120060 PS Literature: Introductory Seminar (2007W)
Interpreting Literary Texts for Scholarly Purposes and Classroom Teaching
Continuous assessment of course work
Labels
anrechenbar als 701 und K 225. ECTS UF Englisch: 3P
Details
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Tuesday 09.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 16.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 23.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 30.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 06.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 13.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 20.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 27.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 04.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 11.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 18.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 08.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 15.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 22.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
- Tuesday 29.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
This course will provide students with additional theoretical knowledge in the field of literary analysis (brushing up skills attained in the introductory lecture course) as well as practical interpretative skills in the literary analysis of texts from the three major genres (drama, poetry, fiction). The texts to be discussed will be selected at the first meeting on the basis of a questionnaire and will include poems, short stories and plays by authors from various periods and traditions within several Anglophone literatures (from the Tudor Age to the present). Participants will also be given guidelines for writing scholarly papers and be introduced into the basic skills of electronic and conventional bibliographical research and the use of a wide range of reference books indispensable to the scholarly study of literary texts. Particular emphasis will be put on such issues as narrative technique, motifs, prosody and style (imagery, rhetorical figures).- Considering the fact that the majority of students are going to be teachers of English, approaches to teaching literature in the EFL classroom will likewise be addressed (albeit only cursorily); however, participants are expected to include a chapter on this didactic aspect applied to their own text in their papers. - The list of texts proposed for discussion in class will be put up on the notice-board in September. The definitive selection will be made in class at the first meeting in October.
Assessment and permitted materials
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
advancing students' theoretical and practical interpretative skills and practical skill in writing research papers; preparing the ground for approaches to teaching literature in the EFL classroom.
Examination topics
interactive, computer-aided teaching with some lecture units, cooperative teaching units, students' presentations and discussion.Requirements: Regular attendance, active participation in the discussions in class, one presentation per participant of a chosen topic (20 mins); proseminar-paper (about 3.500 words) and a final test (which will require a thorough knowledge of the study-materials (handouts) distributed during the semester and of all the texts interpreted in class.)
Reading list
Association in the course directory
304, 701, K 225
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