English (31-60)

In this course, students further develop their ability to express themselves correctly in English, in both the linguistic and literary disciplines. Their critical thinking abilities are also further developed. Students are provided with an opportunity to understand the development of American and British literature in a historic perspective, with a focus on the relationship between form and content, the interrelatedness of literary texts, and the complex links between these texts and their historical contexts. The study of literary terminology continues with an introduction to such concepts of literary criticism as “canon”, “self”, “discourse”, and “historicity”. Moreover, there is a comprehensive review of central aspects of linguistics, focusing on syntax, morphology, phonetics and phonology, semantics, sociolinguistics and pragmatics as well as language didactics and language acquisition and an overview of the history of the English language. An overview of the main linguistics research methods is presented. Students are given the opportunity to prepare a research design outlining how research methods can be applied in English linguistics The course furthermore includes a module in translation where texts from a number of different literary genres are translated with the aim of increasing students' knowledge and understanding of the English language. Included in this is also an increased awareness of differences between Swedish and English.