Diploma Seminar 340-AH1-3SEM1

Profile of study - general academic
Form of study - day studies
Type of the subject - obligatory
Scientific discipline - English philology, general linguistics
Year of study - 3 yr, 5 and 6 semester
Preliminary requirements - successfully finished 2nd year of study
Number of study hours - 2x30h=60h exercises
Methods of teaching - Conversation lectures, discussion, running report on the student work results (collecting material, bibliography, stages of research). Condition of successful completion is handing the BA dissertation
ECTS points 19
Distribution of the student work in hours: participating in seminary exercises and consulting 2x30h+ 25h = 85; preparing report - 35h; collecting bibliography - 50h; repeating teaching materials from the chosen speciality - 60h; collecting and processing material of research - 90h; experimental research; analysis of definitions, questionnaires, etc. - 30h; text preparation - 80h; e-mail correspondence with the supervisor - 20h; editing and correcting the text - 50h. Total: 500 (making it 19 points ECTS)
Quantity data: student work requiring supervisor participation - 105h (4 pts ECTS); student work in preparing report and BA thesis – practical work - 500h (19 pts ECTS)

Term 2025:

Discussing thesis requirements

Discussing the topic of the seminar:
- the Beats
- Afro-american writing
- writers of the American South
- literary experimentators (1960-1970)
- ethnic writing, women's writing
- new realism
- elements of psychoanalytical criticism

Term 2026:

Discussing thesis requirements

Prerequisites (description)

1. To provide students with information on expectations and requirements regarding writing their BA thesis, and rules for participation in seminars. 2. To prepare students to make a conscious choice of topic for their BA thesis; to discuss and analyze the topics and contents of theses written by participants in seminars. 3. To offer guidance in research and to suggest first references which will serve as a starting point for students’ further unassisted work. 4. To prepare students for the analysis of gathered resources, and to discuss fragments of writing prepared by students. 5. To write and submit a BA thesis.

Course coordinators

Term 2024:

Agnieszka Dzięcioł-Pędich

Term 2025:

Tomasz Sawczuk

Term 2022:

Dorota Szymaniuk

Term 2023:

Dorota Guzowska

Type of course

Term 2024:

B.Sc. seminars
obligatory courses

Term 2025:

obligatory courses
B.Sc. seminars

General:

obligatory courses

Term 2026:

obligatory courses
B.Sc. seminars

Mode

(in Polish) w sali

Learning outcomes

KP6_WG1, KP6_WG2,
KP6_WG3
KP6_WG4, KP6_WG5,
KP6_WG6
KP6_WG7, KP6_WG8,
KP6_WG9
KP6_WG10, KP6_WG11, KP6_WK1
KP6_WK2,
KP6_WK3

KP6_UW1, KP6_UW2,
KP6_UW3
KP6_UW4, KP6_UW6,
KP6_UW7, KP6_UW8
KP6_UK4,
KP6_UO1,
KP6_UU1

KP6_KK1,
KP6_KK2

Assessment criteria

examination

Bibliography

The choice of critical materials will result from individual needs and interests of the BA seminar students.

Term 2025:

Selected reading;

The Norton Anthology of American Literature (7th ed.) (vol. C-E)
A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press, 2009)
Historia literatury amerykańskiej XX wieku (Universitas, 2004)
A Concise Companion to Postwar American Literature and Culture (Blackwell, 2004)
The Cambridge Companion to American Literature, vol. 7 (CUP, 2008)

Term 2026:

Selected reading;

Notes

Term 2025:

Writing and submitting a thesis.

Term 2026:

Writing and submitting a thesis.

Additional information

Additional information (registration calendar, class conductors, localization and schedules of classes), might be available in the USOSweb system:

Description of 340-AH1-3SEM1 in USOSweb