CULTURAS Y LITERATURAS DE HABLA INGLESA
(2012-2013)

rev. 2013-06-14

CONTENTS

Prologue.

Introduction.

TOPICS

  1. New World.
  2. United States.
  3. Canada.
  4. Australasia.
  5. India.
  6. South Africa.

SEMINARS (see below →)

Conclusion.

SEMINARS

  1. Narratives of Encounter (I).
  2. Narratives of Encounter (II).
  3. Narratives of Encounter (III).
  4. Fanaticism and Tolerance.
  5. Enlightenment.
  6. Pioneer Life.
  7. Slavery.
  8. Abolitionism.
  9. Feminism.
  10. Industrialism.
  11. Anarchism.
  12. Passive Resistance.
  13. Modernism vs. Fundamentalism.
  14. Apartheid.
  15. Civil Rights Movement.
  16. Counterculture.
  17. Globalization.
  18. Multiculturalism.

Week 1

Wed., 30 Jan. PROLOGUE

Asignatura obligatoria de 6 créditos en primero del Grado en Estudios Ingleses.

Guía docente.

Horario de mañana.
Horario de tarde.

Exámenes.

Resultados de la evaluación continua.

Comprobar actas en el portal ULL.

Pedro Domínguez Caballero de Rodas
despacho B1-20
tel. (34) 922 31 65 02-6612
pdcrodas@ull.es

Dpto. de Filología Inglesa y Alemana.
Facultad de Filología.
Universidad de La Laguna (España).

Fri., 1 Feb. INTRODUCTION

us Peter Elbow On Writing [transcript | subtitles].
us Milgram's Obedience to Authority Experiment [part 2 | part 3].
us Curiosity: How Evil Are You (2011).
us Asch Conformity Experiment.

Week 2

Tues., 5 Feb.
Wed., 6 Feb. TOPIC 1: NEW WORLD

topic 1

Preliminary questions.

Fri., 8 Feb. TOPIC 2: UNITED STATES

topic 2

Preliminary questions.
us United States (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
us American literature (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Week 3

Tues., 12 Feb.
Wed., 13 Feb. Shrove Tuesday.
Ash Wednesday.

Carnaval 2013

Fri., 15 Feb.

Week 4

Tues., 19 Feb.
Wed., 20 Feb. TOPIC 3: CANADA

topic 3

Preliminary questions.
ca Canada (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
ca Canadian literature (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Fri., 22 Feb. TOPIC 4: AUSTRALASIA

topic 4

Preliminary questions.
au Australia (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
au Australian literature (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
nz New Zealand (Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Week 5

Tues., 26 Feb.
Wed., 27 Feb. TOPIC 5: INDIA

topic 5

Preliminary questions.
in India (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
in Discovery Atlas: India Revealed (2007 documentary) (see also the Spanish version).
es Sacalalengua: Religiones (TVE, 2009-11-25).

Fri., 1 Mar. TOPIC 6: SOUTH AFRICA

topic 6

Preliminary questions.
za South Africa (Encyclopaedia Britannica).
za Discovery Atlas: South Africa Revealed (2007 documentary).
za Afrikaans: Languages of the World: Introductory Overviews (video).
Antonio Fernández: Formación de los imperios coloniales (1984).

Week 6

Tues., 5 Mar.
Wed., 6 Mar. SEMINAR 1: NARRATIVES OF ENCOUNTER (I)

seminar 1

Preliminary questions.
us Arthur Barlowe: The First Voyage Made to the Coasts of America (ca. 1585).

Fri., 8 Mar. SEMINAR 2: NARRATIVES OF ENCOUNTER (II)

seminar 2

Preliminary questions.
ca George Cartwright: Journal of Transactions and Events (1792).
ca Inuit Testimony of the 1845 Franklin Expedition (1921, 1869, 1879).
ca Search for the Northwest Passage (2005 documentary).
uy I Am Alive: Surviving the Andes Plane Crash (2010 documentary).

Week 7

Tues., 12 Mar.
Wed., 13 Mar. SEMINAR 3: NARRATIVES OF ENCOUNTER (III)

seminar 3

Preliminary questions.
au George Worgan: Journal of a First Fleet Surgeon (1788) (see the manuscript journal).
au Watkin Tench: A Complete Account of the Settlement at Port Jackson (1793).

Fri., 15 Mar. SEMINAR 4: FANATICISM AND TOLERANCE

seminar 4

Preliminary questions.
us Roger Williams: The Bloody Tenet of Persecution (1644).
us Cotton Mather: The Wonders of the Invisible World (1693).
us Salem Witch Hunt (2010 film).

Week 8

Tues., 19 Mar.
Wed., 20 Mar. SEMINAR 5: ENLIGHTENMENT

seminar 5

Preliminary questions.
us Thomas Jefferson: Notes on the State of Virginia (1787).
us Thomas Paine: The Age of Reason (1794).
gb An Introduction to Watford Quakers (2007 video).

Fri., 22 Mar. SEMINAR 6: PIONEER LIFE

seminar 6

Preliminary questions.
ca Catharine Parr Traill: The Backwoods of Canada (1836).

Holy Week (25-31 Mar.)

Tues., 26 Mar.
Wed., 27 Mar.

Good Friday.Fri., 29 Mar.

Week 9

Tues., 2 Apr.
Wed., 3 Apr. SEMINAR 7: SLAVERY

seminar 7

Preliminary questions.
us Harriet Jacobs: Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861).

Fri., 5 Apr. SEMINAR 8: ABOLITIONISM

seminar 8

Preliminary questions.
us Henry David Thoreau: Slavery in Massachusetts (1854).

Week 10

Tues., 9 Apr.
Wed., 10 Apr. SEMINAR 9: FEMINISM

seminar 9

Preliminary questions.
us Seneca Falls Declaration (1848).
ca Agnes Maule Machar: The New Ideal of Womanhood (1879).
au Louisa Lawson: That Nonsensical Idea (1890).

Fri., 12 Apr. SEMINAR 10: INDUSTRIALISM

seminar 10

Preliminary questions.
us Herman Melville: The Tartarus of Maids (1855).
us Lowell Mill Girls (video).

Week 11

Tues., 16 Apr.
Wed., 17 Apr. SEMINAR 11: ANARCHISM

seminar 11

Preliminary questions.
us Emma Goldman: Anarchism—What It Really Stands For (1910).
us Emma Goldman: An Exceedingly Dangerous Woman (2003 documentary).

Fri., 19 Apr. SEMINAR 12: PASSIVE RESISTANCE

seminar 12

Preliminary questions.
in Mohandas K. Gandhi: Hind Swaraj = Indian Home Rule (1909).
in Cuando el mundo se tambalea: La India de Ghandi (2008 documentary).

Week 12

Tues., 23 Apr.
Wed., 24 Apr. SEMINAR 13: MODERNISM VS. FUNDAMENTALISM

seminar 13

Preliminary questions.
us Evolution Controversy in North Carolina in the 1920s.
us What if you're wrong? (see the complete talk by Richard Dawkins on his book The God Delusion, 2006).
us Judgment Day: Intelligent Design on Trial (2007).
us Richard Dawkins Interviews Creationist Wendy Wright in The Genius of Charles Darwin (2008).

Fri., 26 Apr. SEMINAR 14: APARTHEID

seminar 14

Preliminary questions.
za Nadine Gordimer: Which New Era Would That Be? (1956).
za 'I benefited from apartheid' T-shirt sparks South African race row (2012).

Week 13

Tues., 30 Apr.
Wed., 1 May May Day.

Fri., 3 May SEMINAR 15: CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

seminar 15

Preliminary questions.
us Thomas Friedman: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.—A Historical Perspective (1994 documentary) (transcription).

Week 14

Tues., 7 May
Wed., 8 May SEMINAR 16: COUNTERCULTURE

seminar 16

Preliminary questions.
us Rachel Meunier: Communal Living in the Late 60s and Early 70s (1994).
us Bob Dylan: Masters Of War (1963).
us Scott McKenzie: San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair) (1967).

Fri., 10 May SEMINAR 17: GLOBALIZATION

seminar 17

Preliminary questions.
us Ted Friedman: The World of the World of Coca-Cola (1992).
us World of Coca-Cola YouTube Channel.
us Coca Cola 1971 Hilltop TV commercial (see also Hilltop Reunion, 1990).
us One, Two, Three (1961 film).
us The Cola Conquest (1998 documentary).
us Don Keough's Speech on Classic Coke (1985).

Week 15

Tues., 14 May
Wed., 15 May SEMINAR 18: MULTICULTURALISM

seminar 18

Preliminary questions.
ca The Canadian Multiculturalism Act (1988).
ca Charles Taylor: The Politics of Recognition (1992).
ca Neil Bissoondath: Selling Illusions (1994).

Fri., 17 May CONCLUSION

Student satisfaction survey.