Course catalogue 2017/18
Semester 1 (Late September to late December)
Cycle
Course Title
English for Academic Purposes I:
English for Academic Purposes III:
Anglo-American Literature Survey I: 1930-1980
English for Media Studies I:
BA
English for Academic Purposes V:
Anglo-American Literature Survey III: 1850-1930
English for Media Studies III:
Angela Carter: The Subversive Storyteller
Course Details
Course description:
Grade awarded: Pass/Fail (for details see the course syllabus)
ECTS: 4
Course description:
Grade awarded: Pass/Fail (for details see the course syllabus)
ECTS: 4
Course description: In this course you will study the major authors of post-war British and American fiction (Jack
Kerouac, Toni Morrison, Flannery O’Connor, J. D. Salinger etc.) and Modern British and American theatre (Samuel
Beckett, Tom Stoppard, Tennessee Williams).
Grade awarded: Pass/Fail
ECTS: 6
Course description: English-speaking print media, Reading and writing news)
Grade awarded: Pass/Fail (for details see the course syllabus)
ECTS: 6
Course description:
Grade awarded: Pass/Fail
ECTS: 4
Course description: This course covers the Classic English novel (Jane Austen, Emily Brontë, Charles Dickens) and
“great American novel” (Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman)
Grade awarded: Pass/Fail (for details see the course syllabus)
ECTS: 6
Course description: (Marketing, Working in the media)
Grade awarded: Pass/Fail (for details see the course syllabus)
ECTS: 6
Course description: In this course you will examine the work of Angela Carter, one of the most inventive and
controversial British modern women writers, whose ideas on gender and sexuality, feminism and patriarchy have
been influential for more than two decades. You will have opportunity to explore how these ideas are reflected in a
selection of Carter’s writing – novels, short stories and critical essays.
Grade awarded: A-F
ECTS: 6
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Semester 2 (Mid-February to mid-May)
Cycle
Course Title
English for Academic Purposes II:
English for Academic Purposes IV:
Anglo-American Literature Survey II:
English for Media Studies II:
Anglo-American Literature Survey IV: 1590-1850
BA
English for Media Studies IV:
English for Academic Purposes VI:
Art of Adaptation: Literature and Film
VSKK Grade
1 (Vyborne = Excellent)
2 (Velmi dobre = Very good)
3 (Dobre =Good)
4 (Nedostatecne = Fail)
Course Details
Course description:
Grade awarded: A-F
ECTS: 4
Course description:
Grade awarded: Pass/Fail (for details see the course syllabus)
ECTS: 4
Course description: This literature survey course covers the period of Modernism, in particular the works of T. S. Eliot, James
Joyce, Marianne Moore and Virginia Woolf.
Grade awarded: A-F
ECTS: 6
Course description:
Grade awarded: A-F
ECTS: 6
Course description: In this course you will read and discuss some of the major works of Elizabethan literature as well as English
and American Romanticism, namely W. Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, T. S. Coleridge’s Rime
of the Ancient Mariner and E. A. Poe’s Raven and The Philosophy of Composition.
Grade awarded: A-F
ECTS: 6
Course description:
Grade awarded: A-F
ECTS: 6
Course description:
Grade awarded: A-F
ECTS: 4
Course description: “The book is better” is a common statement heard when dealing with adaptations of literature on the
silver screen. Why the two media – the book and the film – rarely, if ever, meet the expectations of all readers and lovers of
film will be the focus of this course. You will discuss narrative and intermediality theories to see how the story translates from
page to screen whilst simultaneously analysing individual aspects of the respective media.
Grade awarded: A-F
ECTS: 6
ECTS
A
B, C
D, E
FX, F
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