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Teaching GuideTerm Faculty of Philology |
| Grao en Inglés: Estudos Lingüísticos e Literarios |
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| Culture and Civilisation of English-Speaking Countries |
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| Identifying Data | 2023/24 | |||||||||||||
| Subject | Culture and Civilisation of English-Speaking Countries | Code | 613G03022 | |||||||||||
| Study programme |
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| Descriptors | Cycle | Period | Year | Type | Credits | |||||||||
| Graduate | 1st four-month period |
Third | Obligatory | 6 | ||||||||||
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| Topic | Sub-topic |
| 1. Introduction | 1.1. Commentary of the programme, method, deadlines, assessment, etc. |
| 2. Brief history of the British Isles and its influence on the development of the language | 2.1. Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Vikings |
| 2.2. The Norman Conquest and its cultural consequences | |
| 2.3. Wales: Under English domination | |
| 2.4. Scottish independence; Bannockburn 1314 | |
| 2.5.. The Tudors;how they came to rule: The bones of a King under the carpark. The Invincible Armada | |
| 2.6. The trial of Charles I, the Republic, and the Restoration of the monarchy | |
| 2.7. Industrial Revolution; the Victorian period; the empire | |
| 2.8. WWI; WWII | |
| 3. Brief history of the United States | 3.1. Early America. The colonial period |
| 3.2. The Independence | |
| 4. Physical geography of the British Isles | 4.1. Climate |
| 5. Physical geography of the USA | 5.1. Climate |
| 6. The constitution of the UK | 6.1. Government |
| 6.2. Elections; the role of the monarchy ; the Abdication Crisis 1936 | |
| 7. The constitution of the USA | 7.1. Government |
| 7.2. Elections; the role of the president | |
| 8. Foreign affairs | 8.1. The UK vs. EU; Brexit 8.2. UK's Special Relationship with the USA |
| 9. Outstanding women in the history of the English-speaking countries | 9.1 Their roles and influence |
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