ASB06001 British and American Literature

Hiroshima University Syllabus

Japanese

Academic Year 2024Year School/Graduate School School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences

Lecture Code ASB06001 Subject Classification Specialized Education

Subject Name 英米文学研究

Subject Name
（Katakana）エイベイブンガクケンキュウ

Subject Name in
English British and American Literature

Instructor KIDO MITSUYO

Instructor
(Katakana) キド　ミツヨ

Campus Higashi-Hiroshima Semester/Term 2nd-Year,  Second Semester,  Second Semester

Days, Periods, and Classrooms (2nd) Weds3-4：IAS K106

Lesson Style Lecture Lesson Style
(More Details) 　

Lecture

Credits 2.0 Class Hours/Week 　 Language of Instruction J : Japanese

Course Level 2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate

Course Area（Area） 23 : Arts and Humanities

Course Area（Discipline） 05 : Literature

Eligible Students

Keywords British and American Literature, British and American Culture and History, Environment and Travel in Literature

Special Subject for Teacher Education 　 Special Subject 　

Class Status
within Educational
Program
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) This class aims to acquire the basic knowledge and understanding of cultures and histories of English-speaking countries, namely the UK and the USA, through introducing famous British and American literary texts.
Criterion referenced
Evaluation
(Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students) Integrated Arts and Sciences
（Knowledge and Understanding）
・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework.
・Knowledge and understanding of "Japanese and Japanese culture"  and "foreign languages and foreign culture" which are prerequisite abilities for communication with peoples in different culture and areas.
（Abilities and Skills）
・The ability and skills to collect and analyze necessary literature or data among various sources of information on individual academic disciplines.

Class Objectives
/Class Outline In this class, students are expected to learn chronologically various authors and their works in English speaking countries through reading some of their passages or watching their film adaptations. They will also learn the historical and cultural backgrounds of British and American societies. In this semester, we will especially focus on the motif of travel, that is, how particular ideas, styles or cultures cross the ocean and influence each other, or how the same kind of movements differ in the UK and the USA, or how each writer tries to reach out to their culturally, ideologically, racially, or socially different "others."

Class Schedule lesson1: Introduction--Basic information about literatures in English-speaking countries
lesson2: Shakespeare and The New World as a Utopia
lesson3: American Colonial Period and Religious Writing
lesson4: The Emergence of the Novel and Travel Motifs
lesson5: Gothic Literature and Exoticism
lesson6: Representing Nature in British and American Romanticism
lesson7: Tradition of American Romance: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville
lesson8: Jane Austin and British Class Society
lesson9: The City and the Country in Victorian Novels
lesson10: The American Civil War and Fiction of Realism: Mark Twain
lesson11: The Contrast of the New and the Old World: Henry James
lesson12: Modernism in Britain and America
lesson13: The Writers of the Lost Generation after WWI
lesson14: Contemporary English Literature as World Literature
lesson15: Wrap-up

Students are required to take a short review test in the last class and hand in an essay assignment at the end of the semester.

Text/Reference
Books,etc. Handouts are distributed.

PC or AV used in
Class,etc. 　

(More Details) Handouts, Films, Powerpoint

Learning techniques to be incorporated 　

Suggestions on
Preparation and
Review Students are expected to review the handouts and understand the contents better after the class. A short quiz is based on some major writers and works introduced in class.

Requirements

Grading Method Students will be evaluated based on class attendance and a final short quiz (50 %) as well as a final Japanese essay about one book they choose among those introduced in class (50 %).

Practical Experience

Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it

Message

Other

Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes.
Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

Academic Year	2024Year	School/Graduate School	School of Integrated Arts and Sciences Department of Integrated Arts and Sciences
Lecture Code	ASB06001	Subject Classification	Specialized Education
Subject Name	英米文学研究
Subject Name （Katakana）	エイベイブンガクケンキュウ
Subject Name in English	British and American Literature
Instructor	KIDO MITSUYO
Instructor (Katakana)	キド　ミツヨ
Campus	Higashi-Hiroshima	Semester/Term	2nd-Year, Second Semester, Second Semester
Days, Periods, and Classrooms	(2nd) Weds3-4：IAS K106
Lesson Style	Lecture	Lesson Style (More Details)
Lecture
Credits	2.0	Class Hours/Week		Language of Instruction	J : Japanese
Course Level	2 : Undergraduate Low-Intermediate
Course Area（Area）	23 : Arts and Humanities
Course Area（Discipline）	05 : Literature
Eligible Students
Keywords	British and American Literature, British and American Culture and History, Environment and Travel in Literature
Special Subject for Teacher Education		Special Subject
Class Status within Educational Program (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	This class aims to acquire the basic knowledge and understanding of cultures and histories of English-speaking countries, namely the UK and the USA, through introducing famous British and American literary texts.
Criterion referenced Evaluation (Applicable only to targeted subjects for undergraduate students)	Integrated Arts and Sciences （Knowledge and Understanding）・Knowledge and understanding of the importance and characteristics of each discipline and basic theoretical framework. ・Knowledge and understanding of "Japanese and Japanese culture" and "foreign languages and foreign culture" which are prerequisite abilities for communication with peoples in different culture and areas. （Abilities and Skills）・The ability and skills to collect and analyze necessary literature or data among various sources of information on individual academic disciplines.
Class Objectives /Class Outline	In this class, students are expected to learn chronologically various authors and their works in English speaking countries through reading some of their passages or watching their film adaptations. They will also learn the historical and cultural backgrounds of British and American societies. In this semester, we will especially focus on the motif of travel, that is, how particular ideas, styles or cultures cross the ocean and influence each other, or how the same kind of movements differ in the UK and the USA, or how each writer tries to reach out to their culturally, ideologically, racially, or socially different "others."
Class Schedule	lesson1: Introduction--Basic information about literatures in English-speaking countries lesson2: Shakespeare and The New World as a Utopia lesson3: American Colonial Period and Religious Writing lesson4: The Emergence of the Novel and Travel Motifs lesson5: Gothic Literature and Exoticism lesson6: Representing Nature in British and American Romanticism lesson7: Tradition of American Romance: Poe, Hawthorne, Melville lesson8: Jane Austin and British Class Society lesson9: The City and the Country in Victorian Novels lesson10: The American Civil War and Fiction of Realism: Mark Twain lesson11: The Contrast of the New and the Old World: Henry James lesson12: Modernism in Britain and America lesson13: The Writers of the Lost Generation after WWI lesson14: Contemporary English Literature as World Literature lesson15: Wrap-up Students are required to take a short review test in the last class and hand in an essay assignment at the end of the semester.
Text/Reference Books,etc.	Handouts are distributed.
PC or AV used in Class,etc.
(More Details)	Handouts, Films, Powerpoint
Learning techniques to be incorporated
Suggestions on Preparation and Review	Students are expected to review the handouts and understand the contents better after the class. A short quiz is based on some major writers and works introduced in class.
Requirements
Grading Method	Students will be evaluated based on class attendance and a final short quiz (50 %) as well as a final Japanese essay about one book they choose among those introduced in class (50 %).
Practical Experience
Summary of Practical Experience and Class Contents based on it
Message
Other
Please fill in the class improvement questionnaire which is carried out on all classes. Instructors will reflect on your feedback and utilize the information for improving their teaching.

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