INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES

Course Information
TitleΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΣΤΙΣ ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΚΕΣ ΣΠΟΥΔΕΣ / INTRODUCTION TO LITERARY STUDIES
CodeΛογ5-130
FacultyPhilosophy
SchoolEnglish Language and Literature
Cycle / Level1st / Undergraduate, 2nd / Postgraduate
Teaching PeriodWinter/Spring
CommonNo
StatusActive
Course ID600008086

Programme of Study: 2018-2019

Registered students: 0
OrientationAttendance TypeSemesterYearECTS
KORMOSCompulsory CourseWinter/Spring-6

Class Information
Academic Year2017 – 2018
Class PeriodSpring
Faculty Instructors
Weekly Hours3
Total Hours39
Class ID
600115238
Course Type 2016-2020
  • Background
Course Type 2011-2015
General Foundation
Mode of Delivery
  • Face to face
Digital Course Content
Erasmus
The course is also offered to exchange programme students.
Language of Instruction
  • English (Instruction, Examination)
Learning Outcomes
The course introduces the students to the study of literature. It poses questions such as: what is literature?Why and how we read a literary text? How do we tell a story? How is a narrative connected to our daily life and how it can affect it? What is the connection of a narrative with the arts and the media? How does literature relate to society, gender, race, ideology, identity, history, technology? Through particular test cases we analyze text, intertext, hyper-text; this broader interdisciplinary approach to narrative practices and critical reading, his course will provide a basis which will reinforce the teaching of more specialized courses of literature in the freshman year.
General Competences
  • Apply knowledge in practice
  • Make decisions
  • Appreciate diversity and multiculturality
  • Be critical and self-critical
  • Advance free, creative and causative thinking
Course Content (Syllabus)
The course is structured by each individual instructor on the basis of the book The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (2nd edition, 2008) by H. Porter Abbott.
Keywords
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Educational Material Types
  • Notes
  • Slide presentations
  • Book
Course Organization
ActivitiesWorkloadECTSIndividualTeamworkErasmus
Lectures1174.7
Reading Assigment100.4
Written assigments200.8
Exams30.1
Total1506
Student Assessment
Student Assessment methods
  • Written Exam with Multiple Choice Questions (Summative)
  • Written Exam with Extended Answer Questions (Summative)
Bibliography
Course Bibliography (Eudoxus)
The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative (2nd edition, 2008) by H. Porter Abbott.
Last Update
16-07-2015