| Course title | Introduction to Literature |
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| Course code | KAJ/ULITQ |
| Organizational form of instruction | Seminar + On-line Activities |
| Level of course | Bachelor |
| Year of study | 1 |
| Semester | Winter |
| Number of ECTS credits | 2 |
| Language of instruction | Czech |
| Status of course | Compulsory |
| Form of instruction | Face-to-face |
| Work placements | This is not an internship |
| Recommended optional programme components | None |
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| Course content |
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Week 1 Introduction to the course and literary studies The concept of literature, criteria of literature, Literary Studies, literary form-narrative, lyric, dramatic Week 2 state holidays Week 3 Introduction to literary analysis, how to look for secondary sources and use citation properly Week 4 Introduction to Fiction plot,theme,story, characters, point of view, setting, types of narratives, literary genres, style of writing, William Faulkner: "That Evening Sun" Week 5 Basic principles of literary analysis Zora Neale Hurston: "The Gilded Six-Bits" Week 6 Introduction to Drama act and scene, dramatic structure, characters, tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, the development of theatre, the theatre of absurd Week 7 Drama analysis Tennessee Williams: The Glass Menagerie Week 8 Introduction to Poetry poetic form, lyric poetry, epic poetry, rythm and rhyme, stanzaic patterns, poetic languace Week 9 Cooked and raw poetry Adrienne Rich, e.e. cummings, William Blake, Allen Ginsberg Week 10 Literary criticism postructuralism and deconstruction, psychoanalysis, historicisms, political ciritism, feminism, gender studies, critical race theory, colonial and post-colonial studies, cultural studies Week 11 Fact vs Fiction, revisiting history Frederick Douglass: from The Narrative of Frederick Douglass Art Spiegelman: from MAUS Sherman Alexie: Captivity Week 12 Experimetns in literature James Joyce: from Ulysses Samuel Beckett: Play Week 13 credit week
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| Learning activities and teaching methods |
| Lecture, Dialogic Lecture (Discussion, Dialog, Brainstorming), Work with Text (with Book, Textbook) |
| Learning outcomes |
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This course is designed as an elementary introduction to basic literary terms that can be considered as technical tools to enable students to approach literary texts and deal with the intellectually challenging problems that they encounter in literature. It should guide them in applying ideas in the best way so that they can construct their own analyses and interpretations of a literary work. The seminar each week will consist of discussions around a particular literary text (mainly short stories and poetry).
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| Prerequisites |
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unspecified
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| Assessment methods and criteria |
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Written exam, Analysis of Creative works (Music, Pictorial,Literary)
1. participation in discussion and reading assigned texts (only 3 absences possible) 2. submitting analyses of the assigned texts for every seminar Deadline for submitting analyses of the asigned texts on day of particular seminar Students have 2nd deadline, when they are not able to hand in the analyses on time: 5th December The third deadline for submitting all the assigned analyses is 12th December If the deadlines are not kept and any hint of plagiarism appears in analyses, students will not be given credits from this subject. |
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| Study plans that include the course |
| Faculty | Study plan (Version) | Category of Branch/Specialization | Recommended semester | |
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| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): English with an Emphasis on Educational Aspects (BB18) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter |
| Faculty: Faculty of Education | Study plan (Version): English with an Emphasis on Educational Aspects (BB17) | Category: Pedagogy, teacher training and social care | 1 | Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter |