Literary Studies and Scientific Research

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

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Literary Studies and Scientific Research
Code
ОК 18.
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
4 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PLO 1, PLO 4, PLO 11, PLO 13, PLO 24, PLO 27. The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section «Programme Profile».
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
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.
Course content
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 is also aimed at informing students about the fundamentals of intellectual property and of the standards of academic integrity set forth in the University Community Code of Ethics.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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.
Assessment methods and criteria
The course ends with a credit. The course final mark is calculated as a sum of ongoing assessment points and does not require any other forms of final control. Ongoing assessment is provided by seminar class activities: oral personal responses, additional responses, class discussions (max 15\min 9 points), presentations of individual projects (max 15\min 11 points) and completion of final test (max 20\min 12 points). Total final assessment is max 100\min 60 points). The students who do not meet the standard required for the lowest grade (min 60 points) will have to be assessed by completing self-study works and final test. The final evaluation of learning outcomes is carried out on a single 100-point scale. There is applied the scale of conformity with grades: Credited 60-100; Not credited 0-59.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olha Serhiivna Boinitska
Department of Foreign Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Foreign Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology