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American Literature 1

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Course ID:	3301-L1AL1
Erasmus code / ISCED:	09.201 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0231) Language acquisition The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	American Literature 1
Name in Polish:	Literatura amerykańska 1
Organizational unit:	Institute of English Studies
Course groups:	(in Polish) Obowiązkowe zajęcia dla pierwszego roku studiów pierwszego stopnia
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	2.00 Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
Language:	English
Type of course:	obligatory courses
Prerequisites (description):	Proficient command of English. The ability to read literature in English.
Mode:	Classroom
Short description:	The course is a survey of the most important tendencies and phenomena in the history of American literature from traditional Native American oral narratives to the literature of the 1920s.
Full description:	The course is a survey of the most important tendencies and phenomena in the history of American literature from traditional Native American oral narratives to the literature of the 1920s. The material for discussion is arranged chronologically and the thematic core of the course is as follows: colonial literature, the Enlightenment, romantic fiction, transcendentalism, nineteenth-century poetry, realism, naturalism, modernist poetry, and the Harlem Renaissance.
Bibliography:	Tsimshian tribe “Raven Makes a Girl Sick and Then Cures Her” Anne Bradstreet “Here Follows Some Verses upon the Burning of Our House” Edward Taylor “Upon the Sweeping Flood” Jonathan Edwards “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” Benjamin Franklin “Continuation of the Account of my Life, begun at Passy, near Paris 1784” (from Autobiography) Hector St. John de Crèvecœur “What Is an American?” Washington Irving “Legend of Sleepy Hollow” Nathaniel Hawthorne “Young Goodman Brown” Ralph Waldo Emerson “Self-Reliance” Henry David Thoreau “Resistance to Civil Government” Herman Melville “Bartleby the Scrivener” Edgar Allan Poe “The Cask of Amontillado” Walt Whitman “Song of Myself” (parts 1-6) Emily Dickinson poems 258, 712, 986 Henry James Daisy Miller Edith Wharton “Roman Fever” Mark Twain Huck Finn (chapters 1-8) Jack London “To Build a Fire” Stephen Crane “Open Boat” Robert Frost “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” Ezra Pound “In a Station of the Metro” W. C. Williams “The Young Housewife” H.D. “Fragment 113” Langston Hughes “Mulatto” “Harlem” Zora Neale Hurston “Sweat”
Learning outcomes:	Knowledge K_W01 The graduate will be able to identify the place and specificity of English Studies against the background of other academic disciplines within the humanities K_W02 The graduate will be able to understand key terminology, well established methods and theories of literary studies and culture studies within English studies - K_W04 The graduate will be able to describe the relation between American literature and historical and cultural processes on an advanced level. K_W09 The graduate will be able to identify the multiplicity of cultures in the USA and their complexity as well as to recognize American cultural codes and structural and institutional background on an advanced level. Abilities K_U01 The graduate is able to employ the terminology and methodological tools from literary studies to analyze American literature. K_U03 The graduate is able to analyze American literary and cultural phenomena and draw generalizations on their basis with respect to the social, historical, and economic context. Social competences K_K03 value responsibility for one’s own work and respect the work of others, adhering to the professional and ethical norms in various projects and other activities undertaken at work, voluntary services, etc. K_K06 The graduate is ready to value cultural heritage and cultural diversity.
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Being prepared for classes (reading the assigned texts) Participation in class discussion A maximum of 3 absences is allowed Final test: written test Make-Up: written test
Practical placement:	N/A

Classes in period "Winter semester 2023/24" (past)

Time span:	2023-10-01 - 2024-01-28	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO CW TU CW CW W CW CW TH CW FR CW CW CW
Type of class:	Classes, 30 hours more information
Coordinators:	Ewa Łuczak
Group instructors:	Kamil Chrzczonowicz, Julia Fiedorczuk-Glinecka, Marek Paryż, Anna Pochmara-Ryżko, Joanna Ziarkowska-Ciechanowska
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Grading Classes - Grading

Classes in period "Winter semester 2024/25" (future)

Time span:	2024-10-01 - 2025-01-26	Selected timetable range: weekly course term Navigate to timetable MO CW TU CW W CW CW CW TH FR CW CW CW CW
Type of class:	Classes, 30 hours more information
Coordinators:	(unknown)
Group instructors:	Kamil Chrzczonowicz, Julia Fiedorczuk-Glinecka, Marek Paryż, Anna Pochmara-Ryżko, Anna Potoczny, Joanna Ziarkowska-Ciechanowska
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Grading Classes - Grading

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