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
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	AR9 AR10 AR11 AR12 AR13	BR6 BR7 BR9 BR10 BR11 BR13 BR14
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 AR13	BR6 BR7 BR9 BR10 BR11 BR13 BR14
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	BR6 BR7 BR9 BR10 BR11 BR13 BR14
Students will get acquainted with the social and ideological context that has given rise to the different approaches to literary theory.	AR9 AR10 AR11 AR12 AR13	BR6 BR7 BR9 BR10 BR11

Methodologies / tests	Competencies	Ordinary class hours	Student’s personal work hours	Total hours
Supervised projects	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	0	36	36
Directed discussion	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	10	10	20
Oral presentation	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	7.5	0	7.5
Events academic / information	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	5	0	5
Workbook	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	0	30	30
Guest lecture / keynote speech	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	13	0	13

Personalized attention		1	0	1

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

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.

Methodologies	Competencies	Description	Qualification
Supervised projects	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	Monitored research on assigned issues	20
Guest lecture / keynote speech	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	Attendance to lectures on syllabus topics	10
Directed discussion	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	Active participation in sessions	20
Workbook	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	Critical reading of assigned texts to be discussed in class	20
Oral presentation	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	Oral presentation on assigned topics	20
Events academic / information	A9 A10 A11 A12 A13 B6 B7 B9 B10 B11 B13 B14	Attendance and written report of events related to the syllabus	10

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>

Basic
	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.
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