ECTS credits ECTS credits: 3
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 51 Hours of tutorials: 3 Expository Class: 9 Interactive Classroom: 12 Total: 75
Use languages Spanish, Galician, English
Type: Ordinary subject Master’s Degree RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Departments: English and German Philology
Areas: English Philology
Center Faculty of Philology
Call: First Semester
Teaching: With teaching
Enrolment: Enrollable | 1st year (Yes)
-Students should be able to apply the newly acquired knowledge and their skills to solve problems in new or little known fields within more general (or multidisciplinary contexts) related to their field of study.
-Students should be able to integrate concepts and formulate critical conclusions from incomplete or limited information which includes reflections on the social and ethic responsibilities linked to their knowledge and critical skills.
-Students should know how to communicate their conclusions -as well as the supporting knowledge and reasons- to specialized and non-specialized audiences clearly and without ambiguities.
1. Trans-cultural approach to the literatures written in English: introduction.
2. Theoretical perspectives and key concepts: Transcultural identities, ethnicity, globalization, transnationalism, diaspora, postcolonialism, sexual and gender identities.
3. Transcultural literary practices. Detailed analysis of specific literary works.
Basic bibliography
Literary works discussed in class.
Complementary bibliography
Al Maleh, L. (Ed.). (2009). Arab Voices in Diaspora: Critical Perspectives on Anglophone Arab Literature. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi.
Baker, Houston A. Three American Literatures: Essays in Chicano, Native American, and Asian American Literature for Teachers of Literature. New York: The Modern Language Associaton, 1982.
Bloom, Harold. Asian American Women Writers. Philadelphia: Chelsea House Publishers, 1997.
Bringas, Ana y Belén Martín. Identidades multiculturais, revisión dos discursos teóricos. Vigo: Universidade de Vigo, 2000.
Brennan, Jonathan (ed). Mixed Race Literature. Stanford: Stanford UP, 2002.
Cheung, King-Kok (ed.) An Interethnic Companion to Asian American Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997.
Cuder Dominguez, Pilar, Martín-Lucas, Belén, Villegas-López, Sonia. (2011). Transnational poetics: Asian Canadian women's fiction of the 1990s. Toronto: TSAR Publications.
Eckard, Paula Gallant. Maternal Body and Voice in Toni Morrison, Bobbie Ann Mason and Lee Smith. Columbia: U of Missoury P, 2002.
Fishburn, Katherine. The Problem of Embodiment in early African American Literature.Westport: Greenwood P, 1997.
Huntley, E. D. Maxine Hong Kingston. A Critical Companion. Londres: Greenwood P, 2001.
Hutchinson, George. The Harlem Renaissance in Black and White. Cambridge (Mass) & Londres: The Belknap P of Harvard UP, 1995.
Jay, Paul. (2010). Global matters: the transnational turn in literary studies. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Kaplan, Caren, Norma Alarcón, and Minoo Moallem. Eds. (1999). Between woman and nation:nationalisms, transnational feminisms, and the state. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Lewis, Simon. (2011). British and Áfrican literature in transnational context. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Li, David Leiwei. Imagining the Nation. Asian American Literature and Cultural Consent. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1998.
Morrison, Toni. Race-ing Justice, En-gender-ing Power. Londres: Chatto & Windus Ltd., 1992.
Nandín, Teresa. “El reflejo de la experiencia multicultural en dos obras de contextos dispares, ‘East, West’ de Salman Rushdie y ‘Woman Hollering Creek’ de Sandra Cisneros”. En Ana Bringas y Belén Martín, Identidades multiculturais, revisión dos discursos teóricos. Vigo: Universidad de Vigo, 2000.
Nyman, J. (2009). Introduction: Diaspora, Home, Writing. Home, Identity, and Mobility in Contemporary Diasporic Fiction (pp. 9-34). Amsterdam: Rodopi.
O’Reilly, Andrea. Toni Morrison and Motherhood. A Politics of the Heart. Albany: State U of New York P, 2004.
Otten, Terry. The Crime of Innocence in the Fiction of Toni Morrison. Columbia: U of Missouty P, 1989.
Ozieblo, Bárbara. El vínculo poderoso: madres e hijas en la literatura norteamericana. Granada: Universidad de Granada, 1998.
Sesay, K. (Ed.). (2005). Write Black Write British: From Post-Colonial to Black British Literature. Hertford: Hansib Publications.
Simal, Begoña. Identidad étnica y género en la narrativa de escritoras chinoamericanas. La Coruña: Universidade da Coruña, 2000.
Bibliografía complementaria
Sollors, Werner (ed.). Beyond Ethnicity: Consent and Descent in American Culture. New York: Oxford UP, 1986.
Stein, M. (2004). Black British Literature: Novels of Transformation. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State UP.
Wilentz, Gay. Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora. Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1992.
Wilson, Rob and Wimal Dissanayake, eds. (2005). Global-local cultural production and the transnational imaginary. Durham: Duke University Press.
Yin, Xiao-Huang. Chinese American Literature since the 1850s. Urbana & Chicago: U of Illinois P, 2000.
Competence (“Memoria do Máster Interuniversitario en Estudios Ingleses Avanzados e as Súas Aplicacións, 2ª edición", pp. 6-7: http://www.imaes.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/MEMORIA_ANEXOS-I-II.pdf)
CB7 - That students know how to apply the knowledge acquired and their ability to solve problems in new or unfamiliar environments within broader (or multidisciplinary) contexts related to their area of study.
CB8 - That students are able to integrate knowledge and face the complexity of formulating judgments based on information that, being incomplete or limited, includes reflections on the social and ethical responsibilities linked to the application of their knowledge and judgments.
CB9 - That students are able to communicate their conclusions and the knowledge and ultimate reasons that support them to specialized and non-specialized audiences in a clear and unambiguous way.
G02 - Ability to apply the knowledge gained/obtained within the multidisciplinary and mutifaceted/versatile area of English Studies.
G04 - Ability to present experiences, ideas or reports in public, as well as to express informed opinions based on criteria, external rules or personal reflections, for which a sufficient command of the academic and scientific language, both written and oral, will be necessary.
G05 - Abilities to investigate and manage new knowledge and information within the context of English Studies.
G06 - Ability to acquire/achieve critical thinking that will lead students to consider the relevance of the existing research in the fields of study that make up/shape/define English Studies, as well as the relevance of their own investigations.
E09 - Knowledge of the main models and resources of literary/cultural research in the anglophone world.
E11 - Capacity to identify and analyse the most relevant features of the anglophone culture and institutions through texts belonging to different historical periods.
•Classes where the students will be given information about the main theoretical concepts and their literary application.
• Seminars devoted to practical cases.
• Personal online exercises.
• Online tutorials: review of exercises and articles, bibliographic searches, readings, tasks, cooperative work.
• Online debates.
FIRST OPPORTUNITY
ESSAY+PRESENTATIONS: 60% (Competencias CB7, CB8, CB9, G02, G04, G05, G06, E09, E11)
CLASS ATTENDANCE, PARTICIPATION AND (ONLINE/WRITTEN) ACTIVITIES: 40% (Competencias CB7, CB8, CB9, G02, G04, G05, G06, E09, E11)
STUDENTS MUST GET A MINIMUM SCORE OF 4 OUT OF 10 IN EACH OF THE PREVIOUS ASPECTS TO PASS THE SUBJECT.
SECOND OPPORTUNITY:
- THEORETICAL+PRACTICAL PAPER ABOUT A SPECIFIC TEXT: 60% (Competencias CB7, CB8, CB9, G02, G04, G05, G06, E09, E11)
-WRITTEN EXERCISES: 40% (Competencias CB7, CB8, CB9, G02, G04, G05, G06, E09, E11)
ATTENDANCE: Attending at least 75 per cent of the total class hours is mandatory to pass the course and to be allowed to sit the final exam. In accordance with the “Regulations on Class Attendance in Official Bachelor’s and Master’s Programmes of the University of Santiago de Compostela,” approved on 25 November 2024, justified absences from class and from assessment activities will be handled as follows:
Article 3.2. Justification of absences from class. In all cases, the following shall be considered justified reasons:
a) Sitting official examinations or competitive public-sector tests, proven by certification from the examining body.
b) Attendance at collegiate bodies—internal USC bodies or external bodies when acting as a representative of a constituency—, proven by the official call to attend and certification from the secretary of the body.
c) Hospital admission or non-deferrable medical appointments, certified by the medical centre or the attending physician.
d) Illness that prevents physical presence at the university, duly certified.
e) Student strikes or strikes by other groups that block access to classrooms.
f) Serious illness or death of a family member up to the 2nd degree, duly certified.
g) Fulfilment of a public duty, duly justified.
h) Official mobility restrictions due to severe weather or a declared state of alert, emergency, or exception.
i) Participation in activities by elite or high-performance athletes, in accordance with regional regulations and USC policy.
l) Any other force-majeure circumstance, duly certified.
3. Proof of a justified reason for non-attendance must be submitted to the course coordinator within five working days after the cause preventing attendance has ended. If the lecturer and student disagree about the validity of the proof, the final decision rests with the faculty administration or the competent committee.
4. Attendance obligations for scheduled teaching activities are deemed fulfilled without the need for justification when absences do not exceed 10 % of the scheduled hours, except for activities designated as compulsory.
Article 5 Absence from assessment activities
1. The justified reasons for absences in Article 3.2 may also be invoked to justify absence from assessment activities, except in the case of elite or high-performance athletes. For these athletes, exam schedules will only be adjusted when competitions, national-team training camps, or official training sessions coincide with exam dates, and such circumstances must be certified by the relevant sports federation.
2. When a justified cause exists, the student is entitled to sit the assessment on another date set by the course coordinator—preferably by mutual agreement with the affected student and always before the grade-submission deadline established for that opportunity. Whenever possible, at least two working days must elapse between notification of the new date and the assessment itself.
THE STUDENTS WHOSE ATTENDANCE HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY WAIVED WILL BE ASSESSED EITHER IN JANUARY OR IN JULY, BUT FOLLOWING THE “SECOND OPPORTUNITY” ASSESSMENT SYSTEM
For cases of fraudulent conduct over exercises or tests, what is included in the "Normativa de avaliación do rendemento académico dos estudantes e de revisión de cualificacións" will apply: " Fraudulent exams, tests or tasks required for the evaluation of a subject will imply a fail in the corresponding opportunity, regardless of the disciplinary process that may be opened against the offending student. Among others, plagiarised works or those obtained from sources accessible to the public without reworking or reinterpretation and without quotation to authors and sources will also be considered fraudulent". Therefore, the detection of the smallest plagiarism will mean a zero in the subject and the established disciplinary measures will be taken.
•Total: 75 hours.
•On-site classes: not more than 14 hours.
•Students' personal work: 61 hours
Susana Maria Jimenez Placer
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- Phone
- 881811855
- susanamaria.jimenez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Temporary PhD professor
Martin Fernandez Fernandez
- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- m.fernandez.fernandez [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Intern Assistant LOSU
Ruben Jarazo Alvarez
Coordinador/a- Department
- English and German Philology
- Area
- English Philology
- ruben.jarazo [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: Intern Assistant LOSU
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| 18:15-20:15 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | English | D04 |
| 01.13.2026 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLIS_01 | D04 |
| 01.13.2026 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D04 |
| 06.15.2026 16:00-18:00 | Grupo /CLE_01 | D04 |
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