Rozšiřující studium AJ pro ZŠ

Programme Description

This is a 6-semester programme which contains both lectures and seminars covering the main areas of English and American studies. In Linguistics, there are the following subjects: Introduction to Linguistics, Phonetics and Phonology, Grammar of English, Lexicology, Stylistics, and Syntax. Literature is covered in the subjects of Introduction to Literary Studies, English Literature and Modern English Literature, American Literature and Modern American Literature. Cultural Studies are discussed in History and Culture of Great Britain, and History and Culture of the US. General English is taught in classes of Practical Language (5 semesters in total). There is also a series of Methodology classes and a seminar on Teaching Practice where students are either asked to observe 5 lessons and teach 3 lessons at a basic school; or those who teach English on a regular basis will document their teaching in a teaching journal. Apart from the above mentioned courses at the Department of English, there are also subjects organized by other departments (i.e. “společný základ”). The course finishes with a written final work of at least 30 pages and a state exam.

In general, courses are supported with e-learning tools; the following are examples of other required study materials:

Chalker, Sylvia. A Student's English Grammar: Workbook.
Dontcheva-Navratilova, Olga. Grammatical Structures in English.
Hladký, Josef, and Jan Chovanec. Úvod do Studia Anglického Jazyka.
Podroužková, Lucie. A Reader in British Literature.
Tillotson, Geoffrey. A View of Victorian Literature.
Ur, Penny. A Course in Language Teaching: Practice and Theory.

Year Tutors

The English department offers the system of year tutors to facilitate the communication between the students and the department. The role of the year tutors is to guide students through the sophisticated system of study rules and help them deal with challenges they may face.

Please feel free to contact your year tutor if you have questions. You can find out who your year tutor is by using the table below.

Year Tutors

Recommended Reading for Literature

The reader for AJ2RC_AML1 (Autumn 2012) includes examples from the following:

• Mary Rowlandson: […] The Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson
• Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography; Poor Richard´s Almanack
• St John de Crevecouer: Letters from an American Farmer (Letter 3)
• Philip Freneau: poetry
• Phillis Wheatley: poetry
• J. F. Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans
• H.D. Thoreau: "Walking"
• Herman Melville: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale
• E.A. Poe: short story and poetry
• H.W. Longfellow: poetry
• Spirituals.
• Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• Kate Chopin: short story
• Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
• Paul Dunbar: poetry
• Emily Dickinson: poetry
• Walt Whitman: poetry
• William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying
• Hemingway: Fiesta
• Steinbeck: The Grapes of Wrath
• Langston Hughes: poetry
• Carl Sandburg: modern fairy tales

The reader is available at the beginning of the semester, upon registration in the course. Full versions of the texts can be accessed online (younger works might still be protected by copyright).

Students are required to read two full length novels by the end of the semester, one from the 19th century and one from the first half of the 20th century. They can choose from the following:

19th Century: J. F. Cooper: The Last of the Mohicans; Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter; Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom´s Cabin; Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; Kate Chopin: The Awakening.

20th Century: Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie; William Faulkner: As I Lay Dying; Ernest Hemingway: Fiesta; Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby; John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men.

Basic information about American literature can be found in Kathryn VanSpanckeren: Outline of American Literature (2006), chapters 1 to 6. Go to http://www.america.gov/publications/books/outline-of-american-literature.html. Scroll to the bottom!

Methodology Courses

Below you can see an overview of what students of the Rozšiřující studium AJ pro ZŠ programme can expect from each semester of Methodology and their Teaching Practice at our department.

You can find all necessary documents for your teaching practice at the Teaching Practice page.

State Exams

See more information at the page on State Exams - Rozšiřující studium AJ pro ZŠ.

Final Work

When choosing a topic for the final work, students should choose a topic covered by one of the classes offered in this study programme. Students should then look at the topics suggested by members of our department in IS (under Packages of Topics, under Student) and select a supervisor to contact and work out the details of their cooperation with.

No matter what the topic, the theses must be written in English.

The final version of the work needs to have between 75,000 and 100,000 characters, which translates to approximately 30 - 40 pages (not including figures and appendices). The deadline for submission (uploading the thesis into the archive in IS) is four weeks before the final state exam. Two printed copies must follow soon after.

Evaluation of the thesis will be given based upon a rubric for evaluation. Students should refer to the General Guidelines for Writing Theses, as well as the Sectional Instructions for Theses for those writing on topics in either Linguistics or Literature.