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The American Essay

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Course ID:	3301-LA225
Erasmus code / ISCED:	09.203 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:	The American Essay
Name in Polish:	Esej amerykański
Organizational unit:	Institute of English Studies
Course groups:	(in Polish) Fakultatywne przedmioty dla studiów dziennych z literatury amerykańskiej
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	6.00 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. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	elective courses
Short description:	The course is devoted to the literary genre known as essay. Students are offered classes which focus on the study of critical articles, essays, letters, diaries, and manifestos of selected American writers, thus enabling students to acquaint themselves with the formal characteristics of the essay form.
Full description:	The aim of the course is to introduce students to literature understood a bit differently than fiction-writing or literary criticism. Essay is a literary form which invites an intriguing combination of personal tone and autobiographical information with the elements of social and political critique and literary criticism. Therefore, in the course 225 students are offered classes which focus on the study of critical articles, essays, letters, diaries, and manifestos of selected American writers, thus enabling students to, first of all, acquaint themselves with the formal characteristics of the essay form (in terms of style, rhetoric, structure etc.) and second, gain an insight into the problematics of self-writing in the work of discussed authors. In order to foster comparative reading, the syllabus is divided into thematic sections -- there are, for example, sections devoted to such topics as illness, youth, music, solitude, or sense of humor - within which the essays of American writers are discussed against the background of the ideas of other writers and philosophers. While the general structure of the syllabus is thematic, the thematic organization takes into consideration the necessity to present students with the history the essay genre.
Bibliography:	The reading list to be announced.
Learning outcomes:	A student will acquire advanced information about :The American Essay and will develop his/her analytical skills.

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 TU W TH CW FR
Type of class:	Classes, 30 hours, 6 places more information
Coordinators:	Zuzanna Ładyga-Michalska
Group instructors:	Zuzanna Ładyga-Michalska
Students list:	(inaccessible to you)
Examination:	Course - Grading Classes - Grading

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