- Docente: Jan Steyn
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-LIN/10
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Forli
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)
Learning outcomes
In my course, students will learn the skills and methods required to interpret and analyze literary texts written in English. They will learn to pay slow, deliberate, careful, and close attention to formal, linguistic, and thematic levels of a text. Students will be acquainted with the basics concerning the literature of the Anglo-speaking world, and be able to identify and recognize those aspects as they appear in specific texts, as well as being able to develop additional knowledge of higher-level cultural and literary skills and apply them to other literary texts.
Course contents
We will be “reading” texts of various kinds – written, filmic, or musical – that can be considered literary precisely because of the way they reward the close attention we will practice.
Each week will include an asynchronous component, whereby students are asked to read or view works, write blog posts, or listen to recorded lectures in their own time, before a specific deadline. The work that the students produce during this asynchronous part will be graded as a portfolio (30% of the course grade).
Each week will also include a synchronous component, consisting of live sessions via Zoom. For these sessions, students will have prepared in advance by reading or watching the work assigned in the course schedule.
Together, across both the synchronous and asynchronous modalities, students will get to know a diverse selection of rich literary texts produced in the Anglophone world and will be equipped with the tools to analyze them.
Readings/Bibliography
Please see the course schedule, which will be regularly updated. Readings will include short stories, a hip-hop musical, a novella, several films, and other materials suitable to the methods of analysis taught in this class.
Teaching methods
1) Asynchronous work — work you undertake in your own time, at you own pace, but submit before a set deadline (usually the deadline is our class time on Tuesday).
2) Synchronous lectures plus discussions on Zoom.
Assessment methods
1) The sum of your asynchronous work considered as a portfolio. (30%)
2) One final written exam (70%)
Teaching tools
Books, films, short stories, sound recordings (all made available electronically) — and any text that lends itself to being “read.”
Office hours
See the website of Jan Steyn