M.A. Seminar 340-AT2-2SEM2
Profile of study: general academic
Mode of study: full-time
Type of subject: compulsory (M_6)
Field and area of study: the arts/literature studies
Year: 1st and 2nd
Semester: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
Initial requirements:
A student should fulfil the requirements concerning the educational outcomes specified by National Qualifications Framework designed for higher education,first cycle degree programme, within the area of the arts (preferred major: English Philology).
The number of didactic hours:
2x30hrs=60hrs of practical classes (1st year)
2x30hrs=60hrs of practical classes (2nd year)
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Term 2024:
The aim of the course is to prepare students to write their M.A. theses within the field of literary studies. During the classes students will learn about the requirements for a successful M.A. thesis and technical aspects of academic writing/ They will have an opportunity to discuss the choice of the topic and will receive feedback on the progress of their work. The course deals with medievalism in literature, especially fantasy literature. On the one hand, we will focus on the phenomenon of employing medieval ideas, aesthetics, themes and motifs in later literature (19th, 20th, 21st century); on the other hand we will deal with theory of fantastic literature. Other topics will also be allowed provided that they deal with broadly understood fantastic fiction (gothic novel, fantasy, dystopia, sci-fi, paranormal romance, horror, etc). |
Term 2025:
The aim of the course is to prepare students to write their M.A. theses within the field of literary studies. During the classes students will learn about the requirements for a successful M.A. thesis and technical aspects of academic writing/ They will have an opportunity to discuss the choice of the topic and will receive feedback on the progress of their work. The course deals with |
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Course coordinators
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Type of course
Term 2024: Master's seminars obligatory courses | Term 2025: obligatory courses Master's seminars | General: obligatory courses |
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 evaluation will take place under the following criteria:
- 1st year - completing the tasks specified by supervisors;
- 2nd year - the submitting of an M.A. thesis.
Students are required to participate in seminar classes actively and systematically, to complete all the task as specified by their supervisor, and to present the results of the successive stages of their study systematically.
Bibliography
Bibliography depends on the subject matter as discussed during given M.A. seminar courses. It has been specified in part B of this syllabus.
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Term 2024:
Osuchowska, D. i Kleparski, G. A. 2009. The Rudiments of Academic |
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. 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. |
Notes
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Term 2024:
Each student will be required to prepare an oral presentation on a selected topic, act as a discussion-leader, and write a research paper. Active participation in in-class discussions, as well as regular attendance, will also contribute to the final grade. Towards the end of the 1st semester the students will be asked to submit a tentative M.A. thesis project; towards the 2nd semester they are supposed to submit its first chapter. To complete the second year, student are required to submit a whole M.A. thesis. |
Term 2025:
Each student will be required to prepare an oral presentation on a selected topic, act as a discussion-leader, and write a research paper. Active participation in in-class discussions, as well as regular attendance, will also contribute to the final grade. Towards the end of the 1st semester the students will be asked to submit a tentative M.A. thesis project; towards the 2nd semester they are supposed to submit its first chapter. To complete the second year, student are required to submit a whole M.A. thesis. |
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