COURSE DESCRIPTION – 2^nd YEAR OF STUDY

Prerequisites for enrolling in the second year of study:

English language I

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.