Welcome to "English III: Focus on Literature" at Dalarna University

This 30-credit course aims to develop your oral and written language skills to a high level of proficiency. Through its three modules and their specialisation in literature studies, you will improve your theoretical knowledge and methodological skills in the scholarly analysis of literary texts. You will train these skills through seminar discussion and short assignments in the two 7.5-credit modules, as well as through the writing of a bachelor’s degree thesis under the guidance of a supervisor.

There are no campus meetings. Asynchronous activities are combined with real-time online seminars which are held via Zoom.

This 30-credit course has 2 different study paces, namely part-time and full-time. Full-time studies imply studying the three modules in one term, with all three modules running throughout the term. Part-time studies are planned over two terms. In this case, the first term consists of the two 7.5 modules, which run parallel in alternating weeks throughout the term. The student is then guaranteed a place in the second half of this course which runs the term after. This second half consists of the bachelor’s degree thesis in literature (15 ECTS).

The modules in the course are:

• The Coming-of-Age Novel in English: Female, Ethnic and Ageing Perspectives (7.5 ECTS) - EN2038 (Coordinator: Prof. Carmen Zamorano Llena)
• Literature and Theory (7.5 ECTS) - EN2025 (Coordinator: Dr. David Gray)
• Bachelor’s Degree Thesis in Literature (15 ECTS) - EN2028 (Coordinator: Prof. Carmen Zamorano Llena)

As a student registered in this course, you should automatically have been given access to the Canvas rooms for each of the modules in the course. Please note that students registered on the part-time course occasion should have been given access to the two 7.5-ECTS modules.

All information for each of the individual modules will be found in their respective Canvas rooms.

Please note that there is no specific introduction to English III: Focus on Literature, but separate introductions for each of the three modules. The first of these introductions is to the module The Contemporary Coming-of-Age Novel in English: Female, Ethnic and Ageing Perspectives, which will be held on Tuesday, 20 January (10.30-12.00). 

Looking forward to meeting you in week 4 for the introductions to the different modules in the course.

Best regards,

Carmen 

P.S.: The following information has been made available as an announcement, but I'm also pasting it here for those students who have not been able to register on the course yet:

Please find here the relevant Zoom links for the following modules:

. BA thesis in literature: https://du-se.zoom.us/j/276799659Links to an external site.

. Introduction to Theories and Methodologies: (what follows is an extract from the informaiton on the home page for this course on Canvas) "Seminars for this course take place between weeks 4 and 23, but only in odd weeks, on Thursdays (there may be exceptions), 10.00-12.00, beginning with an online Course Introduction in Week 4, Thursday 22nd, January 10.00-12.00 (https://du-se.zoom.us/j/61346331615).

P.P.S.: Some of you have been conditionally admitted to this course, pending from having your pass grades for English II courses reported. If that is the case, please email me so that I can mail you the seminar questions for Seminar 1 on Atwood's Cat's Eye, for our seminar in week 6. This will also allow me to keep track of students whose registration in the course has not been completed yet.

	Course Syllabus			Contact information
	Reading List			Prof. Carmen Zamorano Llena Course Coordinator cza@du.se