Narration and Genre Studies

Course: English Communication Studies and Two Western European Languages (викладання іноземними мовами)”

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Narration and Genre Studies
Code
ВК 2.02
Module type
Вибіркова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
Second
Year of study when the component is delivered
2021/2022
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
3 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
3
Learning outcomes
PLO 19.2, PLO 20.2, PLO 21.2, PLO 22.2, PLO 26.2. The full list of Programme learning outcomes is given in the section «Programme Profile».
Form of study
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Students should know the theoretical foundations of the basic courses of stylistics, text linguistics, discourse analysis, literary studies; be able to compare various linguistic elements, make generalizations; have practical skills of analysis of texts in English.
Course content
The purpose of the course is to familiarize Master’s students with modern approaches to the theory of literary genres, correlations between notions of ‘genre’, ‘register’ and ‘style, as well as with narratology, objects of its study and the basic concepts; to develop the students’ skills of genre and narratological analysis.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Forms of studies organisation: oral answer, project work, test. Teaching methods: lecture, practical class, independent work.
Assessment methods and criteria
The final mark for the course is formed as the sum of points of the current and final control. Forms of the current control include answers in practical classes (max 21/min 9), project works (max 20/min14), tests (max 19/min 13), in total max 60/min 36 (it is not allowed to take an exam with fewer than 36 points). The form of the final control is the exam (max 40/min 24). To get a positive mark for the course an exam mark should be min 24.
Language of instruction
English

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Viktoriia Antonivna Yefymenko
Department of English Philology and Intercultural Communication
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of English Philology and Intercultural Communication
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology