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KAA / BAML
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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BAML
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Academic Year
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2024/2025
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Title
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American Literature
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Form of course completion
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Examination
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
5
Cred.
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Type of completion
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Combined
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Time requirements
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Lecture
1
[HRS/WEEK]
Seminar
2
[HRS/WEEK]
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Course credit prior to examination
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No
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Included in study average
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YES
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Language of instruction
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English
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Occ/max
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Automatic acceptance of credit before examination
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No
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Summer semester
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0 / 35
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0 / 0
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0 / 5
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Included in study average
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YES
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Winter semester
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0 / 49
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0 / 0
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0 / 0
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Repeated registration
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NO
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Timetable
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Yes
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Semester taught
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Winter semester
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Minimum (B + C) students
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not determined
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Optional course |
Yes
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Optional course
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Yes
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Language of instruction
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English
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Internship duration
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0
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No. of hours of on-premise lessons |
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
Yes
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Evaluation scale |
A|B|C|D|E|F |
Substituted course
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KAA/AML1
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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KAA/BBRL1
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Meet all prerequisites before registering
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YES
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Informally recommended courses
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N/A
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Courses depending on this Course
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N/A
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Histogram of students' grades over the years:
Graphic PNG
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XLS
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Course objectives:
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The course focuses on important milestones in the history of American literature since its beginnings to the beginning of the 2Oth century. Attention is also paid to the development of genres and to the specific features of American literature. Seminars center on analysis and discussion of assigned literary works selected in such a way as to provide a good insight not only into the traditional canon but also into the writing of American minorities and cultural context.
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Requirements on student
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Seminar attendance and participation in discussions, final written exam.
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Content
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Colonial Literature. Puritanism: its literary influence.
Literature of the Revolution and Enlightenment.
Early 19th Century Fiction. "American Renaissance".
19th Century Poetry.
Realism, Regionalism, Naturalism, Symbolism.
Modernism, the Lost Generation.
20th Century Poetry.
American Drama before WW II.
Contemporary American Drama.
The Beat Generation.
Post-war Fiction, Postmodernism.
Afro-American Literature.
Native American and Other Ethnic Literatures
seminars: see Moodle
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Activities
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Fields of study
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Guarantors and lecturers
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Literature
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Basic:
RULAND, R.; BRADBURY, M. Od puritanismu k postmodernismu. Praha. MF, 1997.
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Basic:
LAUTER, P. The Heath Anthology of American Literature.. D.C. Heath Lexington, 1990.
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Recommended:
HILFER, T. American Fiction since 1940. Longman Group, 1992.
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Recommended:
LEE, B. American Fiction 1865 ? 1940.. Longman Group, 1994.
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Recommended:
McMICHAEL, G. Anthology of American Literature. New York: MacMillan Publishing, 1993.
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Recommended:
PERKINS, G. The American Tradition in Literature. New York: Random House, 1985.
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
Students will develop their communicative competence, competence of literary and cultural analysis and intercultural competence. |
Teaching methods |
- Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
- Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming)
- Work with text (with textbook, with book)
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Assessment methods |
- Written examination
- Work-related product analysis
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