Competencies and objectives

Provisional information. Pending approval by the School/Faculty Board.

 

Course context for academic year 2025-26

This course will introduce students to world literatures written in English with a particular focus on the 21st century.  We will critically examine a selection of representative authors and texts from countries affected by legacies of colonialism and postcolonialism such as Nigeria, Jamaica, South Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom or the US. As many of these countries are currently confronting their difficult pasts, attention will be paid to issues of memory, post-conflict reconciliation and reparation. These texts will be explored in the light of critical theory and interdisciplinary discourses.  In addition to covering a variety of timely topics, the course will explore a range of literary genres, including the novel, the short story, the slave narrative, and poetry. 

 

 

Course competencies (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2025-26

General Competences

  • CG1 : Acquire advanced knowledge in highly specialized scientific and technological research contexts to achieve a detailed and well-founded understanding of theoretical, practical and methodological aspects in one or more fields of study.
  • CG2 : Apply and integrate the knowledge acquired, its understanding, its scientific foundation, as well as related problem solving, to different social spheres and highly specialized multidisciplinary contexts, both of a research and professional nature.
  • CG3 : Evaluate and select the appropriate scientific theory and the precise methodology of their fields of study to formulate judgments based on incomplete or limited information, including, when necessary and pertinent, a reflection on the social or ethical responsibility linked to the proposed solution.
  • CG4 : Being able to predict and control the evolution of complex situations through the development of innovative work methodologies adapted to the specific scientific/research, technological or professional field, generally multidisciplinary, in which the activity is taking place.
  • CG5 : Knowing how to transmit clearly and unambiguously to an audience, specialized or not, the results from scientific and technological research or from the field of the most advanced innovation, as well as the most relevant foundations on which they are based.
  • CG6 : Develop sufficient autonomy to participate in research projects and scientific or technological collaborations in their thematic field, in interdisciplinary contexts and also when a high component of knowledge transfer is involved.
  • CG7 : Being able to take responsibility for their own professional development and specialization in one or more fields of study.

 

Specific Competences

  • CE3 : Interpret and analyze, in an exhaustive and rigorous way, cultural representations, literary and linguistic texts in the field of English Studies, as well as their relationship with the historical, cultural and political movements in which they flourish and with the contemporary context.
  • CE9 : Being able to argue, critically question and propose new solutions based on the analysis of the main critical studies within the field of literary, cultural and linguistic studies in the English language.

 

Basic Competences

  • CB10 : That students possess the learning skills that allow them to continue studying in a way that will be largely self-directed or autonomous.
  • CB6 : Possess and understand knowledge that provides a basis or opportunity to be original in the development and/or application of ideas, often in a research setting.
  • CB7 : That students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their problem-solving skills in new or little-known environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
  • CB8 : That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
  • CB9 : That students know how to communicate their conclusions and knowledge, and the ultimate reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

. Know and locate literary texts belonging to authors from different countries of the Anglo-Saxon world.
- Know the themes, contexts and fundamental aesthetic aspects related to this type of literature.
- To distinguish the cultural diversity of world literatures in English-speaking countries.
- To analyze literary texts critically.
- To know how to develop one's own arguments in an academic format in written and oral form.
- Establish relationships between literary texts and other disciplines.

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2025-26

After taking this course, students should be able to know and to locate texts and authors from different countries and territories from the English-speaking world.  They will be able to identify different themes, contexts and cultural realities characteristic of English world literatures. They will know how to carry out critical analyses of literary texts within specific theoretical frameworks (postcolonialism, memory studies, transitional justice, poststructuralism), and to place literature in a dialogue with other disciplines.

 

 

 

 

General

Code: 48707
Lecturer responsible:
López Ropero, María Lourdes
Credits ECTS: 4,50
Theoretical credits: 0,92
Practical credits: 0,88
Distance-base hours: 2,70

Departments involved

  • Dept: ENGLISH STUDIES
    Area: ENGLISH STUDIES
    Theoretical credits: 0,92
    Practical credits: 0,88
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

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