Transformations of Myth in Contemporary Literature: Study Methodology

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

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Transformations of Myth in Contemporary Literature: Study Methodology
Code
ДВС 1.03.
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
5 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
5
Learning outcomes
PLO 15, PLO 16, PLO 19, PLO 33.1, PLO 40.1. The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section "Programme Profile".
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Throughout the course learners will be encouraged: 1. to gain knowledge of major stages of foreign literature evolution as well as dominant philosophical and aesthetic trends and tendencies, precedent-related texts required for the compulsory courses. 2. to use selected literary terms accurately. 3. to sharpen skills in analyzing literary texts.
Course content
The course will discuss classical and modern myths, their transformations and modified forms within the corpus of modern foreign literature while exploring their interaction with other artistic forms. The literary texts analyses illuminate the specific features of de-, re- and neomythologization that are dominant characteristics and ways of appropriation of precedent-related texts and cultural and aesthetic phenomena. The course shapes understanding of the concept of myth and its permanent manifestations in national cultures and literary practices, examines the nature of principal tendencies in the literary process of the 20th-21st centuries through the philosophical-aesthetic prism of meditations on mythology and its appropriation in national literatures. Learners are focused on outlining writers’ worldviews and literary practices within mythological modified forms. The course is aimed at deepening skills in analyzing literary texts using a set of modern interpretive methodologies.
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, quick polls, presentations of individual projects, final test (including open-ended questions). The following teaching methods are suggested: lecture, practical class, viewing the videos relevant to course tasks, individual projects, self-study works.
Assessment methods and criteria
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 class activities: oral personal responses, additional responses, class discussions (max 59\min 34 points), quick polls (max 6\min 3 points), presentations of individual projects (max 15\min 11 points) and final test completion (max 20\ min 12 points). Total mark 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. Final point correlation scale According to 100-point scale Mark according to national scale 60–100 Passed 0–59 Fail
Language of instruction
Ukrainian

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Olha Hryhorivna Shestopal
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