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Study Guide Bachelor’S Programme 2014-2015 Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Faculty of Letters Study Guide Bachelor’s programme 2014-2015 CONTENTS Part 1 Faculty Mission and History 3 Management & Structure 4 Part 2 Specialisations 5 Undergraduate (BA) Studies: Course Descriptions 6 Romanian Language and Literature 6 World and Comparative Literature 22 English Language and Literature 30 American Studies 41 French Language and Literature 57 German Language and Literature 67 Italian Language and Literature 73 Spanish Language and Literature 81 Classical Languages and Literatures 88 Russian Language and Literature 97 Translation and Interpreting 107 Journalism 125 Part 3 Romanian Language Courses for Foreign Students 136 Part 4 Erasmus Information 139 Other Useful Information 140 2 Part 1 Faculty Mission and History Our Aim: To prepare students for future careers such as: teachers, researchers in the fields of literary studies, linguistics and cultural studies, as well as specialists in translation and interpreting or journalism and communication science. Historical References 1860 (26 Oct) Inauguration of the University of Iasi – the Faculty of Letters is the first Faculty of the University with just one department, Classical (Latin) and Romanian Literature 1864 The university is reorganised: Faculty of Letters and Philosophy 1867 Department of Romanian Literature and History 1897 Inauguration of the New University Palace (present location) Department of History of Greek Literature Department of Romanian Philology Department of History of French Literature 1905 Department of Slavonic Languages 1907 Department of German Studies 1918 (1 Dec.) The Great Union of Romania 1925 Department of English Language and Literature 1926 Department of Romance Languages and Literatures Department of Literary Criticism and Aesthetics 1960 Foreign languages lectureships are introduced 1964 Department of World Literature 1974 Department of Romanian Language for Foreign Students 1989 Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Anthropology Number of students enrolled: 2.128 Number of teaching staff: 119 (full-time); 72 (part-time) 3 Management & Structure Dean: Codrin Liviu Cuțitaru, Professor PhD Vice-Dean: Magda Jeanrenaud, Professor PhD Vice-Dean: Antonio Mihai Patraș, Professor PhD Vice-Dean: Ioan Constantin Lihaciu, Associate Professor PhD Administrative Director: Bogdan Constantinovici, Economist Head Secretary: Doina Popescu Contact Phone: +40 232 201052, +40 232 201053 Fax: +40 232 201152 E-mail: [email protected] Departments 1. Department of Romanian Language and Literature and Comparative Literature (Director: Ioan Milică, Lecturer PhD): . Romanian Language and General Linguistics (Head: Alexandru Gafton, Professor PhD) . Romanian Literature (Head: Lăcrămioara Petrescu, Professor PhD) . Romanian Language for Foreign Students (Head: Ludmila Braniște, Associate Professor PhD) . Comparative Literature (Head: Ana Maria Constantinovici, Associate Professor PhD) 2. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Director: Dragoș Cojocaru, Associate Professor PhD): . English Language and Literature (Head: Rodica Dimitriu, Professor PhD) . French Language and Literature (Head: Simona-Mihaela Modreanu, Professor PhD) . German Language and Literature (Head: Andrei Hoișie, Professor PhD) . Slavic Language and Literature (Head: Leonte Ivanov, Professor PhD) . Classical languages, Italian and Spanish (Head: : Dragoș Cojocaru, Associate Professor PhD) 3. Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences (Director: Alexandru Lăzescu, Lecturer) 4 Part 2 Programmes & Course Descriptions Undergraduate (BA) programmes: 6 semesters (180 ECTS) I. Language and Literature . Romanian Language and Literature (A) + Foreign Language and Literature (English, French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian) (B) . English Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (French, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian) (B) . French Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (English, German, Russian, Spanish, Italian) (B) . German Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (English, French, Russian, Spanish, Italian) (B) . Italian Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (English, French, German, Russian, Spanish) (B) . Spanish Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (English, French, German, Russian, Italian) (B) . Russian Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) (B) . Classical Languages (A) + Foreign Language (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) (B) . Comparative Literature (A) + Foreign Language (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) (B) II. Translation and Interpreting III. American Studies IV. Journalism 5 UNDERGRADUATE (BA) STUDIES: COURSE DESCRIPTIONS ROMANIAN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (A+B) 1ST YEAR OF STUDY Course title: Introduction to Literary Theory Course code: DF0811 (Romanian A+B) Type of course: compulsory Level of course: BA Year of study: 1st Semester: 1st Number of ECTS credits allocated: 5 Name of the lecturer: Valeriu P. Stancu/ Nicolae Crețu Course objective: thorough study of the specialized knowledge necessary to analyze literary works and the latest orientations in the field. Course contents: The study of literary theories. Literary genres. Fundamental concepts of poetry analysis. Prosody and meaning. Figures of speech. “Key" issues in metaphor analysis. Subjectivity and objectification. The poem as an ontological horizon. The analysis of narratives: essential concepts. Tale, story and act of narration. Character. Instances and levels of communication. Intrigue and metaphor. Time and narrativeness. The narrative games and the text boundaries. Theatre analysis. Dramatized fictional worlds. Text and performance. Modern directions in literary analysis. New theories of the literary system and discourse analysis. Opening to art theory and media theories. Recommended reading: Wolfgang Kayser, Opera literară, Bucureşti, Editura Univers, 1979; Paul Ricoeur, Metafora vie, Bucureşti, Editura Univers, 1984; Hugo Friedrich, Structura liricii moderne, Bucureşti, E.L.U., 1969 / Univers, 1998; Jaap Lintvelt, Încercare de tipologie narativă. Punctul de vedere: teorie şi analiză, Bucureşti, Editura Univers, 1994; Wayne C. Booth, Retorica romanului, Bucureşti, Editura Univers, 1976 Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem solving, text analysis Assessment methods: term work; written and oral examination Language of instruction: Romanian Course title: Introduction to Literary Theory Course code: DF0811 (Romanian A+B) Type of course: compulsory Level of course: BA Year of study: 1st English; American Studies Semester: 1st Number of ECTS credits allocated: 5 Name of the lecturer: Lucia Cifor Course objective: Familiarize participants with the fundamental concepts of the subject, as well as the principles and historical categories of the literary sciences. Course contents: Identity and characteristics of literary sciences. The historical sciences of literature or the classical paradigm of the literary study: poetics, rethorics, hermeneutics. The traditional sciences of literature (literary criticism, literary history, literary theory) and their relation. Literary Theory as a modern science. Stages in founding and laying down the specificity of the Literary Theory: Boris Tomaşevski: Literary Theory. Poetics; René Wellek and Austin Warren: Literary Theory. The literary theory in the new epistemologic context created by the (post)modern sciences of literature and culture. A new identity of the subject: literary and cultural theory. Recommended reading: Lucia Cifor, Teoria literaturii în contextul epistemologic actual; R. Wellek and A. Warren, Teoria literaturii, Editura pentru literatură universală, Bucureşti, 1967; Compagnon, Antoine, Le démon de la théorie, Editions du Seuil, Paris, 1998 // Demonul teoriei. Literatură şi bun simţ, Editura Echinox, Cluj, 2007; Markiewicz, Henryk, Conceptele ştiinţei literaturii, Editura Univers, Bucureşti, 1988; Marino, Adrian, Comparatisme et théorie de la littérature, PUF,1988 // Comparatism şi teoria literaturii, Editura Polirom, Iaşi, 1998. Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem solving Assessment methods: (term) written examination, (final) oral examination 6 Language of instruction: Romanian Course title: Introduction to Literary Theory Course code: DF0811 (Romanian A+B) Type of course: compulsory Level of course: BA Year of study: 1st World and Comparative Literature; Italian; Spanish; Russian; Classical Languages Semester: 1st Number of ECTS credits allocated: 5 Name of the lecturer: Puiu Ioniţă Course objective: Thorough study of the most frequent figures of speech and elements through which they get individualized. Integration of their analysis in the stylistic literary analysis; study of the convergence of all poetical meanings to a major meaning situated in a broad horizon of analysis. Motivation of students’ creativeness and poetic skills. Course contents: 1. Study of figures of speech. 2. Schemes. Tropes. 3. Metaphor (I). 4. Metaphor (II). Catachresis. 5. Simile, epithet. 6. Personification, allegory. 7. Symbol. 8. Figures of speech based on antinomy: antithesis, oxymoron, paradox, antiphrasis. 9. Figures of speech based on contiguity: metonymy and synecdoche. 10. Irony, litotes. 11. Exclamation, invocation, imprecation. 12. Figures of speech based on intensification (I): hyperbole, gradation, metabole. 13. Figures of speech based on intensification (II): repetition, chiasmus, anapfora, epiphora,
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