ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
- To enhance the students' awareness of the aims and methods of research texts on literary and cultural humanities.
- To help students develop professional skills that will be useful for their future in any academic or research context.
- To familiarize students with the methods of locating information on literary and cultural areas.
- To help students appreciate and distinguish between different kinds of research activities.
- To encourage the students’ autonomous learning.
1. Introduction.
2. The research text (types and aspects)
3. Writing the project.
4. Aims, methodology, corpus, argumentation, and structure.
5. Working with data.
6. Working with other materials.
7. Language requirements.
8. Manuals of style.
9. Presenting and publishing a research text
10. Legal issues
11. Other applications of literary and cultural research
Bibliografía básica y complementaria
Bibliografía básica
Altick, Richard D. and John Fenstermaker. The Art of Literary Research. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1992.
Da Sousa Correa, Delia and W. R. Owens, eds. The Handbook to Literary Research. London: Routledge, 2009.
Eco, Umberto. Cómo se hace una tesis. GEDISA, 2001
Henry, D. J. and A. Dorling Kindersley. Writing for Life: Paragraph to Essay. Harlow: Longman, 2007.
Bibliografía complementaria
Achtert, Walter S., and Joseph Gibaldi. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association, 2009.
Bourdieu, Pierre, et al. Academic Discourse: Linguistic Misunderstanding and Professional Power. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1994
Canagarajah, A. Suresh. Critical Academic Writing and Multilingual Students. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2002.
Durham, Meenakshi Gigi and Douglas M. Kellner, eds. Media and Cultural Studies: Keyworks. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Leitch, Vincent B. et al, eds. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2nd ed. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2010.
Soriano, Ramón. Cómo se escribe una tesis. Guía práctica para estudiantes e investigadores. Córdoba: Berenice, 2008.
The Chicago Manual of Style. 16th ed. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2010.
The Hodges Harbrace Handbook. Beverly: Wadsworth, 2010.
Walker, Melissa. Writing Research Papers. A Norton Guide. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1996.
Wisker, Gina. The Postgraduate Research Handbook. 2nd ed. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
BASIC
CB6 - To possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and / or explanation of ideas, often in a research context.
CB7 - That students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their ability to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
CB9 - That students are able to communicate their conclusions and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
GENERAL
G01 - Ability to delve into those concepts, principles, theories or models related to the various areas of English Studies, as well as to become familiar with the methodology required to solve those problems typical of this field of study.
G02 - Ability to apply the knowledge gained/obtained within the multidisciplinary and mutifaceted/versatile area of English Studies.
G04 - Ability to present experiences, ideas or reports in public, as well as to express informed opinions based on criteria, external rules or personal reflections, for which a sufficient command of the academic and scientific language, both written and oral, will be necessary.
G05 - Abilities to investigate and manage new knowledge and information within the context of English Studies.
G06 - Ability to acquire/achieve critical thinking that will lead students to consider the relevance of the existing research in the fields of study that make up/shape/define English Studies, as well as the relevance of their own investigations.
G08 - Progressive autonomy in the learning process, personal/individual search for resources and information, by getting access/accessing (to) bibliographical and documentary references on the various areas that make up/define/shape English Studies.
G09 - Ability to carry out research work of an academic nature in the different realms of English Studies.
G10 - Ability to present and defend a research project by making use of the appropriate terminology and resources/tools within the area object of study.
SPECIFIC
E09 - Knowledge of the main models and resources of literary/cultural research in the anglophone world.
E10 - Capacity to use the techniques used for the analysis of artistic and cultural texts in the anglophone world.
E11 - Capacity to identify and analyse the most relevant features of the anglophone culture and institutions through texts belonging to different historical periods.
- Online coursework.
- Class debates.
- Practical assignments.
- Engendering students’ autonomous learning by asking them to analyse texts, to prepare presentations and debates, and to write abstracts, reviews, and essays, following the instructions given in class and in tutorials.
Activities include:
- Critical summaries and/or reviews of compulsory readings.
- Writing an abstract (research questions, approach, method, data, expected results) and using keywords.
- Preparing an oral presentation.
- Identifying the different parts of a research paper.
- Participation in class during the sessions and through other channels (e.g. e-mail, discussion forums, virtual platform): 30%. Evaluated competences: CB6, CB7,G06
- Written assignments: 50%. Evaluated competences: CB6, CB7, G01, G02, G05, G08, G09
- Oral presentations: 20%. Evaluated competences: CB9, G08
These criteria will apply to course assessment both in January and July.
The above criteria will also apply in the case of students repeating the course both in the January and July opportunities.
Attendance is compulsory, except for those students who are officially registered as part time and have been granted permission not to attend classes, as stipulated in the regulations of this University. In this case, the assessment system will be as follows: 1) participation through channels such as e-mail, discussion forums, virtual platform, etc. (10%); 2) oral or written exam (20%); 3) other written assignments (50%); 4) and oral presentation, either live or recorded (20%).
3 ECTS corresponds approximately with 75 hours of students' workload.
Total number of hours = 75.
Classroom work time = 14.
Work time via the Virtual Campus = 10.
Individual work time = 51.
MLA website:
http://www.mla.org/
The Norton Introduction to Literature website: http://wwnorton.com/college/english/litweb10/writing/
Purdue Online Writing Lab (OWL):
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
In the case of fraud, the "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións” will be applied.
Margarita Estevez Saa
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811839
- margarita.estevez.saa [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
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| 17:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | C04 |
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| 16:00-17:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | English | C04 |
| 17:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | C04 |
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