Duration
30h Th
Number of credits
Lecturer
Substitute(s)
Language(s) of instruction
English language
Organisation and examination
Teaching in the first semester, review in January
Schedule
Units courses prerequisite and corequisite
Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program
Learning unit contents
The course will focus on Canadian writers. The works analysed in class will lead to an exploration of the various spatialities in CanLit. More specifically, they will provide an opportunity to discuss questions of geographical and spatial representations, of space as a social production and, as such, as an object of negotiation and contestation.
Learning outcomes of the learning unit
By the end of the course students will have increased their reading skills and developed sound habits of checking secondary literature. They will also have developed a reflexive outlook on the productive tension between fact and representation, and on the artistic choices that underlie literary creativity.
Prerequisite knowledge and skills
Good knowledge of English.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
The teaching methods will be as dynamic as possible, involving the active participation of students in the discussion of the set texts and secondary sources.
Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)
Recommended or required readings
Articles and short stories will be made available at the beginning of the course, which will focus on these three novels:
Dionne Brand, What We All Long For (Toronto: Vintage)
Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale (London: Vintage)
Tomson Highway, Kiss of the Fur Queen (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press)
Assessment methods and criteria
The students will have to take both a written and an oral exam. They will have to demonstrate their ability to write an original essay on the texts analysed in class and discuss related secondary sources.
Work placement(s)
Organizational remarks
First term. Wednesday 9-11. Contact meeting on Wednesday 25 September 2019.
Contacts
Mathilde Mergeai
M.Mergeai@uliege.be
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the May-June 2020 session
Teaching methods implemented : distance-learning
Assessment subjects
Assessment methods
Contacts
Adaptation of teaching commitments following the COVID-19 pandemic for the Aug-Sept 2020 session
Assessment subjects
Same as January
Assessment methods
Students will have to take an oral exam via Lifesize. They will have to demonstrate their ability to analyze, interpret and compare the texts seen in class, to discuss the novels' main topics, characters, selected passages, etc.
Students will be granted 10 min to prepare for the exam (online) and 30 min for the oral exam per se. The remaining 10 min serve as a safeguard against potential technical difficulties.
Contacts
Items online
Lecture notes
Lecture notes will be made available during the term via the e-Campus platform.