A World Epic
Course: Folklore Studies, Ukrainian Language and Literature and Foreign Language
Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
            Title
        
        
            A World Epic
        
    
            Code
        
        
            ННД.22
        
    
            Module type 
        
        
            Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
        
    
            Educational cycle
        
        
            First
        
    
            Year of study when the component is delivered
        
        
            2022/2023
        
    
            Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
        
        
            4 Semester
        
    
            Number of ECTS credits allocated
        
        
            4
        
    
            Learning outcomes
        
        
            PLO15. To carry out linguistic, literary and special philological analysis of texts of different styles and genres; 
PLO16: To know and understand the basic concepts, theories and concepts of folklore studies, linguistics and literary studies, to be able to apply them in professional activities; 
PLO24: Identify the main mythologemes in author's and folklore works and analyze them.
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
            Full-time form
        
    
            Prerequisites and co-requisites
        
        
            Before starting the study of this discipline, students should know the socio-historical conditions of the development of culture and literature of the countries whose epics will be studied. Be able to work with various sources of educational and scientific information, process them, analyze the researched material, make generalizations and conclusions. Possess elementary skills of scientific research; search and processing of educational and scientific information.
        
    
            Course content
        
        
            Purpose of discipline - to form students' knowledge of the main aspects and directions of development of the world heroic epic; to familiarize with the methods of comparative analysis, problems of genealogy and typology in the monuments of the world epic; to find out the national features of the epos samples of different countries.
Annotation. The discipline gives an idea of the main aspects and directions of development of the world heroic epic as a process, cultural and historical eras and styles; the formation of a heroic epic in direct connection with historical events and the formation of mythological ethnic systems; for textual analysis, the most typical texts of a certain genre-thematic group and the corresponding cultural-historical era are selected.
        
    
            Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
        
        
            Heroic epic. Lexicon of general and comparative literature. Chernivtsi: Golden Drums, 2001. 634 p.; "Kalevala". Finnish folk epic. Trans. from fin. E. Tymchenko; Prev. D. Pavlichka. Kyiv: Osnovy, 1995. 347 p.; Kolomiyetsʹ N.YE. Evolyutsiya heroyichnoho eposu Zakhidnoyi Yevropy doby piznʹoho Serednʹovichchya // Zb. pratsʹ «Literatury svitu: poetyka, mentalʹnistʹ i dukhovnistʹ». Vyp.6. Kryvyy Rih, 2015. S. 316-323; Rudakova N. Mizhsyuzhetni paraleli svitovoho heroyichnoho eposu//Zb. pratsʹ «Literatura. Folʹklor. Problemy poetyky». Vyp.45. K., 2019. S.130-137. http://book-online.com.ua/show_book.php?book=2233
        
    
            Planned learning activities and teaching methods
        
        
            The course includes 2 content parts. The educational discipline consists of two substantive parts. Forms of education: lectures, seminars, independent work. Throughout the semester, after lectures on relevant topics, seminar classes are held, which are evaluated according to the types of work (oral response, addition, participation in discussion, control work, presentation of independent research, exam).
        
    
            Assessment methods and criteria
        
        
            Knowledge control is carried out according to the ECTS system, which provides for a two-level assessment of the learned material, assessment of theoretical training - learning outcomes (knowledge) - 40% of the total assessment and assessment of practical training - learning outcomes (skills, communication) - 60% of the overall assessment.
Evaluation of the semester work: oral answer, additions, participation in the discussion, current control work: 25/45b. Preparation and defense of the presentation: 11/15b. The overall grade for the semester consists of points received for classroom work (oral answers, additions, participation in discussion, current test papers, defense of the presentation) and for independent work (preparation of the presentation). The final grade for the discipline (minimum 60, maximum 100 points) consists of the sum of the number of points for the semester work (minimum 36, maximum 60 points) and the written exam (minimum 24, maximum 40 points).
        
    
            Language of instruction
        
        
            Ukrainian Language
        
    Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
                    Nataliia 
                    Ivanivna
                    Rudakova 
                
                
                    Department of folklore 
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
            Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Departments
The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline
                        Department of folklore
                    
                    
                        Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology