Katolicki Uniwersytet Lubelski Jana Pawła II
Instytut Filologii Angielskiej
Al. Racławickie 14, 20-950 Lublin
tel.: +48 81 4453942, fax: +48 81 4453943
email: [email protected]
Lublin, 20 października 2015 r.
Tezy na egzaminy dyplomowe
w roku akademickim 2015/2016
Filologia angielska, studia stacjonarne I stopnia:
Seminaria licencjackie:
Literatura angielska (seminarium licencjackie) dr Magdalena Sawa
1.
Postcolonial literature.
2.
Dystopia – characteristics of the genre.
3.
Ekphrasis in British literature.
4.
Feminist tradition in British literature.
5.
Kunstlerroman in British literature - the evolution of the genre.
6.
Characteristics of chic-literature and post-feminism.
7.
The significane of Jane Austen's fiction.
8.
Symbolism in British literature.
9.
Dystopia in British literature.
10. Female dystopia.
11. South African writers.
12. Woman-writers in British literature.
13. The image of war in British literature.
14. The role of music in literature.
15. Jeanette Winterson's fiction.
Literatura amerykańska (seminarium licencjackie) dr Patrycja Antoszek
1.
Puritan literature – major genres, thematic concerns, representatives
2.
Gothic elements in the literature of Edgar Allan Poe
3.
American Transcendentalism
4.
Henry James vs. Mark Twain – two faces of American realism
5.
Modernist poetry
6.
The Great Gatsby and the American Dream
7.
The Harlem Renaissance
8.
John Steinbeck and the literature of the Great Depression
9.
The Beat Generation
10. Outsiders in American twentieth century literature
11. Postmodernism – literary techniques, themes, representatives
12. Problems of representation in historiographic metafiction
13. Physical and metaphorical spaces in Gothic literature
14. The trope of the house in American ethnic literature
15. Hybrid identities/hybrid spaces in contemporary ethnic literature
Literaturoznawstwo (seminarium licencjackie) dr Łukasz Borowiec
1. Beginnings of English drama and theatre: medieval drama and theatre – main features
and representative works.
2. Elizabethan drama and theatre – main features and representatives.
3. William Shakespeare – a man of the theatre.
4. Jacobean drama and theatre – main features and representatives.
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Restoration drama and theatre – main features and representatives.
Victorian and Edwardian drama and theatre – G. B. Shaw & O. Wilde.
The inter-war drama and theatre – N. Coward, T. S. Eliot, S. O’Casey, J B. Priestley.
The Theatre of the Absurd – main features and representatives.
Kitchen sink drama – main features and representatives.
Women in modern British drama and theatre – main issues and representatives.
Samuel Beckett as a playwright and man of the theatre.
Harold Pinter as a playwright and man of the theatre.
Tom Stoppard as a playwright and man of the theatre.
“In-yer-face” drama and theatre – main features and representatives.
Political and social issues in modern British drama.
Językoznawstwo stosowane (seminarium licencjackie) dr hab. Anna BlochRozmej
1.
Stages of first language acquisition
2.
Stages of second language acquisition.
3.
Language policy
4.
English as a lingua franca
5.
The major processes of word formation.
6.
The subject matter of phonetics and its major branches.
7.
The organs of speech and their role in sound production
8.
The division of sounds according to their place of articulation
9.
The division of sounds according to the manner of articulation
10. The English vowels.
11. The English consonants
12. The definition of a phoneme. Allophones as variants of phonemes
13. Phonological rules as a derivational mechanism
14. The concept of phonological representation.
15. Examples of phonological processes typical of Polish and English
16. Contrastive English-Polish phonology
17. The concepts of linguistic competence and performance
18. Difference between the descriptive and prescriptive approaches to grammar.
19. Dialect, idiolect, sociolect.
20. Differences between pidgins and creoles.
21. Definitions of synonyms, antonyms, homonyms and homophones.
22. Gender-specific features of language
23. The major differences between British English and General American
24. Innovative methods in language teaching.
25. English borrowings in the Polish language.
26. Inflectional versus derivational morphemes.
27. The concept of Universal Grammar.
28. Major problems in text translation.
29. Differences between children and adult language learners.
30. Human language versus animal ‘languages’ – differences and similarities
Kulturoznawstwo angielskiego i celtyckiego obszaru językowego (seminarium
licencjackie) dr Tomasz Niedokos
1.
The problem of selection In the British Education System.
2.
The ethos of the British Public Schools.
3.
The development of universities in Great Britain.
4.
The hereditary principle in the British political system.
5.
The Independence of India and Pakistan
6.
The legacy of the Raj.
7.
The Anglo-Scottish relations in the historical perspective and in the present.
8.
Attitudes to war in the interwar period.
9.
The literary picture of the Industrial Revolution.
10. The position of women in the 19th and 20th centuries.
11. The impact of The Inklings on popular culture.
12. Radio and television in Great Britain.
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The press market in Great Britain.
Thatcherism – Britain in the 1980s.
The cultural movement of Cool Britannia.
Metodyka nauczania języka angielskiego (seminarium licencjackie) dr hab.
Bogusław Marek, prof. KUL
1.
Special Educational Needa: classification and pedagogical implications
2.
Children with special needs: cognitive development and acquisition of language
3.
Understanding of spatial relations and visual concepts by persons with a visual
impairrment
4.
Audio description – function and basic rules
5.
Resources ans access technology in teaching foreign languages to students with various
special needs.
6.
Braille – a comparison of Polish and English systems
7.
Alternative communication – types and addressees
8. Sign language - characteristics
9.
Cued speech – description
10. Tactile graphics and tactile audio graphics – characteristics and educational potential
11. Principles of correct adaptations of educational materials for students with a visual
impairment
12. Methods vs. techniques in foreign language education
13. Selected theories and methods in foreign language education
14. Teaching various language skills in inclusive education
15. Constructing tests for various levels and age groups of students with special educational
needs
16. The phonetic systems of Polish and English
17. Branches of linguistics - characteristics
Językoznawstwo porównawcze (seminarium
Malicka-Kleparska
1.
Types of morphemes
2.
Roots vs. formatives
3.
Word formation
4.
Inflection
5.
Types of compounds
6.
Morphological categories
7.
Morphological types
8.
Morphological alternations
9.
Types of derivatinal processes
10. Structures of derivatives
11. Loan words
12. Types of word creation
13. Metaphor, metonymy
14. Language types
15. English inflection in diachronic perspective
16. Verbal valency
licencjackie)
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Filologia angielska, studia stacjonarne II stopnia:
Seminaria magisterskie:
Wybrane
aspekty
językowe
angielskich
translacji
(seminarium) dr hab. Magdalena Charzyńska-Wójcik
1.
Translation practices in Anglo-Saxon England
2.
OE Psalter glosses as translation
3.
Multilingualism in Anglo-Saxon England
4.
Anglo-Saxon diglossia
5.
Bible translation into Old and Middle English
średniowiecznych
6.
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14.
15.
Translation practices in Norman England
Multilingualism in Norman England
Medieval translation techniques
The significance of medieval translators
Reinforcement effects in medieval Biblical translations
Special issues in translating the Bible
Metaphors in translation
New vocabulary in Middle and early Modern translations
Biblical translation in the modern period
Translation and cultural change
Metodyka (seminarium) dr hab. Anna Bloch-Rozmej
1.
Methods of foreign language teaching: the Grammar-translation method.
2.
The Audio-lingual approach to language teaching.
3.
The traits of the Communicative Approach
4.
The theory of Multiple Intelligences
5.
Unconventional methods of language teaching
6.
Learning and teaching styles
7.
The problem of motivation in the English classroom
8.
Types of motivation and motivation-raising strategies.
9.
Mixed-ability classes.
10. The significance of teaching aids.
11. The use of authentic materials in language teaching.
12. Multimedia in the language classroom.
13. The problem of learner autonomy
14. The question of syllabus design.
15. Error and mistake: problems and solutions.
16. Literary forms in second language teaching.
17. The development of the receptive skills.
18. Ways of developing the productive skills.
19. Differences between first and second language acquisition.
20. Teaching English for specific purposes.
21. The role of computer in teaching English as a foreign language.
22. Multimedia in the foreign language instruction.
23. The role of testing in English teaching. Types of tests.
24. Features of business English and the structure of a business English course.
25. Psychological factors in foreign language learning.
26. The roles of the teacher in the English classroom.
27. A well-designed English course book.
28. Learning strategies.
29. Effective ways of teaching grammar.
30. Age-dependent features in the context of language learning.
Translatoryka (seminarium) dr Konrad Klimkowski
1.
The development of AVT. Discuss. Make mention of linguistic, cultural and marketrelated aspects of screen translation
2.
Why the term AVT is more and more often substituted by the notion of intersemiotic,
multimodal or multimedia translation? What are the definitions of each of these
concepts?
3.
Discuss the concepts of intralingual, interlingual and intersemiotic translation? Who
proposed the distinction? What other contributions of that scholar to the theory of
language and/or translation do you know?
4.
Discuss the metaphor of “translation as transfer”. Make mention of the main
representatives of approaches to translation based on this metaphor
5.
Discuss the main assumption made by Eugene Nida concerning: 1) the idea of translation
as transfer, 2) the concept of philological translation, 3) the influence of cultural reality
on translation
6.
Discuss the metaphor of “translation as textual, mediated communication”. Make
mention of the main representatives of approaches to translation based on this metaphor
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Enumerate and discuss the text-types proposed by K. Reiss (1974). What do these types
correspond to in terms of communication theory?
Define the concept of text as used by the functionalist approach(es) to translation. What
other ways of comprehending the notion of text are you familiar with?
Why do some scholars claim that in 1990s there took place a cultural turn in translation
studies? Enumerate and discuss the most prominent representative of this trend in
translation studies
Discuss the metaphor of “writing/translating as refraction” by A. Lefevere. What is your
opinion on the similarities and differences of the working processes of a writer-author
and a translator?
Give evidence for the “professional turn” in translation studies in the late 1990. What
extra-translational conditions must be taken into account when talking about the
phenomenon?
Should the client be seen as part of the translation process (cf. Vermeer’s 1984 notion of
commission)? What can this mean, and what consequences this approach brings to
translation theory and practice?
Newmark, Vinay and Darbelnet can be regarded as representatives of a similar approach
to translation. Discuss their approach(es), looking for similarities and discrepancies
Discuss the potential relations between the literary system of the source text and the
literary system of the target text, as revealed by translation-related choices (of
translators, editors, policy-makers, product managers, etc.). Make sure to mention the
scholar who proposed analyzing the above-mentioned relation as part of literary theory
Discuss the notion of translatorial action by Holz-Mänttäri (1984). To which main trend
of translation studies does this notion belong?
Literatura angielska (seminarium) dr hab. Grzegorz Maziarczyk
1. British poetry of the 1950s and 1960s: major features and representatives
2. Contemporary British poetry: major features and representatives
3. American poetry of the 1950s and 1960s: major features and representatives
4. Contemporary American poetry: major features and representatives
5. British drama of the 1950s and 1960s: major features and representatives
6. Contemporary British drama: major features and representatives
7. American drama of the 1950s and 1960s: major features and representatives
8. Contemporary American drama: major features and representatives
9. British fiction of the 1950s and 1960s: major features and representatives
10. American fiction of the 1950s and 1960s: major features and representatives
11. Postmodern British fiction: major features and representatives
12. Postmodern American fiction: major features and representatives
13. Post-colonial literature: major features and representatives
14. Multimodal fiction: major features and representatives
15. Electronic literature: major features and representatives
Literatura amerykańska (seminarium) dr Urszula Niewiadomska-Flis
1. The image of a serial killer in American literature and TV series.
2. Survival literature.
3. Representation of foodways in fantasy and sci-fi.
4. The issue of hunger in Jewish American literature.
5. Human-animal relationships in American literature.
6. Representation of foodways in magic realism.
7. Anthropomorphous diet in American literature and cinematography.
8. Poor white girlhood in the literature of the American South.
9. Dehumanization in American literature and film.
10. Slave rebellions in slave narratives.
11. Representation of foodways in children’s literature adapted to screen.
12. White-black female relations in literature of the American South.
13. The concept of space in Walker Percy’s fiction.
14. The image of an immigrant and his community in Polish American literature.
15. The issue of eating disorders in ethnic American literature.
Filologia angielska, studia niestacjonarne I stopnia:
Seminaria licencjackie:
Literaturoznawstwo (seminarium licencjackie) dr Łukasz Borowiec
1. Beginnings of English drama and theatre: medieval drama and theatre – main features
and representative works.
2. Elizabethan drama and theatre – main features and representatives.
3. William Shakespeare – a man of the theatre.
4. Jacobean drama and theatre – main features and representatives.
5. Restoration drama and theatre – main features and representatives.
6. Victorian and Edwardian drama and theatre – G. B. Shaw & O. Wilde.
7. The inter-war drama and theatre – N. Coward, T. S. Eliot, S. O’Casey, J B. Priestley.
8. The Theatre of the Absurd – main features and representatives.
9. Kitchen sink drama – main features and representatives.
10. Women in modern British drama and theatre – main issues and representatives.
11. Samuel Beckett as a playwright and man of the theatre.
12. Harold Pinter as a playwright and man of the theatre.
13. Tom Stoppard as a playwright and man of the theatre.
14. “In-yer-face” drama and theatre – main features and representatives.
15. Political and social issues in modern British drama.
Językoznawstwo (seminarium licencjackie) dr hab. Anna Bloch-Rozmej
1.
Stages of first language acquisition
2.
Stages of second language acquisition.
3.
Language policy
4.
English as a lingua franca
5.
The major processes of word formation.
6.
The subject matter of phonetics and its major branches.
7.
The organs of speech and their role in sound production
8.
The division of sounds according to their place of articulation
9.
The division of sounds according to the manner of articulation
10. The English vowels.
11. The English consonants
12. The definition of a phoneme. Allophones as variants of phonemes
13. Phonological rules as a derivational mechanism
14. The concept of phonological representation.
15. Examples of phonological processes typical of Polish and English
16. Contrastive English-Polish phonology
17. The concepts of linguistic competence and performance
18. Difference between the descriptive and prescriptive approaches to grammar.
19. Dialect, idiolect, sociolect.
20. Differences between pidgins and creoles.
21. Definitions of synonyms, antonyms, homonyms and homophones.
22. Gender-specific features of language
23. The major differences between British English and General American
24. Innovative methods in language teaching.
25. English borrowings in the Polish language.
26. Inflectional versus derivational morphemes.
27. The concept of Universal Grammar.
28. Major problems in text translation.
29. Differences between children and adult language learners.
30. Human language versus animal ‘languages’ – differences and similarities
Dydaktyka (seminarium licencjackie) dr Tetiana Derkacz-Padiasek
1. Conventional methods of teaching English (the Grammar-Translation Approach, the
Direct Method, the Audio-Lingual Method)
2. Unconventional methods of teaching English (Total Physical Response, the Silent Way,
the Natural Approach, Suggestopedia)
3. Innovations in English Language Education
4. Methods & techniques of teaching English to primary school learners
5. Learners with special educational needs: teaching and facilitation methods
6. Teaching in mixed ability and large classes (methods, techniques, challenges)
7. Learner differences (aptitude and intelligence, learner styles and strategies, individual
variations)
8. Personality factors (self-esteem, inhibition, risk-taking, anxiety, empathy, extroversion)
9. Learning and communication strategies (metacognitive, cognitive, socio affective
strategies; avoidance and compensatory strategies)
10. Teaching communication skills (methods, techniques, activities)
11. Developing listening skills (methods, techniques, strategies)
12. Techniques for teaching reading skills. Improving reading efficiency (skimming,
scanning and searching, critical reading)
13. Feedback during oral and written work (accuracy and fluency, responding, correcting)
14. Using memory improvement techniques (mnemonics)
15. Common problems and solutions in teaching English as a foreign language
Filologia angielska, studia niestacjonarne II stopnia:
Seminaria magisterskie:
Metodyka i językoznawstwo stosowane (seminarium) dr hab. Anna BlochRozmej
1.
Methods of foreign language teaching: the Grammar-translation method.
2.
The Audio-lingual approach to language teaching.
3.
The traits of the Communicative Approach
4.
The theory of Multiple Intelligences
5.
Unconventional methods of language teaching
6.
Learning and teaching styles
7.
The problem of motivation in the English classroom
8.
Types of motivation and motivation-raising strategies.
9.
Mixed-ability classes.
10. The significance of teaching aids.
11. The use of authentic materials in language teaching.
12. Multimedia in the language classroom.
13. The problem of learner autonomy
14. The question of syllabus design.
15. Error and mistake: problems and solutions.
16. Literary forms in second language teaching.
17. The development of the receptive skills.
18. Ways of developing the productive skills.
19. Differences between first and second language acquisition.
20. Teaching English for specific purposes.
21. The role of computer in teaching English as a foreign language.
22. Multimedia in the foreign language instruction.
23. The role of testing in English teaching. Types of tests.
24. Features of business English and the structure of a business English course.
25. Psychological factors in foreign language learning.
26. The roles of the teacher in the English classroom.
27. A well-designed English course book.
28. Learning strategies.
29. Effective ways of teaching grammar.
30. Age-dependent features in the context of language learning.
Literatura a nowe zjawiska w kulturze współczesnej (seminarium) dr hab.
Grzegorz Maziarczyk
1. Adaptation and remediation in contemporary British culture
2. Romantic poetry: major features and representatives
3. Victorian poetry: major features and representatives
4. Modernist poetry: major features and representatives
5. The early British novel: major features and representatives
6. The Gothic novel: major features and representatives
7. Victorian fiction: major features and representatives
8. Modernist fiction: major features and representatives
9. Postmodern fiction: major features and representatives
10. Fantasy: major features and representatives
11. Science fiction: major features and representatives
12. Cyberpunk: major features and representatives
13. Post-colonial literature: major features and representatives
14. Magic realism: major features and representatives
15. Dystopia/anti-utopia: major features and representatives