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Lecturer(s)
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Šilhánek Ivan, Doc.
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Ronešová Andrea, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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One of the newest trends in literary criticism of the last few decades is concerned with immigrant culture and its central position in American and British literature. In contrast with previous ideas that novels, poems and plays originate from pure national sources, contemporary cultural criticism explores routes not roots (as James Clifford puns). In the seminar students will follow the various paths of immigrants into anglophone society and track how these writers engage with the new culture. They come from Eastern Europe, as well as more distant continents. Students will be able to apply the skills gained in the seminar Intercultural Intelligence as they work on particular literary texts, films and documentaries. Further, they will learn about the various barriers and problems (including their solutions) in intercultural communication, which foreigners encounter in anglophone culture.
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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
- Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40)
- 30 hours per semester
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| prerequisite |
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| Knowledge |
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| No prerequisites |
| learning outcomes |
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| list key examples of immigrant culture |
| Skills |
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| analyze patterns of interaction with immigrant culture in the anglophone world |
| connect patterns of immigrant cultures with intercultural engagements learned about in previous seminars |
| Competences |
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| N/A |
| teaching methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Lecture |
| Seminar |
| assessment methods |
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| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Individual presentation at a seminar |
| Seminar work |
| Continuous assessment |
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Recommended literature
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WALKOWITZ, Rachel. The Location of Literature: The Transnational Book and the Migrant Writer. Contemporary Literature, roč. 47 (2006), č. 4, s. 527-545. 2006, ISSN 1548-9949.
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