Theory of Literature
Course: Ukrainian Language and Literature (for Foreigners; Ukrainian as the Language of Instruction)
Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology
            Title
        
        
            Theory of Literature
        
    
            Code
        
        
            ННД.04.01
        
    
            Module type 
        
        
            Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
        
    
            Educational cycle
        
        
            Second
        
    
            Year of study when the component is delivered
        
        
            2021/2022
        
    
            Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
        
        
            1 Semester
        
    
            Number of ECTS credits allocated
        
        
            2
        
    
            Learning outcomes
        
        
            PLO 8. To assess the historical legacy and new achievements of Literary Studies.
PLO 11. To perform a scholarly analysis of linguistic, speech and literary material, interpret and structure it considering efficient methodological principles, formulate summarizations based on the individually processed data.
PLO 13. To explain the essence of specific linguistic issues and one’s own point of view and its justification to the experts and laypeople in an accessible and argumentative manner, in particular to individuals who are studying.
PLO 15. To choose the optimal research approaches and methods of analysis for the specific linguistic and literary material.
        
    
            Form of study
        
        
            Full-time form
        
    
            Prerequisites and co-requisites
        
        
            To know: the principles of literary analysis in the unity of content and form; features of artistic trends; the main epic, lyrical, dramatic, lyric-epic genres; specifics of the literary process.
To be able to: orally and in writing formulate thoughts and judgments about literary works and the literary process; characterize artistic images; classify artistic means and determine their functions in a literary text. 
To have basic skills of analyzing a literary text; apply the acquired knowledge in practice (when writing essays, tests).
        
    
            Course content
        
        
            The aim of the discipline is to find out the sources, nature and aesthetic essence of literature, its role and place among other art forms, as well as to study theories of literary works, problems of theoretical and historical poetics, topical issues of modern literature.  
The program of the discipline provides for the study of the specifics of fiction as an art of words, theories of a literary work (the principles of its integrity, ideological and thematic, plot and composition, linguistic, stylistic, genre features) and the literary process (artistic trends/currents, genus-species division, dynamics and stability in the change of literary epochs) in their diachrony and synchrony.
        
    
            Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
        
        
            Planned learning activities and teaching methods
        
        
            Forms of teaching: lectures, independent work.
Teaching methods: explanation of new material, conversation, independent work with scientific and educational literature, active listening, preparation of an abstract, analysis of language material.
        
    
            Assessment methods and criteria
        
        
            Report-analysis of primary sources, essay, test, exam.
See the work programs of academic disciplines for the assessment criteria for each type of assignment.
        
    
            Language of instruction
        
        
            Ukrainian
        
    Lecturers
This discipline is taught by the following teachers
                    Nina 
                     Ivanivna
                    Bernadska
                
                
                    Department of History of Ukrainian Literature, Theory of Literature and Literary Creativity  
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 History of Ukrainian Literature, Theory of Literature and Literary Creativity 
                    
                    
                        Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology