Prerequisites for enrolling in the third year of study:
English language II
Semantics
English Neo-Classicism and Romanticism
Victorian literature
MODERN
AMERICAN FICTION
ECTS Credits: PED
2,5; DAD 2; PEJ 3; DAJ 3
Language: English
Duration: V and VI semester
Status: elective
Course type: seminar
Examination:
One to two short presentations, a 12- to 15-page paper, and written
exam.
Course description: The course concentrates on the major American fiction writers between 1880 and 1930, covering the period of realism-naturalism and modernism, the former characterizing the literature preceding World War I , the latter following in its aftermath incorporating significant thematic and narrative-stylistic innovations. In the course the students read and discuss six novels and a few short stories by the leading writers of these periods: Stephen Crane, Henry James, Theodore Dreiser, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, F.S. Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway.
Objective: The aim of the course is to make students aware of literary-historical changes and the principal ideological and formal differences between these literary movements by studying some outstanding fictional works written between 1880 and 1930.
LITERARY
SEMINAR III: AMERICAN LITERATURE
ECTS credits: PED
2,5; DAD 2; PEJ 3; DAJ 3
Language: English
Duration: V i VI
semester
Status: elective
Course type: seminar
Examination:
One to two short presentations, a 12- to 15-page paper, and written
exam.
Course description:
The course is taught by a visiting professor, and the description and
objectives change.
BRITISH
MODERNIST NOVEL: POSTCOLONIAL THEMES
ECTS Credits: PED
2,5; DAD 2; PEJ 3; DAJ 3
Language: English
Duration: V and VI
semester
Status: elective
Course type: seminar
Examination:
One to two short presentations, a 12- to 15-page paper, and written
exam.
Course
description: In this course we discuss postcolonial topics in the modernist novel.
Our reading includes novels by H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling,
Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, E.M. Forster, Rabindranath Tagore, and D.H.
Lawrence. We also look at texts
by some important postcolonial critics and theorists, and the pertinence of
their methods and arguments in the study of the modernist novel.
Objective:
This course is meant to allow students to think about the modernist
novel in the important historical context of colonialism.
That is why class discussions involve historical as well as
specifically literary topics. An
important pedagogic part of this course is the writing of an analytical
essay, an exercise in both close reading and rhetorically persuasive writing.
BRITISH MODERNISM
ECTS Credits: PED 2,5; DAD 2; PEJ 3; DAJ 3
Language: English
Duration: V and VI semester
Status: elective
Course type: seminar
Examination: All texts discussed in the seminar should be read thoroughly in advance. A 10-page seminar paper should be handed in by the end of the first semester. At the end of the second semester students are required to take a written exam based on the materials studied in the course. The duration of the exam is 90 minutes.
Course description: In the first term Irish Modernism will be studied. We shall discuss some cultural and political features of the period, and read closely the works of W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, and Samuel Beckett. In the second term we shall study the texts of Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf and D. H. Lawrence as paradigmatic of Modernism and then compare them to more contemporary texts by George Orwell, W. H. Auden, Julian Barnes and Helen Fielding. In addition, we shall look into the most relevant critical interpretations of these works and evaluate their critical methodology.
Objective: The aim of this seminar is to examine Modernism as a literary movement, concentrating on the paradigmatic stylistic features of the period, as opposed to Romanticism, Realism, and Postmodernism. Special attention will be given to the new understanding of time and subjectivity as well as to the new Modernist understanding of the interrelation between the political and the personal.
THE
GROTESQUE IN THE MODERN ENGLISH AND AMERICAN LITERATURE
ECTS Credits: PED
2,5; DAD 2; PEJ 3; DAJ 3
Language: English
Duration: V and VI
semester
Status: elective
Course type: seminar
Examination:
One to two short presentations, a 12- to 15-page paper, and written
exam.
Course description: The
course discusses the grotesque element in modern English and American
fiction and in the work of two predecessors, Lewis Carroll and E. A. Poe.
The authors to be discussed are Flannery O’Connor, early Aldous Huxley,
Lewis Carroll and E. A. Poe with references to Kafka, Thomas Mann, Miroslav
Krleža, Albert Camus. The preoccupation with the chaotic, the absurd and
the grotesque in the 20th century fiction is the subject matter
of this course and it will be discussed in the light of both literary and
philosophical theories.
Objective: The purpose of the course is to present the fear or angst characterizing the modern sensibility.
AMERICAN
SOCIETY
ECTS
Credits: PED
2,5; DAD 2; PEJ 3; DAJ 3
Language:
English
Duration:
V and VI semester
Status:
elective
Course
type: lecture
Prerequisites: completed requirements for enrolling in
the third year of study
Examination:
written
Course
description:
The course deals with the development of American society from a
historical perspective, looking particularly at its political system,
culture and civilization and the modern era. Special attention is payed to
the way in which the United States are presented in the media such as
newspapers, films and television.
Objective:
The aim of
this course is to introduce students to the basic foundations on which the
American society has been built, starting with its earliest settlment to the
present day. Understanding these foundations is a key to understanding the
present day developments in American politics and culture.
BRITISH
CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
ECTS Credits: PED
2,5; DAD 2; PEJ 3; DAJ 3
Language: English
Duration: V and VI semester
Status: elective
Course type: lecture
Prerequisites: completed requirements for enrolling in
the third year of study
Examination:
One written exam at the end of the second term.
Course description: The
course (two semesters) consists of two parts. The first part studies the
history of the British Isles from the Reformation down to the later
twentieth century, focusing on the development of the parliamentary system,
religion, the economy, art and architecture. The second part deals with
contemporary Britain: its political institutions and other aspects of public
life such as the educational system, the law, the media, and internetional
relations with special regard to the European Union.
Objective: The
aim of this course is to braoden the students' knowledge of Great Britain,
and introduce them to the functioning of British everyday and social life.
SYNTAX
(WORD CLASSES)*
ECTS Credits:PED
2,5; DAD 2; PEJ 3; DAJ 3
Language: English
Duration: V and VI
semester
Status: mandatory
Course type: lecture
Prerequisites:
completed requirements for enrolling in the
third year of study
Examination:
written
Course description: The
course consists of two parts. The first part deals with the problems in the
definiton of word classes and with the morphological and syntactic potential
as the base for dividing words into classes. The second part deals with
analysis of phrases (NP, VP, Adj. P, Adv. P, PP), laying particular emphasis
on the verb phrase, and with
complementation of verbs and adjectives.
Objective: The
course is closely linked to the syntax (sentence) course. It aims at
providing the students with an insight into the principles of syntactic
analyses of different linguistic schools, and acquainting them with the
field of English syntax.
SYNTAX
(SENTENCE)*
ECTS Credits: PED
2,5; DAD 2; PEJ 3; DAJ 3
Language: English
Duration: V and VI
semester
Status: mandatory
Course type: lecture
Prerequisites:
completed requirements for enrolling in the
third year of study
Examination:
written
Course
description: The course presents a systematic study of the main elements of the syntactic
description of English: the concept of syntax, the concept and definition of
the sentence, types of clauses and sentences, sentence elements, word order
in the sentence, transformational tests of the syntactico-semantic relations
beetween parts of sentences, intra-sentential processes (coordination,
elipsis, negation), main and subordinate clauses, types of subordinate
clauses according to function and according to meaning. The supra-syntacic
level of description: textual sequencing of sentences and elements of
textual cohesion, distribution of information within the sentence and within
discourse.
Objective:
The aim of
the course is to bring to the students attention the main conceptual and
terminological prerequisites for the description of language at the
syntactic level. The knowledge thus gained will help the student understand
the mechanisms of any language, but the focus in this case is on the syntax
of English with contrastive insights in relation to Croatian.
* students take Syntax parts of
speech and sentence courses together. These courses combined have the
number of credits shown.
ENGLISH
LANGUAGE III
ECTS Credits: PED
1,5; DAD 1,5; PEJ 3; DAJ 2,5
Language: English
Duration: V and VI semester
Status: mandatory
Course type: exercises
Prerequisites: completed
requirements for enrolling in the third year of study
Examination:
written, which consists of six words or expressions to be explained
or put in an appropriate context, 5-6 sentences whose underlined parts are
to be paraphrased, and two essays of approximately 200 words, based on texts
read in class. Duration: 90 minutes.
Course
description: Numerous articles taken from British and American newspapers and magazines
are read and analyzed. They are centered around the following topics: law/crime,
politics, health/nutrition, education, business/economy, arts. Each topic is
dealt with during a period of three to four weeks.
Objective:
The aim of
the course is to enrich students' vocabulary, to raise their awareness of
the linguistic content of the text (grammar, constructions), encourage them
to state their opinion in class, and to produce coherent, grammatically and
stylistically correct texts based on those read in class.
THIRD-YEAR
TRANSLATION
ECTS Credits: PED
1,5; DAD 1,5; PEJ 3; DAJ 2,5
Language: English
Duration: V and VI
semester
Status: mandatory
Course type:
practical language exercises
Prerequisites:
completed requirements for enrolling in the third
year of study
Examination:
Written translation (75 minutes) into English of a general language
text, usually a newspaper article on politics, crime, business or culture of
approximately 150 words. The student can either take two examinations
towards the end of each semester, or one after the end of spring semester (in
June)
Course description:
The course is designed to heighten the students' analytical awareness of the
translation process as various translation strategies and procedures are put
to practice and later discussed in class. During the two semesters, the
students acquire and perfect their translation skills, and are equipped with
some key vocabulary connected to various topics (politics, crime, business
and culture).
Objective: The
course aims at enabling the students to translate general language texts
such as authentic newspaper articles on various topics (politics, crime,
business and culture), into the foreign language (English).
WRITING SKILLS
ECTS Credits: PED
0,5; DAD 1; PEJ 1; DAJ 2
Language: English
Duration:
V and VI semester
Status: mandatory
Course type: practical
language exercises
Prerequisites:
completed requirements for enrolling in the
third year of study
Examination:
two 1-hour written exams, one at the end of
each semester
Course description: This course is a constituent part of English III. Students will learn the basics of academic writing style as taught at the college level in English-speaking countries. This includes different rhetorical patterns such as comparison, contrast, classification and division and persuasion.
Objective: The aim of this course is to teach students the basics of academic writing. Specific attention will be given to essay writing and the technical aspects of writing a research paper.
ECTS Credits: PED
1; DAD 1; PEJ 2; DAJ 2
Language: English
Duration: V and VI
semester
Status: elective
Course type: seminar
Prerequisites:
completed requirements for enrolling in the
third year of study
Examination:
In order to get credit the students are required to hand in three
short written reports per semester, consisting of analyses of translations.
Course description: The
seminar provides an opportunity for a deeper study of some of the topics
covered in the translation theory course. See Course description under
Translation theory.
Objective:
The aim of the seminar is to introduce students to analytical
procedures in studying translation on the basis of theoretical concepts
acquired in the Translation theory course. Students work in groups.
DISCOURSE ANALYSIS
ECTS Credits: PED 1; DAD 1; PEJ 2; DAJ 2
Language: English
Duration: V i VI semester
Status: elective
Course type: seminar
Prerequisites:
completed requirements for enrolling in the
third year of study
Examination: Final paper based on the student's own research and analysis
Course description: The course introduces the major approaches to the analysis of discourse and their applications to real texts. Special attention is paid to spoken language, as well as particular linguistic issues such as gender differences, forms of address etc. Theoretical framework and practical approaches introduced in the course include speech act theory (J. Austin and J. Searle), interactional sociolinguistics (D. Hymes), conversation analysis (S. Eggins and D. Slade), etc.
Objective: The general aim of the course is to develop the students' awareness of discourse as a linguistic phenomenon and the problems encountered in its analysis as well as to introduce students to the basic techniques of writing a linguistic research paper.
SYNTAX
SEMINAR
ECTS Credits: PED 1;
DAD 1; PEJ 2; DAJ 2
Language: English
Duration: V and VI
semester
Status: elective
Course type: seminar
Prerequisites:
completed requirements for enrolling in the
third year of study
Examination:
In order to get credit students are required to hand in three short
written reports per semester, consisting of analyses of translations.
Course description: The
seminar provides an opportunity for a deeper study of some of the topics
covered in the syntax (sentence) course. See Course description under Syntax
(sentence).
Objective:
The aim of the seminar is to introduce students to analytical
procedures in studying syntax on the basis of theoretical concepts acquired
in the Syntx (sentence) course. Students work in groups.
THIRD YEAR SEMINAR: 20TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
ECTS Credits: PED
2,5; DAD 2; PEJ 3; DAJ 3
Language: English
Duration:
V and VI semester
Status: elective
Course type: seminar
Prerequisites:
completed requirements for enrolling in the
third year of study
Examination:
One to two short presentations, a 12- to 15-page paper, and written
exam.
Course description: First semester: An anthology with notes is provided covering the main poets and periods of 20th c. poetry in Britain: Thomas Hardy, W.B. Yeats, poetry of WWI, the generation of the thirties, post-WW II, Dylan Thomas, Ted Hughes, Sheamus Heaney. Semester two: discussion of some of the capital works of modernism and postmodernism in UK. Five (six) novels selected from the works of D.H.Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, A. Huxley, Graham Greene, A. Byatt, Salmon Rushdie, Julian Barnes.
Objective: To present some of the capital works of 20th c. British prose and poetry and the context in which they were written. The seminar is a direct preparation for the diploma exam in 20th c. British literature as outlined in the Department's Guide to Studies.