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.

Students
who have been granted exemption, as specified in the university
regulations, will be assessed according to the criteria applied to
the July opportunity.

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).

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.

Learning outcomes	Study programme competences
An advanced introduction to the theoretical and historical contexts of the multiculturalism debate and later manifestations of cultural diversity in the English-speaking world and its supporting methodological frameworks. The aim is to attain a working knowledge of and critical competence in the theories and debates that constitute the concept of the multicultural in the literature and culture of the English-speaking world via a focus on certain national, regional, and thematic domains that exemplify in their own specific ways cultural diversity in its different manifestations.	AR9 AR10 AR11	BR6 BR7 BR9 BR10 BR11

Topic	Sub-topic
1. Multicultural: defining/critiquing cultural diversity
2. Text in/-ing Space: Science Fiction and/as culture
3. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand – Prologue: A World Apart (3-57)
4. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Monologues 1 (61-170)
5. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Monologues 2 (171-323)
6. "Aye, and Gomorrah": identity's place, desire's space
7. Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand: Epilogue (327-347)

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Directed discussion	A11 B11	4	4	8
Case study	A10 B7 B10	8	14	22
Oral presentation	B9	1	8	9
Supervised projects	A10 B7 B10 B11	0	20	20
Introductory activities	A9 B6	4	4	8

Personalized attention		8	0	8

(*)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	Discusión en seminario dos textos primarios e as materias teóricas
Case study	Analise e debate dos textos primarios e teóricos en seminario
Oral presentation	Presentación de traballos individuáis de aspectos concretos das obras de leiture escollidos en consulta co profesor
Supervised projects	Elaboración de un traballo de investigación en forma de ensaio
Introductory activities	Introducción ós conceptos teóricos que se manexara´n no seminario

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
Supervised projects	A10 B7 B10 B11	Personal research in the shape of a written essay on a topic related to the seminar's subject matter chosen in consultation with the teacher	60
Case study	A10 B7 B10	Close reading presented in seminar session of a key aspect of one of the set literary readings	20
Oral presentation	B9	Individual presentation of one of the set theoretical texts encouraging participation by other students	20

Assessment comments
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. Students who have been granted exemption, as specified in the university regulations, will be assessed according to the criteria applied to the July opportunity. 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). 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.

Basic
	Primary sources: Samuel Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand Samuel Delany, "Aye, and Gomorrah"
Complementary
	All secondary materials and critical bibliographies will be provided before the course begins, preferably during the first semester. It will be posted on the course Moodle page several months before the seminar takes place.

Other comments
All primary readings must be made before the seminar actually begins so that fruitful discussion between all members of the seminar can be possible. All required secondary readings and most primary readings will be made available several months beforehand via the course Moodle page.