ECTS credits ECTS credits: 6
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 99 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 24 Interactive Classroom: 24 Total: 150
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable
According to "Memoria verificada do grao":
-To provide students with knowledge about the social, cultural and political context of the Romantic movement.
-To study the ideological and aesthetic innovations advanced by the Romantics.
-To understand the legacy of Romanticism in the literary tradition.
-To familiarise students with the main Romantic genres and authors, and with the most representative Romantic works both in English literature and in North American literature.
-To explain students the differences and similarities between English and North American Romanticism.
According to "Memoria verificada do grao":
-Social, cultural and political context of the Romantic movement
-Ideological and aesthetic innovations of Romanticism
-The legacy of Romanticism in the literary tradition
-Main Romantic genres and authors
-Most representative Romantic works both in English literature and in North American literature.
-Differences and similarities between English and North American Romanticism.
The contents are structured as follows:
MODULE 1: English Romanticism
MODULE 2: North American Romanticism
BÁSICA:
Klancher, Jon (ed.). 2009. A Concise Companion to the Romantic Age. Malden & Oxford: Blackwell.
Middeke, Martin, Gabriele Rippl & Hubert Zapf (eds.). 2016. Handbook of Transatlantic North American Studies. Berlin & Boston: de Gruyter.
Perry, Seamus. 1999. “Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept” in A Companion to Romanticism. London & New York: Blackwell.
Wu, Duncan (ed.). 1999. A Companion to Romanticism. Malden & Oxford: Blackwell.
COMPLEMENTARIA:
Bieber, Christina L. 2013. “Aylmer’s Moral Infancy. Nathaniel Hawthorne and the Quest for Human Perfection” in Prophets of the Posthuman: American Fiction, Biotechnology, and the Ethics of Personhood. Paris: University of Notre Dame Press.
Brennan, Zoe. 2010. “Language, Style and Form” in Brontë’s Jane Eyre. London & New York: Bloomsbury.
Campos, Noemi, 2022. “Sexual Imagery: Why Does It Still Matter?” in UC Merced Undergraduate Research Journal 14(1). DOI: 10.5070/M414157335
Deresiewicz, William. 2005. “Introduction” in Jane Austen and the Romantic Poets. New York: Columbia University Press.
Mellor, K. Anne. 2014. “The Debate on The Rights of Woman: Wollstonecraft’s Influence on the Women Writers of Her Day” in Called to Civil Existence: Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”. Leiden: Brill.
Messent, Peter. 2012. “Edgar Allan Poe: ‘The Murders in the Rue Morgue’ (1841)” in The Crime Fiction Handbook. London & New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Messent, Peter. 2012. “Introduction” in The Crime Fiction Handbook. New York: John Wiley & Sons
Pollak, Vivian R. 2000. “Faith in Sex” in The Erotic Whitman. San Francisco: University of California Press.
According to "Memoria verificada do grao":
BASIC COMPETENCE: CB1, CB2, CB3, CB4 e CB5
GENERAL COMPETENCE: CG1, CG8
Students will have LECTURES (2 hours per week), will participate in INTERACTIVE SEMINARS (1 hour per week), and in TUTORIALS (in group and individually).
The VIRTUAL CAMPUS that USC offers to assist the teaching-learning process will be used to upload the reading material for the course and to complete a number of exercises corresponding to the continuous assessment system.
The assessment system is based on the following norms and regulations:
-"Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” do 15 de xuño de 2011
-"Regulamento de asistencia a clase nas ensinanzas oficiais de grao e máster da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela” do 25 de novembro do 2024
-“Normativa de permanencia nas titulacións de grao e mestrado da USC” do 5 de xullo de 2012
-"Lei orgánica do sistema universitario" do 22 de marzo do 2023
Two types of assessment are offered: continuous assessment (exercises 40% + exams 60%) and final exam (100%). First year students join by default the continuous assessment system, which they can lose if they do not attend a minimum number of teaching hours.
Class attendance is compulsory in order to join the continuous assessment system. According to "Regulamento de asistencia a clase nas ensinanzas oficiais de grao e máster da Universidade de Santiago de Compostela", it is necessary to attend 90% of formative sessions to join the continuous assessment system.
In July (second opportunity), the exam will represent 100% of the final grade.
Students officially exempt from class attendance will have to sit the final exam.
Academic fraud will be penalised, according to article 16 within "NORMATIVA DE AVALIACIÓN DO RENDEMENTO ACADÉMICO DO ESTUDANTADO E DE REVISIÓN DE CUALIFICACIÓNS".
Evaluation criteria: knowledge of theoretical contents, capacity for critical analysis in the presentation of idea, clarity in the exposition, coherence in expression and correct use of language.
Since this is an ECTS subject, the student need 150 hours (lectures and autonomous work included) to pass the subject.
MODULE 1: 5 weeks
MODULE 2: 5 weeks
The rest of the sessions will be devoted to assessment activities and revision of contents.
Students are encouraged to participate actively and regularly in class, to revise and to complete their notes weekly, and to work in groups.
More detailed information about the subject is included in the "Guía Docente e Material Didáctico da asignatura" that the students can check in the Campus Virtual.
Maria Alonso Alonso
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- maria.alonso.alonso [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
| Monday | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C05 |
| 12:00-13:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C05 |
| Tuesday | |||
| 11:00-12:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | D10 |
| 05.26.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C01 |
| 05.26.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C01 |
| 06.30.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLE_01 | C01 |
| 06.30.2026 09:30-13:30 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | C01 |