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Introduction to Literature (2025/2026: periode 1)
Cursusdoel
After completing this course students are able to:
Relationship between assessment and learning goals:
In this course, the final course grade is based on three elements: a midterm written assignment, a final written assignment and class participation (including logbooks and chairing a discussion)
- Identify significant formal features of literary prose, poetry, and drama.
- Combine observations about formal features and themes of literary works into interpretive claims.
- Write argument-driven, well-evidenced interpretive essays about literary works.
- Relate literary works to their historical, cultural, and political contexts.
- Understand and deploy a few theoretical frameworks common in literary studies.
Relationship between assessment and learning goals:
In this course, the final course grade is based on three elements: a midterm written assignment, a final written assignment and class participation (including logbooks and chairing a discussion)
- The midterm develops and tests the skills required to achieve learning goals 1-4.
- The final tests the skills required to achieve learning goals 1-5.
- Class participation (including logbooks and chairing discussion) tests your knowledge and insight on learning objectives 1-5.
Vakinhoudelijk
What is literature and how do we study it?
In this course, students develop fundamental skills in literary analysis by learning to interpret poems, plays, and literary prose from different cultures and historical periods. By completing this course, you will improve your knowledge of literary history and develop your ability to ask—and answer—interesting questions about the works you read. We will consider how texts are written, what their possible effects on readers are, in what ways they reflect or envision the society in which they were composed, why societies cherish some literary works and censure others, how certain writers acquire or lose value over the course of time, and how literature helps to shape the sense of who we are as individuals and as members of society. The emphasis of the first half of the course is on developing skills in literary analysis / close reading; in the second half, the emphasis is on combining close reading with historical contextualization and theoretical framing.
Format
The course format combines short lectures by the instructors, introducing relevant skills, works, and concepts, with discussions. Students will take turns in leading group discussions. Occasionally, classes will run as writing workshops.
In this course, students develop fundamental skills in literary analysis by learning to interpret poems, plays, and literary prose from different cultures and historical periods. By completing this course, you will improve your knowledge of literary history and develop your ability to ask—and answer—interesting questions about the works you read. We will consider how texts are written, what their possible effects on readers are, in what ways they reflect or envision the society in which they were composed, why societies cherish some literary works and censure others, how certain writers acquire or lose value over the course of time, and how literature helps to shape the sense of who we are as individuals and as members of society. The emphasis of the first half of the course is on developing skills in literary analysis / close reading; in the second half, the emphasis is on combining close reading with historical contextualization and theoretical framing.
Format
The course format combines short lectures by the instructors, introducing relevant skills, works, and concepts, with discussions. Students will take turns in leading group discussions. Occasionally, classes will run as writing workshops.
Werkvormen
UCU hum 1 course
Toetsing
Class participation, including logbook
Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25
Mid term written assignment
Verplicht | Weging 30% | ECTS 2,25
Final written assignment
Verplicht | Weging 40% | ECTS 3
*midterm FEEDBACK*
Niet verplicht
Ingangseisen en voorkennis
Ingangseisen
Er is geen informatie over verplichte ingangseisen bekend.
Voorkennis
Er is geen informatie over benodigde voorkennis bekend.
Voertalen
- Engels
Competenties
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Academisch schrijven
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Internationale en interculturele oriëntatie
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Kritisch lezen
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Onderzoeksvaardigheden
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Presenteren
Cursusmomenten
Gerelateerde studies
Tentamens
Er is geen tentamenrooster beschikbaar voor deze cursus
Verplicht materiaal
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BOEKVirginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
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BOEKAlison Bechdel, The Secret to Superhuman Strength
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BOEKAnne Carson, The Autobiography of Red
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BOEKDante, Inferno
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BOEKAthol Fugard, The Township Plays
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BOEKMohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
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BOEKZora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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BOEKLuigi Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author
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BOEKAndrei Platonov, The Foundation Pit
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BOEKMary Shelley, Frankenstein (the 1818 text)
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BOEKColson Whitehead, The Intuitionist
Aanbevolen materiaal
Er is geen informatie over de aanbevolen literatuur bekend
Coördinator
| dr. S.P. van Bommel | s.p.vanBommel@uu.nl |
Docenten
| dr. S.S.M. van den Elzen | S.S.M.vandenElzen@uu.nl |
| A. Dutta | a.dutta@uu.nl |
| E.F. Eromosele | e.f.eromosele@uu.nl |
| A. Prigozhin | A.Prigozhin@uu.nl |
Inschrijving
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