FF:UZAJ9999 Final State Examination - Course Information

UZAJ9999 Final State Examination

Extent and Intensity

0/0/0. 0 credit(s). Type of Completion: SZK (final examination).

Teacher(s)

prof. Mgr. Milada Franková, CSc., M.A. (alternate examiner)
prof. PhDr. Ludmila Urbanová, CSc. (alternate examiner)

Guaranteed by

Jeffrey Alan Vanderziel, B.A.
Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts
Contact Person: Tomáš Hanzálek
Supplier department: Department of English and American Studies – Faculty of Arts

Course Enrolment Limitations

The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.

fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with

there are 6 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display

Course objectives

Upon completion of this course, students have demonstrated their ability to appraise and evaluate theoretical approaches in their given field of study. They are able to compare and contrast various scholarly approaches. They have a profound knowledge of the discipline including the ability to implement the various skills relating to the specific field of study.

Syllabus

• The Master's State Exam consist of two parts:
• 1. Defense of the Master's Diploma Thesis (there is no defense for the Master's Non-diploma Thesis)
• 2. Oral examination of five books in the student's chosen track (which must correspond with both the submitted thesis and coursework) selected from the following list:
• This list is for all studentsof Combined Studies and for those students in Day Studies whose year of matriculation is 2008 or later. The list is divided into two parts, based on the choice of track (Literary and Cultural Studies or Linguistics). Students should select texts only from that list assigned to the track they have indicated on their Thesis Topic Registration form, which will have been submitted to the Department prior to writing their Master’s Thesis. Students should also carefully follow the instructions for selecting texts associated with each list. All of the texts are available in the Faculty of Arts Central Library in multiple copies, with one copy of each on reserve (prezenčně). Students are encouraged to purchase copies of these texts for themselves.

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  Literary and Cultural Studies

• Compulsory Lists: Students must choose one text from List A and one text from List B.

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  List A

• Bloom, Harold. The Western Canon

• Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory

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  List B

• Brantlinger, Patrick. Crusoe’sFootprints

• Jenks, Chris. Culture

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  Area Lists: Students must choose three books. Each book must be from a different area listed below.

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  Area 1

• Abrams, M. H. The Mirror and the Lamp

• Bakhtin, Mikhail. The Dialogic Imagination

• Buell, Lawrence. The Future of Environmental Criticism:Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination

• Cunningham,Valentine. Reading after Theory

• Frye, Northrop. Anatomy of Criticism

• Wellek, Rene and Austin Warren. Theory of Literature

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  Area 2

• Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language

• Harvey, David. The Condition of Postmodernity

• Mitchell, Juliet. Psychoanalysis and Feminism

• Said, Edward. Orientalism

• Sedgwick, Eve Kosofsky. Between Men

• White, Hayden. Tropics of Discourse

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  Area 3

• Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist

• Connor, Steven. The English Novel in History 1950-1995

• Greenblatt, Stepehen. Renaissance Self-Fashioning

• Leavis, F. R. The Great Tradition

• Murphy, Patrick D. Farther Afield in the Study of Nature-Oriented Literature

• Robb, Graham. Strangers: Homosexual Love in the Nineteenth Century

• The New Pelican Guide to English Literature , Volumes 1-8 (select one volume only)

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  Area 4

• Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities

• Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffith and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back

• Bernd, Simon. Identity in Modern Society: ASocial Psychological Perspective

• Gates, Louis Henry. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism

• Nicholls, Bill. Ideology and the Image

• Williams, Raymond. The Country and the City

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• LINGUISTICS

• Compulsory Lists: Students must choose one text from List A and one text from List B.

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  List A

• Crystal, David. Linguistics

• Svartvik, Jan andLeech, Geoffrey. English: One Tongue,Many Voices

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  List B

• Firbas, Jan. Functional sentence perspective in writtenand spoken communication

• Levý, Jiří. Umění překladu

• Vachek, Josef. Selected Writings in English and General Linguistics
  
  

• Area Lists: Students must choose three books. Each book must be from a differentarea listed below. Students may only choose books from Areas 4 and 5 or Areas 6 and 7 with the permission oftheir thesis advisor listed on the Thesis Topic Registration form.

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  Area 1

• Allan, Keith. Natural LanguageSemantics

• Cruttenden, Alan. Gimson’s Pronunciationof English

• Huang, Yan. Pragmatics

• Mathesius, Vilém. A Functional Analysisof Present Day English on a General Linguistic Basis

• Meyerhoff Miriam. Introducing Sociolinguistics

• Weber, Jean J. The Stylistics Reader: From Roman Jakobson to the Present.

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  Area 2

• Collins, Beverley S. Practical Phonetis and Phonology

• Coulmas, Florian. Sociolinguistics:The Study of Speakers’ Choices

• Leech, Geoffrey. Stylein Fiction: A Linguistic Introductionto English Fictional Prose

• Leech, Geoffrey, Margaret Deuchar and Robert Hoogenraad. English Grammar for Today: A New Introduction (2005)

• Saeed, John I. Semantics.

• Thomas, Jenny. Meaning inInteraction

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  Area 3

• Chafe, Wallace. Discourse, Consciousness, and Time

• Joseph, John I. Language and Identity

• Lyons, John: Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction

• McIntyre, Dan. History of English

• Schendl, Herbert. Historical linguistics

• Tárnyiková, Jarmila. Chapters from Modern English Syntax

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  Area 4 (Applied Linguistics: Translation Studies)

• Chesterman, Andrew: Memes of Translation: The Spread of Ideas in Translation Theory

• Nida, Eugena A. and Charles R.Taber: The Theory and Practice of Translation

• Nord, Christiane: Translating as a Purposeful Activity

• Toury, Gideon: DescriptiveTranslation Studies and Beyond

• Venuti, Lawrence: The Translator’s Invisibility: A History of Translation

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• Area 5 (Applied Linguistics: Translation Studies)

• Hermans, Theo and Anthony Pym. Translation in Systems: Descriptive and System-oriented Approaches Explained

• Popovič, Anton. Teória umeleckého prekladu: aspekty textu a literárnej metakomunikácie

• Pym, Anthony. Method in Translation History

• Steiner, George. After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation

• Tabakowska, Elzbieta. Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics of Translation: Language in Performance

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• Area 6 (Applied Linguistics: Language Teaching Methodology)

• Aitchison, Jean. The Articulate Mammal: An Introduction to Psycholinguistics

• Larsen-Freeman,Diane. Techniques and Principles in Language Teaching (Teaching Techniques in English as a Second Language)

• Lightbrown, Patsy and Nina Spada. How Languages Are Learned

• Richards, Jack C. and Theodore S. Rodgers. Approaches and Methods in Language Teaching

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• Area 7 (Applied Linguistics: Language Teaching Methodology)

• Crookes, Graham. A Practicum in TESOL: Professional Development through Teaching Practice

• Graves, Kathleen. Designing Language Courses: A Guide for Teachers

• Hughes, Arthur. Testing for Language Teachers

• Nation, I. S. P. Learning Vocabulary in Another Language

• Odlin, Terrance. Language Transfer: Cross-Linguistic Influence in Language Learning

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• During this portion of the exam, students are expected to demonstrate both their knowledge of the selected texts as well as being able to place them with a broader theoretical context, and if relevant, relate them to the specific research topic(s) address in their thesis.
• In addition, students pursuing a degree in Secondary School Teaching English Language and Literature must take an exam in the Methodology of Teaching the English Language. This exam has the following format:
• A teaching and learning context and a specific problematic situation within this context will be described to the candidates. They will be asked to suggest ways to deal with the problem in order to solve it, offering specific procedures and drawing on their familiarity with ELT principles and knowledge of second language acquisition theories.
• Candidates are expected to move in their answers from a discussion of a specific example to a more general presentation of their theoretical background, demonstrating their knowledge and understanding of foreign language education and their attitudes to teaching and learning English to speakers of other languages.
• The exam is approximately 15 minutes in length and no preparatory time is provided.

Teaching methods

Oral Examination by Committee.

Assessment methods

Vote of State Exam Committee

Language of instruction

English

Further Comments

Study Materials
The course is taught each semester.

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