Fundamentals of Comparative Literary Studies

Course: “Foreign Literature and the English Language: Theory and Methodology of Teaching”

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Fundamentals of Comparative Literary Studies
Code
ВБ 2.01
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2022/2023
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
7 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5
Learning outcomes
PLO 15, PLO 16, PLO 19, PLO 28.1, PLO 35.1. The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section "Programme Profile".
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
The student must know: - main comparative theories and categories of comparative analysis; - history of the world and ukrainian literature of the romanticism; - methods of comparative analysis of the text (in particular, imagology, intermediality, typology of genres, styles, directions, universals, archetypes, oneiro space, themes and motifs);; - scientific achievements of leading native and foreign comparative researchers. The student must be able to: - to comparare works of foreign and ukrainian literature; - to trace the theoretical knowledge to comparare analysis of the ukrainian and foreign literature of the romanticism; - collect scientific information, prepare reviews, annotations, abstracts and bibliography on the subject of literary comparative studies; - present materials of own research orally, in writing and in the form of presentations.
Course content
The discipline "Fundamentals of literary comparative studies" aims to introduce students with native and foreign comparative theories and develop skills of comparative analysis of literary work. Students' attention is focused on foreign and Ukrainian literature of the period of romanticism. The structure of the course provides consideration of main typology in its specific categories, clarification of the genetic connection of Ukrainian literature in the system of world literature.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Forms of study consist of lectures, seminars, and students’ self-study. Teaching methods include answers at the seminars, writing a paper, and a final test paper.
Assessment methods and criteria
The course ends with a credit. The grade is formed as the sum of points gained in the in-process evaluations of academic progress, which weigh of up to 100% of the course grade: max 60 for oral answers in seminars, max 10 for writing a paper, and max 30 for a final test paper. No summative assessment activity is required. A student who has obtained minimum of 60 points is granted a successful completion of the course. If a student does not attain a minimum grade of 60 points, he/she is required to submit the assignments set for this course. The final evaluation of learning outcomes is carried out on a single 100-point scale. There is applied the scale of conformity with grades: Passed 60-100; Fail 0-59.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Tetyana Volodymyrivna Bovsunivska
Department of Foreign Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Foreign Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology