MA Seminar 340-AS2-1SEM4

Course profile: general academic
Form of study: full-time
Course type: compulsory (M_6)
Field and discipline: humanities/language studies
year of study: I and II
semester: I, II, III, IV
Prerequisites:
The student should meet the requirements of the learning outcomes stipulated by the National Qualification Framework for higher education, first degree studies, from the area of humanities.
Number of teaching hours:
2x30h=60h exercises (1st year)
2x30h=60h exercises (2nd year)
Didactic methods: discussions, analysis of academic texts, conversations, lectures
ECTS credits: 30
Balance of student workload:
Participation for seminars, additional consultations, e-mail contact with the supervisor: 4x30h + 220h = 350h
Revising of the material from the subjects of the selected specialization: 70h
Preparation of a paper/multimedia presentation: 30h
Library research: 50h
Collection of research material: 30h
Dissertation writing: 200h
Dissertation editing, revisions, proofreading, etc: 20h
Total: 750 h
(which corresponds to 30 ECTS credits)
Quantitative indicators:
Student workload related to activities requiring direct participation of the teacher: 350h (14 ECTS points)
Student workload related for the involvement in seminar (paper, multimedia presentation) and preparation of diploma thesis: 400h (16 ECTS points)

Term 2023:

Prerequisites (description)

The student should fulfill the requirements of the learning outcomes provided by the National Qualifications Framework for Higher Education, first-cycle studies, from the area of humanities (preferred completed first-cycle course: English philology).

Course coordinators

Term 2024:

Jacek Partyka

Term 2025:

Anna Karczewska

Term 2023:

Jacek Partyka

Type of course

Master's seminars

Mode

(in Polish) w sali

Learning outcomes

Learning outcomes:
KNOWLEDGE, the graduates know and understand
KP7_WG3 complex literary phenomena and contemporary theories explaining their cultural background and dependencies among them
KP7_WG8 advanced methods of analysis and interpretation of texts based on tradition and theory of literary studies
KP7_WG10 advanced terminology for description of cultural phenomena important in analysis of the literature in a given language
KP7_WG11 contemporary socio-cultural conditions of a given language area

SKILLS, the graduate can:
KP7_UW3 conduct an in-depth analysis of literary works applying philological methods allowing for the evaluation of their meaning in historical and cultural processes
KP7_UW4 conduct a critical analysis and interpretation of various works of culture applying philological methods allowing for the evaluation of their meaning in historical and cultural processes
KP7_UW7 properly select sources and pieces of information available therein in the field of literary studies and make evaluations, critical analysis and synthesis of the pieces of information
KP7_UK3 communicate with various groups of interlocutors using specialised literary studies terminology including social-cultural components
KP7_UK4 conduct debates in a foreign language, present and evaluate various opinions and perspectives and discuss them

SOCIAL SKILLS, the graduate is capable of
KP7_KK1 critical assessment of content
KP7_KO4 introducing new perspectives for tolerance, multicultural cooperation within a multireligious society
KP7_KR2 abiding and developing professional rules of ethics as well as acting in favor of those rules

Assessment criteria

The criteria for passing each semester are as follows:
1st semester 1st year - making several presentations,
2nd semester 1st year - delivery of several presentations, submission of the first chapter of the thesis
1. semester 2 - delivery of a presentation and submission of the second chapter of the thesis
2nd semester 2nd year - delivery of a presentation and submission of a complete dissertation
In addition, in all semesters it is necessary to attend classes systematically (maximum two absences per semester), to do homework and to actively participate in the seminar.
Passing grade: final exam.
Attendance is mandatory. One unexcused absence is allowed without the need to make up for it during consultations. All other absences (both excused and unexcused) must be made up during consultations. The number of hours of absence qualifying for failure of the course - over 50% (excused hours are not counted).
Regardless of the reason for absence, students are required to achieve all the learning outcomes specified in the study program.

Bibliography

The course literature depends on the specific topics undertaken in the seminar. It is listed in Part B of the syllabus.

Term 2023:

Dolin, K., A Critical Introduction to Law and Literature, Cambridge 2007.
Roskies, D. G., and N. Diamant, Holocaust Literature [A History and Guide], Brandeis UP 2012.
Plain, G. and S. Sellers (eds), A History of Feminist Literary Criticism, Cambridge 2007.
Allen, P. G., The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions. Beacon Press 1994.
Ashcroft, B., Griffiths, G., & Tiffin, H., The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, London 1995.

Term 2024:

Philipp Löffler, Clemens Spahr, and Jan Stievermann (eds), Handbook f American Romanticism, Berlin/Boston 2021.
Robert D. Habich and Robert C. Nowatzcki, Research Guide to American Literature: Romanticism and Transcendentalism 1820-1865, New York 2010.
Isaiah Berlin, The Roots of Romanticism, Princeton, New Jersey 1999.
Tim Blanning, The Romantic Revolution. A History, New York 2011.

Term 2025:

Attala, Luci. 2019. How Water Makes Us Human? Engagements with the materiality of water. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

Alaimo, Stacy. 2010. “The naked word: The trans-corporeal ethics of the protesting body.” Women & Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory 20.1, March: 15–36.

Barad, Karen. 2007. Meeting the Universe Halfway. Quantum Physics and the Entanglement of Matter and Meaning. Durham: Duke University Press.

Bennett, Jane. 2010. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham: Duke University Press.

Chen, Cecilia, Janine MacLeod, and Astrida Neimanis, eds. 2013. Thinking with Water. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Dawson, Ashley. 2016. Extinction. New York: OR Books.
Haraway, Donna J. 2003. The Companion Species Manifesto: Dogs, People, and Significant Otherness. Chicago: Prickly Paradigm Press.

Haraway, Donna J. 2008. When Species Meet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

Haraway, Donna J. 2016. Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

Linton, Jamie. 2010. What Is Water? The History of a Modern Abstraction. Vancouver: UBC Press.

Merchant, Carolyn. 2020. The Anthropocene and the Humanities: From Climate Change to a New Age of Sustainability. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Moore, Jason W., ed. 2016. Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Oakland: PM Press.

Neimanis, Astrida. 2017. Bodies of Water. Posthuman Feminist Phenomenology. London: Bloomsbury.

Opperman, Serpil. 2021. “New Materialism and the Nonhuman Story.” The Cambridge Companion to Environmental Humanities. Eds. Jeffrey J. Cohen, and Stephanie Foote, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 258-272.

Stone, Christopher D. 2010. Should Trees Have Standing? : law, morality, and the environment. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Term 2026: