SPRING 2021
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT: SPEAKING AND LISTENING
AN10002BA AN1001OMA AN18002BA
BA I., teacher training program I, minor I
COURSE DESCRIPTION AND GOALS: The course is designed to develop students’ speaking and listening skills, improve their vocabulary and fluency, and help prepare for the end-of-the-term EYE exam. The employment of a variety of audio materials will target different aspect of comprehension (listening for gist, global comprehension, listening for specific information.) Individual, pair, and group work speaking activities will assist students in developing fluency in English.
AMERICAN LITERATURE 2
AN 23001BA, AN3301OMA, AN28005BA
BA II., teacher training program III, minor II
DESCRIPTION AND GOALS
The seminar is designed to explore trends in 20th and 21st-century American literature by analyzing short stories, novels, and poetry. Literary trends and tendencies will be devoted detailed attention with regard to historical and intellectual aspects, as well as studies of theoretical and conceptual issues.
AMERICAN LITERATURE 3 (LITERARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES (III)
AN(L)23002BA/AN28006BA/ AN3302OMA I.
BA II., teacher training program III,
AMERICAN LITERARY CULTURE 2
BTAN3025MA
MA I
DESCRIPTION AND GOALS
The lectures have been designed to foreground selected literary and cultural historical processes, peaks of development, theoretical issues, authorial achievements, as well as major shifts and turning-points in the literary culture of 20th and 21st-century America. Representative examples of selected themes will include varieties of American thought in U.S. literature and American expressiveness, and paradigm shifts in American literary culture, ranging from realism and naturalism to postmodernism, and ethnic literatures.