AJ2305 Kritické čtení

Pedagogická fakulta
jaro 2025
Rozsah
0/2/0. 2 kr. Ukončení: z.
Vyučováno kontaktně
Vyučující
Mgr. Barbora Kašpárková, Ph.D. (cvičící)
Garance
Mgr. Zuzana Kršková, Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jana Popelková
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Předpoklady
AJ2102 Praktický jazyk 1B
Mastery of the English language is a prerequisite for students to proficiently engage with assigned materials.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je určen pouze studentům mateřských oborů.
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 7 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
This course introduces students to the basic skills of critical reading, thinking and writing. At the end of the course, students will be able to pose effective questions for subsequent analysis, examine crucial concepts in writings from varied disciplines, make connections between ideas, and synthesize them. They will learn how to turn their interpretation into a complex argument and support it with relevant textual evidence. The Critical Reading course is not an overview course, i.e. it does not necessarily follow a chronological development of British literature and history, although there is an overlap with both the present course and History, Literature and Culture of the USA scheduled for the next semester. It focuses on practical skills and tools used for reading, critical thinking, and analysis. Whereas History, Literature and Culture of Great Britain aims at BOTH literary history, reading strategies, and analysis, Critical Reading exercises reading strategies and analytical skills PRIMARILY. It is a support course that branches out into all module courses on both Bachelor and Master's levels.
Výstupy z učení
At the end of the course, students will:
- be able to choose a topic suitable for an academic analysis;
- specify that topic to suit the required length of an academic text (call for papers x essay x thesis);
- formulate an argument;
- pose effective questions for an analysis of a literary text and other cultural material;
- approach the literary and cultural material from various perspectives (using different literary approaches to the analysis of a literary/cultural material) ;
- use the primary sources´ textual evidence to support their argument;
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction: how to become a critical reader, how to work with text (close reading and annotation) 2. How to read and write about Poetry 3. Poetry focusing on Speaker and Tone and Audience 4. Poetry focusing on Form, Theme, Diction 5. Writing Workshop: The written analysis of one of the poems 6. How to analyze Fiction 7. Wilde´s "Happy Prince" focus on its symbolic level and socio-historical context 8. Writing workshop: a short story analysis 9. Conflict 10. Setting and Point of view 11. the Central theme 12. Writing workshop
Literatura
    doporučená literatura
  • Terence Brunk, Suzanne Diamond, Priscilla Perkins, Ken Smith: Literacies: Reading, Writing, Interpretation, Second edition, 2000
  • BARNET, Sylvan, William BURTO, William E. CAIN a Cheryl L. NIXON. Literature for composition : an introduction to literature. Eleventh edition. Boston: Pearson, 2018, xxxi, 1439. ISBN 9780134678702. info
  • BARNET, Sylvan, Morton BERMAN a William BURTO. An Introduction to Literature : fiction, poetry, drama. 8th ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985, 1219 s. ISBN 0316082279. info
Výukové metody
independent reading, class discussion, individual projects (reading assignments and written assignments), writing short papers, peer review
Metody hodnocení
Attendance is required.
Active participation in class discussions
Completion of the course is based upon the timely completion of various assignments during the semester.
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
https://moodlinka.ics.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=2910
The access to the moodlinka course is reserved only to people currently registered there. The password will be announced in the first class of the semester. Although this course addresses some elements of English composition, this is not its major focus. Therefore, this course cannot be recognized as a replacement for other writing courses, where composition is its main activity, offered at the MU university or elsewhere. Students doing their Erasmus study stay abroad and students with IPS are not required to attend the classes, but they are obliged to submit all the required assignments and take the exams.
Další komentáře
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Výuka probíhá každý týden.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2019, jaro 2020, jaro 2021, jaro 2022, jaro 2023, jaro 2024.