Course content - Learning outcome - Admission - Prerequisites - Overlapping courses - Teaching - Examination - Evaluation

Course content

This is an introductory course in reception studies. The course will involve close readings of primary texts and investigations into their historical reception. This will be combined with discussions of key theoretical contributions to the field. Working from the premise that all texts are historically situated and acquire new meanings in new contexts, we will explore the reception history of a number of different texts from different historical periods.

Learning outcome

After completing this course you will have:

• developed an awareness of how texts always appear in particular historic and material forms;
• learned how to understand more of the multiple lives of texts;
• developed critical and analytical skills through encountering the changes of meaning that texts are exposed to when they appear in new contexts, be it diachronically (historically) and/or synchronically (across national borders and in new languages).

Admission

Students at UiO must apply for courses in StudentWeb.

International applicants, if you are not already enrolled as a student at UiO, please see our information about admission requirements and procedures for international applicants.

The examination in this course is not available for external candidates. Only students admitted to the course may sit for the examination.

Prerequisites

Formal prerequisite knowledge

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The students must have taken at least 10 study points in literature/culture, preferably ENG1303 - British Literature, an introduction / ENG1304 - American Literature, an introduction / ENG1505 - British Civilisation, an introduction / NORAM1506 - American Civilization: An Introduction or equivalent.

Recommended previous knowledge

Good abilities in English, both spoken and written.

Overlapping courses

10 credits overlap with ENG4369 - Reception Studies.

Teaching

Seminar, two hours per week for 14 weeks, 28 hours in all.

Attendance is an obligatory class requirement (80%). Additional absences must be justified (please contact the exam coordinator.

Each student must hand in an essay of about 5 pages (approximately 11.500 characters) by a certain date. The student will receive feedback on this essay, and it has to be approved by the teacher for the student to be able to sit for the exam.

Access to teaching

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Examination

The final evaluation will be based on a three-day home exam.

You must submit your paper in Fronter. Read more about submission procedures

Previous exams: http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/hf/ilos/ENG2329/Eksamensoppgaver/Eksamensoppgaver.xml

Examination support material

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Language of examination

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Grading scale

Grades are awarded on a scale from A to F, where A is the best grade and F is a fail. Read more about the grading system.

The results will be found on the StudentWeb within three weeks after the exam.

Explanations and appeals

You may request an explanation of your grades, and you may also appeal against your grades or make a complaint about formal examination errors. Read more about explanations and appeals.

Resit an examination

You can usually resit an exam, but the conditions depend on whether you had a valid reason for absence from the regular exam. Read more about resitting an exam.

Withdrawal from an examination

A student may sit this exam up to 3 times. If a student wishes to withdraw from the exam, s/he must do so in StudentWeb at least two weeks prior to the first day of the exam. Failure to do so will be counted as one of the three opportunities to sit the exam.

Once the course requirements have been fulfilled, they remain valid for the current and the next two semesters that the course is taught.

Special examination arrangements

If you have a disability or a health problem that entails significant inconvenience in an examination situation, you may be considered for special examination arrangements. Mothers who are breastfeeding may apply for extra time to complete the exam.

Evaluation

Feedback from our students is essential to us in our efforts to ensure and further improve the high quality of our programmes and courses. All courses are subject to continuous evaluation. At regular intervals we also ask students on a particular course to participate in a more comprehensive, periodic evaluation of this course.