New Trends in American Literature
General Information
Estimated learning time
Recommendations
Competences / Learning outcomes
Learning objectives
Teaching blocks
Teaching methods and general organization
Official assessment of learning outcomes
Reading and study resources
General Information
| Course unit name | New Trends in American Literature |
| Course unit code | 362755 |
| Academic year | 2024/2025 |
| Coordinator | Clara Escoda Agusti |
| Department | Department of Modern Languages, Modern Literature and English Studies |
| Credits | 6 |
| Single program | No definit |
Estimated learning time
| Activities | Type of training | Hours | Observations |
|---|---|---|---|
| Face-to-face and/or online activities | 46 | ||
| - Lecture with practical component | Face-to-face | 46 | |
| Supervised project | 50 | ||
| Independent learning | 54 |
Recommendations
— Students are expected to revise their English language production.
— Any form of plagiarism in assessed activities will be penalized.
Competences / Learning outcomes to be gained during study
- Commitment to ethical practice (critical and self-critical capabilities/capacity to demonstrate attitudes consistent with accepted notions of ethical practice).
- Capacity for learning and responsibility (capacity for analysis and synthesis, to adopt global perspectives and to apply the knowledge acquired/capacity to take decisions and adapt to new situations).
- Ability to work in a team (capacity to collaborate with others and contribute to a common project/capacity to work in cross-disciplinary and multicultural teams).
- Creative and entrepreneurial skills (capacity to conceive, design and manage projects/capacity to research and integrate new knowledge and approaches).
- Ability to work individually or as part of a team.
- Ability to use bibliographical resources and ICTs as learning and communication tools.
- Descriptive and critical skills.
- Capacity to relate literature to similar areas and disciplines.
- Capacity to work actively and successfully in an academic environment in which English is the primary language.
- Knowledge of English-speaking writers from different eras and cultural backgrounds.
- Knowledge of Anglophone literary criticism and intellectual paradigms.
Teaching blocks
1 Turn-of-the-century literary and cultural debates (twentieth to twenty-first centuries)
2 Turn-of-the-century literary representations (twentieth to twenty-first centuries)
3 Seminal texts
Teaching methods and general organization
The general methodology combines theoretical and practical learning, through lectures and practical, applied activities including guided debates, group work in class, oral presentations, written assignments and research tasks. The gender perspective will be taken into consideration in the content of the subject.
Official assessment of learning outcomes
Continuous assessment
The default assessment method is continuous assessment, whereby students are evaluated for their completion of two, three or four activities over the period of the course. The activities may be oral or written or a combination of the two.
Students who cannot follow the continuous assessment procedure may request single assessment provided they do so by the deadline established in the Faculty’s exam calendar.
The single assessment consists of one final examination for the entire mark. The class teacher will also consider the standard of students’ spelling, vocabulary and grammar in any task subject to assessment.
Repeat assessment
In the re-evaluation test, which will take place on the date assigned by the Faculty, students who have opted for continuous assessment will have the opportunity to retake, at the teacher’s discretion, the exams, tests, or other assessment activities that they have not passed in the previous sitting.
Reading and study resources
Bauman, Zygmunt. Community: Seeking Safety in an Insecure World, 2001
Bauman, Zygmunt. Liquid love. 2003
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