Inglês no Mundo das Artes (C2)/English in the World of the Arts (C2)

ENG3.12286

While following the CEFR guidelines for Academic English at a C2 level, the expectations and specificities of language learning related to “the world of the arts” at a School of Arts and Humanities were also considered in the construction of the course programme.

The role of the arts in society in general and the potential of the arts as vehicles for epistemic justice (Fricker Epistemic Injustice 2007), and personal reflection (Holland Meeting Movies 2006, Holland & Schwartz Know Thyself 2008) will be explored.

Working with literature, film and TV series, students will be introduced to the vocabulary and techniques of close reading for literary texts as well as visual literacy applied to film and TV series, and then perform individual exercises. They will also be introduced to the concepts associated with adaptation from text to screen and discuss different approaches and methods. Students will then work individually with one of the assigned research sets (book and film/TV adaptations) using the techniques and research methods above.

Moreover, as this is a C2 English language level, throughout the semester, students will perform a variety of writing and oral exercises to illustrate their dominion of the English language, as well as CPE Use of English exercises.

A student-centred teaching approach will be used following a task-based methodology.

Students will be presented with working/research methods and then work individually with the materials in the research set of their choice for their oral presentation and research essay.  

40%: Written test

30%:  Essay (5% abstract, 25% essay)

15%: Oral Presentation (Close reading or Visual literacy)

15%: Continuous Assessment – Class participation, Preparatory Reading and Discussion.

Barnet, Sylvan and William E. Cain. A Short Guide to Writing about Literature 12^th Ed. Longman. 2011.

Corrigan, Timothy. A Short Guide to Writing about Film 8^th Ed. Longman, 2012.

Fricker, Miranda Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Ethics of Knowing. OUP. 2007.

Herman, David (ed) The Cambridge Companion to Narrative. CUP. 2007.

Holland, Norman N. Meeting Movies. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2006.

Holland, Norman N. & Murray Schwartz. Know Thyself: The Delphi Seminars. PsyArt Foundation. 2008.