MAJOR FIGURES IN ENGLISH LITERATURE II

Competencies and objectives

Course context for academic year 2022-23
Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)
Learning outcomes (Training objectives)
Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2022-23

Course context for academic year 2022-23

This course aims to provide an overview on literature written in English from its early period to the late 19th century, with special emphasis on some of its major figures, periods and movements.

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees)

DEGREE IN HUMANITIES

General Competences (CG)

CG1 : Foreign language skills.
CG10 : Recognition of cultural diversity and equal opportunities.
CG2 : Computer and information technology skills.
CG4 : Critical reasoning.
CG5 : Capacity for analysis and synthesis.
CG7 : Capacity for organisation and planning.
CG8 : Creativity and capacity for initiative.
CG9 : Problem-solving and decision-making.

Specific Competences (CE)

CE1 : Understand human behaviour in society using specific methods and techniques of analysis and, in this way, develop the ethical commitment to gender equality and a special capacity for interpersonal relationships.
CE2 : Understand History and the major artistic and philosophical currents of Mankind, particularly the classical foundations on which European cultural reality is based, and be able to transmit them by promoting the social value of culture.
CE3 : Master one or more foreign languages to facilitate access to the production and interpretation of cultures in their diverse expressions, especially contemporary culture, cultural diversity and its management.
CE5 : Assess and interpret the cultural diversity of the Region of Valencia, contrasting the indigenous cultures of the region with other cultures with which relations and contacts are established, using the official languages as the vehicles for interaction.
CE7 : Make creative entrepreneurial use of the basic principles of the public and private organisation and management of ICTs to evaluate, create and carry out cultural dissemination projects.
CE8 : Acquire skills to prepare and display content related to the human and social sciences for dissemination and for educating secondary school children, using personal skills and ICT.

DEGREE IN CATALAN STUDIES

General Competences (CG)

CG2 : Capacity to understand the role of language in the construction of human beings as active members of a linguistic and cultural community and relate this to the function of individuals in society.
CG3 : Capacity to develop reading, analysis and synthesis techniques.
CG4 : Capacity to manage and use the resources provided by the information and communications technologies and apply those to the language and literature industries.
CG5 : Ability to understand the main stages, movements, writers and works of the literature of the second language.
CG7 : Social commitment to the equality of men and women, the plurality and diversity of the realities of modern society, to peace and democracy.

General Competences acquired at University of Alicante (CGUA)

CGUA1 : Capacity to communicate in a second language in communicative situations (oral and written), with students acquiring a level equivalent to B1 of the common European framework of reference.
CGUA2 : Ability to use basic ICT tools at user level.
CGUA3 : Ability to communicate effectively and have linguistic understanding of one of the two official languages of the Region of Valencia (Spanish or Catalan) in their discipline.

Specific Competences (CE)

CE9 : Capacity to identify the currents of literary criticism, their categories, concepts and nomenclature as a key factor in the development of the capacity to criticise and analyse text (literary, cinematographic, advertising), as regards the creative manifestation and reflection of the sociocultural context.

DEGREE IN SPANISH: LANGUAGE AND LITERATURES

Generic Degree Course Competences

CG3 : Be able to develop reading, analysis and synthesis techniques.

Generic UA Competences

CUA3 : Be able to express oneself orally and in writing in one's discipline in one of the two official languages of the Region of Valencia.

Specific Competences (CE):>>Conceptual

CC15 : Understand the main stages, movements, writers and works of literature in the second language.

Specific Competences (CE):>>Procedural

CP20 : Capacity to use the pertinent materials and resources: bibliographic repertories, dictionaries, works of reference, critical editions, translations and ICTs as an independent learner able to control one's own learning process and make the corresponding independent progress.

Specific Competences (CE):>>Attitude

CA22 : Be able to value and take advantage of multilingualism and multiculturalism as a social agent participating in the construction of a plural and tolerant society on the basis of the multicultural configuration of the Spanish-speaking world.
CA23 : Be able to show a critical and self-critical attitude during the learning process.
CA24 : Capacity to demonstrate social commitment to the equality of men and women, the plural and diverse nature of modern society, peace and democracy.

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

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Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2022-23

To obtain a deeper understanding of the literaturein English from its early period to the late 19th century.
To read a representative cross-section of literary texts in English written during the period covered by this course.
To develop the capacity of making an informed analysis of an array of literary texts.
To learn about the historical, cultural, social and political contexts within which these texts were created.