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: Second Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
1.- To study and analyse the historical context in which representative works came into being.
2.- To study the cultural transfer between different artistic and literary contexts.
3.- To discuss the interplay and dialogue between literary and cultural traditions and forms.
4.- To establish literary and textual connections among texts and their contexts.
5.- To analyse cultural and literary transferences.
1.-The ‘Cultural Turn’. Cultural Studies and Literary Criticism.
2.-Textual and Cultural Negotiations in Contemporary Literature in English.
3.-Culture, Identity and their Textual and Visual Representations.
NOTE: A detailed syllabus listing the compulsory readings for the course will be provided via the USC Virtual Campus.
BASIC BIBLIOGRAPHY:
ASHLEY, BOB et al. Food and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 2004.
BAKER, CHRIS and EMMA A. JANE. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. London: SAGE, 2016.
DURING, SIMON (ed.). The Cultural Studies Reader. London: Routledge, 2007.
MCNEIL, PETER et al. Fashion in Fiction: Text and Clothing in Literature, Film and Television. Oxford: Berg, 2009.
STAM, ROBERT. Literature through Film: Realism, Magic and the Art of Adaptation. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005.
COMPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY:
CAMPBELL, NEIL and ALASDAIR KEAN. American Cultural Studies: An Introduction to American Culture. London: Routledge, 1997.
CHATMAN, SEYMOUR. Coming to Terms. The Rhetoric of Narrative in Fiction and Film. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1990.
COGHLAN, MICHELLE. The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Food.
HALL, STUART. ‘Notes on Deconstructing “the popular.”’ In John Storey (ed.) Cultural Theory and Popular Culture: A Reader. London: Pearson, 2006, 477-487.
HALL, STUART e TONY JEFFERSON (eds.). Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain. New York: Routledge, 2006.
HANCOK II, JOSEPH H. et al. Fashion in Popular Culture: Literature, Media and Contemporary Studies. Bristol: Intellect, 2013.
HUGHES, CLAIR. Dressed in Fiction. Oxford: Berg.
KUHN, CYNTHIA and CINDY L. CARLSON (eds.). Styling Texts: Dress and Fashion in Literature. Youngston, NY: Cambria Press.
MCFARLANE, BRIAN. Novel to Film: An Introduction to the Theory of Adaptation. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
MURPHY, PATRICK D. Ecocritical Explorations in Literary and Cultural Studies: Fences, Boundaries and Fields. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2010.
SCEATS, SARAH. Food, Consumption and the Body in Contemporary Women’s Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
WALTON, DAVID. Introducing Cultural Studies: Learning through Practice. London: SAGE, 2008.
NOTE: Further bibliographical references will be provided at the beginning of the course.
Competences (“Memoria do Máster Interuniversitario en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados e as súas Aplicacións, 2ª edición”, pp.6-7: http://www.imaes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MEMORIA_ANEXOS-I-II.pdf)
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.
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.
E13. Knowledge of the relationships between the main artistic and literary manifestations in the anglophone world.
1. LECTURE CLASSES. Lecture classes will be devoted to introducing and presenting the theoretical, methodological, and conceptual frameworks informing the course.
2. SEMINARS. Seminars will be student-centred, fostering critical thinking and promoting students’ active learning.
3. TUTORIALS. Tutorials will be used to provide academic support to students and monitor their progress.
4. SUPERVISED ACTIVITIES via the VIRTUAL CAMPUS. This modality will be deployed to foster critical debates on the assigned readings.
The assessment system is based on the following criteria:
1.- Attendance and active participation in seminars: 10% (Assessed competences: G01, G02, G04, G05, E10, E11).
2.- Oral presentations: 30% (Assessed competences: G02, G04, G05, G06, E10, E13).
3.- Written paper: 60% (Assessed competences: G02, G06, E10, E09, E11, E13).
OBSERVATIONS:
1.- These criteria will apply to course assessment both in May and July.
2.- 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, must hand in two assignments previously agreed upon with the teacher. Students in this situation must contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.
3.- Academic misconduct (including cheating, plagiarism or fabrication of results) will not be tolerated and will be penalised in accordance with the terms of the ‘Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revision de cualificacións.’
4.- Assignments must meet the minimum requirements of linguistic correctness (spelling and grammar, punctuation, syntax, lexical precision and formal register).
Total number of hours = 75.
Classroom work time = 14.
Work time via the Virtual Campus = 10.
Individual work time = 51.
1.- Attendance and active participation in class.
2.- Students should complete all the assignments and readings suggested by the teacher and come to the sessions prepared to discuss them. Students must visit the eLearning platform for the course regularly. Students are expected to check their university email on a regular basis: announcements and last-minute changes will be notified via the Virtual Campus.
Noemí Pereira Ares
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- noemi.pereira [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
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| 19:15-20:15 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | C05 |
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