552.266 (23S) Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation

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Sommersemester 2023

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First course session
07.03.2023 17:00 - 19:00 Online Off Campus

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Overview

Lecturer

Mag. Dr. Miriam Helga Auer, Bakk.

LV Nummer Südostverbund

ENL03001UL

Course title german

Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation

Type

Lecture

Course model

Online course

Hours per Week

2.0

ECTS credits

3.0

Registrations

214

Organisational unit

Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik

Language of instruction

English

possible language(s) of the assessment

English

Course begins on

07.03.2023

eLearning

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Remarks (english)

Exam dates: 1.) April 25^th 2023; 2.) June 20^th 2023; 3.) September 19^th 2023; all 5pm-7pm. online via Moodle;

! Please note: This is no Fachprüfung like at KFU Graz. Students may do the exam at AAU, it counts — but by design it is a lecture here at AAU that is concluded with an exam. Thus, students at least need to have been signed up for — and admitted to — the lecture until June 6^th THE LATEST if they are planning on taking one of the three exam sittings, as the LV-description says.

This means that 2nd & 3rd exam date (June 20^th/ September 19^th) are only offered to students who are already part of the lecture (and thus enrolled no later than June 6^th, 2023), as all lectures can be concluded by taking and passing one of the three exam dates available for each term‘s course. No exceptions can be made.

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Intended learning outcomes

Bitte wählen Sie die englischsprachige Beschreibung für Details betreffend Inhalt, Voraussetzungen und Prozedere.

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards;

Please consider that there will be no exceptions: STUDENTS WHO DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THE LECTURE UNTIL June 6th, 23:59 o’clock WILL NOT BE ADMITTED TO SIGNING UP FORTHE EXAMS ON June 20^th and September 19^th 2023!

Class starts on March 7^th, 2023.

For course details: choose the English version.

Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools

Bitte wählen Sie die englischsprachige Beschreibung für Details betreffend Inhalt, Voraussetzungen und Prozedere.

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards;

Class starts on March 7^th, 2023.

For course details: choose the English version.

Course content

Bitte wählen Sie die englischsprachige Beschreibung für Details betreffend Inhalt, Voraussetzungen und Prozedere.

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards;

Class starts on March 7^th, 2023.

For course details: choose the English version.

Prior knowledge expected

Studierende sind aufgefordert, alle literarische Primärtexte zu lesen. Der Großteil wird auf Moodle zu Verfügung gestellt werden.

weiters:

New admissions ONLY on Tuesdays! Neuaufnahmen nur dienstags!
Students need to have enrolled themselves until June 6^th, 2023,23:59 o'clock to be able to opt for exam sittings two and three on June 20^thand September 19^th, 2023. No exceptions can be made.

Curricular registration requirements

Please see the section on the position in the curriculum.

Literature

Bibliographie und Leseliste werden auf Moodle zur Verfügung gestellt.

A reading list and articles as well as all the course material will be made available via Moodle;

Intended learning outcomes

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards;
Please consider that there will be no exceptions: STUDENTS WHO DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THE LECTURE UNTIL June 6^th, 23:59 o’clock WILL NOT BE ADMITTED TO SIGNING UP FOR THE EXAM SITTINGS two and three, held on June 20^th and September 19^th!

Class starts on March 7^th, 2023, via Moodle as a BigBlueButton-conference; attendance is voluntary, as this is a lecture and all the material (scripts and slides for each lecture as PDFs plus additional links to help you study) will be provided on Moodle, too.

This lecture is intended to familiarise you with the essential terminology for your literary study programme at the department of English. Understand what it means to read texts academically and how central methodology is applied to analyse and to interpret literary works. Expand your understanding to different media formats, ranging from poetry and prose to film, videogames, and graphic novels.Practice your skills in practical application throughout the semester and explore the unique historical and sociocultural background of each discussed artwork.

At the end of the semester, you will possess an academic core vocabulary and foundational insights into the research methods of literature and culture studies to equip yourself for subsequent courses.

Teaching methodology including the use of eLearning tools

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards;
Detailed instructions on how this class is going to function are going to be provided on your lecture syllabus, which will be posted on Moodle shortly before the first session.

Lecture sessions will be complemented by (online) discussions and analytical, interpretative exercises, some of them taking the form of brief home assignments (open-book, students are required to the cite sources consulted;

–Material (PPT, script etc.) originally created and authored by Felix Schniz, new additions as well as edited material compiled and changes introduced byMiriam Auer;

A reading list and articles as well as all the course material plus some valuable links for self-study purpose will be made available via Moodle.

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards; Class starts on March 7^th, 2023.

Please consider that there will be no exceptions:STUDENTS WHO DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THE LECTURE UNTIL June 6th, 23:59 o’clock WILL NOT BE ADMITTED TO SIGNING UP FOR THE EXAMS ON June 20^th and September 19^th 2023!

Course content

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards; This lecture provides an overview of core texts and theories relevant to Anglophone literary studies. It focuses on the following cultural artifacts and the respective terminology necessary for their interpretation:

Poetry
Drama
Prose
Short Stories
Graphic Novels
Film
Episodic TV Formats
Videogames

On a theoretical level, it introduces the most important names and most important basics of:

Reading Strategies
Structuralism
The Birmingham School
Feminist Criticism
Psychoanalysis
Marxist Criticism
Modernism
The Frankfurt School
The Visual Turn
Poststructuralism
Postmodernism
Genre Theory
Post-Postmodernism

Prior knowledge expected

Students are expected to read the primary source-texts. Most of them will be made available via Moodle.

New admissions ONLY on Tuesdays! Neuaufnahmen nurdienstags!

Please consider that there will be no exceptions:STUDENTS WHO DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THE LECTURE UNTIL June 6th, 23:59 o’clock WILL NOT BE ADMITTED TO SIGNING UP FOR THE EXAMS ON June 20^th and September 19^th 2023!

A reading list and articles as well as all the course material will be made available via Moodle.

Curricular registration requirements

Please see the section on the position in the curriculum.

Literature

A reading list and articles as well as all the course material will be made available via Moodle and can be accessed from March 1^st onwards.

Examination information

Im Fall von online durchgeführten Prüfungen sind die Standards zu beachten, die die technischen Geräte der Studierenden erfüllen müssen, um an diesen Prüfungen teilnehmen zu können.

German
English

Examination methodology

Für Details wählen Sie bitte die englischsprachige Kursbeschreibung.

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards;

Online-Prüfungen via Moodle zur Auswahl werden ausschließlich zu folgenden Terminen abgehalten:

am 25. April, am 20. Juni und am 19.Sept. 2023, jeweils von 17 bis 19 Uhr auf der Moodle-Kursseite zur VO;

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Please consider that there will be no exceptions: STUDENTS WHO DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THE LECTURE UNTIL June 6^th, 23:59 o’clock WILL NOT BE ADMITTED TO SIGNING UP FOR THE EXAM SITTINGS two and three, held on June 20^th & September 19^th!

Examination topic(s)

Für Details wählen Sie bitte die englischsprachige Kursbeschreibung.

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards;

In the first half of the exam, students are expected to correctly recall, contextualise, and to elaborate on key terms and concepts that were explored during the lecture. In the second half of the exam, students are expected to show the capability to provide an independent, methodically valid interpretation of a cultural artifact in shape of an essay.

For this essay, students may freely choose from a selection of three topics. Each topic provides an excerpt, derived from one of the lecture’s primary works and a guiding question, derived from one of the lecture’s theory topic fields. Any theory topic field may be assessed in connection to any of the primary texts.

When composing the essay, students need to analyse the excerpt and to interpret it along the given guiding question. Students are expected to work with proper terminology as provided by the lecture, to apply all the knowledge they have about the primary text (i.e. refer to other passages from the text as they seefit), and to follow the very basic rules of essay writing (provide an introduction, a main body of arguments, and a conclusion).

Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards;
Für Details wählen Sie bitte die englischsprachige Kursbeschreibung.

The written exam tests the following key competences of students:

Multiple Choice (10%): Students ought to recall important key terms from the lecture.
Matching (20%): Students ought to contextualise central theorists, authors and artists discussed in the lecture with their respective terminology.
Short Answer (20%): Students ought to elaborate on general concepts of the lecture in questions that should be answered with 3-5 sentences.
Essay (50%): Students ought to independently interpret a short paragraph, passage, or otherwise limited work of art in a concise essay. The essay ought to reflect a student’s ability to apply key concepts, terms, and methods discussed in the lecture in new contexts, as well as to critically reflect their applicability for the given excerpt.

Examination methodology

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards;

Online exam sittings are held via Moodle, on these three fixed dates (of which students can choose the one date which suits them best):

First Sitting April 25^th 2023; Second Sitting: June 20^th2023; Third Sitting: September 19^th2023; all 5pm-7pm., online via our Moodle course page;

- - - Please consider that there will be no exceptions: STUDENTS WHO DID NOT SIGN UP FOR THE LECTURE UNTIL June 6th, 23:59 o’clock WILL NOT BE ADMITTED TO SIGNING UP FOR THE EXAMS ON June 20^th and September 19^th2023!

Examination topic(s)

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards;

Assessment criteria / Standards of assessment for examinations

Moodle access: from March 1^st onwards;
Für Details wählen Sie bitte die englischsprachige Kursbeschreibung.

The written exam tests the following key competences of students:

Multiple Choice (10%): Students ought to recall important key terms from the lecture.
Matching (20%): Students ought to contextualise central theorists, authors and artists discussed in the lecture with their respective terminology.
Short Answer (20%): Students ought to elaborate on general concepts of the lecture in questions that should be answered with 3-5 sentences.
Essay (50%): Students ought to independently interpret a short paragraph, passage, or otherwise limited work of art in a concise essay. The essay ought to reflect a student’s ability to apply key concepts, terms, and methods discussed in the lecture in new contexts, as well as to critically reflect their applicability for the given excerpt.

Grading scheme

Grade / Grade grading scheme

Position in the curriculum

Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch (SKZ: 407, Version: 17W.2)
- Subject: Anglophone Literary Studies II: Historical Surveys, Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (Compulsory subject)
  - ENL.003 Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation ( 2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
    - 552.266 Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
      Absolvierung im 3., 4., 5., 6. Semester empfohlen

Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch (SKZ: 407, Version: 15W.2)
- Subject: Anglophone Literary Studies II: Historical Surveys, Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (Compulsory subject)
  - ENL.003 Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation ( 2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
    - 552.266 Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
      Absolvierung im 7., 8. Semester empfohlen

Bachelor-Lehramtsstudium Bachelor Unterrichtsfach Englisch (SKZ: 407, Version: 19W.2)
- Subject: Anglophone Literary Studies II: Historical Surveys, Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (Compulsory subject)
  - ENL.003 Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation ( 2.0h VO, FA / 3.0 ECTS)
    - 552.266 Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
      Absolvierung im 3., 4., 5., 6. Semester empfohlen

Bachelor's degree programme English and American Studies (SKZ: 612, Version: 15W.3)
- Subject: Fachliches Grund- und Aufbaustudium Literature (Compulsory subject)
  - Module: Grundstudium Literature
    - 5.2 Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation ( 0.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
      - 552.266 Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h VO / 3.0 ECTS)
        Absolvierung im 2. Semester empfohlen

Master's degree programme Game Studies and Engineering (SKZ: 992, Version: 17W.2)
- Subject: Cultural and Media Skills (Compulsory subject)
  - Literary Terminology and the Practice of Interpretation for Game Studies and Engineering ( 0.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
    - 552.266 Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h VO / 4.0 ECTS)
      Absolvierung im 1. Semester empfohlen

Equivalent courses for counting the examination attempts

Sommersemester 2024

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2023/24

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2022/23

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2022

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2021/22

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2021

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2020/21

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2020

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2019/20

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2019

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2018/19

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 4.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2018

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2017/18

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2017

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2016/17

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2016

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2015/16

552.266 VO Literary Terminology and Practice of Interpretation (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2013/14

551.161 KU Integrated Language Skills (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Sommersemester 2013

551.161 KU Integrated Language Skills (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2012/13

551.161 KU Integrated Language Skills a (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)

Wintersemester 2011/12

551.161 KU Integrated Language Skills a (2.0h / 3.0ECTS)