AJPV_SURE Supporting Reading

Faculty of Education
Spring 2010
Extent and Intensity
0/1/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: z (credit).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Jaroslav Izavčuk (seminar tutor)
Guaranteed by
PhDr. Irena Přibylová, Ph.D.
Department of English Language and Literature – Faculty of Education
Contact Person: Jana Popelková
Timetable of Seminar Groups
AJPV_SURE/PV: Mon 17:05–18:45 učebna 57, J. Izavčuk
Prerequisites
Recommended for bachelor students.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 30 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/30, only registered: 0/30, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/30
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This is a supporting literature course. Students are asked to read literature spanning the periods that are taught in British literature courses. Students read independently and report on three selected books in the moodlinka. The student must read at least 3 books in total. These books may correspond with set reading in NALI.
Syllabus
  • Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice
  • Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
  • Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Joseph Conrad's The Heart of Darkness
  • Charles Dickens's Pickwick Papers
  • Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy
  • Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles
  • Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • E.M. Forster's Passage to India
  • Thomas De Quincey's Confessions of an English Opium Eater
  • John Fowles's French Lieutenant's Woman
Literature
  • BARNARD, Robert. Stručné dějiny anglické literatury. Translated by Zdeněk Beran. Vyd. 1. Praha: Brána, 1997, 251 s. ISBN 8071767050. info
  • BURGESS, Anthony. English literature : a survey for students. Burnt Mill: Longman, 1974, 278 s. ISBN 0582552249. info
Teaching methods
tutorials, homework reading, text analysis
Assessment methods
REQUIREMENTS
You are to read at least three books and on each book you are expected to:
BOOK 1
Fill in the READER'S WORKSHEET
BOOK 2
Deliver an essay (300 words) on a topic inspired by any question of your choice from the list of questions assigned for each book.
BOOK 3
Answer at least 4 questions of your choice from the list of questions assigned for each book
Upload all your three assignments in the moodlinka
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 1 hodina.
Teacher's information
http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1311
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2015, Spring 2016.
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