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Course Description – 4th YEAR OF STUDY

Prerequisites for enrolling in the fourth year of study:

  • English language III

  • British culture and civilization and/or American society

  • Syntax (word classes and sentence)

SHAKESPEARE

  • ECTS Credits: PED 2 (half TEFL); PED 1,5 (full TEFL); DAD 2; PEJ 2; DAJ 3,5

  • Language: English

  • Duration: VII and VIII semester

  • Status: mandatory

  • Course type:  lecture

  • Prerequisites: completed prerequisites for enrolling in the fourth year of study

  • Examination: written

  • Course description: The course deals with the dramatic work of William Shakespeare. Special emphasis is given both to the literary-historical context of Shakespeare’s plays as well as to their contemporary relevance in various reading communities. From the point of view of literary-historical methodology, consideration is also given to Shakespeare’s texts in their relation to Renaissance vs. Mannerist poetics. On examples of several selected plays (tragedies, comedies, romances) students are introduced to various historical and theoretical models of interpreting Shakespeare’s texts.

  • Objective: The aim of the course is to introduce students to the literary-historical position and the canonical status of William Shakespeare within English literature and culture as well as with his cultural position across a variety of different cultures. Special emphasis is given to the changes in response and interpretation of Shakespeare’s works which these works undergo in historically and culturally different contexts.               

HISTORY OF ENGLISH

  • ECTS Credits: PED 2 (half TEFL); PED 1,5 (full TEFL); DAD 2; PEJ 2; DAJ 3,5

  • Language: English

  • Duration:  VII and VIII semester

  • Status: mandatory

  • Course type: lecture

  • Prerequisites: completed prerequisites for enrolling in the fourth year of study

  • Examination: written

  • Course description: The course deals with the development of English from the earliest period to the present day. The changes, maintenance and spread of English are viewed against the socio-cultural background. Structural changes on the leves of pronunciation, grammar and vocabulary are interpreted using the tools of the most important linguistic theories.

  • Objective: The aim of this course is to introduce students to the development of the English language and the linguistic and social factors influencing this development. Furthermore, the course aims at presenting certain theoretical interpretations of language change.

 CROATIAN-ENGLISH, ENGLISH-CROATIAN TRANSLATION

  • ECTS Credits:PED 2 (half TEFL); PED 2 (full TEFL); DAD 3; PEJ 3; DAJ 3

  • Language: English

  • Duration: VII and VIII semester

  • Status: mandatory

  • Course type: practical language exercises

  • Prerequisites: completed prerequisites for enrolling in the fourth year of study

  • Examination: written

  • Course description: Translation of literaty and non-literary texts from and into Englsih. The translated texts are studied and discussed in class. Attention is focused on lexical and syntactic aspects, particularly those presenting difficulties between a given pair of languages. Elements of style and discourse are also considered. The students’ progress is measured by continuous assessment and a final written exam.

  • Objective: The aim of this course is to introduce students to the basic strategies and procedures in translating general texts from and into English, to introduce them to various monolinguial and bilingual dictionaries in order to enable them to  translate on their own.

TEACHING ENGLISH AS A FOREIGN LANGUAGE

  • ECTS credits: PED 1 (half TEFL); PED 3 (full TEFL); PEJ 5,5;

  • Language: English

  • Duration: Two semesters (5th and 6th or 7th and 8th)

  • Status: Mandatory

  • Course type: 2 hours of lectures, 2 hours of seminars, 2 hours of teaching practice

  • Prerequisites: Completed prerequisites for enrolling in the third year of study

  • Examination: Oral. The student must complete two sets of school-based teaching practice and three seminar assignments before taking the exam.

  • Course description: The course focuses on relevant issues from second language acquisition theory and research as well as foreign language teaching methodology. The topics included range from the four language skills, classroom observation, cognitive and affective learner variables, IT in language teaching to theories of second language acquisition and learning and history of teaching methods. An interdisciplinary approach is used to explore both the theoretical and practical aspects of the issues covered.

  • Objective: The aim of this course is to introduce students to the key concepts of the FL learning/teaching process and to enable them to build up a coherent framework as a basis for effective future practice.

THE METAPHYSICAL POETS AND MILTON

  • ECTS Credits: PED 2 (half TEFL); PED 1,5 (full TEFL); DAD 2; PEJ 2; DAJ 3,5 

  • Language: English

  • Duration: VII and VIII semester

  • Status: elective

  • Course type: seminar

  • Prerequisites: completed prerequisites for enrolling in the fourth year of study

  • Examination: one to two short oral presentations and a written exam

  • Course description: This course in the history of ideas points out the fact that Milton can be read as one of the Metaphysicals. The course mostly deals with the poetical works of John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, early Milton and Paradise Lost. It is not concerned only with the similarities in the use of rhetorical and poetical figures in these poets but with the fact that they share a very complex world picture based on both the presuppositions of the medieval and Renaissaance ideas, on the Bible and classical myth, as well as on astrology and alchemy in creating their poetical language.

  • Objective: The purpose of the course is to point out that these authors present the last expression of the Elizabethan world picture in the process of its desintegration and that, therefore, there are very many similarities to be found between the 17th and the 20th century English literature.

 MODERN WOMEN’S WRITING IN ENGLISH

  • ECTS Credits: PED 2 (half TEFL); PED 1,5 (full TEFL); DAD 2; PEJ 2; DAJ 3,5

  • Language:  English

  • Duration: VII and VIII semester

  • Status: elective

  • Course type: seminar

  • Prerequisites: completed prerequisites for enrolling in the fourth year of study

  • Examination: one to two short oral presentations and a written exam

  • Course description: This seminar will concentrate on the works of authors such as Mary Shelley, Charlotte Perkins-Gilman, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Adrienne Rich, Virginia Woolf, Doris Lessing,  Margaret Drabble, Angela Carter, Fay Weldon, Margaret Atwood, Emma Tennant, Anita Brookner, Helen Fielding and others. We shall read these texts in the context of the mainstream modernist or postmodernist writings, discussing their narrative strategies and ideological implications. A few representative feminist theoretical and critical texts and the issues they raise will also be read.

  • Objective: The aim of the seminar is to outline the history of women’s writing, examining the ways in which some of the representative female authors have introduced new topics, subverted the canon, and expressed female point of view. 

CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN NOVEL

  • ECTS Credits: PED 2 (half TEFL); PED 1,5 (full TEFL); DAD 2; PEJ 2; DAJ 3,5

  • Language: English

  • Duration: VII and VIII semester

  • Status: elective

  • Course type: seminar

  • Prerequisites: completed prerequisites for enrolling in the fourth year of study

  • Examination: one to two short oral presentations and a written exam

  • Course description: The course presents a wide array of developments in American fiction after the Second World War and then focuses on an important decade: the turbulent and Sixties and some of their most prominent experimental writers who are also representative of the second half of the 20th century: Vladimir Nabokov (Lolita), Saul Bellow (Herzog), Joseph Heller (Catch-22), Norman Mailer (An American Dream), Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (Slaughterhouse-Five), and especially Thomas Pynchon (The Crying of Lot 49).

  • Objective: The aim of the course is to place these writers and works in a wider network of anti-realist and post-modernist developments, stressing their reliance on metatextuality, grotesque, black humour, paradox and absurdity, allegory, word-play etc., with the help of contemporary critical theory and a careful reading of individual texts.

 ENGLISH BAROQUE POETRY

  • ECTS Credits: PED 2 (half TEFL); PED 1,5 (full TEFL); DAD 2; PEJ 2; DAJ 3,5

  • Language: English

  • Duration: VII and VIII semester

  • Status: elective

  • Course type: seminar

  • Prerequisites: completed prerequisites for enrolling in the fourth year of study

  • Examination:  one oral (written) report, written exam

  • Course description:  The course is concerned with English poetry of the earlier 17th century (late Shakespeare, Metaphysical poets, Cavalier poets, John Milton). The poetry is viewed in the light of its post-Renaissance features, i.e. it is construed of as a national variant of European Baroque movement. Basing on the comparison with the poetics of the Renaissance period the distinctive characteristics of Baroque poetics are studied on a selection of English poetic texts of the period.

  • Objective: The aim of the course is to introduce students to the dominant literary currents in English post-Renaissance poetry. It is the aim to shed light and make more accessible many of the formerly hidden features and meanings of this poetry by introducing the concept of Baroque as a literary-historical period and by acquainting students with its distinctive features.

NEW LITERATURES IN ENGLISH: AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE AND FILM

  • ECTS Credits: PED 2 (half TEFL); PED 1,5 (full TEFL); DAD 2; PEJ 2; DAJ 3,5

  • Language: English

  • Duration: VII and VIII semester

  • Status: elective

  • Course type:  seminar

  • Prerequisites: requirements for third year of studies

  • Examination: one oral report, written exam

  • Course description: The course deals with 20th century Australian literary and visual texts in the light of postcolonial theory. Textual strategies especially representative for the construction and affirmation of Australian cultural identity are studied on selected examples. Special attention is drawn to their difference in relation to the texts of metropolitan (English) culture.

  • Objective: The aim of the course is to introduce students to one of the literatures using English language as its medium, but deriving from a radically different narrative location. The aim is to awaken students’ cross-cultural awareness and to draw their attention to the significant differences between metropolitan and post-colonial literatures and cultures which are due to the differences in their respective socio-political and cultural contexts.

THE MODERN ENGLISH NOVEL

  • ECTS Credits: PED 2 (half TEFL); PED 1,5 (full TEFL); DAD 2; PEJ 2; DAJ 3,5

  • Language: English

  • Duration: VII and VIII semester

  • Status: elective

  • Course type: seminar

  • Prerequisites: completed prerequisites for enrolling in the fourth year of study

  • Examination: One to two short presentations, a 12- to 15-page paper, and written exam.

  • Course description: Sub specie of the history of ideas. Roughly speaking from E. M. Forster, Joseph Conrad to D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Woolf. The course is meant to follow a redefinition of the nature and function of fiction based on a radical change of view about what is significant in human experience and knowledge of life.

  • Objective: The purpose of the course is to point out that the age of experiment in the modern English novel was not so much the result of the quest of originality and change for its own sake but of a crisis in civilization. In this respect the course explores the impact of the ideas of Schopenhauer, Bergson, Freud, and Jung on the modern novel, with the purpose of pointing out that the changes in the form of fiction were brought about by the radical criticism of the nineteenth century value system.

4TH YEAR LINGUISTIC SEMINAR: SYNTAX

  • ECTS Credits: PED 1 (half TEFL); PED 0,5 (full TEFL); DAD 1; PEJ 1,5; DAJ 1

  • Language: English

  • Duration: 2 semesters

  • Status: elective

  • Course type: seminar

  • Prerequisites: completed prerequisites for enrolling in the fourth year of study

  • Examination: There is no examination. The students get assignments (5 per semester minimum). By anaylizing a number of sentences, they have to establish some syntactic features of the language in question.

  • Course description: This seminar gives an overview of coding and behavioral properties of grammatical relations in various languages. This is mostly done within the theoretical framework of Role and Reference Grammar which puts semantics at the core of syntactic analysis. The students are also introduced to some basic features of various linguistic theories of formal and functional orientation.

  • Objective:  The aim of this seminar is to critically examine some of the existing theoretical frameworks through example taken from various languages and to enable the students to independently perform syntactic analyses of certain type of constructions.

 HISTORY OF ENGLISH SEMINAR

  • ECTS Credits: PED 1 (half TEFL); PED 0,5 (full TEFL); DAD 1; PEJ 1,5; DAJ 1

  • Language: English

  • Duration: VII and VIII semester

  • Status: elective

  • Course type: seminar

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

  • Examination: A paper on one of the topics dealt with in the course

  • Course description: The course focuses on reading, translation and analysis of selected Old English, Middle English and Early Modern English texts. Additionally, papers on the theoretical aspects of the Histry of English are read and analyzed in class. The students are required to work individually and present a seminar work on a selected topic at the end of the year.

  • Objective: The aim of the seminar is to introduce students to analytical procedures in studying OE and ME texts, on the basis of theory acquired in the History of English course. Students work individually.

 LANGUAGE SEMINAR: VARIANTS OF ENGLISH

  • ECTS Credits: PED 1 (half TEFL); PED 0,5 (full TEFL); DAD 1; PEJ 1,5; DAJ 1

  • Language: English

  • Duration: VII and VIII semester

  • Status: elective

  • Course type: seminar

  • Prerequisites: completed prerequisites for enrolling in the fourth year of study

  • Examination: A paper on one o the topics dealt with in the course.

  • Course description: See course description for Variants of English

  • Objective: The aim of the seminar is to introduce students to the basic research procedures in the variants of English. 

DIPLOMA EXAMS

– Američka književnost

– Starija engleska književnost (word.doc)

– Moderna britanska književnost (word.doc)