Conducted in terms: 2024, 2025, 2026

Erasmus code: 09.0

ECTS credits: 15

Language: English

Organized by: Faculty of Philology

MA Seminar 340-AS2-2SEM4

Course profile: general academic

Form of study: full-time

Course type: obligatory (M_6)

Field and discipline of study: humanities/literature studies

year of study: I and II

semester: I, II, III, IV

Prerequisites:

The student should meet the requirements for learning outcomes provided by the National Qualification Framework for higher education, first degree studies, from the area of humanities.

Number of didactic hours:

2x30h=60h exercises (1st year)

2x30h=60h exercises (2nd year)

Didactic methods: discussions, analysis of scientific texts on translation studies, conversion lectures.

ECTS credits: 30

Balance of student workload:

Participation in seminar exercises, additional consultations, e-mail contact with the supervisor: 4x30h + 180h

Independent repetition of the material from the subjects of the selected specialization: 70h

Preparation of a paper / multimedia presentation: 30h

Library search: 60h

Collection of research material: 60h

Dissertation writing: 250h

Dissertation editing, revisions, proofreading, etc: 50h

Total: 820 h

(corresponds to 30 ECTS credits)

Quantitative indicators:

Student workload related to activities requiring direct participation of the teacher: 120+180=300h (12 ECTS points)

The student workload related to the participation in the seminar (paper, multimedia presentation) and preparation of the diploma thesis : 820h (30 ECTS points)

Term 2024:

The aim of the seminar is to prepare students to write their MA thesis in literary studies. During the seminar meetings, participants will be introduced to the requirements for the thesis and the technical aspects of writing it, will have the opportunity to discuss the choice of topics and will receive feedback on the progress of the topic. The scope of the seminar is broadly geocriticism (i.e. the study of place and space) in literature, particularly in the Canadian context. We will focus on literary representations of place and how place and literature intersect. We will look at relationships such as place and individual or community identity and place and cultural memory. We will discuss transformations in the depiction of place and landscape in Canadian literature, and different perspectives on place and space through the lens of authors' ethnicity. In addition, proposals for other topics related to Canadian literature according to the research interests of the seminarians will also be allowed.

Term 2025:

Term 2026:

Type of course

obligatory courses

Mode

(in Polish) w sali

Prerequisites (description)

The student should meet the requirements for learning outcomes provided by the National Qualifications Framework for higher education, first degree studies, from the area of humanities (preferred completed first degree course: English studies)

Course coordinators

Term 2024:

Ewelina Feldman-Kołodziejuk

Term 2025:

Anna Karczewska

Term 2026:

Anna Karczewska

Learning outcomes

The graduate:
KP7_WG3 will learn and understand literary works, phenomena and processes as well as theories explaining their cultural
background and their interdependence
KP7_WG8 will learn and understand methods of analyzing and interpreting texts in the context of selected theories in literary studies
KP7_WG10 will learn and understand general terminology employed in the description of cultural phenomena significant for analyzing literary texts of a given language area
KP7_WG11 will learn and understand historical and cultural conditioning of a given language area
KP7_WK1 will learn and understand problems and challenges concerning language and communication and their relevance to fundamental dilemmas of modern civilization
KP7_WK2 will learn and understand legal, organizational and ethical conditioning of activities related to a given discipline
KP7_WK3 will learn and understand regulations concerning the protection of industrial property and copyright
KP7_UW1 is able to formulate and solve complex problems by selecting appropriate methods and tools using their knowledge of linguistics and translation studies
KP7_UW3 is able to carry out a critical analysis and interpret literary texts using philological methods that make it possible to assess the importance of the text in the historical and cultural process
KP7_UW4 is able to carry out a critical analysis and interpret various creations of culture using philological methods that make it possible to assess the importance of the texts in the historical and cultural process
KP7_UW7 is able to properly select sources and information derived from them in the field of linguistics as well as evaluate, critically analyse and synthesize this information communicate using specialised terminology in the field of linguistics and translation studies, including socio-cultural elements
KP7_UK1 communicate using specialised terminology in the field of linguistics and translation studies, including socio-cultural elements
KP7_UK2 is able to communicate using specialised terminology in the field of foreign language learning and teaching, including socio-cultural elements
KP7_UK3 is able to communicate using specialised terminology in the field of literary studies, including socio-cultural elements
KP7_UK4 is able to participate in debates in a foreign language – present, assess and discuss various opinions and positions
KP7_UK5 is able to use a targeted foreign language, both spoken and written, at C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
KP7_UU1 is able to individually plan and implement one's own lifelong learning program
KP7_KO1 is prepared to fulfil social obligations and co-organise activities for the benefit of the social environment
KP7_KO2 is prepared to initiate public interest activities as well as think and act in an entrepreneurial way
KP7_KO3 is prepared to consciously cultivate the cultural heritage of the region, country and Europe
KP7_KO4 is prepared to create tolerance planes and cooperate in the conditions of multicultural and religiously diverse society
KP7_KO5 is prepared to participate in cultural life in its various forms
KP7_KK1 is prepared to critically evaluate their knowledge
KP7_KK2 is prepared to recognise the importance of knowledge in solving cognitive and practical problems
KP7_KR1 is prepared to comply with the rules of professional conduct and require others to do so
KP7_KR2 is prepared to protect the achievements and traditions of the profession

Assessment criteria

The condition for passing in the first year is the completion of the tasks planned by individual supervisors, in the second year - the final editing and submission of the master's thesis. Students are required to actively and systematically participate in classes, fulfill all tasks scheduled in the program of a given seminar, and systematically present the subsequent stages of the thesis.
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 subject literature depends on the specifics of the topics covered in the seminar. It is listed in Part B of the syllabus.

Term 2024:

E. Rybicka, Geopoetyka
Y. Tuan, Space and Place
M. Atwood, Survival
K. Wężyk, Kanada ulubiony kraj świata
G. Downie and J. Lemire, Secret Path
J. Gierak-Onoszko, 27 śmierci Toby'ego Obeda
S. Watt-Cloutier, The Right to Be Cold

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.