Multiculturality as a Pedagogical Strategy

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

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Multiculturality as a Pedagogical Strategy
Code
ДВС 1.09.
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
8 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
6
Learning outcomes
PLO 3, PLO 4, PLO 5, PLO 8, PLO 16, PLO 17, PLO 19, PLO 30.1, PLO 37.1. The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section «Programme Profile».
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Myth and mythology in their interactions with literature; primary historical events, artistic, scientific, and political changes in Western Europe, USA as well as Latin America in the 20th – at the beginning of the 21s century; general representation of postcolonial critics as a tool of literary analysis; basic points within the Current Syllabus for teaching foreign literature at secondary schools in Ukraine, namely its multicultural and comparative components.
Course content
The subject of the discipline comprises the conception of multiculturalism as an effective pedagogical methodology in the corpus of multicultural literary phenomena in Great Britain, Germany, France, Spain, USA, as well as Latin America in the second half of the 20s – at the beginning of the 21s century in the context of multicultural philosophy. The aim of the course is to present multicultural literary discourse of the cultural areas above in the lights of pedagogical strategies, namely when teaching literature based on multicultural components in the secondary school.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Forms and methods of teaching: lectures and practical classes (recitations). Proceedings: evaluation of student performance at practical classes, preparation and evaluation of a multimedia presentation, performance within the final test.
Assessment methods and criteria
The final estimation mark for the course appears as a sum of current control estimation and the final control estimation, namely exam. The forms of current control cover student performance at practical classes (max 50 / min 30 points), presentation of multimedia presentation (max 5/min 3 points), performance during the final test (max 5 / min 3 points). In sum, the forms of final estimation appear in correlation as max 60 / min 36 points. Final estimation is realized as an exam, where estimation correlation shows itself as max 40 / мin 24 points. To get a pass to the final exam, the student has to acquire 36 points. In order to get a positive mark from the discipline, the mark got during the exam should be min 24 points. Estimation Scale 100-point scale Estimation according to the national scale 90–100 5 Еxcellent 85–89 4 Good 75–84 65–74 3 Satisfactory 60–64 35–59 2 Fail
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olena Ivanivna Kobchinska
Department of Foreign Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
Olha Hryhorivna Shestopal
Department of Foreign Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology