MA Seminar 340-AS2-2SEM1

1. student has knowledge about the area of research her MA dissertation is on and its basic research methods K_W03, K_W08, K_U04
2. student has knowledge about basic critical literature in her area of research K_W03, K_W08, K_U04
3. student is able to search for critical, secondary literature in his field K_U01, K_U02, K_U03, K_U04
4. student is able to construct her own research tools K_U02
5. student develops her skills in academic writing K_U10, K_U11, K_U12, K_U13
6. student shows openness to ideas different from her own K_K03, K_K04
7. student formulates her own opinions taking into account different reseach perspectives K_K03, K_K04
8. student is aware of religious, racial and class differences, and does not denigrate values of others K_K04

Term 2022:

None

Term 2023:

in the second year of the seminar the students are concentrated on researching and writing their M.A. dissertations and then they present their achievements to the whole group

Term 2024:

in the second year of the seminar the students are concentrated on researching and writing their M.A. dissertations and then they present their achievements to the whole group

Type of course

Master's seminars
obligatory courses

Prerequisites (description)

students know the English language on the level which will allow them to research literary and translational texts and write their M.A. disserations in English. They are also expected to have taken survey courses in British and American literature and the course of introducution to literary studies. During the first year of this course they chose a topic of their M.A. dissertations, wrote a detailed plan with chapters and sub-chapters and also at least half of one chapter (15 pages)

Course coordinators

Term 2024:

Grzegorz Moroz

Term 2022:

Agata Rozumko

Term 2023:

Grzegorz Moroz

Learning outcomes

K_W01, K_W03, K_W04, K_W05, K_W06, K_W08

K_U01, K_U02, K_U03, K_U04, K_U07, K_U10, K_U11, K_U12, K_U13.

K_K03, K_K04

Assessment criteria

In the first year, students are expected two submit two written works: (1) a review of literature concerning a research topic of their choice, (2) a small scale study presenting preliminary results of their research. During the second year, they are expected to complete their MA work.

Bibliography

1. Behdad, Ali – Belated Travelers: Orientalism in the Age of Colonial Dissolution,
2. Białas, Zbigniew – The Body Wall, Somatics of Travelling and Discursive Practices,
3. Blanton, Casey – Travel Writing: The Self and the World,
4. Cocker, Mark – Loneliness and Time: The Story of British Travel Writing,
5. Fussell, Paul – Abroad: British Literary Traveling Between the Wars
6. Kowalewski, Michael (ed.) – Temperamental Journeys: Essays on the Modern Literature of Travel,
7. Lawrence, Karen – Penelope Voyages: Women and Travel in the British Literary Tradition,
8. Moroz Grzegorz – Travellers, Novelists and Gentlemen: Constructing Male Narrative Personae in British Travel Books,
9. Rutkowska, Małgorzata - In Search of America – The Image of the United States in Travel Writing of the 1980s and 1990s,
10. Said, Edward – Orientalism,
11. Smith, Sidonie – Moving Lives; 20-th Century Women’s Travel Writing,
12. Spurr, David – The Rhetoric of Empire; Colonial Discourse in Journalism, Travel Writing and Imperial Administration,
13. Thompson Carl- Travel Writing,
14. Youngs, Tim , The Cambridge Introduction to Travel Writing,

Term 2022:

None

Term 2023:

Term 2024:

Additional information

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