| Module Identifier |
EL10820 |
| Module Title |
LANGUAGE, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY IN EUROPE |
| Academic Year |
2003/2004 |
| Co-ordinator |
Professor David A Trotter |
| Semester |
Semester 2 (Taught over 2 semesters) |
| Other staff |
Mr Jose M Goni Perez, Mr Adriano Vincentelli, Dr Winifred V Davies |
| Course delivery |
Lecture | 22 Hours |
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Seminars / Tutorials | 6 Hours |
| Assessment |
| Assessment Type | Assessment Length/Details | Proportion |
|---|
| Semester Exam | 2 Hours written examination (2 essay questions) | 60% |
| Semester Assessment | 2 x 1500 word essays | 40% |
| Supplementary Exam | 2 Hours If no continuous assessment has been submitted, the exam will be 3 hours (3 essays questions) | 100% |
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Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students should be able to
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situate debates on language and identity within a European context
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have some understanding of the significance of such issues in the constitution of both national and European identity
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have an understanding of the relationship between the centre and periphery within the European nation-states examined
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understand the usefulness of a comparative and pan-European approach to issues of this type
Brief description
The module provides an introduction, by a variety of case-studies focused on France, Germany, Italy and Spain, to issues of identity, nationality, and language which have been of central importance to the development of Europe.
The module will explore fundamental conflicts between nationality and `Europeanness?; centre and periphery; regions and nation-states; cultural and historical particularism and a shared European heritage and identity.
It will draw on expertise in the Department and offer students a combination of approaches embedded in specific languages and cultures which they are unlikely to have experienced before. It will ensure that students in European Languages have the opportunity to acquire some understanding of the broader European picture into which their chosen language(s) fit(s). It will provide a non-language-specific general preparation for subsequent study of society, politics, language and culture of all the languages taught in the Department. It will be open to students outside the Department and presupposes no linguistic competence.
The module is deliberately `thin? in order to allow students, over the duration of the module, to assimilate the ideas concerned and to deepen their understanding of the underlying general themes.
Reading Lists
Books
Baranski, Z G & West, R J (2001) The Cambridge companion to modern Italian culture
Cambridge University Press
Barbour, S & Carmichael, C (eds) (2000) Language and Nationalism in Europe
Oxford University Press
Barbour, S & Stevenson, P (1990) Variation in German
Cambridge University Press
Carr, Raymond (2001) Modern Spain 1875-1980
Oxford University Press
Clyne, M (1995) The German Language in a Changing Europe
Cambridge University Press
Elliott, J H Imperial Spain 1469-1716
Penguin
Forgacs, D & Lumley, R (1996) Italian cultural studies: an introduction
Oxford University Press
Hooper, J (1995) The New Spaniards
Penguin (or later edition)
Kurlansky, M The Basque History of the World
Jonathan Cape
Le Roy Ladurie, E (2001) Histoire de France des regions: la peripherie francaise des origines a nos jours
Seuil
Maiden, M (1995) A linguistic history of Italian
Longman
Ross, Christopher J (2000) Spain 1812-1996
Arnold
Sahlins, Peter (1989) Boundaries: the making of France and Spain in the Pyrenees
University of California Press
Stevenson, P (1997) The German-Speaking World
Routledge
Tosi, Arturo (2001) Language and society in a changing Italy
Multilingual Matters
Wesseling, H L (2002) Certain Ideas of France: Essays on French History and Civilization
Greenwood Press
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 4