Odsjek za anglistiku

The course objectives are: to develop students’ skills for critical thinking and writing; to improve language competencies through in-class discussions and written assignments; to enrich the students’ cross-cultural understanding through varied reading assignments; to raise awareness of different Anglophone (British, American, Canadian, Irish and other) literary and cultural traditions; to raise the students’ awareness of academic thinking and writing norms.

Ovaj kolegij ima za cilj upoznati studente sa temeljnim teoretskim i praktičnim (metodološkim) karakteristikama znanstvenog rada, posebice na polju humanističkih znanosti. Posebna se pozornost posvećuje osposobljavanju studenata za samostalni znanstveno – istraživački rad, u koju svrhu krajem godine moraju sami izraditi jedan seminarski rad koji ima sve karakteristike samostalnoga znanstvenog izvješća (rada).

Nastavne jedinice uključuju (ali nisu ograničene na): uvod u metodologiju znanstveno-istraživačkog rada (kvantitativno i kvalitativno istraživanje); prikupljanje podataka (pretraživanje bibliotečne/arhivske građe, rad na terenu, ispitivanja); oblici akademskog diskursa; izrada znanstvenog rada (izvornog vs. preglednog); bibliografija.

Fascinated by contemporary fiction and graphic novels set in the long 19th century? Love watching TV shows and films that deal with the Victorian era? Curious about the ways in which imaginary as well as real Victorians, such as Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Jack the Ripper, Jane Eyre and Ada Lovelace, get adapted on page and screen? Interested in learning more about the Victorian period and the way it gets used and abused in contemporary media? Then Neo-Victorianism is the elective course for you. 

This course aims to give an insight into the development and spread of Neo-Victorianism, roughly defined as the use of elements of Victorian literature and culture in contemporary Anglophone literatures and cultures. It offers an insight into theoretical debates about Neo-Victorianism as a concept on the one hand and as an object of study on the other. It critically analyzes the use of aesthetic and ideological elements of the Victorian era in neo-Victorian literature and audio/visual forms. It aims to raise the students' awareness of the role played by cultural nostalgia in the production of Neo-Victorianism, and to make them understand various links between Neo-Victorianism and postcolonial, postfeminist and postmodern approaches to the literary text. Last but not least, the course examines the transmedial nature of the Neo-Victorian adaptations of the Victorian era.

How do words mean? How do we find them when we need them, and how do we interpret them when we hear them? And how do we know when to understand them literally, and when to 'shift' meaning from literal to contextually implied? Where, and what is meaning? These are just some of the questions that we will adress in this course.

The aim of the course is to introduce students to the key concepts and problems in semantics and pragmatics, and enable them to deal with the problem of meaning in their own (research) work.

The course offers an introduction to the basic concepts and methods in the analysis of natural language meaning through a survey of four major current approaches and their findings: philosophical semantics, descriptive (traditional) semantics, cognitive semantics, and pragmatics. It should help students gain a better grasp of the relation between meaning and thought (concept), and ultimately help them tackle issues related to meaning both in intra- and crosslinguistic work.

This course is designed to introduce you to the theory and practice of foreign language assessment and testing, including:

• the differences between assessment and testing,
• important concepts to consider when developing assessment instruments and tests,
• different kinds of assessments and tests,
• developing test specifications, analysing and editing test items
• putting together reliable, valid, and useful assessment instruments.

This course aims to introduce you to fundamental concepts, problems, and methods in contemporary Discourse Analysis (whether seen as a subdiscipline of applied linguistics or as a method of describing language in use and its social context). You will develop critical language awareness and the skills and affinities to study and analyse various types of discourse.

Furthermore, upon successful course completion, you will be able to:
- Define and critically explain the main concepts in the field (e.g. discourse, discourse analysis, context, contextualization, text, intertextuality, interdiscursivity, multimodality, etc.);
- Describe and evaluate certain discourse-analytic approaches, their tenets, and analytical procedures;
- Individually observe and analyse language in use by adopting some of the contemporary discourse-analytic approaches;
- Conduct a small-scale study in the field of discourse analysis.

The objective of the course is to introduce to the students the basic psycholinguistic concepts and contemporary psycholinguistic theories and research methods and equip them with the skills necessary for critical thinking about psycholinguistic theories.