This course is designed to provide students with an overview of anglophone writers from countries that used to be colonies of the British Empire, as well as these countries’ diasporas. An introduction to the socio-historical background of colonial and postcolonial anglophone literatures will be provided as well.
Contingency plan
1. Modifications to the contents
Although the intention is to fulfill all the teaching objectives, pending required readings will be reconsidered, shortened and/or substituted.
2. Methodologies
*Teaching methodologies that are maintained
*Teaching methodologies that are modified
All methodologies (Lectures, Guided discussion, Seminars, Essays and Mixed test) will be adapted to a distant-learning format, via Moodle / Teams. Thus, self-explicative powerpoint presentations and other teaching / learning material (interviews, Ted Talks, etc) will be uploaded, forums and Q&A sessions will be had online, and assignments will be adapted to these media.
3. Mechanisms for personalized attention to students
Moodle/Teams/Email/Phone
4. Modifications in the evaluation
*Evaluation observations:
What is indicated by the Teaching guide will still be valid, although it will take place online.
5. Modifications to the bibliography or webgraphy
None
(*)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.
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