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Introduction to American Studies - AAA100070
Title: Úvod do amerických studií
Guaranteed by: Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures (21-UALK)
Faculty: Faculty of Arts
Actual: from 2012
Semester: summer
Points: 6
E-Credits: 6
Examination process: summer s.:
Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/2, C+Ex [HT]
Capacity: unknown / unknown (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
4EU+: no
Virtual mobility / capacity: no
Key competences:  
State of the course: not taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Guarantor: David Lee Robbins, Ph.D.
doc. Justin Quinn, Ph.D.
Is interchangeable with: AAA220070, AAA200070
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OBJECTIVES
This is a practical course designed to improve and develop students' skills in writing for academic purposes. It aims to help students develop a critical awareness of their researching and writing processes. We will be exploring different writing styles and the uses of various rhetorical devices, writing and during the Semester will progress from basic report/review writing through to persuasive or argumentative writing. Particular attention will be paid to correct use and presentation of source materials, the composition of bibliographies and revision of draft papers. Students will be required to submit written homework on a regular basis.

MATERIAL
Writing, Reading, Research Velt & Clifford,
Doing Research: The Complete Research Paper Guide Dorothy U. Seyler.

ASSESSMENT
Students will be expected to complete the homework assigned during the Semester and complete a final paper of 2500 words.
Last update: UAAZNOJE (04.03.2004)
Literature - Czech

Tindall, George Brown and Shi, David E., America: a narrative history (New York, London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1993)

Purvis, Thomas L., Encyklopedie dějin USA (Praha: Ivo Železný, 1999)

LaFeber Walter, The American Age. United States Foreign Policy at Home and Abroad since 1750 (New York, London: W.W. Norton & Co., 1989)

Johnson, Paul, Dějiny amerického národa (Praha: Academia, 2000)

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)
Teaching methods - Czech

přednáška + seminář

Last update: UAAZNOJE (27.05.2008)
 
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