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Literary Studies: Theories and Practices

ОК 08

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2023/2024

2 Semester

6

PLO 9, PLO 11, PLO 12, PLO 13 The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section «Programme Profile».

Successful completion of the general theoretical disciplines of bachelor's and master’s degree programs. Successful completion of the program’s previous literary disciplines. Competency in applying various methodologies of a literary analysis of text. Proficiency in the core literary concepts is required for the implementation of literary analytics.

The discipline is aimed to provide students with knowledge and skills that create the necessary organizational basis for literary research, its presentation to the scientific community. The discipline introduces students to the problems of methodology of modern literary studies, to the peculiarities of the organization of scientific work, to the main stages of scientific literary research with a methodological component. The course focuses on the study of basic research and interpretive practices, as well as on various approaches to the analysis of a literary text, choice of the method that is most adequate for each case of research. Students master the skills of independent research work with theoretical, literary and critical sources: articles, monographs, textbooks, encyclopedias etc.

The course provides students with a range of assessment in different forms: oral personal responses, additional responses, class discussions, presentations of individual projects, blitz question-answer sessions, tests. The following teaching methods are suggested: lecture, seminar, individual projects, independent work.

Formative assessment during semester. In-process evaluations of academic progress are worth of up to 60% of the semester grade and include grade points for all the tasks assigned in the course – max 30 / min 15–for answers at the seminars, max 15 / min 11 for writing essays, max 15 / min 10 – for the final test paper. Summative assessment is carried out in the form of exam. It weighs of up to 40% of the course grade. Students have to obtain no less than 36 points to be entitled for an examination. To get a positive course grade, the exam grade should not be less than 24 points. Examination card includes two theoretical and/or applied questions: in Archetypal Criticism (max 20 / min 12 points) and in Gender Studies (max 10 / min 6 points). Correlation Scale According to 100-point scale Mark according to national scale 90–100 5 Еxcellent 75–89 4 Good 60–74 3 Satisfactory 35–59 2 Fail

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