Essayistic genres in Hispanic-American Literature

6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4016383FNW for working students in the 1st semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester

1st semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

NOTE: registration for this course is only possible for working students. Day students can register for courses whose code ends with an R. At Inschrijven / studentenadministratie@vub.be you must be registered at the VUB as a working student for the current academic year.

Taught in

Spanish

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

Linguistics and Literary Studies

Educational team

Diana Castilleja (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

13 contact hours Lecture
15 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
156 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

We will discuss the intellectual and self-defining (identitarian) construction in Latin America, through the analysis of Spanish America essays.We will begin with a discussion of the status of the essay as a genre, providing an overview of its historical development as well. The sum of this analysis will help to redefine the essay through its essential characteristics.The principal corpus deals with essays about the identity construction.

Course material

Course text (Required) : Ensayo hispánico, D. Castilleja, VUB, 2220170010045, 2023
Handbook (Recommended) : L’essai : perspectives théoriques et l’exemple hispano-américain, Diana Castilleja, L'Harmattan, 9782296060906, 2008
Digital course material (Required) : Canvas

Additional info

Course will be taught in Spanish.

The syllabus must be acquired from the beginning of the course.

Extra material in Canvas.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The student
- has insight of the role played by the essayists as founders of cultural and literary awareness in Latin America.
- analyzes some Hispanic essays whose subject deals with the question of identity.
- develops a research question.
- makes a critical selection of bibliographic sources.
- carry out a research and present it orally and in writing.
- analyzes the essays through their essential characteristics, recognizing and understanding the specificity of the Hispanic American essay, considering the comparative dimensions of this literary subject.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
SELF Presentation determines 30% of the final mark.

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

Written paper with a relative weight of 70 which comprises 70% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Presentation category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Oral present. + written paper with a relative weight of 30 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Written paper: Preparatory work 30%, Final work 70%.

Partial grades of the oral presentation and the written paper "preparatory work” cannot be transferred to a later exam session.

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