Identifying Data

2015/16

Subject (*)

Métodos e recursos de investigación literario-cultural no ámbito anglófono

Code

613505002

Study programme

Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2013)

Descriptors

Cycle

Period

Year

Type

Credits

Official Master's Degree

1st four-month period

First

Obligatoria

Language

English

Teaching method

Face-to-face

Prerequisites

Department

Filoloxía Inglesa

Coordinador

Nuñez Puente, Carolina

E-mail

c.nunez@udc.es

Lecturers

Nuñez Puente, Carolina

E-mail

c.nunez@udc.es

Web

http://www.imaes.eu/?page_id=31

General description

Ensinar ao estudiantado os obxectivos e métodos da investigación literaria e cultural na área de humanidades.
Familiarizar ao estudantado cos métodos de procura de información sobre temas de investigación literaria e cultural en inglés.
Informar ao estudantado sobre as tendencias dentro do ámbito académico anglosaxón en relación coa investigación literaria e cultural.
Axudar aos estudantado a distinguir na práctica diferentes actividades de investigación, co fin de preparalos como profesionais do mundo académico no campo literario e cultural en inglés.

Study programme competencies

Code

Study programme competences

Learning aims

Learning outcomes

Study programme competences

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Introduction. 2. The research paper (types and characteristics). 3. Writing the project. 4. Aims, methodology, corpus, argument, and structure. 5. Working with data. 6. Working with other materials. 7. Language requirements. 8. Manuals of style. 9. Presenting and publishing a research paper. 10. Legal issues. 11. Other applications of literary and cultural research.

Planning

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Supervised projects		2	18	20
Oral presentation		5	0	5
Seminar		10	40	50

Personalized attention		0		0

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

Methodologies

Methodologies	Description
Supervised projects	Methodology designed to promote independent learning of students, under the guidance of the teacher, and in various (academic and professional) scenarios.
Oral presentation	Inherent in the teaching-learning methodology, this activity is based on oral participation through which students present their work.
Seminar	Technique of group work that aims for the intensive study of a topic or reading. It is characterized by discussion, participation, preparation of documents and the conclusions that all the seminar members have to reach.

Personalized attention

Methodologies

Supervised projects

Description

I am available to the students in my office during tutorial hours, as well as via phone and email.

Assessment

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
Seminar		-Participation in class, during the sessions and through other channels (e.g. e-mail, discussion forums, virtual platform).	30
Supervised projects		Activities may include: -Critical summaries and/or reviews of compulsory readings. -Writing an abstract plus its keywords. -Writing a research paper.	50
Oral presentation		-Preparing an oral presentation.	20

Assessment comments

Sources of information

Basic
	(Bibliography) Achtert, Walter S., and Joseph Gibaldi. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. New York: Modern Language Association, 2009. Print.   Altick, Richard D. and John Fenstermaker. The Art of Literary Research. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1992. Print.   Bourdieu, Pierre, et al. Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professional Power. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994. Print.   Canagarajah, A. Suresh. Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students. Ann Arbor: The U of Michigan P, 2002. Print.   The Chicago Manual of Style. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 2010. Print.   Da Sousa Correa, Delia and W. R. Owens, eds. The Handbook to Literary Research. London: Routledge, 2009. Print. Durham, Meenakshi Gigi and Douglas M. Kellner, eds. Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Print.   Henry, D. J. and A. Dorling Kindersley. Writing for Life: Paragraph to Essay. Harlow: Longman, 2007. Print.   The Hodges Harbrace Handbook. Beverly: Wadsworth, 2010. Print.   Leitch, Vincent B. et al, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010. Print.   Soriano, Ramón. Cómo se escribe una tesis. Guía práctica para estudiantes e investigadores. Córdoba: Berenice, 2008. Print.   Walker, Melissa. Writing Research Papers. A Norton Guide. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1996. Print.   Wisker, Gina. The Postgraduate Research Handbook. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. Print.   (Webs: URLs) Modern Language Association: http://www.mla.org/ The Norton Introduction to Literature: http://wwnorton.com/college/english/litweb10/writing/ Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL): http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
Complementary

Recommendations

Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously

Subjects that continue the syllabus

Other comments

(*)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.