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First cycle degree courses	Second cycle degree courses	Single cycle degree courses
School of Human and Social Sciences and Cultural Heritage
EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES

Course unit
ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE 2
LE03120322, A.A. 2016/17

Information concerning the students who enrolled in A.Y. 2015/16

Information on the course unit

Degree course	Second cycle degree in EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES (Ord. 2008) LE0613, Degree course structure A.Y. 2008/09, A.Y. 2016/17	bring this page with you
Number of ECTS credits allocated	6.0
Type of assessment	Mark
Course unit English denomination	ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE 2
Department of reference	Department of Linguistic and Literary Studies
E-Learning website	https://elearning.unipd.it/scienzeumane/course/view.php?idnumber=2016-LE0613-000ZZ-2015-LE03120322-N0
Mandatory attendance	No
Language of instruction	English
Branch	PADOVA
Single Course unit	The Course unit can be attended under the option Single Course unit attendance
Optional Course unit	The Course unit can be chosen as Optional Course unit

Lecturers

Teacher in charge	ANNA SCACCHI		L-LIN/11

Mutuating

Course unit code	Course unit name	Teacher in charge	Degree course code
LE02104370	ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE	ANNA SCACCHI	LE0613

ECTS: details

Type	Scientific-Disciplinary Sector		Credits allocated
Core courses	L-LIN/11	Anglo-American Languages and Literature	6.0

Course unit organization

Period	Second semester
Year	2nd Year
Teaching method	frontal

Type of hours	Credits	Teaching hours	Hours of Individual study	Shifts
Lecture	6.0	42	108.0	No turn

Calendar

Start of activities	27/02/2017
End of activities	09/06/2017
Show course schedule	2019/20 Reg.2018 course timetable

Examination board

Board	From	To	Members of the board
4 1920	01/10/2019	30/11/2020	SCACCHI ANNA (Presidente) CORONATO ROCCO (Membro Effettivo) DE BIASIO ANNA (Membro Effettivo) BORDIN ELISA (Supplente) OBOE ANNALISA (Supplente)
3 1819	01/10/2018	30/11/2019	SCACCHI ANNA (Presidente) CORONATO ROCCO (Membro Effettivo) DE BIASIO ANNA (Membro Effettivo) BORDIN ELISA (Supplente) OBOE ANNALISA (Supplente)
2 1718	01/10/2017	30/11/2018	SCACCHI ANNA (Presidente) CORONATO ROCCO (Membro Effettivo) DE BIASIO ANNA (Membro Effettivo) BORDIN ELISA (Supplente) OBOE ANNALISA (Supplente)
1 1617	01/10/2016	30/11/2017	SCACCHI ANNA (Presidente) CORONATO ROCCO (Membro Effettivo) DE BIASIO ANNA (Membro Effettivo) BORDIN ELISA (Supplente) OBOE ANNALISA (Supplente)

Syllabus

Prerequisites:	Students should be familiar with basic facts of US history and its literature and have an advanced knowledge of English
Target skills and knowledge:	Students will become familiar with the US-American debate on national identity from a historical and theoretical point of view. The analysis of the contemporary discussion on issues related to identity and the nation in the field of American Studies will introduce them to key concepts in Cultural and Postcolonial Studies (gender, race, ethnicity, class, local/global, postnational/transnational/diasporic, etc.)
Examination methods:	Final paper of 15-20 pages long and discussion of the paper. The student can opt for an oral exam, which is mandatory if you have not attended classes. Active participation in class discussions.
Assessment criteria:	The student will be evaluated according to her acquired competence in the most relevant aspects of the historical and critical debate on national identity and her ability to apply it in original readings of the assigned texts. Evaluation will be based on attendance and active participation to class discussions: 25% paper: 50% oral discussion of paper: 25%
Course unit contents:	Debating American Identity in the 20th Century Drawing on diverse material (literature, film, popular culture),we will explore how American identity has been defined, negotiated and challenged in the 20th century, focusing on the revision of founding mythologies (Manifest Destiny, the American Adam, American exceptionalism, the Melting Pot), dynamics of inclusion and exclusion and the claiming of citizenship rights by women, immigrants, African Americans and other minorities. We will also consider how issues of identity have become central in American Studies following the post-1960s decline of the myth of a unified and unifying national identity.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods:	Classes will be delivered both as lectures and seminars. Students' participation in discussions and through brief oral presentation will be encouraged. Because of the multidisciplinary focus of the topics explored and its methodological approach, the course will often rely on films and other audio visual material and, whenever possible, will host guest lecturers.
Additional notes about suggested reading:	You will find all assigned readings in our library or on my homepage but copies of the novels, if in print, should be bought. The final program and calendar of meetings will be published on the Moodle site before the course begins. Students not attending classes should contact me at least two months before their exam.
Textbooks (and optional supplementary readings)	Larsen, Nella, Passing. --: --, 1929. Yezierska, Anzia, Salome of the tenements introduction by Gay Wilentz. Urbana \etc.!: University of Illinois press, --. Olsen, Tillie;, "I Stand Here Ironing" in Tell me a Riddle edited and with an introduction by Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt. New Brunswick: N.J., Rutgers University Press, 1995. Cisneros, Sandra, The house on Mango street. New York: Vintage Books, 1991. Danticat, Edwidge, Breath, eyes, memory. New York: NY, Soho Press, 2015.