Identifying Data 2020/21
Subject (*) Textual and Cultural Negotiations in English-Speaking Countries Code 613505120
Study programme
Mestrado Universitario en Estudos Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións (2019)
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Official Master's Degree 2nd four-month period
 First Optional 3
Language
Galician
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Filoloxía Inglesa
Letras
Coordinador
Clark Mitchell, David Mitchell
 E-mail
david.clark@udc.es
Lecturers
Clark Mitchell, David Mitchell
 E-mail
david.clark@udc.es
Web http://www.imaes.eu/?page_id=31
General description All information referring to this subject can be found on the above web site.
Contingency plan 1. Modificacións nos contidos
Non hai

2. Metodoloxías
*Metodoloxías docentes que se manteñen
As mesmas

*Metodoloxías docentes que se modifican
Ningunha
3. Mecanismos de atención personalizada ao alumnado
Teams, email, Moodle
4. Modificacións na avaliación
Non hai
*Observacións de avaliación:

5. Modificacións da bibliografía ou webgrafía
Non hai

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A3 E03 – Capacity to reflect on the factors which influence the learning and acquisition of English as a foreign language.
A7 E07 – Ability to analyse different types of discourse and discursive genres, both oral and written, in the English language
A9 E09 – Familiarity with the main models and resources in literary/cultural research 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.
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.
B7 G02 – Students must be capable of applying the knowledge acquired in the multidisciplinary and multifaceted area of English Studies
B14 G09 – Students are expected to be able to carry out research projects of an academic nature in the different fields of English Studies
B15 G10 – The ability to present and defend a research project using adequate terminology and resources appropriate to the field of study is a skill which should be acquired.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
Type A: Understanding the historical and cultural context of literary works. AR7
AR9
 BR4
BR5
Type A: Understanding the historical and cultural context of literary works. AR3
AR7
AR9
 BR4
BR5
Type A: Understanding the historical and cultural context of literary works. AR3
AR7
AR9
 BR4
BR5
Type A: Understanding the historical and cultural context of literary works. AR3
AR7
AR9
 BR1
BR2
BR4
BR5
BR7
BR14
BR15

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1) Negotiating cultural stereotypes. 1.1 Popular culture.
1.2 Theories of Adaptatioon
2) Crossing the tracks. 2.1 Irvine Welsh - Translation, music film.
2.2 Scraping the net: Literature and the social networks.
2.3 Literature and film
3) A picaresca e o gótico 3.1 Richard Head
3.2 De Le Fanu a John Connolly

Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Workbook A3 A7 A9 B1 B2 B4 B5 B7 B15 1 10 11
Workshop B14 1 8 9
Directed discussion A3 A7 B14 B15 2 14 16
Oral presentation A7 B1 B2 B4 2 20 22
Introductory activities A3 A7 A9 B1 B2 B14 B15 2 14 16
 
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
Methodologies Description
Workbook Bibliographical activities, guided reading.
Workshop Group activities.
Directed discussion Debateon texts and their context.
Oral presentation Individual presented to the rest of the group.
Introductory activities Presentation based on prior reading.

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Workshop
Workbook
Introductory activities
Oral presentation
Directed discussion
Description
Personal help from the teacher.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Workshop B14 Group activities. 10
Workbook A3 A7 A9 B1 B2 B4 B5 B7 B15 Reading with justification. 10
Introductory activities A3 A7 A9 B1 B2 B14 B15 Presentation 10
Oral presentation A7 B1 B2 B4 Individual activities. 60
Directed discussion A3 A7 B14 B15 Debate 10
 
Assessment comments

Sources of information
Basic

Arnheim, R. (1990). Coming to Terms: the Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Brown, Terence. Ireland: A Social and Cultural History 1922-1985. London: Fontana Press, 1985.

Cohen, K.(1979). Film and Fiction: the Dynamics of Exchange. Yale University Press: New Haven

Duff, A. (1989), Translation. Oxford: OUP.

Ingman, Heather. A History of the Irish Short Story. Cambridge: CUP, 2009

Jeffers, Jennifer. The Irish Novel at the End of the Century: Gender, Bodies, Power. London: Palgrave, 2002.

Kenneally, Michael, ed. Irish Literature and Culture: Irish Literary Studies 35. Gerrard´s Cross: Colin Smythe, 1992.

Kearney, Richard. Postnationalist Ireland: Politics, Culture, Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1997.

MacCarthy, Anne. Identities in Irish Literature. Netbiblo, 2004.

McDougal, S. (1985). Made into Movies: From Literature to Film. Holt Rinehart and Winston: New York.

Muldoon, P. (ed.). The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry.

Peach, Linden. The Contemporary Irish Novel. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.

Smyth, Gerry. The Novel and the Nation: Studies in the New Irish Fiction. London: Pluto Press, 1997.

Storey, Michael. Representing the Troubles in Irish Short Fiction. Washington DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2004

Vance, Norman. Irish Literature: A Social History Tradition, Identity and Difference. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1990.

Welch, Robert (ed.) The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
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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.