Syllabus for |
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| LSP530 - Fiction for engineers |
| Skönlitteratur på engelska för ingenjörer |
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| Syllabus adopted 2018-02-21 by Head of Programme (or corresponding) |
| Owner: SPRAK |
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7,5 Credits
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| Grading: TH - Five, Four, Three, Fail |
| Education cycle: First-cycle |
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Department: 62 - COMMUNICATION AND LEARNING IN SCIENCE
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The course is full. For waiting list, please contact coordinator of studies: lena.axelsson@chalmers.se
Teaching language: English
Application code: 99112
Open for exchange students: Yes
Minimum participants: 10
Maximum participants: 30
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In programs
SPRAK Language and communication, Year 1
MTS Humans, Technology, Society, Year 1
TKITE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, Year 2 (elective)
TKITE SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, Year 3 (elective)
Examiner:
Magnus Gustafsson
Go to Course Homepage
Theme:
MTS 7,5 hec
Eligibility:
In order to be eligible for a first cycle course the applicant needs to fulfil the general and specific entry requirements of the programme(s) that has the course included in the study programme.
Course specific prerequisites
Fluent English
Aim
The course aims to promote and enhance the creative and argumentative strengths of engineering students through relatively advanced studies of literature in English. The literature is often inspired by the perspective of engineering as well as science and technology in a broad sense in relation to the surrounding society. The course also introduces alternative ways of thinking and values and the discussion of of the role of art and literature in society.
The course is one of the courses in the MTS cluster and meets the guidelines of the MTS requirements mainly by emphasising different epistemological and ethocal perspectives and different world views and values as they are placed in relief in the course literature and relate to the readers' educational contexts or their future professional contexts. The role and development of technology and science in a broad sense during the 20th and 21st centuries is discussed in novels by authors with a science or technology orientation whose novels tend to set potentially conflicting values against each other. The implicit views of science and technology can be posed against each other in for instance a novel set in a dystopian future or in a novel exploring the advances of modern medicine. Alternatively, the role and function of technology and science in shaping societies or forming social structures is explored via novels from different eras or from different parts of the world. All these seminar discussions are pursued by students and documented in their reflective learning journals. The reflective documentation is subsequently used in assessment.
Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)
Analyse literary text and construct an argumentative interpretation of literature that is meaningful outside the immediate context of the course.
Effectively and appropriately use narratological terminology to promote analysis and interpretation.
Explore ways in which fiction comments on the man-technology-society nexus.
Content
In the course, approximately seven novels or plays and poetry are discussed and compared in a student-oriented seminar. There are also elements of creative writing to inform discussions and analyses. The seminar discussions cover literary schools, narratology, reading strategies, and literary theory.
Organisation
Three-hour-seminars once a week. Some seminars are conducted asynchronously online in pingpong/canvas, adobe connect, or a blog.
Literature
The literature for the fall-run 2017:
Lewis Carroll. Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
Jenny Diski. Only Human
Ian McEwan. Saturday
Jean Rhys. Wide Sargasso Sea
Tom Stoppard. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Jeanette Winterson. The Stone Gods
Additional material, particularly poetry, is distributed during seminars or through the course web site.
All the titles will be ordered at Cremona.
Examination including compulsory elements
Graded assessment (fail, 3-5) based on all the assignments of the course (seminar preparations, journal, and term paper) where the student makes a selection of assignments and presents a learning portfolio for final assessment. An oral exam can be conducted to add or complement it for a higher pass.