Educational guide
IDENTIFYING DATA							2022_23
Subject	NORTH AMERICAN LITERATURE II					Code	00413029
Study programme	0413 - GRADO EN FILOLOGÍA MODERNA, INGLÉS
Descriptors	Credit.	Type	Year	Period
	6	Compulsory	Third	Second
Language	Ingles
Prerequisites
Department	FILOLOGIA MODERNA
Coordinador	ÁLVAREZ MAURÍN , MARÍA JOSÉ				E-mail	mjalvm@unileon.es jlchag@unileon.es
Lecturers	ÁLVAREZ MAURÍN , MARÍA JOSÉ CHAMOSA GONZÁLEZ , JOSÉ LUIS
Web	http://
General description	This course explores 20th and 21st Century North American Literature. Students will analyze genres and authors within their specific literary and social contexts. This course also explores the concept of “postmodernism beginning with an explanation of “modernism”, looking at cultural and philosophical assumptions. Topics may include relations between prose fiction and cinematic adaptation.
Tribunales de Revisión	Tribunal titular Cargo Departamento Profesor Presidente FILOLOGIA MODERNA LANERO FERNANDEZ , JUAN JOSE JACINTO Secretario MARKEY , ALFRED MICHAEL Vocal FILOLOGIA MODERNA BANDIN FUERTES , ELENA Tribunal suplente Cargo Departamento Profesor Presidente FILOLOGIA MODERNA RABADAN ALVAREZ , ROSA Secretario FILOLOGIA MODERNA DIAZ MARTINEZ , MARIO Vocal FILOLOGIA MODERNA GUZMAN GONZALEZ , TRINIDAD

Competencias

Code
A2047
A2051
A2074
B214
C4

Learning aims

	Competences
	A2047 A2051 A2074	B214	C4

Contents

Topic	Sub-topic

Planning

Methodologies  ::  Tests
	Class hours	Hours outside the classroom	Total hours
Seminars	20	10	30
Tutorship of group	19	24	43
Other methodologies	10	0	10
Lecture	42	0	42
Extended-answer tests	3	10	13
	1	11	12
(*)The information in the planning table is for guidance only and does not take into account the heterogeneity of the students.

Methodologies

Methodologies   ::  

	Description
Seminars
Tutorship of group
Other methodologies
Lecture

Personalized attention

Tutorship of group

Description

Assessment

	Description	Qualification
Lecture		10%
Seminars		5%
Tutorship of group		5%
Other methodologies		5%
Extended-answer tests		55%
		5%
Other comments and second call

Sources of information

Access to Recommended Bibliography in the Catalog ULE

Basic	, Literature OnLine [Recurso electrónico] , , Patrick O'Donnell, The American Novel Now : Reading Contemporary American Fiction since 1980, Wiley-Blackwell, 2010 MacGowan, Christopher J. (Christopher John), The Twentieth-Century American Fiction Handbook , Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
Complementary

Recommendations

Subjects that it is recommended to have taken before

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