Proseminar: Introducing Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (Intro)
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Teaching
Details
Faculty Faculty of Humanities Domain English Code UE-L06.01298 Languages English Type of lesson Proseminar
Level Bachelor Semester SA-2022 Schedules and rooms
Summary schedule Monday 10:15 - 12:00, Hebdomadaire (Autumn semester)
Teaching
Responsibles - Blanc Aurélie
Teachers - Blanc Aurélie
Description This course is aimed at first-year students. It is designed to introduce them to the Middle English language, essential for them to read medieval English texts during the rest of their studies. Grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation will be studied, and the students’ language skills will be developed through the careful reading of the Canterbury Tales.
The course’s second aim is for students to use their knowledge of Middle English to acquire a deeper understanding of Chaucer’s text. Close-reading and in-class discussions will develop the students’ analytical skills and enable them to explore the Canterbury Tales. At times courtly and solemn, at others irreverent, fun, or even obscene, the Tales’ diversity offers students a look at various genres of medieval literature, various themes (such as fate, love, revenge, or the role of women), and at the varied society of fourteenth-century England. It also addresses more general themes—storytelling, for instance, and the role of the author.
Requirements
Credit requirements are active participation and written work, which students need to submit at the end of term time. This written essay will be graded.
Course Registration
Please do not forget to register on MyUnifr (both for the “Proséminaire” and the “Examen”). For the official registration deadlines of the Faculty of Arts, see:
https://www.unifr.ch/lettres/fr/etudes/cours-et-examens/inscription-aux-cours-et-examens/
Training objectives - Knowledge of basic grammar of Middle English
- Basic training in reading Middle English
- Training in analysing texts through close reading and through in-class discussions.
- Introduction to fourteenth-century English literature and culture
- Awareness of the questions surrounding authorship in the Middle Ages
Softskills No Off field No BeNeFri No Mobility Yes UniPop No Documents
Bibliography Students are asked to acquire the following book:
Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales: Seventeen Tales and the General Prologue edited by V.A. Kolve and Glending Olson (New York; London: W.W. Norton & Company, 2018).
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Dates and rooms
Date Hour Type of lesson Place 19.09.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 26.09.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 03.10.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 10.10.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 17.10.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 24.10.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 31.10.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 07.11.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 14.11.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 21.11.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 28.11.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 05.12.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 12.12.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 19.12.2022 10:15 - 12:00 Cours MIS 02, Room 2122 -
Assessments methods
Séminaire - SA-2022, Session d'hiver 2023
Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure Séminaire - SP-2023, Session d'été 2023
Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure Séminaire - SP-2023, Autumn Session 2023
Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure Séminaire - SA-2023, Session d'hiver 2024
Assessments methods By rating, By success/failure -
Assignment
Valid for the following curricula: English Language and Literature 120
Version: SA15_BA_ang_V02
Module One: Foundations
English Language and Literature 60
Version: SA15_BA_ang_V01
Module One: Foundations
Ens. compl. en Lettres
Version: ens_compl_lettres
Lettres [Cours]
Version: Lettres_v01