E-Learning Guelma

First year Master students at the English Department, University of 8 May 1945-Guelma are exposed to the course of Communication Practices for the second semestre. At this stage, students have already acquired a better understanding of various issues related to communication. The course is meant to enhance and broaden students’ knowledge of topics related to the course. Students are introduced to different theories, principles, and practices of effective human communication, listening, and presentation skills. The course is taught three weeks face-to-face and one week online.  The lectures of this course will be in the form of videos that you will have to watch before class and come ready to discuss them.

This course introduces students to the post WWII literature in the western world, it scrutinizes the historical period as postmodernity and investigates the literary movement englobing this late capitalist context. Students will understand the historical, philosophical and literacy perspectives characterizing the 50s to 90s in both America and Britain. Studying postmodern playfulness of techniques, students will analyze case studies as Vonnegut's SLH5 and Golding's Lord of the Flies . A Multicultural analysis of this literature will be amplified to study minor literature and ethnic perspectives in the postmodern west.