ENGELSK
Pensumhefte vår 2012
Emner på
bachelor- og masternivå
NTNU
Institutt for moderne fremmedspråk
Seksjon for engelsk
Introduction
This booklet contains short descriptions of the courses being offered by the English Section in
the Spring 2012 semester, together with lists of the required reading (pensum) for these
courses. In some cases, recommended further reading is also listed here.
Fuller descriptions of the courses – including teaching schedules, submission dates for term
papers, etc. – will be available from the start of the semester through NTNU’s online learning
management platform ‘itslearning.’
Note: The courses described in this booklet are not designed for distance learning. Some
lecture material may be made available via itslearning at the discretion of individual course
leaders, but material which compensates for non-attendance at lectures and group sessions
should not be expected. Students who wish to take all or part of the English bachelor
programme but who are unable to attend classes regularly are advised to investigate the
distance learning courses available with Take Credit.
Note too that if you do not register for a course, you will not have access to information
regarding that course on itslearning. If you are interested in taking a particular course, you
should register at an early stage (you can withdraw from the exam later should you decide not
to complete the course).
Further information regarding the courses offered by the English Section is available in the
web version of the Studiehåndbok. This is the best place for checking details of obligatory
assignments and the means of evaluation for each course.
Dictionaries
Regardless of what courses in English you are taking, you should have an English-English
dictionary and an English-Norwegian/Norwegian-English dictionary (or, if Norwegian is not
your native language, an appropriate English-native language dictionary).
English-Norwegian/Norwegian-English
We recommend:
Engelsk blå ordbok: Engelsk-norsk/norsk-engelsk (Kunnskapsforlaget)
This is a relatively cheap publication which will cover most of what you need for your
studies.
We also recommend:
Engelsk stor ordbok: Engelsk-norsk/norsk-engelsk (Kunnskapsforlaget)
This is a more comprehensive dictionary, but it is also more expensive. If you intend
to study English up to a high level, it may be worthwhile investing in this volume.
English-English
Students are strongly recommended to buy the following dictionary:
Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary
Note that this dictionary was formerly entitled the Collins COBUILD English (Advanced
Learner’s) Dictionary. Versions with this earlier title are perfectly acceptable, but should not
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be confused with other Collins dictionaries (e.g., the Collins Student Dictionary would not be
acceptable).. This dictionary is recommended particularly since it will eventually be the only
dictionary which is approved for use in examinations. See below.
Pronunciation Dictionary
We recommend:
J. C. Wells, Longman Pronunciation Dictionary
Dictionaries of synonyms and idioms
There is a wide range of books of this kind, and it is difficult to isolate the most useful.
However, these may prove to be of most interest to Norwegian students of English:
S. Follestad, Engelske idiomer
The Longman Dictionary of Idioms
The Penguin Dictionary of English Synonyms & Antonyms
USE OF DICTIONARIES IN EXAMS – IMPORTANT INFORMATION!!!
In the examinations for courses in English you are allowed to consult an English-English
dictionary – but not just any English-English dictionary.
The following dictionary is the only dictionary approved for use in exams at basisnivå
(ENG1xxx) and fordypningsnivå (ENG2xxx):
• Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary
Versions with the earlier title – Collins COBUILD English (Advanced Learner’s) Dictionary
– are also approved.
For examinations at master’s level during the academic year 2011-2012, additional
dictionaries are currently also approved. Master’s students taking an exam in such a course
(ENG3xxx) during this period may use one of the dictionaries listed below:
• Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary (britisk OG amerikansk)
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary (britisk)
• Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (britisk)
• Longman Dictionary of American English (amerikansk)
• Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary (amerikansk)
• Random-House Webster’s College Dictionary (amerikansk)
• Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary (britisk)
Master’s students who are considering purchasing a dictionary are encouraged to purchase the
Collins Cobuild Advanced Dictionary since that will be the only approved dictionary as of the
2012-2013 academic year.
Note that for use in an examination, your dictionary should NOT contain your own notes.
Your dictionary may be checked during the examination, and removed if it does not meet the
criteria for acceptability.
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Note also that the English Section’s stipulation of a very limited number of approved EnglishEnglish dictionaries is necessary for practical purposes and – again for practical purposes –
we are unable to grant exceptions from the rule.
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Bachelornivå
Basis
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ENG1101 Engelsk språkvitenskap
English Linguistics
7,5 sp
Course coordinator: Helene Hauge
Course teachers:
Christopher Wilder ([email protected])
Anja Angelsen ([email protected])
Helene Hauge ([email protected])
The course aims to equip students with the tools needed for linguistic description and analysis
and to introduce some main topics in the linguistic analysis of English. We will cover the
following core areas of (descriptive and theoretical) linguistics, learning basic notions and
applying them to the description and analysis of English:
- Phonetics: the study of linguistic sounds
- Phonology: the study of the sound systems of individual languages
- Morphology: structure of words
- Syntax: structure of sentences
We will also address aspects of the analysis of the meaning of words and sentences
(Semantics).
Basic knowledge in all these core areas is a prerequisite for further study in the various
subfields of linguistics as well as being very useful when approaching related disciplines, e.g.
sociolinguistics, first / second language acquisition, language teaching, translation studies.
Pensum:
ENG1101 Compendium Spring 2012 (available from TAPIR bookshop)
Material published on itslearning in the course of the semester
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ENG 1303 Litteratur: Prosa/Literature: Prose
7,5 sp
Lectures
Camilla Ulleland Hoel ([email protected]) (course leader)
Jeremy Hawthorn ([email protected])
Arne Pedersen ([email protected])
Outline
This course is a genre-based introduction to prose fiction in English. Presenting some of the
best-known English-language authors and works, the course explores a range of novels and
short stories so as to illuminate the different forms and techniques found within these
principal generic categories. The course also aims to provide an introduction to literarycritical terms involved in studying literature.
Teaching is divided between lectures and group sessions. In addition, students are offered
supervision. One written assignment will be required, and this will need to be approved in
order for a student to take the final written exam. Further details will be provided at the
beginning of the semester.
Pensum
NOVELS
Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. Ed. Ros Ballaster. London: Penguin, 2003
Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities. Ed. Andrew Sanders. Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 1999
Harper Lee. To Kill a Mockingbird. London; New York: Harper Perennial, 2006
Philip Roth. The Ghost Writer. London: Vintage, 2005
Jeanette Winterson. Lighthousekeeping. London: Harper Perennial, 2005.
SHORT STORIES AND NOVELLAS
Henry James. The Turn of the Screw. Eds. Deborah Esch and Jonathan Warren. 2nd
ed. London: Norton, 1999. This edition must be bought. Note: in addition to the
text of The Turn of the Screw, pp. 123-9, 161-8, 177-184 and 193-6 of this edition
are also required reading (pensum). They provide James' preface to the text and
critical essays by Harold C. Goddard, Robert B. Heilman and Tzvetan Todorov.
From The Penguin Book of English Short Stories. Ed. Christopher Dolley. London:
Penguin 2011.
o James Joyce. 'The Dead'.
o Katherine Mansfield. 'The Voyage'.
Out of copyright, to be made available on it's:learning:
o Charlotte Perkins Gilman. 'The Yellow Wallpaper'.
o Jonathan Swift. 'A Modest Proposal'.
SECONDARY LITERATURE
Jeremy Hawthorn. Studying the Novel. 6th ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic,
2010
Paul Goring, Jeremy Hawthorn, Domhnall Mitchell. Studying Literature: The
Essential Companion. 2nd ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2010
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ENG1401 Kulturkunnskap/Civilization
15 sp
Course coordinator
Ane Vikaune ([email protected])
Lecturers and seminar teachers:
Gary Love ([email protected])
Ane Vikaune ([email protected])
Outline
The aim of the course is to provide an up-to-date overview of British and American political
and socio-economic structures, presented in a historical and critical context. We will cover
issues related to population and minorities, politics and government, international relations
and economy, social services and educational systems, and mass media in Britain and the
United States.
Required readings (‘pensum’)
Oakland, John. British Civilization: An Introduction, 7th ed. London: Routledge, 2011.
Selected chapters will be announced at the beginning of the semester. (ISBN: 978-0-41558328-2)
Mauk, David, and John Oakland. American Civilization: An Introduction, 5th ed. London:
Routledge, 2009. Chapters 1-13. (ISBN: 978-0-415-48162-5)
Selected updated articles, which will be made available on It’s Learning throughout the
semester.
Recommended additional readings
Rampolla, Mary Lynn. A Pocket Guide to Writing in History, 6th ed. Boston/New York:
Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2010. (ISBN: 978-0-312-53503-2)
Oakland, John. British Civilization: A Student’s Dictionary, 2nd ed. London: Routledge,
2003. (ISBN: 978-0-415-30777-2)
Duchak, Alicia. A-Z of Modern America. London/New York: Routledge, 1999. (ISBN:
978-0-415-18756-5)
Selected films dealing with Civilization topics, which will be shown in film seminars
throughout the semester.
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Bachelornivå
Fordypning
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ENG2153 Tilegnelse av første- og andrespråk med fokus på engelsk/First
and second language acqusition
Course leaders
Mila Vulchanova
Juhani Järvikivi
Anne Dahl
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Outline
The course provides an introduction to First and Second language (L1 & L2) acquisition with a
special focus on how theoretical knowledge of these phenomena can be employed for practical
purposes in education and more specifically in language teaching. We will follow the natural
progression in how children acquire their native tongue (L1) and the factors that play a major role
in this process. First language acquisition will then be compared to the acquisition of Second
language(s) following recent research in the field. We will discuss the repercussions recent
theoretical advances may have, among other things, on improving the methods for L2 instruction
and the notion of bi-/multilingualism in a global world.
Instruction is provided through seminars, discussions and individual supervision. During the
course students are expected to complete an obligatory in-class presentation reflecting their own
research in a selected topic.
Readings
Karmiloff, Kyra & Anette Karmiloff-Smith 2001. Pathways to Language. From Fetus
to Adolescent. Cambridge, MA/London, England: Harvard University Press.
A compendium of texts (ENG2153: First and second language acquisition) which will be
made available in the Tapir bookshop.
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ENG2303 Litteratur III: Litteratur og nasjon/ Literature and Nation
7.5 sp
This semester’s variant: England as a Family
Course leader
Arne Toftegaard Pedersen ([email protected])
Outline
George Orwell often referred to England as a family. In The Lion and the Unicorn Orwell
sees England neither as an idyllic country nor as an inferno: “More than either it resembles a
family, a rather stuffy Victorian family… with all its cupboards busting with skeletons”.
The starting point of the course is the innocent Edwardian period represented by E.M.
Forster's novel Howards End (1910). Written before the horrors of the Great War, the author
creates a utopia of England as a family joined in harmony, and settling in a kind of rural
arcadia. References will be made also to Forster’s concept of Englishness, and to the
dilemmas of the “greater family” of the British Empire depicted in A Passage to India (1924).
Virginia Woolf felt alienated from the male-dominated English society she lived in. To the
Lighthouse (1927), one of the landmarks of modernism, explores the illusions, the lies and the
sweet melancholy of a patriarchal English family. Woolf reveals the gender roles of the
Ramsays – depicting an England in miniature – since the structure of this family in many
ways resembles that of the nation.
Though being more well-known for his later works of fiction (Animal Farm (1945) and the
dystopia Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)), Orwell was one of the most important writers of the
1930s. Coming Up for Air (1939) both takes us back to the idyllic Edwardian period, and puts
an emphasis on the growing anxiety of the 1930s. England is depicted as a depressing and
disturbing place (though without the Big Brother of Nineteen Eighty-Four) for the masses.
Furthermore, at the end of the 1930s Hitler threatens to turn the near future into a nightmare.
During the course we will explore different aspects of the novel, and pay special attention to
Forster’s, Woolf’s and Orwell’s ideas of the genre.
Pensum
E.M. Forster: Howards End, 1910 (London: Penguin Classics 2000:
ISBN 014118213X)
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse, 1927 (London: Penguin Classics 2000:
ISBN 0141183411)
George Orwell: Coming Up for Air, 1939 (London: Penguin Classics 2001:
ISBN 0141185694)
A compendium of texts which will be available at the beginning of the semester
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ENG2502 Tekst, kultur, kontekst/Texts, culture, context
7.5 sp
This semester’s variant: British Literature and the French Revolution of 1789
Course leader: Rebecca Davies
Outline
The French Revolution of 1789 had a significant and lasting impact on how people across Europe
understood their society, both culturally and politically. In Britain, the concepts behind the
Revolution ignited fierce political debate, much of it in print form. Discussions influenced by
these debates included notions of equality (including gender and class), the impact of childhood
education on adult understanding and a reassessment of the tenets of marriage. In summary, the
Revolution influenced how people understood themselves within the structure of society. This
course employs an historicist critical approach, which examines literary texts within the context of
the culture which produced them, to explore the ways in which revolutionary debates influenced
British literature across many genres, from Romantic poetry to tales written for children. The texts
studied demonstrate the enduring influence of the Revolution of 1789 on writers of the eighteenth
and nineteenth centuries. Through an examination of a broad range of literary texts, from both
sides of the political debate, this course will raise questions such as: How did the Revolution
affect notions of British citizenship and equality? In what ways did authors with a political agenda
avoid increasingly harsh censorship laws? And why were some authors of this period seemingly
untouched by the issues of the Revolution?
Pensum (please make sure that you buy only the specific editions listed)
• Pamela Clemit (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to British Literature of the French Revolution
in the 1790s (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011) ISBN: 978-0-521-73162-1
• William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Lyrical Ballads and Other Poems
(Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions Ltd., 2003) ISBN: 978-1-84022-535-8
• William Blake, The Complete Poems (London: Penguin, 2004)
• William Godwin, Caleb Williams or Things as They Are (London: Penguin, 2005) ISBN: 0-14144123-2, 978-0-141-44123-8
• Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria in Mary Wollstonecraft Mary and Maria/ Mary Shelley, Matilda
(London: Penguin Classics, 1992) (pp. 61-145) ISBN: 0-14-043371-6
• Bruce Woodcock (ed.) The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley (Hertfordshire: Wordsworth
Editions Ltd., 2002) ISBN: 978-1853264085
• Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (London: Penguin Classics, 2003) ISBN: 978-0-141-43979-2
The following pensum texts will be provided via PDF on the course its learning site:
• Women Poets of the French Revolution (a selection will be provided).
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, The Fall of Robespierre: An Historic Drama
(Cambridge: W. H. Lunn and J. and J. Merrill, 1794)
• Maria Edgeworth, ‘The Little Merchants’ in The Parent’s Assistant, Vol 3. (London: J. Johnson,
1800) and Mary Wollstonecraft, chapter III of Original Stories from Real Life (London: J.
Johnson, 1796)
In addition to the texts listed, a small body of secondary reading will be made available
throughout the semester.
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Masternivå
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ENG3122 Kognitive og teoretiske aspekter ved språk /Cognitive and Theoretical Aspects
of Language
15 sp
This semester’s variant: Grammar and Lexicon
Course leaders:
Mila Dimitrova-Vulchanova
Juhani Järvikivi
Chris Wilder
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
Outline
The course addresses the study of language from the point of view of contemporary linguistic
theory and cognitive science. We will introduce theoretical approaches and their linguistic and
cognitive motivations, and illustrate them extensively using data from Modern English. We
will show how adopting a wider theoretical perspective on human language in general allows
for deeper insights into particular aspects of the structure of English.
The course will be organised in two parts: part 1 will focus on grammar and lexical semantics,
and part 2 will focus on the lexicon, including psycholinguistic aspects. Students’ special
interest areas will be accommodated where possible.
Recommended previous knowledge: basic knowledge of linguistics will be presupposed.
The course is designed so as to be accessible to those with no background in the specific
topics addressed.
Requirement: 2 short presentations in class (10 mins each).
Exam: written paper (hjemmeeksamen, 4000 words)
Readings:
Readings and research articles on specific topics, which will be made available during the
course.
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ENG3123 Oversettelse
7,5 sp
Course leader
Annjo K. Greenall ([email protected])
Outline
This course is an introduction to the field of Translation Studies and to central paradigms,
theories and concepts within this field (e.g. literal vs free translation; equivalence; translation
shifts; loss and gain; skopos (purpose); foreignization/domestication; re-translation;
audiovisual translation (i.e. dubbing, subtitling), etc.). The aim is to provide an in-depth
understanding of these concepts, as well as insight into the dynamic nature of linguistic and
cultural phenomena as they manifest themselves in translation. The main focus will be on
translation and translations between English and Norwegian; arrangements will, however, be
made to make it possible to complete the course without (native-speaker) competence in
Norwegian.
Teaching
The course will be taught through a combination of lectures and seminars. You will be
expected to contribute by taking an active part in theoretical discussions, by analysing source
texts and their respective translations, and by doing translations of your own.
Assessment
One short presentation in class (15-20 min.) (approved/not approved). A take-home exam
(approx. 2500 words (5-6 pages)).
Required reading:
1. Munday, Jeremy. 2008. Introducing Translation Studies: Theories and Applications.
2nd edition. London: Routledge.
2. Pym, Anthony. 2010. Exploring translation theories. London: Routledge.
3. An electronic compendium which will be made available on itslearning at the
beginning of the semester.
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ENG3423 Spesialiseringsemne
15 sp
This semester’s variant: ‘Nineteenth-Century American Literature’
Course leader
Domhnall Mitchell ([email protected])
Outline
In Civilization in the United States (1888), the English critic Matthew Arnold ridiculed an
advertisement for Charles Richardson’s The Primer of American Literature, arguing that all literature
written in English was by definition English literature, and describing distinctions based on national
differences as “absurd” and “retarding”: what next, he wondered, “A Primer of Canadian Literature
too…and Australian?” And yet, anthologies and courses all over the world are organised along
exactly such national lines today, while Arnold himself acknowledged many differences between
British and American culture. By attending to a variety of novel excerpts, short stories, and poems
included in The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Shorter Seventh Edition), as well as The
Scarlet Letter and The Awakening, this course aims to find out when, how and why the idea of a
separate tradition of creative writing began to emerge in American culture – and how relevant or
useful such a concept might be today. The course will be taught through a mixture of formal lecture
and seminar, and will take into account recurrent themes, issues of genre, and some historical and
biographical contexts (when appropriate). Individual texts will be analysed in order to explore
patterns of symbol and image, formal characteristics and broader social concerns.
Pensum: From The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Shorter Seventh Edition)
Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819).
Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” (1841).
Frederick Douglas, excerpts from Narrative of the Life (1845)
Harriet Beecher Stowe, excerpts from Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1852)
Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener” (1853)
Emily Dickinson, “I heard A Fly Buzz”; “Wild Nights”; “I started early - took my
dog”; “Because I could not Stop for Death”; “Safe in their Alabaster Chambers”; “My
Life had stood a Loaded Gun” (1860-)
Rebecca Harding Davis, “Life in the Iron Mills” (1861)
Walt Whitman, “There was a Child Went Forth” & “Song of Myself” (1881)
Sarah Orne Jewett, “The White Heron” (1886)
Charles W. Chesnutt, “The Goophered Grapevine” (1887)
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, “A New England Nun” (1887)
Henry James, Daisy Miller (1878)
In addition:
Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (1850). Norton Critical Edition (ISBN-10:
0393979539 | ISBN-13: 978-0393979534)
Kate Chopin, The Awakening (1899). Norton Critical Edition (ISBN-10: 0393960579 |
ISBN-13: 978-0393960570)
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Students who want to begin reading and preparing during the winter break should start with
one or more of the longer texts: The Scarlet Letter, The Awakening, Narrative of the Life,
and/or Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Domhnall Mitchell, Room 5522. Telephone: 73 59 67 89.
E-mail: [email protected]
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