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Faculty of English Language and Literature
Courses offered at the Faculty of English Language and Literature |
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Composition I
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course is designed to introduce students to some of the procedures and skills needed to produce academic papers. Students will encounter various texts, practice using them in a variety of ways to produce their own, critically reflected papers.
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Composition II
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course is designed to further students’ knowledge of academic writing. Students will encounter several academic text genres and practice using them in a variety of ways to produce their own critically reflected papers. We will also work on the development of transferable skills and on transference of information from specific fields (e.g. Newspaper) to an academic paper.
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Introduction to Literature
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course is an introduction to poetry, short fiction and drama. Students will read a variety of texts from these genres and participate in discussions of them. The different elements of each of these genres will be theoretically discussed, and then the students will learn to identify them in particular literary works. They will become acquainted with literary terms useful for close reading and discussion of texts.
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History of English Language I
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course will provide background in basic concepts of linguistics, principles of language change and historical linguistic study, the development of the English language, and basic applied sociolinguistics. The course is not intended to substitute for study in any of those areas, but rather to introduce undergraduates, especially English majors, to concepts in those fields, so that they can do further academic work, study literature, and teach English with a basic general background in language study.
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Introduction to Fiction
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
The course offers an introduction to American fiction and will deal with the topics of technique, theme, characterization and plot. The short stories that will be analyzed in the course will be American stories of the 20th century and will cover various modes of writing.
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Canons of Literature
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course enables the students to develop more thoroughly their knowledge of literature. They will become especially acquainted with classic works in literature, which have become part of the widely accepted canon of literary works. How and why have these particular works become recognized and accepted by scholars - are some of the issues that this course focuses on.
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Analysis and Interpretation of Literature
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course introduces students to the study of literature. Students will be (re) introduced to the pleasure of literature and learn to approach texts with a variety of interpreting tools. We will be discussing a wide variety of texts in a roughly chronological order. Furthermore students will be familiarized with various literary genres, epochs and theoretical approaches to literature.
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Translation Studies
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
The course introduces students into various translation techniques. It covers both written and oral translation. Through the examination of different approaches, the students come to distinguish between different translating methods depending on the discipline in which translation is applied, covering economy, law, political vocabulary and others. The part of the course that is dedicated to literary translation will examine the latest developments in theory of translation.
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American Literature
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course enables the students to further develop their knowledge in American Literature, especially stressed on the popular short stories of the 18th, 19th and the 20th century. It will give an accent to the awareness and the prose importance for their further education as well.
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Creative Writing
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course is designed for students who intend to master in creative writing. It enables students to write effectively and creatively by teaching them the rules of each particular format of creative writing. Students will learn the basics of good writing and how to develop a personal writing style. Separate chapters offer discussions of the different facets of writing children's books, short stories, novels, screenplays, functional and literary nonfiction, and poetry.
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Feminist Literature Studies
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
The students are introduced to the study of literature by women writers. The course develops awareness of the variety of women’s writing, through analyzing novels, poems, and short stories. The course is aimed both towards the students who are new to this recently developed field and more advanced students who are interested in the interaction between literature and feminism.
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Dramatic Literature
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
Through the concentration of selected plays from different periods of Western drama, this course aims to introduce you to the concepts involved in the critical analysis of dramatic literature. The primary focus of the course will be upon the evaluation of plays as literary texts. However, in order to complement and illuminate close textual analysis of each play on our syllabus, we will also explain the relationship between society and drama, examine the characteristics of drama produced in each period we consider, assess the influence of changes in staging practices on the development of drama, and attempt to envisage the performance possibilities of each text.
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English Language and Linguistics
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course covers the approaches, methods and techniques in language teaching. Even though the focus is on teaching English, the principles are applicable to language teaching in general. All skills in language teaching: reading, writing, speaking and listening will be covered.
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American Poetry
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course is an introductory major-author course in American poets. It has three components: an introduction to poetics (the technical study of what a poem is and how it works); a study of the 19th-century poet Emily Dickinson; a 5-week seminar session where each student presents an in-depth study of a single major author.
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Introduction to Research Writing
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
Students read and discuss both fictional and non-fictional prose and prepare related writing assignments, including a substantial research-based argument paper requiring library research and documentation and synthesis of materials gathered from diverse sources into a coherently organized paper.
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Literature of the Americas
7,5
ECTS /
4
ACTS
Various works of the literature from the Americas will be explored in this course. Two of the most prominent types of American fiction will be covered: the Magical Realism (the characteristics of this genre) and the so-called “Colonial Difference”. Stories and novels by authors from North, Central and South America will be read and discussed.
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Advanced Writing and Research
7,5
ECTS /
4
ACTS
This course reviews and develops writing, research, and analytical skills. The course aims to teach students to diagnosis language and style problems and to edit their own writing.
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Shakespeare
7,5
ECTS /
4
ACTS
This course is an analysis of several works by Shakespeare. Students will read a variety of texts by this English author, including: sonnets, long poems, plays and will participate in the discussion of them.
Issues raised by Shakespeare which are relevant in the today’s world, will be related to present situations and Shakespeare’s influence on other authors will be discussed as well.
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Contemporary English Literature
7,5
ECTS /
4
ACTS
The course is designed to give students a broad overview of the 20th century literature and its importance. From Romanticism to Decadence, from realism to science fiction, British literature of the nineteenth century is a time of fertile literary invention. While the British Empire entrenched itself across the globe, political movements at home threatened to destabilize the domestic world. Increasing industrialization, calls for more democratic representation, abolition of slavery, women's rights, new religious authorities, efforts to maintain aristocratic privilege, and expanding social mobility preoccupied the British at home, while control of their colonies--including the Caribbean, Ireland, Hong Kong, India, and Africa--became more and more challenging.
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Linguistics or History of English Language II
7,5
ECTS /
4
ACTS
This course will introduce students to the basics of speech sound production including the articulation of consonants and vowels as well as the features of connected speech. Topics to be covered include: the IPA, the phonological characteristics of authentic speech, and stress and intonation. The differences between Macedonian and English phonemes and syllable structure will also be explored.
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Media and Literature
7,5
ECTS /
4
ACTS
This course will deal with the various ways in which literature intersects with other media. We will look at the way literary texts are adapted for other media, e.g. turned into scripts for films and television programs, adapted for digital usage, turned into music, used in advertising, PR and other communication fields. We will look at the way in which literature portrays the media.
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Modernism
7,5
ECTS /
4
ACTS
This course will explore the numerous modernist movements of the early twentieth century that were not strongly related to each other and their historical development until the beginnings of the post-modernist experiments. It will survey the aesthetic and cultural stakes in the radically varied constructions of modernity by such opposed figures as Woolf and Bennett, Wilde and Shaw, or Kipling and Conrad.
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Post-Colonialism
7,5
ECTS /
4
ACTS
This course will examine post-colonial issues through the study of fiction and critical texts from Africa, Central and Latin America, as well as from Asia. It will include writers who come from the former colonies and who wrote in English, as well as authors who wrote in their mother language. Works by Salman Rushdie, Dereck Walcott, Chinua Achebe, Aime Cesaire will be among the authors covered.
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Crime Fiction
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course will explore the dimensions and significance of this kind of fiction by looking at characteristic novels and the film adaptations of them. Emphasis will be placed on differences in the way meaning is constructed in film and fiction, and on issues of class, race, and gender.
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Consciousness in Literature
7,5
ECTS /
4
ACTS
In this course the students explore the relationship between consciousness and literature through the works of Charles Dickens, E. M. Forster, Evelyn Waugh, Kingsley and Martin Amis, Henry James, and other writers.
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Major American Writers
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course will survey American literature from the Colonial period to the present. Emphasis will be placed on writers that have significantly influenced the national literature.
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Major British Writers
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This is a reading-intensive course focusing on the major authors, periods, and themes of British literature before 1789. The course is designed to give students a broad overview of the literature, history, and social and cultural values of each period through the in-depth study of key texts. Additionally, students will evaluate attitudes toward Christianity and spirituality from the past with the ultimate goal of encouraging them to analyze and deepen their own faith.
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English Language, Literature and Continental Europe
7,5
ECTS /
4
ACTS
English language and literature have developed under great influence of tribes, people and languages of continental Europe. The opposite influence of English language and literature on the rest of Europe was much smaller by the 20th century. This course explores the literary works of both the English and the European literatures that have affected each other.
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Science Fiction
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course will examine the issues that science fiction deals with, from contact with the “others” (unknown species), through space travel and exploration, to the changes in society in the utopias and dystopias. Science fiction will be discussed on the basis of the most influential works in this genre in the novel, short story and film.
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British Romantic Poetry
6
ECTS /
3
ACTS
This course is a survey of British poetry during the period called Romanticism, or the poetry written near the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. Students will read a variety of poems from this period and participate in discussions of them. The social and literary aspects of Romanticism will be discussed extensively. Students will become acquainted with the works of Blake, Burns, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelly and Keats, as well as a few other minor Romantic poets.
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