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Strategies for Studying Multicultural Text in US Literature

ВБ 2.4.

Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП

Second

2021/2022

3 Semester

3

PLO 30.1; PLO 32.1; PLO 34.1; PLO 36.1. The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section "Programme Profile".

Full-time form

The aim of the course for the students of the specialty Masters 014 is to make known the theoretical principles and skills of interpretation of the phenomenon of Multiculturalism in present-day literature of the USA. Multicultural studies based on the American literary experience of the 20th – 21st cc. – together with the widening of the reader experience – is an important resource for building up and strengthen the tolerance to people of other cultures in the consciousness of Ukrainian young generation.

In Module 1 the future teachers of foreign literature at special humanitarian profile schools and other secondary schools study the literary heritage and contemporary writing of African Americans and Native Americans, whоse literary works have been integrated in American national literary practice for quite a long time. In Module 2 part of the course the focus is made on the forms of linguo-cultural dialogue in fiction and essays of the artists of Asian-American and Mexican-American origin, who have incorporated in their poetry and prose the new experience of immigrants in US with the archetypes of cultural memory of their respective ethnic, gender and generation groups.

Methodology of the lectures is determined by polycritical perspective – i.e. the basic categories of the text are characterized in unity of a sociocultural approach (e.g. in aspects of development of new kind of discourse), existential approach (in treatment of an individual character, e.g.one of an artist), narratological approach (in functional analysis of a narrative structure of a text). The focal points in the introductory lecture are the ways of influence of the identity theory (e.g. by M.Tlostanova) on multicultural studies. Examples of intercultural connections, popular in multicultural discourse, need on the part of students the competence in intertextuality and intermediality. Seminars are planned and held in the system of active teaching – as discussions and research of the representative texts in each thematic block of the course. The student writes a short essay (4-5 pages) on the topic recommended by the teacher, as a feedback, if he/she has missed a Seminar.

Final mark for the course is a sum of points for current and final control. Forms of the current control the student’s sum of marks for answers at the Seminars (max 35/min 21 points). In case of missing a Seminar student presents a short essay (max 10/min 6 points) and/or write a control test (max 10/min 6 points). The sum of points for all forms of a current control before the exam is max 60/min 36 points. The course is finalized in exam (max. 40/ min 21points). The minimum score for admittance is 36 points. To get a positive mark a student should get at the exam not less than 24 points.

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