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2014 - 2015
Jack Fleming
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By significantly increasing the students' general knowledge of history, culture and literature
throughout the English speaking world.
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By improving the student's capacity to analyse a text, and to identify important structural
elements and key ideas.
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The course also teaches the values of team work, debate and class participation.
Punctuality and the ability to meet deadlines will also be taken into consideration when evaluating the
student's performance. Class attendance is obligatory, and an unjustified absence from more than one
third of the classes may result in the student being unable to sit the exam.
Prerrequisitos
An advanced level of English is required to attend this course.
Competencias Objetivos
Competencias Genricas del ttulo-curso
Instrumentales
CGI1 Capacidad de anlisis y sntesis
CGI5 Capacidad de organizacin y planificacin
Interpersonales
CGP10 Razonamiento crtico
CGP11 Habilidades interpersonales
CGP13 Trabajo en equipo
CGP16 Reconocimiento de la diversidad y la multiculturalidad
Sistmicas
CGS18 Aprendizaje autnomo
CGS20 Motivacin por la calidad
CGS22 Comprensin de las culturas y las costumbres de otros pases
Competencias Especficas del rea-asignatura
Conceptuales (saber)
CE15 Conocimientos de la cultura de los Estados Unidos y del Reino Unido
RA1 Tiene conocimientos bsicos sobre las principales corrientes del arte, la arquitectura, la literatura
RA2 Tiene conocimientos globales sobre la geografa, historia y poltica
RA5 Conoce la identidad nacional (smbolos y valores)
RA7 Detecta e identifica el lxico especfico relacionado con temas de la cultura y civilizacin
RA8 Establece relaciones entre las distintas culturas
Early Christianity in England: we will take a brief look at the characters and plot of Beowulf to
illustrate how ancient, pagan notions of heroism blended with Christian values.
The Friar's Tale and The Pardoner's Tale: corruption in the Medieval church
PART 2: THE ELIZABETHAN ERA
HISTORY
The Protestant Reformation and the Anglo-Spanish Wars.
Plantations in Ireland and colonisation in the New World.
Everyday life in Elizabethan London.
LITERATURE
Romeo and Juliet: Romantic love in Elizabethan England; the role of fate
Famous soliloquies from Hamlet and Macbeth:
Humanism and the exploration of the human soul through the writings of Shakespeare.
Audiovisual: BBC Documentary, Planet Word
Screen adaptations of Shakespeare
Listening: Radio 4 documentary: Shakespeare's Restless World
Bill Bryson: Shakespeare
PART 3: ENLIGHTENMENT, REVOLUTION AND ROMANTICISM
HISTORY
The British Enlightenment: the Divine Right of Kings vs. libertarianism.
Revolutionary movements in America and France.
The transition from the rational Enlightenment to the passionate Romantic era.
LITERATURE
Jonathan Swift: Gullivers Travels and A Modest Proposal
Romanticism: Wordsworth, Shelley and Keats
The contrast between the Enlightenment and Romantic movements will also be illustrated through music
and painting.
PART 4: IRELAND
HISTORY
Conquest and Protestant ascendancy
The famine and emigration
The Easter Rising and Independence
The troubles in Northern Ireland
LITERATURE
Poems by Yeats: When you are Old and He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
James Joyce: Evelyn from Dubliners
LITERATURE
Arthur Miller: Death of a salesman
If time permits we will also look at excerpts from some of the following texts:
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of wrath
Harper Lee: To kill a mockingbird
Arthur Miller: The Crucible
Students will only be required to read excerpts from the selected texts or, in the case of plays, watch
film adaptations. Only those who chose to do write about a particular text for their written work will be
required to read the novels or plays in their entirety.
METODOLOGA DOCENTE
Aspectos metodolgicos generales de la asignatura
THE GENERAL LEARNING PROCESS
1. Introduction
Each new topic is introduced as follows:
a)
Firstly, the teacher briefly assesses the students' prior knowledge of the subject by eliciting
ideas and themes that they believe are likely to come up. This brainstorming session allows
the students to take stock of their prior knowledge and to share it with others, as well as
sparking interest in the subject before it is formally introduced.
b) The teacher then presents the subject orally, and writes key concepts on the whiteboard. At
this stage students are encouraged to ask questions and take notes.
c) The teacher's presentation is accompanied by texts read out together in class and/or
audiovisual media such as films, radio podcasts, speeches, and so on.
2. Research and discussion
Once the new topic has been introduced, students will gain a greater knowledge of the subject through a
combination of individual study, oral presentations and class discussion.
a) Students will be given texts to read at home (or occasionally recordings to listen to).
b) At the start of each lesson a student will be selected to give a short presentation of the text/
recording to the rest of the class.
The reading and the student's presentation will serve as the basis for a class discussion, in which all
students are encouraged to participate with questions and comments.
WRITTEN WORK
After completing Part 4 of the course (Ireland) students will be required to do an individual piece of
written work of between 2000 and 3000 words.
They are free to choose any topic, historical or literary, that is related to the time periods and literary
movements we have studied. The teacher will suggest ideas, and students may choose their own topic in
consultation with the teacher.
One option for the written work is to write about a novel or a play. I have included below a few
suggestions, but any English-language novel or play may be chosen in consultation with the teacher.
Those students who think they are likely to choose this option are advised to begin their reading well in
advance.
Any play by Shakespeare.
Frank McCourt: Angelas Ashes
Patrick McCabe: The Butcher Boy
George Orwell: 1984
Aldous Huxley: Brave New World
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and the Sea
Kazuo Ishiguro: The Remains of the Day
John Steinbeck: The Grapes of wrath
(this is a very long novel, but I have an audio version I can lend to students)
Harper Lee: To kill a mockingbird
James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Metodologa Presencial: Actividades
Competencias
CGI1
CE11, CE15, CE17, CE18
Competencias
-Lectura individual
CE11, CE18
-Aprendizaje cooperativo a travs actividades en aula virtual: Foros de
debate, ejercicios prcticos
-Estudio individual
CGI5, CGS18
CE17, CE18
CGS18, CGS20
CE11, CE17, CE18
Final exam
Written work
Oral presentation
Homework
Participation
Attendance and punctuality
Individual presentation
PROPORTION
OF FINAL
MARK
50%
15%
8%
7%
10%
10%