The online registration for 3rd-year BA tutorials will commence on Friday 31st January at 7.00 pm and will close on Sunday 2nd February at 11.59 pm. In order to register students access the following website: usosweb.uni.lodz.pl.
Each student chooses one course out of four. All of the courses expand on earlier, obligatory classes that everyone had taken.
There are limits to the number of students in the groups. In the case of denied access to the group, please make an alternative choice.
Course descriptions of available courses can be found below:
1. dr hab. Michał Lachman, prof. UŁ,
2. dr Monika Kocot, British Literature 4
The course will look at contemporary British literary texts (poems, short stories, novels and plays) to explore various aspects of (playful) subversion in culture, transgression of generic and aesthetic norms, and the transformative power of “engaged” literature. Although these themes do appear in mainstream literature, they are most often explored by authors representing social, political, and ethnic minorities. That is why we will be reading and discussing texts written in Great Britain (with a particular focus on Scotland), and in former British colonies (Canada, Australia, South Africa). Feel free to join us to discover British literature you have never heard of.
3. dr Joanna Matyjaszczyk, Constructing 'the Other' in English literature (British Literature 1 & 2)
This course explores the construction and deconstruction of "Otherness" in various works of English literature, focusing particularly on medieval and early modern popular literature, as well as Victorian and postmodern fiction. We will examine a range of texts, including popular ballads, romances, short stories, tales, and fragments of plays and novels. Through these works, we will investigate how different literary forms centre their narrative voices, plots, and characters around the figure of the Other and how they engage in the discourses of physical difference and monstrosity, ethnic and religious prejudice, anti-feminism, and witchcraft.
4, dr hab.Anna Cichosz, prof. UŁ, Eald Englisc for beginners (History of English 2)
This course of Old English as a foreign language will cover all the basics of the Old English language, giving students access to simple texts written in this language, and some more advanced literature (with the help of glossaries and dictionaries). You can expect language and translation exercises just like during a regular course of a foreign language, on the basis of online and printed materials, accompanied by presentations on selected aspects of the Anglo-Saxon culture and every day life.