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KAA / BRLIT
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Course description
Department/Unit / Abbreviation
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KAA
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BRLIT
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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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Regional Literature
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Form of course completion
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Course-credit
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Accredited / Credits
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Yes,
3
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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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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NO
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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 / 0
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0 / 25
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0 / 0
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Included in study average
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NO
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Winter semester
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0 / 0
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0 / 26
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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 |
S|N |
Periodicity |
každý rok
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Periodicita upřesnění |
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Fundamental course |
No
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Fundamental theoretical course |
No
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Evaluation scale |
S|N |
Substituted course
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KAA/RLIT
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Preclusive courses
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N/A
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Prerequisite courses
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KAA/BJAC1
or KAA/BJAC2
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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 goal of this seminar is to introduce its participants to regional literature in English. The analysis of the role of "genius loci" in literature is always connected with exploring the specific features of the given region. To some extent the contents of the seminar map the development of literary regionalism and so the reading list includes both older and contemporary works.
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Requirements on student
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Contact lessons:
- students must carefully read the seminar texts (available in Moodle)
- ACTIVE participation during seminars and discussions
- Credit assignment: written essay
Distance learning:
- seminars take place in real time according to the schedule, via MS Teams platform
- students must carefully read the seminar texts prior to the seminar (available in Moodle) and be prepared for their discussion
- participation in online seminars is the same as in contact lessons (incl. ACTIVE participation in discussions)
- Credit assignment: written essay
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Content
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Defining region and regionalism;
Mark Twain's "Cannibalism in the Cars"
The bleakness of England: T. Hardy Wessex Tales.
Ireland: family, nationalism, and religion: Edna O'Brien A Fanatic Heart
Scotland - where have all the women gone?: James Kelman's "Greyhound for Breakfast".
Wales - a sense of Cymru: L. Brito "Mama's Baby (Papa's Maybe)".
Early clashing of cultures - the Creoles: J. Rhys, excerpt from Wide Sargasso Sea.
Australia - land down-under: Cassie Lynch's "Split"/Alf Taylor's "Wildflower Girl".
Distant and overlooked - the US Northwest: B. Macdonald, excerpt from Egg and I.
Nostalgia of the US South: Carson McCullers: The Ballad of the Sad Café.
The Land of Lumberjacks? - Canada: M. Atwood Wilderness Tips.
"I no trust dat haole.": Hawai'i: Gary Pak The Watcher of Waipuna and other stories
updated outline in Moodle, texts available in 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:
HILFER, T. American Fiction since 1940. Longman Group, 1992.
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Basic:
Lively, P. ed. New Writing no. 10.. BC a Picador, 2001.
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Basic:
Adebayo, D., Morrison, B., Rogers J. (eds.). New Writing no. 12. BC a Picador, 2003.
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Basic:
Litt, T., Smith, A. (eds.). New Writing no. 13.. BC a Picador, 2005.
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Basic:
Lauter, P. ed. The Heath Anthology of American Literature.. D.C. Heath Lexington, 1990.
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Time requirements
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Distance form of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Domácí příprava na výuku
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13
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Sběr materiálu
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10
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Total
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23
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Part-time form of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Příprava na zápočet
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10
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Samostatná kritická četba
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13
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Total
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23
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Full-time form of study
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Activities
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Time requirements for activity [h]
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Kontaktní výuka
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26
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Total
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26
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Prerequisites - other information about course preconditions |
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Competences acquired |
The students not only gain new information about various English speaking regions, but also get the chance to expand their reader horizons, as they will come into contact also with lesser known works or writers in English. Students will enhance their ability of literary text 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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