History of Dutch Literature up to 1850

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1005579AER for all students in the 1st semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Possible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Stefan Clappaert
Hans Vandevoorde
An Faems (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
90 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

The lecture course offers a historical overview of Dutch literature based on a contextualised reading of several highlights: medieval texts (such as Karel ende Elegast, Van den Vos Reynaerde and the lyric of Hadewijch), rhetorical texts (such as Elckerlijc and lyric of Antonis de Roovere or Anna Bijns) and renaissance texts (such as the poems of Jonker Jan van der Noot, P.C. Hooft and Vondel). Added are extracts from 18th century periodicals, sentimental, romantic and realistic prose.

Additional texts of the modern period will be read and discussed during the exercices.

Course material

Course text (Required) : Geschiedenis van de Nederlandstalige letterkunde, Middeleeuwen tot 1850, Vervaeck - Vandevoorde, VUB, 2220170008806, 2021
Digital course material (Required) : Ppts, Canvas
Digital course material (Required) : Reader, Canvas
Course text (Required) : Schrijven met stijl, Oefeningen in schrijfvaardigheid, Rovers - van Zoggel - Verhees - Clappaert, VUB, 2220170008745, 2021

Additional info

This course is taught in Dutch.
A syllabus and a bundle of digital texts (Canvas) must be prepared for the lecture course. Slides on Canvas support the course guide.

There is also a course guide for the excercies, Schrijven met stijl, which explains the basic principles for writing about literature

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

- Students know texts of the Dutch literary Canon from the Middle ages till the beginning of modern literature.

- Students can situate texts with attention to other art- and cultural shapes as to contextual factors as economics, religion and worldview

- Students gain insight in the diversity of Dutch literary works, based on period, genre, style, …

- Students can explain things as ‘allegorie’, ‘epiek’,

- Students can find secondary literature and write an analysis in which they prove that they can discuss texts and relate to the origin of texts.

- Students can evaluate the literary value of texts.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 60% of the final mark.
PRAC Paper determines 20% of the final mark.
Other determines 20% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Oral Examination with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 60% of the final mark.

Note: Oral examination with written preparation (min. 15 minutes). Students will not be able to pass the exam if they do not have a thorough command of standard Dutch. The written preparation serves as no more than an aid for the students. They will be asked to submit the unaltered preparation at the end of the exam, but this document will not be accorded a grade.

Within the PRAC Paper category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Writing exercises with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

Note: Two writing assignments.

Within the Other category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Permanent evaluation with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 20% of the final mark.

Note: Only for the second examination period the permanent evaluation can be replaced by a written task.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Oral examination on the lecture course (60% of the marks) and continuous assessment (20% of the marks). Excercies: two written assignments (20% of the marks) both of which must be submitted by students if they wish to sit the examinations. For the second examination period all tasks for the exercises and the permanent evaluation must be handed in before 31 of July.

A study guide provided by the lecturer at the start of the semester clarifies the assessment in a binding fashion.

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context