Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the second semester
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course will consist of seminars providing close readings and discussions of Elizabethan lyrics, prominent among those Shakespeare's sonnets, and of two plays by this same author, Romeo and Juliet and Love's Labour's Lost.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
Enhance the students' ability to understand and interpret literary texts of whatever denomination, and to provide written analyses in the form of articulate essays in English.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
The course is entirely taught in English.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Next to the seminars, some attention will be devoted to the difficulties of essay-writing and to the conventions governing the compilation of a bibliography.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
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Recommended or required readings
Apart from the poems (which will be circulated in class), the students will have to read the following text:
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet (Penguin Classics)
William Shakespeare, Love's Labour's Lost (Penguin Classics).
On top of this, they will be expected to choose freely, from a list that will be circulated, two novels which will be discussed at the (oral) exam.
Assessment methods and criteria
A written and an oral exam will be organized in May/June and in August/September, 2020. The written exam will consist of an analysis of a sonnet by Shakespeare, while the oral exam will take the form of a discussion of two novels of the student's choice (see above), read in the light of the relevant secondary literature.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
The course is organized in the second term.
Contacts
Marc Delrez
E-mail: marc.delrez@uliege.ac.be
Tel. 04-3665460
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Course material (on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) communicated in written form.
Love's Labour's Lost no longer on the offical programme.
Assessment subjects
The oral exam (see below) will take the form of a discussion of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the written notes on Romeo and Juliet made available by email, two novels chosen by the students from the authorized reading list, and a selection of 6 critical articles relating to the three former texts.
Assessment methods
Oral examination only.
Contacts
Unchanged.
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Check the relevant rubric about the June session - unchanged.
Assessment methods
Oral exam online.
Contacts
Unchanged.