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GERM1360 - English literature: the 20th century and beyond


USL-B


Credits : 5

Lecturer :
Teaching assistant :
Mode of delivery :
Face-to-face , first term, 30 hours of theory and 7 hours of exercises.

Language of instruction :
English

Learning outcomes :
At the end of the course, students should be able to
- critically approach an author, a literary text, period, movement or critical method;
- produce a structured, well-argued discourse that integrates the specific vocabulary and concepts used in literary studies;
- analyse a literary text using the knowledge acquired through the course.


Prerequisites :
For the Bachelor in French and Romance Languages and Letters : General :

For the Bachelor in Modern Languages and Letters: German, Dutch and English :

For the Bachelor in Philosophy :


Co-requisites :
None

Course contents :
This course deals with English literature in the 20th and 21st centuries. It evokes modernism, postmodernism and beyond, stressing how English literature progressively opens up to the rest of the world and a multiplicity of new voices and forms.

This course includes 7 hours of workshops. These sessions are meant to help students become more familiar with the texts thanks to activities in which the extracts discussed in class are approached from a different angle. These workshops also include regular writing tasks and/or oral presentations.


Planned learning activities and teaching methods :
Lectures. Students are encouraged to actively prepare and take part in the discussions through weekly compulsory reading tasks and the creation of a short video on one aspect of the course.
The lectures make ample use of audio-visual material and technologies (extracts from film adaptations or performances, interactive quizzes with voting devices, etc.).


Assessment methods and criteria :
15-minute oral exam (with 15 minutes of preparation).

Recommended or required reading :
A bibliography with the main references is included in the reading portfolio.

Other information :
Course notes with course plan and reading portfolio.

PowerPoint presentations available on Moodle after each session.

Course taught in 2023-2024.