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Ecocultural Component in Teaching Foreign Literature

ДВС 1.08.

Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП

First

2022/2023

7 Semester

5

PLO 3, PLO 7, PLO 11, PLO 15, PLO 16, PLO 19, PLO 30.1, PLO 37.1. The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section " Programme Profile".

Full-time form

Before the course of study students are expected to complete successfully the program’s previous literary disciplines; to demonstrate basic knowledge of literary terms and be competent in applying various methodologies of a literary analysis of text.

The discipline is aimed at introducing students to the methodology and practice of ecological criticism. The course involves mastering eco-centered reading of a literary text. The study of the discipline contributes to the formation of ecological consciousness and provides the future student teachers with professionally oriented competence.

Garrard G. Ecocriticism. – L.: Routledge, 2020. Bate J. The Song of the Earth. Picador, 2020. Kroeber K. Ecological Literary Criticism: Romantic Imagining and the Biology of Mind. CUP, 2018. Soper K. What is Nature? Culture, Politics and Non-Human. Blackwell, 2019.

The course is delivered with the help of such teaching methods as lectures, seminars, students’ individual work. Forms of tuition include oral reports and group discussions at seminars, individual tasks, PowerPoint presentations.

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: 70 for oral answers in seminars, 10 for an individual task, and 20 for a PowerPoint presentation. 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.

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