Kurzus nemzetközi vendég- és részidős hallgatóknak
- Kar
- Bölcsészettudományi Kar
- Szervezet
- BTK Anglisztika Tanszék
- Kód
- BBI-ANG17-218E/L1
- Cím
- Reading British Authors on Nation and Nationalism from the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries
- Tervezett félév
- Őszi
- ECTS
- 3
- Nyelv
- en
- Oktatás célja
- The purpose of this reading course is to acquaint the students with the vocabulary and the conceptual content associated with the works of some of the best known British authors on the subject of nation and nationalism. These works form the core literature of the academic discipline that has become known as National Studies at several European and American universities. Acquiring the technique of critically interpreting and evaluating sources is another purpose of the course. Authors, such as Ernest Gellner, Benedict Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm and Azar Gat are exquisite writers in the English language so the experience can also be measured in sheer pleasure of reading.
- Tantárgy tartalma
- The reading classes will use set texts (some of them now regarded as classic sources) from the cited literature. The selected excerpts are nuanced text parts from cultural, sociological, literary and technical points of view. Each week an excerpt of moderate length (one to two pages) will be distributed. The students are expected to study, understand, and analytically dissect the texts for the next session, where a discussion will take place of the excerpt in question. The individual students’ ability to understand, handle the texts will be tested. They will be asked to read sentences and answer questions about them. The students will receive every help, assistance to overcome any difficulties until they have clearly understood the texts and their contexts. If a particular passage is proving too difficult for one week, it may be studied for an extended period. Understanding is measured by the ability to explain or paraphrase the meaning, in some cases, as a last resort, by translation. Non-Hungarian students can use their own first languages in cases of translation. This is not only a linguistic exercise, but naturally also a window on a particularly significant subject of increasing contemporary importance. Background introductions by the teacher and individual background research home assignments will make sure that the texts are read intelligently, their complex historical, sociological and political import is understood by students attending the course.
- Számonkérés és értékelés
- Performance will be assessed and graded a) by the quality of active class participation, the level of preparedness for each class; b) one mid-term and one end of term in-class test, when short selections from texts studied previously will be assigned for cloze test, paraphrase or translation. Short tests may be written more frequently to embed new vocabulary.
- Irodalomjegyzék
- Excerpts from: Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, London: Verso, 1983, 1991. Azar Gat, Nations: The Long History and Deep Roots of Political Ethnicity and Nationalism, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Ernest Gellner, Nations and Nationalism, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1983. Ernest Gellner, Culture, Identity and Politics, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987. Ernest Gellner, Nationalism, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997. Eric J Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, eds, The Invention of Tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Eric J. Hobsbawm, Nations and Nationalism since 1780: Programme, myth, reality, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.