Universidad de Jaén

1. THE MIDDLE AGES (to ca. 1485)

Geoffrey Chaucer: The General Prologue to  The Canterbury Tales (1387) [selected excerpts]

2. THE RENAISSANCE (1485-1603)

William Shakespeare: Sonnets 18 and 130.

3. THE EARLY SEVENTEENTH CENTURY (1603-1660)

John Donne: "The Canonization" (1633)

4. THE RESTORATION AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (1660-1785)

Margaret Cavendish:  The Description of a New World Called the Blazing World (1666) [selected excerpts]

John Milton:  Paradise Lost (1667) [selected excerpts].

Aphra Behn:  Oroonoko, or The Royal Slave (1688) [selected excerpts].

Laurence Sterne:  The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767) and  A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768) [selected extracts].

5. THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1785-1830)

William Blake: "The Chimney Sweeper" (1789).

Mary Wollstonecraft:  A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) [selected extracts].

Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "Kubla Khan" (1798).

Percy Bysshe Shelley: "Ozymandias" (1817)

John Keats: "To Autumn" (1820).

6. THE VICTORIAN PERIOD AND THE NINETEENTH CENTURY (1832-1901)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: "The Cry of the Children" (1843).

Charles Dickens:  Hard Times (1854) [selected excerpts].

Mary Beaumont: "The Revenge of her Race" (1895).

Joseph Conrad: "An Outpost of Progress" (1896).

7. MODERNISM AND THE LITERATURE OF THE TWO WORLD WARS (1914-1945)

James Joyce: "The Dead" (1914).

Katherine Mansfield: "Bliss" (1918).

William B. Yeats: "An Irish Airman Foresees his Death" (1919).

Ernest Hemingway: "Soldier's Home" (1925).

8. POST-WAR AND POSTMODERN LITERATURE AND CONTEMPORARY TRENDS (1945-present )

Alice Munro: "Boys and Girls" (1964).

Alice Walker: "Everyday Use" (1974).

Kazhuo Ishiguro: "A Family Supper" (1982).

Alasdair Gray: "The Star" (1983).

Sandra Cisneros:  The House on Mango Street (1992) [selected excerpts]

Joyce Carol Oates:   Freaky Green Eyes (2003).

Margaret Atwood: "Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet" (2009).

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "The Thing Around Your Neck" (2009).

Edwidge Danticat:  Claire of the Sea Light (2013).

The contents and competences of this subject very specially incorporate the sustainable development goals (SDGs) stated below:

Goal 4: Quality Education.

Goal 5: Gender equality.

Goal 10: No inequality.

Goal 16: Peace and justice.

Lectures will be devoted to the analysis of the historical, social and cultural background of the chosen authors and works. Recommended bibliographical material, as well as documents uploaded to the virtual space of the subject, will be used in the lectures.

Practical sessions will focus on the reading and analysis of the selected works. Students must read and study these texts before the practical sessions. They should also be prepared to discuss them with the teacher and their classmates.

Special attention will be paid to the students' active involvement and participation.

Students with special educational needs should contact the Student Attention Service (Servicio de Atención y Ayudas al Estudiante) in order to receive the appropriate academic support

The final mark includes:

a) Active participation in class discussions and in the activities proposed (15%)

b) Final exam (60%), where the following aspects will be evaluated:

- Students' knowledge of literature in English, from the beginnings till the contemporary age (Short questions and essay-like questions)

- Identification of the most relevant works and authors

- Literary commentaries on a selection of texts

c) Submission of an essay on a novel: students will be able to choose between  Freaky Green Eyes (2003), by Joyce Carol Oates and   Claire of the Sea Light (2013), by Edwidge Danticat (25%)

In the resit exam of July (Extraordinaria II) the final exam will account for 100% of the qualification.

The assessment procedure S1 develops competences  CB2, CB4, E01and G11. These competences lead to learning outcomes R10 and  R11.

The assessment procedure S2 develops competences CB1, E12, E13, E22 and E23. These competences lead to learning outcomes R13, R14 and R20.

The assessment procedure S3 develops competences CB3, CB5, E15 and G04. These competences lead to learning outcomes R04 and R15.

1. TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND ACTIVITIES

OPTION A: blended or mixed teaching scenario (group with a number of students  above the limited capacity of the classroom)

OPTION B: blended or mixed teaching scenario (group with a number of students  below the limited capacity of the classroom)

2. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

Both for option a (blended or mixed teaching scenario with a number of students above the limited capacity of the classroom) and option b (blended or mixed teaching scenario with a number of students below the limited capacity of the classroom) the assessment methodology is as follows:

REGULAR EXAM

RESIT EXAM

CONTINGENCY PLAN: in the event of transitioning from a blended or mixed teaching scenario to an online one, at any moment along the teaching period of the semester, the assessment methodology to follow will be the one specified in the  online scenario.

3. RESOURCES

• Face-to-face teaching
• GSuite Meet Tool (videoconferences and broadcast/recording of onsite sessions).
• Virtual platform of the University of Jaén
• Email

1. TEACHING METHODOLOGY AND ACTIVITIES

Online scenario

2. ASSESSMENT METHODOLOGY

As described in the contingency plan within the blended or mixed teaching scenario, the transition to an online teaching scenario at any moment along the teaching period of the semester would entail the application of the following assessment methodology:

REGULAR EXAM

RESIT EXAM

3. RESOURCES

• Online classes through videoconference (GSuite Meet)
• Virtual platform of the University of Jaén
• Email.

Institution in charge of data processing: Universidad de Jaén, Campus Las Lagunillas, s/n, 23071 Jaén

Data Protection Delegate: dpo@ujaen.es

Purpose: In accordance with the Universities Law and other national and regional regulations in force, carrying out exams and assessment tests corresponding to the courses students are registered in. In order to avoid frauds while sitting the exam, the exam will be answered using a videoconference system, being able the academic staff of the University of Jaén to compare and contrast the image of the person who is answering the exam with the student's photographic files. Likewise, in order to provide the exam with evidential content for revisions or claims, in accordance with current regulation frameworks, the exam will be recorded and stored.

Legitimacy: compliance with legal obligations (Universities Law) and other national and regional regulations currently in force.

Addressees: service providers who are the owners of the platforms where the exams are carried out and with whom the University of Jaén has signed the corresponding data access contracts.

Storage periods: those established in current in force regulations. In the specific case of exam videoconference recordings, not before the examination records and transcripts are closed or the exam can still be reviewed or challenged.

Rights: you can exercise your right of access, amendment, cancellation, opposition, suppression, limitation and portability by sending a letter to the postal or electronic address indicated above. In the event that you consider that your rights have been violated, you may submit a complaint to the Andalusian Council for Transparency and Data Protection www.ctpdandalucia.es

Person in charge: Universidad de Jaén, Paraje Las Lagunillas, s/n; Tel.953 212121; www.ujaen.es

Data protection delegate (DPO): TELEFÓNICA, S.A.U. ; Email: dpo@ujaen.es

Procedure aim: To manage proper recordings of teaching sessions with the aim of facilitating learning process under a multimodal and/or online teaching

Period for record storage: Images will be kept during legal term according to regulations in force

Legitimacy: Data will be managed according to legal regulations (Organic Law 6/2001, December 21, on Universities) and given consent provided by selecting corresponding box in legal admission documents

Data recipients (transfers or assignments): Any person allowed to get access to every teaching modality

Rights: You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, portability, limitation of processing, deletion or, where appropriate, opposition. To exercise these rights, you must submit a written request to the Information, Registration and Electronic Administration Service of the University of Jaen at the address above, or by e-mail to the address above. You must specify which of these rights you are requesting to be satisfied and, at the same time, you must attach a photocopy of your ID card or equivalent identification document. In case you act through a representative, legal or voluntary, you must also provide a document that proves this representation and identification. Likewise, if you consider that your right to personal data protection has been violated, you may file a complaint with the Andalusian Data Protection and Transparency Council www.ctpdandalucia.es