BA seminar [2510-f1ENG3W-BA] Semestr zimowy 2024/25
Seminarium, grupa nr 2

Selected chapters from:

1) Julie Rivkin and Michael Ryan (eds.). 2004. Literary Theory: An Anthology. Second Edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.

2) Donald E. Hall and Annamarie Jagose (eds.). 2013. The Routledge Queer Studies Reader. London and New York: Routledge.

3) Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin (eds.). 2003. The Post-Colonial Studies Reader. London and New York: Routledge..

4) The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud. Volume XIV. London: The Hogarth Press.

Additional texts made available depending on students' research interests.

The theoretical material will be supplemented with a selection of literary texts and audio-visual materials.

The aim of this seminar is to aid students in preparing and writing a bachelor’s thesis in the field of literary studies. The seminar will help students formulate the topic of their thesis, choose appropriate and fitting methodological approach and, finally, conduct analysis and interpretation of selected literary works.

During the winter semester, the course will focus predominantly on two aspects: the structure of a BA thesis/study and the introduction of selected approaches in literary studies; the range of topics can be adjusted to the research interests of the students.

The course is supplemented by a Moodle course.

Content distribution:

Class 1 & 2: Introduction (BA thesis - structure and construction)

Class 3: Louis Althusser's "Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"

Class 4: Michel Foucault's "Discipline and Punish"

Class 5: Presentations (part 1)

Class 6: Individual meetings

Class 7: Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar's "The Madwoman in the Attic"

Class 8: Audre Lorde's "Age, Race, Class and Sex: Women Redefining Difference"

Class 9: Presentations (part 2)

Class 10: Individual meetings

Class 11: Laura Mulvey's "Visual Pleasure and the Narrative Cinema"

Class 12: Judith Butler's "Performative Acts and Gender Construction"

Class 13: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's "Epistemology of the Closet"

Class 14: Presentations (part 3)

Class 15: Individual meetings

--> seminar

--> project work

--> case study

--> presentation of paper

Assessment methods:

--> individual presentation: 15% (U2, U4)

--> active participation in class discussion and individual meetings: 20% (K1)

--> preparing the outline of the BA project [including proposed sources]:15% (U1, U2, U3, U5, U6, U7, U8)

--> handing in one chapter of BA thesis: 50% (W1, U1, U2, U3, U5, U6, U7, U8)

0 – 59% – 2

60 – 69 % – 3

70 – 75 % – 3+

76 – 85 % – 4

86 – 90% – 4+

91 – 100% – 5

Number of unexcused absences per semester: 1

If the number of unexcused absences exceeds the allowed number, the student can make up the missed classes. In order to do so, the student should consult the supervisor.