Study programme competencies |
Code
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Study programme competences / results
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A9 |
E09 – Familiarity with the main models and resources in literary/cultural research in the English-speaking domain. |
A10 |
E10 –Ability to use appropriate techniques for the analysis of artistic and cultural texts in the English-speaking domain. |
A11 |
E11 – Ability to identify and analyse the most relevant characteristics of culture and institutions in the English-speaking world through the study of different types of texts belonging to different historical periods. |
A12 |
E12 – Understanding of different theoretical and critical approaches, as well as their application to the analysis of literary and cultural texts in the English-speaking domain. |
A13 |
E13 – Familiarity with the relationship between the main artistic and literary manifestations in the English-speaking domain. |
B1 |
CB6 – Students should have the knowledge and understanding necessary to provide a basis or opportunity for originality in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research context. |
B2 |
CB7 - Students should be able to apply the knowledge acquired and a problem-solving capacity to new or lesser known areas within wider contexts (or multidisciplinary contexts) related to the study area. |
B3 |
CB8 - Students must be able to integrate knowledge and to deal with the complexity of judgement formulation starting with information, which might be incomplete or limited, and which includes reflections on social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgement. |
B4 |
CB9 – Students must be able to communicate their conclusions, as well as the knowledge and reasoning behind them, to both specialized and general audiences in a clear and unambiguous way |
B5 |
CB10 – Students should have the necessary learning skills to allow them to continue studying in a largely autonomous manner. |
B6 |
G01 –The capacity to delve into those concepts, principles, theories or models related with the different fields of English Studies is a necessary skill, as is the ability to solve specific problems in a particular field of study via appropriate methodology. |
B8 |
G03 – An efficient use of new information technology and communication in English Studies is a necessary skill. |
B9 |
G04 – Students must be able to publicly present their ideas, reports or experiences, as well as give informed opinions based on criteria, external norms or personal reflection. All of this implies having sufficient command of both oral and written academic and scientific language |
B10 |
G05 – Skills related to research and the handling of new knowledge and information in the context of English Studies are to be acquired by students |
B11 |
G06 – Students should be able to develop a critical sense in order to assess the relevance of both existing research in the fields of English Studies, and their own research. |
B13 |
G08 – Students should become progressively autonomous in the learning process, and in the search for appropriate resources and information, via the use of bibliographic and documentary sources related to English Studies. |
Learning aims |
Learning outcomes |
Study programme competences / results |
Students will clarify concepts and methods in Anglo-American literary theory through their application to the analysis of literary and cultural texts from the Anglophone world |
AR10 AR12
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BR1 BR2 BR5 BR13
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To be familiar with images of women in English literature, and with texts written by women, particularly from the long eighteenth-century onwards. |
AR9 AR10 AR11 AR12
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BR1 BR2 BR4 BR6 BR8 BR9
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Students will get acquainted with the main Anglo-American schools of literary criticism in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries |
AR9 AR10 AR11 AR12 AR13
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BR1 BR2 BR4 BR8 BR9
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Students will get acquainted with the social and ideological context that has given rise to the different approaches to literary theory. |
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BR3 BR10 BR11
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Contents |
Topic |
Sub-topic |
Brief survey of the main schools of literary and cultural criticism and of their application to the
analysis of literary and cultural production in the Anglophone world. |
This course will present a selection of critical perspectives in order to approach issues such as: the debate about the
“classical heritage”, historiography and the canon; the development of the various critical schools ranging from New Criticism, Russian Formalism, Structuralism and Narratology to PostStructuralism, Psychoanalysis, Marxist theories, Cultural Materialism, New Historicism, Feminist Criticism, Gender Studies, and more recent approaches such as Multiculturalism,
Ethnocriticism, Postcolonial Studies, Diaspora and Transnationalism and, finally, Ecocriticism.
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Planning |
Methodologies / tests |
Competencies / Results |
Teaching hours (in-person & virtual) |
Student’s personal work hours |
Total hours |
Supervised projects |
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0 |
24 |
24 |
Directed discussion |
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7 |
5 |
12 |
Oral presentation |
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2 |
3 |
5 |
Events academic / information |
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2 |
2 |
4 |
Workbook |
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0 |
20 |
20 |
Guest lecture / keynote speech |
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9 |
0 |
9 |
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Personalized attention |
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1 |
0 |
1 |
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(*)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 |
Traballo escrito sobre textos primarios ou secundarios relacionados co programa (2.000 palabras aproximadamente) |
Directed discussion |
Contribución acriva aos debates sobre temas propostos |
Oral presentation |
Presentación oral na clase de análises de textos fixados |
Events academic / information |
Asistencia e informes sobre encontros relacionados co programa |
Workbook |
Lectura crítica de textos asignados |
Guest lecture / keynote speech |
Descricin e análise crítica de textos e periodos estudiados. |
Personalized attention |
Methodologies
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Supervised projects |
Directed discussion |
Workbook |
Oral presentation |
Events academic / information |
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Description |
Students will be tutorized for the preparation of essays, orasl presentations, discussions and any other aspect related to the subject. |
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Assessment |
Methodologies
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Competencies / Results |
Description
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Qualification
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Supervised projects |
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Monitored research on assigned issues |
20 |
Guest lecture / keynote speech |
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Attendance to lectures on syllabus topics |
10 |
Directed discussion |
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Active participation in sessions |
20 |
Workbook |
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Critical reading of assigned texts to be discussed in class |
20 |
Oral presentation |
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Oral presentation on assigned topics |
20 |
Events academic / information |
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Attendance and written report of events related to the syllabus |
10 |
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Assessment comments |
<p>Given that this degree programme is
part distance learning, part actual attendance, students are required to attend
the compulsory sessions, unless they have applied for exemption within the time
period specified by the Academic Commission of the degree, and this exemption
has been granted. This exemption will be valid provided students comply with
the rules on attendance in force in the three universities participating in the
programme, and provided they comply with the assessment systems which are
specified in the teaching guides for each module. Students should be aware,
however, that not attending certain classroom sessions may affect their final
grades.</p><p>Students
who have been granted exemption, as specified in the university regulations,
will be assessed according to the criteria applied to the July opportunity.</p><p>Students
who do not submit a supervised project, or who fail
to submit at least 50% of the other tasks for assessment, will be graded as
absent from assessment (NP: no presentado).</p><p>Students
who do not pass in the first opportunity will be able
to re-sit in July, when they will be required to demonstrate that they have
acquired the skills for each module via two types of assessment: a supervised
project with the same percentage value and characteristics as in the first
opportunity, plus the exercises agreed upon with the lecturer(s) as a
substitute for the other activities of the module.</p>
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Sources of information |
Basic
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Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. New York: Harcourt
Brace, 1995. Brydon, Diana, ed. Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies. London
and New York: Routledge, cop. 2000. Cuddon, J. A. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory. London: Penguin
Books, 1999. Eagleton, Terry and Drew Milne, Eds. Marxist Literary Theory: A Reader. Oxford: Blackwell,
1996. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1996. Frassinelli, Pier Paolo, Ronit Frenkel, and David Watson, Eds. Traversing Transnationalism: The
Horizons of Literary and Cultural Studies. Amsterdam and New York, NY : Rodopi, 2011. Glotfelty, Cheryll, and Harold Fromm, Eds. The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary
Ecology. Athens (Georgia): The University of Georgia Press, cop. 1996. Green, Keith and Jill LeBiham. Critical Theory and Practice: A Coursebook. London and New
York: Routledge, 2012. Kurzweil, Edith and William Phillips, Eds. Literature and Psychoanalysis. New York: Columbia
University Press, 1983. Marzec, Robert T. An Ecological and Postcolonial Study of Literature. From Daniel Defoe to
Salman Rushdie. London: Palgrave, 2007. Onega, Susana & José A. García Landa. Narratology: An Introduction. London: Longman, 1996. Rice, Philip and Patricia Waugh, Eds. Modern Literary Theory: A Reader. London: Arnold, 2001. Rooney, Ellen, Ed. The Cambridge Companion to Feminist Literary Theory. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006. |
Complementary
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Recommendations |
Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before |
Novos enfoques nos estudos literarios e culturais/613484002 | Literatura. cultura e xénero /613484019 |
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Subjects that are recommended to be taken simultaneously |
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Subjects that continue the syllabus |
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