implies a lot of practice doing "close readings". | B5 |
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| Be able to work in groups, organize the time alloted, set priorities, and make good use of team work. | B6 |
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| Literature is about life. Students should be able to show a keen interest and an understanding of race and gender issues in our own community as well as worldwide. They should bring to class any particular topic, related to subject, and that might be of interest to the whole class (media news, a concert, a film, police brutality, racist misbehaviour in sports, etc) | C7 |
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| African Americans were brought by force to the Americas (and Europe) to work as slaves. This subject teaches students to respect the Other--no matter what kind of otherness that particular person represents. The knowledge of the socio historical background--racist, discriminatory, and terribly violent--should make the students (us all) better understand the differences within a given community, and respect them--whether one agrees or not. | C4 |
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