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Lecturer(s)
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Šilhánek Ivan, Doc.
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Ženíšek Martin, PhD
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Course content
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One of the consequences of the status of English as a global language is the fact that anglophone culture exists not only where it is the first language, but also where it is the second. Some writers have adopted English to such a degree that they now write in it. This is connected both with the legacy of the British Empire and the emergence of English as a global language, due in large part to the internet. This course does not use the nation as the frame for culture, rather it concentrates on how anglophone culture functions across the globe (mainly in literature, film and music). As introduction to this overlap of language and culture, we will begin with David Crystal's English as a Global Language; theories of transnationalism, globalization and intercultural communication will also furnish ways to understand this new approach to culture. This will allow us to both freshly see older cultural phenomena in an international context and also understand newer ones.
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture, Seminar
- Contact hours
- 22 hours per semester
- Preparation for formative assessments (2-20)
- 10 hours per semester
- Presentation preparation (report in a foreign language) (10-15)
- 15 hours per semester
- Graduate study programme term essay (40-50)
- 40 hours per semester
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| give examples of current anglophone literatury works |
| be familiar with postcolonial literary theory and global cultures |
| Skills |
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| discuss culture across countries |
| identify new movements in global English cultures |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Lecture |
| Skills |
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| Seminar |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Continuous assessment |
| Skills |
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| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Seminar work |
| Continuous assessment |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
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Recommended literature
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APPIAH, Kwame Anthony. Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers. W. W. Norton, 2006. ISBN 978-0-393-32933-9.
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