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COURSE
DESCRIPTION - 2nd
YEAR OF STUDY
Prerequisites for enrolling in the second year of study:
Introduction to the linguistic study of English and Phonetics and Phonology
Introduction
to the study of English literature
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE II
ECTS Credits: PED
2; DAD 1,5; PEJ 3; DAJ 4
Language: English
Duration:
III and IV semester
Status: mandatory
Course type: practical
language exercises, tutorials
Prerequisites:
completed prerequisites for enrolling in
the second year of study,
regular attendance in order to take the final exam.
Examination:
Written examination (grammar,
vocabulary, composition), followed by an oral exam
on grammar.
Course description: a) Reading and analysing short stories,essays and articles with a special emphasis on lexico-grammatical and cultural aspects of the texts. In class discussions students discuss meaning, express critical views and write essays on assigned topics. b) Students study complex grammatical structures, namely phrases and clauses and how these are used to realize different communication goals. The course deals with a practical analysis of English sentences which aims at raising the students overall oral and written competence in the language.
Objectives: Raising
students' oral and written competence by mastering complex grammatical
structures and building up vocabulary. Broadening students' experience and
knowledge of culture through reading selected texts.
ENGLISH NEO-CLASSICISM AND ROMANTICISM
ECTS Credits: PED 3; DAD 3; PEJ 4,5; DAJ 4
Language: English
Duration: III and IV semester
Status: mandatory
Course type: lecture
Prerequisites: Completed prerequisites for enrolling in the second year of study.
Examination: At the end of the second term students have to take an oral exam based on lectures and required readings.
Course description: In the course we shall discuss the most prominent features of Neo-Classicism and Romanticism, studying the works of A. Pope, J. Swift, D. Defoe, H. Fielding, W. Blake, W. Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge, P. B. Shelley, M. Shelley, J. Keats, and others. A variety of critical approaches (new-critical, post-structuralist, new-historicist, feminist, postcolonial, etc.) are introduced in an attempt to study these works from different aspects.
Objective:
The aim of the course is to examine Neo-Classicism and
Romanticism as the periods in which the notions of language, subjectivity,
the relationship between man and nature, as well as that of art and reality
have been redefined, marking the beginning of modernity.
SEMANTICS
ECTS Credits: PED 3;
DAD 3; PEJ 4,5; DAJ 4
Language: English
Duration: III and IV semester
Status: mandatory
Course type: lecture
Prerequisites:
completed prerequisites for enrolling in
the second year of study
Examination:
written, duration 60 minutes
Course description: The
aim of this course is to introduce students to different ways of approaching
the complex phenomenon of meaning. The course is divided into three major
parts: the semantics of the individual lexeme, relationships between lexemes
on the paradigmatic level and the relationship between semantics and syntax.
Course topics also range from traditional semantic terminology such as
homonymy, synonymy, polysemy etc. to new trends in cognitive semantics.
Objective:
The aim of this course is to introduce students to different ways of
approaching the complex phenomenon of meaning.
VICTORIAN LITERATURE
ECTS Credits: PED 3;
DAD 3; PEJ 4,5; DAJ 4
Language: English
Duration: III and IV semester
Status: mandatory
Course type: lecture
Prerequisites: completed
prerequisites for enrolling in the second year of study
Examination: written exam
Course description: The course is a survey of Victorian literature, covering representative Victorian texts in the genres of fiction, poetry, and non-fictional prose. The course examines major thematic concerns in Victorian literature, related to issues of gender, class, industrialization, social reform, progress, religion, professionalization of literature, etc. Attention is also paid to current approaches in Victorian criticism, represented by a selection of critical essays.
Objective: The aim of the course is to familiarize students with this lively and important period in British literary history through a careful examination of representative works from the period, and a discussion of the main historical and aesthetic parameters of Victorian literature.
COGNITIVE
LINGUISTICS
ECTS Credits: PED
3 (2. year), PED 2,5 (3. year); DAD 3 (2. year), DAD 2 (3. year); PEJ 4,5
(2. year), PEJ 3 (3. year); DAJ 4 (2. year), DAJ 3 (3. year)
Language: English
Duration:
2 semesters
Status: elective
Course type: lecture
Prerequisites:
Semantics
Examination:
oral
Course
description: The aim of this course is to introduce students to the basic theoretical
framework of cognitive linguistics. Course topics range from basic notions
such as categories, prototypes, scenes, frames, etc. to the cognitive
approach to metaphor and cognitive grammar. Students are required to do
concrete analyses on the above topics contrastively between English and
Croatian.
Objective:
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the basic theoretical
framework of cognitive linguistics.
SOCIOLINGUISTICS
ECTS Credits: PED 3
(2. year), PED 2,5 (3. year); DAD 3 (2. year), DAD 2 (3. year); PEJ 4,5 (2.
year), PEJ 3 (3. year); DAJ 4 (2. year), DAJ 3 (3. year)
Language: English
Duration:
2 semesters
Status: elective
Course type: lecture
Examination:
written
Course
description: The course presents a survey of selected topics in micro- and
macrosociolinguistics. It discuses the concepts of linguistic and social
structure and the influence of society on language and vice versa. Students
are introduced to the basic notions connected with language varieties (language,
dialect, sociolect, vernacular), followed by an outline of the
standardization process, and a critical analysis of the "doctrine of
correctness" in English. Other topics covered in the course include
stiles and registers, multilingualism, minorities and language and pidgins
and creoles.
Objective: The aim of this course is to introduce students to the concept of language as a set of varieties, which are used according to social context.
TRANSLATION
THEORY
ECTS Credits: PED 3
(2. year), PED 2,5 (3. year); DAD 3 (2. year), DAD 2 (3. year); PEJ 4,5 (2.
year), PEJ 3 (3. year); DAJ 4 (2. year), DAJ 3 (3. year)
Language: English
Duration: 2
semesters
Status: elective
Course type: lecture
Examination:
written, 90 minutes
Course
description: The course has two parts: the first deals with the general theoretical
issues in translation, and the second with particular features of the
translation process with a special emphasis on translation from Croatian to
English and vice verca. The topics covered in the first part include the
concept of theory and the concept of translation, modelling of the
translation process, types of translation theories, translation equivalence
and contrastive correspondence, levels of contrastive description and
translation, types of translation, culture in translation. The second part
focuses on different levels of translation – phonological, lexical,
syntactic, discourse. The course ends with a short discussion of oral
translation, simultaneous and consecutive.
Objective:
The aim of the course is to acquaint the students with the
theoretical approach to linguistic mateorial – in this case traslated
texts. The topics covered in the course provide theoretical underpinnings
for practical translation work, just as actual translation work is a
prerequisite for the scholar study of the phenomenon of translation.
VARIANTS
OF ENGLISH
ECTS Credits: PED 3
(2. year), PED 2,5 (3. year); DAD 3 (2. year), DAD 2 (3. year); PEJ 4,5 (2.
year), PEJ 3 (3. year); DAJ 4 (2. year), DAJ 3 (3. year)
Language: English
Duration: two
semesters
Status: elective
Course type: lecture
Examination:
written
Course
description: The theme of this course is the spread of English, its geographcal and
social varieties, standard and non-standard. The course also briefly deals
with with English as a second language (e.g. in India) and English-based
creoles. The description covers accent, grammar, vocabulary, and style, as
well as standardization practice, status in society, and attitude towards
varieties.
Objective: The aim of this course is to introduce students to the variety of Englishes throughout the world, and to develop a their sensitivity for differences in the living language.