Course Description – 3^rd YEAR OF STUDY

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

• 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:  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

• 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: 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

• 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: 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

• Prerequisites: completed requirements for enrolling in the third year of study

• 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

• 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: 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 20^th 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.

 TRANSLATION 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 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: 20^TH 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 20^th 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 20^th c. British prose and poetry and the context in which they were written.  The seminar is a direct preparation for the diploma exam in 20^th c. British literature as outlined in the Department’s Guide to Studies.