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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| North American Literature through its Texts |
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| Identifying Data | 2018/19 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | North American Literature through its Texts | Code | 613G03047 | |||||||||||
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 2nd four-month period |
Fourth | Optional | 4.5 | ||||||||||
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| Learning outcomes | Study programme competences | ||
| 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 A10 |
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| To know how to relate mainstream American literary discourse and recurrent topics with those which are particular to African American writers in general. | A11 A14 A15 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 students' own conclusions. | A2 A7 |
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| Use the appropriate bibliography (books, chapters of books, films, or literary magazines). Research work via internet facilities | B1 |
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| Be fluent in English (C2). For both written texts and oral presentations, students should make good use of English grammar. Written texts/exercises should be well organized, coherent, and readable. | A6 A8 A18 |
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| To be able to compare and contrast texts that deal with totally different issues and written by different authors . Throughout the semester students are shown how to organize their comparative short essays. This method implies a "close reading", a critical reading as well as personal comments. | B5 |
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| Be able to work in groups, organize the time alloted, set priorities, share knowledge, distribute tasks, establish individual responsabilities and make good use of team's diversity. | B6 |
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| Literature is about life. Students should be able to develop a keen interest on and an understanding of race and gender issues in our own community as well as worldwide. They are encouraged to bring to class information about any particular topic related to subject that might be of interest to the class (media news, a concert, a film, exhibitions, 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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