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Lecturer(s)
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Kucíková Monika, PhDr. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Week 1: Colonial and Early American Period, Enlightenment Week 2: The Emergence of National Literature, Romanticism Week 3: Late Romanticism - Transcendentalism Week 4: American Realism and Naturalism Week 5: American Poetry of the Second Half of the 19th Century Week 6: Realist fiction of the early 20th century Week 7: The Lost Generation, the 'Jazz Age', American Modernism Week 8: American Fiction of the 1930s, Southern Literature Week 9: 1940s and 1950s, American Jewish literature Week 10: 60s and 70s, African American literature Week 11: American drama, postmodernism Week 12: Final Test Week 13: Credit
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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- Contact hours
- 26 hours per semester
- Preparation for formative assessments (2-20)
- 16 hours per semester
- Preparation for comprehensive test (10-40)
- 36 hours per semester
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| Knowledge |
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| to use English at level B2 according to the CEFR; |
| to identify key literary movements and currents; |
| to describe significant milestones in the cultural development of the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries; |
| to identify the main features of current cultural events in the USA; |
| to define basic literary terms |
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| to understand literary texts (i.e. prose, drama and poetry texts) |
| to identify the main ideas of given literary works; |
| to adequately summarize literary texts; |
| to take an active part in the discussion on the topic; |
| to explain one´s point of view on a given literary text at a basic level. |
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| learning outcomes |
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| Knowledge |
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| to relate literary developments in the U.S. to significant cultural and historical events; |
| to describe modernism and literary experimentation in American prose in the first half of the 20th century; |
| to characterize the developmental tendencies of American prose, drama, and poetry in the second half of the 20th century; |
| to identify major themes in 19th and 20th century American literature. |
| to identify basic literary-critical practices |
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| to actively use professional literary and scientific terminology; |
| to adequately interpret literary texts of American provenance; |
| to demonstrate knowledge of a given literary genre through analysis of a selected literary text; |
| to characterise the main features of a given literary movement on the basis of their knowledge of it; |
| on the basis of knowledge of a given literary movement, to characterize its main representatives; |
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| teaching methods |
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| Seminar |
| Practicum |
| Skills demonstration |
| Project-based instruction |
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| E-learning |
| Multimedia supported teaching |
| Textual studies |
| Discussion |
| Competences |
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| Practicum |
| Task-based study method |
| Textual studies |
| assessment methods |
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| Knowledge |
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| Test |
| Continuous assessment |
| Seminar work |
| Skills |
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| Test |
| Seminar work |
| Group presentation at a seminar |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Competences |
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| Test |
| Skills demonstration during practicum |
| Continuous assessment |
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Recommended literature
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American literature.
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Baldick, Ch. The Oxford Dictionnary of Literary Terms. Oxford: Oxford University, 2008.
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Gray, Richard J. A history of American literature. Second edition. 2012. ISBN 978-1-4443-4567-4.
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Miller, Q.D. The Routledge Introduction to African American Literature. London, New York. 2016.
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Reesman, Jeanne Campbell; Krupat, Arnold. The Norton anthology of American literature. Volume C, 1865-1914. 7th ed. New York : W.W. Norton, 2007. ISBN 978-0-393-92741-2.
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