Identifying Data 2020/21
Subject (*) English Literature through its Texts Code 613G01029
Study programme
Grao en Español: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios
Descriptors Cycle Period Year Type Credits
Graduate 1st four-month period
Third Optional 4.5
Language
English
Teaching method Face-to-face
Prerequisites
Department Letras
Coordinador
E-mail
Lecturers
E-mail
Web
General description
Contingency plan 1. Modificacións nos contidos

2. Metodoloxías
*Metodoloxías docentes que se manteñen

*Metodoloxías docentes que se modifican

3. Mecanismos de atención personalizada ao alumnado

4. Modificacións na avaliación

*Observacións de avaliación:

5. Modificacións da bibliografía ou webgrafía

Study programme competencies
Code Study programme competences
A2 Saber analizar e comentar textos e discursos literarios e non literarios utilizando apropiadamente as técnicas de análise textual.
A6 Ter un dominio instrumental avanzado oral e escrito da lingua inglesa.
A7 Coñecer as literaturas en lingua galega, española e inglesa.
A14 Ser capaz para identificar problemas e temas de investigación no ámbito dos estudos lingüísticos e literarios e interrelacionar os distintos aspectos destes estudos.
A15 Ser capaz de aplicar os coñecementos lingüísticos e literarios á práctica.
B6 Ter capacidade de organizar o traballo, planificar e xestionar o tempo e resolver problemas de forma efectiva.
B7 Ter capacidade de análise e síntese, de valorar criticamente o coñecemento e de exercer o pensamento crítico.
C1 Expresarse correctamente, tanto de forma oral coma escrita, nas linguas oficiais da comunidade autónoma.
C3 Utilizar as ferramentas básicas das tecnoloxías da información e as comunicacións (TIC) necesarias para o exercicio da súa profesión e para a aprendizaxe ao longo da súa vida.
C5 Entender a importancia da cultura emprendedora e coñecer os medios ao alcance das persoas emprendedoras.
C6 Valorar criticamente o coñecemento, a tecnoloxía e a información dispoñible para resolver os problemas cos que deben enfrontarse.
C7 Asumir como profesional e cidadán a importancia da aprendizaxe ao longo da vida.

Learning aims
Learning outcomes Study programme competences
Know how to analyse and comment on literary texts in English A2
A6
A7
A14
A15
B6
B7
C5
C6
C7
Know how to analyse and comment on literary texts in English A2
A6
A7
A14
A15
C1
C3
C6
Learn about English literature A7
C5
C6
Learn about English literature A7
C5
C6
Learn to write scholarly essays on English literary texts A2
A6
A7
A15
B6
B7
C5
C6
Learn to write scholarly essays on English literary texts A2
A6
A7
B7
C3
C5

Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. The English Theatre in the 16th and 17th centuries
2. Comedy novels and narrative satirain the 18th c.
3. 19th century English novels
4. Modern narrative
5. PRACTICAS: More often than not, passages from the corpus, but also from modern texts.
1.1 A brief history of the theatre
1.2 Theatrical production in the 16th and 17th centuries.
1.3 Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice
1.4 William Wycherley. The Country Wife
2. 1. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels.
2.2. Fielding and Sterne
3.1 Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice
4.1 Modernist Stream of Consciousness. Woolf, Joyce, Faulkner


Planning
Methodologies / tests Competencies Ordinary class hours Student’s personal work hours Total hours
Document analysis A2 A6 A7 A14 A15 B6 B7 C1 C3 C5 C6 C7 11 11 22
Directed discussion A7 A14 A15 B7 C5 C6 C7 5 5 10
Oral presentation A2 A6 A7 A15 B6 B7 C3 1 1.5 2.5
Supervised projects A2 A6 A7 A14 A15 B6 B7 C5 C6 0 14 14
Guest lecture / keynote speech A7 A14 A15 C6 C7 14 7 21
Mixed objective/subjective test A2 A6 A7 A14 A15 B6 2 15 17
Workbook A2 A6 A7 0 25 25
 
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
Document analysis Textual analysis
Directed discussion Debate
Oral presentation Presentation of an essay
Supervised projects Written essay
Guest lecture / keynote speech Lectures
Mixed objective/subjective test Exam
Workbook Reading of primary sources

Personalized attention
Methodologies
Supervised projects
Description
Every student must write an essay and present another project in "prácticas" classes too.

Assessment
Methodologies Competencies Description Qualification
Mixed objective/subjective test A2 A6 A7 A14 A15 B6 Final exam that includes an essay and/or a commentary . 40
Supervised projects A2 A6 A7 A14 A15 B6 B7 C5 C6 A final paper in which students will discuss a novel from the syllabus.
6-7 double-spaced pages.
Assessment will be based on critical thinking, scholarly work, and expression.
Paper must be submitted by the end of the term.
10
Oral presentation A2 A6 A7 A15 B6 B7 C3 Oral presentation of the final paper (to be delivered during the last two weeks of classes). 20
Directed discussion A7 A14 A15 B7 C5 C6 C7 Active participation in practice classes. 5
Document analysis A2 A6 A7 A14 A15 B6 B7 C1 C3 C5 C6 C7 Several essays will be assigned to be written during class time over the semester. Five of them will be submitted and marked (5 points each). 25
 
Assessment comments
  • The final mark must be 5 or more to pass . Also 1.6 out of 4 in the exam, and 2.4 out of 6 in the continuous evaluation (textal analyses, written essay and oral presentation) are required.
  •  Those students that do not do commentaries in class, essays etc, will not have continuous evaluation marks enough even though they may do the essay, so they will have to recover at least 2.4 out of 6 points in the second opportunity examination. They may obtain 5 out of 5 in between the first opportunity exam (4) and the written essay (1), which is not easy to do, but they would not pass the subject yet because the minimum in continuous evaluation must be met.
  • English is the only language used in class and exams.  Mistakes must be avoided. Plagiarism is also forbidden. Borrowing ideas from the teacher and books is understandable, but students must try to do their own research. Their input is essential.
  • When a student for whatever justified reason (illness, etc) cannot do the continuous evaluation pratices he or she must tell the teacher in advance, otherwise he or she will have to wait for the second opportunity evaluation to make up for such parts.
  • Those students who attend and participate in the continuous assessment activities will be eventually considered "No Presentados" (absent from examination) only if they have done less than 25% of the required activities.

  • Those students that have been given a dispensation must tell the teacher in advance, during the first two weeks of the course. They must write two essays (60 %) and then take the exam.
  • In July the second opportunity evaluation takes place. Those students that have not done or passed the continuous evaluation parts will be given the chance to do so by doing the essays or commentaries necessary. A second 4-point exam is also done at that time for those that failed it earlier or did not take it. That is, the second (July) opportunity will consist of a 40% final exam and 60% activities or tests repeating or replacing the continuous assessment work. Such activities will be specified once the marks for the first opportunity have been published.

  • Sources of information
    Basic

    Primary sources:


    Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice
    William Wycherley. The Country Wife
    Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels. (1st and 4th parts or travels)
    Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice


    Photocopies or powerpoint of pages from other sources. For instance, from Tristram Shandy or from The Sound and the Fury
    Complementary

    --VV.AA. Historia crítica del teatro ingles. Alcoy: Marfil, 1988.

    -- The Cambridge Companion series for the different periods. (Cambridge University Press).

    --Hughes, Derek. English Drama, 1660-1700. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.


    Patea, Viorica, ed. Short Story Theories: A Twenty-first-century Perspective. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012.

    Schmidt, Michael. Reading Modern Poetry. London: Routledge, 1989


    Recommendations
    Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before
    English Literature 1/613G01010
    English Literature 2/613G01017

    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.