Course Description:
This course is designed for students specialising or interested in studying literary texts and cultural product/ phenomena as their final project. This course focuses on some “major/dominant” literary and cultural approaches ranging from traditional approaches to post colonialism with their complex applications and interconnections.
Objectives:
The aim of this course is to:
- give a comprehensive account on how major/dominant approaches may be used to explain any literary texts and cultural product/phenomena.
Competence:
- Students understand some major theories related to the study of literature & culture.
- Students are able to apply the theories as critical tools in their literary & cultural analyses.
Course Description:
This course is designed for students to understand the basic concepts of literature and its three main genres: Prose, Lyric (Poetry), and Drama. Definitions, characteristics, and constitutive elements are the topics that students need to master, so that they will comprehend the importance and nature of literary works they will deal in the future. This course is a compulsory for students before they take more advanced elective courses.
Course Description:
This course is designed for students interested in studying film that relates to literature and culture. This course gives weight more on how films relating, to greater or lesser extent, to literature may embody any ideological contents within. Thus, triangular relations between film (cinematographic elements), narrative (story), and criticism (theory) are the main subjects of study.
Objectives:
The aim of this course is to give a comprehensive account on how film with its particular cinematographic elements and narrative (story) may relate to each other and be used for an interpretive study (criticism) to voice out a particular issue.
Competence: