Civilisations of the Target Language (ENGLISH)

08 May 1945 Guelma University

Academic Year 2023/2024

COURSE SYLLABUS

Module: English Civilizations                         Teacher: Dr. ABDELKRIM DEKHAKHENA

Level: First Year (LICENCE I )                          Email: dekhakhena.abdelkrim@univ-guelma.dz

Groups: All

SEMESTER: 01

BRITISH CIVILIZATION

 

Teaching Unit: Discovery

Credits: 02

Coefficient: 02

 

General Course Objectives: The main objective of this course is to provide the students with

basic knowledge of various aspects of British civilization looked through its historical and modern development. The final objective is to Improve students’ knowledge of the English language through British life and history.

Course Aims and Outcomes

The aim of the course is to introduce students to British civilization such as institutions, attitudes, aspects of social, cultural and everyday life, and also improve the students' language skills.

The course provides an introduction to a wide range of aspects of contemporary Britain, including topics such as country and people, politics and government, education, the economy, the media, women and minorities, arts and religion.

By the end of this semester students will be able to:

• Get the information about the history, language, society and culture;

• Be acquainted with the different aspects of culture, social and philosophical movements;

• Be acquainted with achievements in the field of art, architecture and science;

• Be ready to transmit this knowledge;

• Develop the necessary skills to locate and organize information about the British culture and civilization;

• Increase students' intellectual curiosity about British culture and its people.

 

Prerequisite

- General knowledge of different civilizations and cultures

Subject Contents

The United Kingdom (overview).

The Earliest Settlers of Britain. Iberians/Celts/Romans.

The Nordic Invasions.

The Anglo-Saxons and The Vikings.

The Norman Conquest.

The Middle Ages. Tudors. Stuarts

Assessment

50% - 50% (Written exams and continuous Assessment)

· Exam: 50%

· TD: Classwork (behaviour + participation + quiz + attendance) + Homework (assignment): 50%

 

 

Sources and references

Simon Schama, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC – 1603 AD (2000)

Peter Salway, Roman Britain: a very short introduction (Oxford UP, 2015).

Copeland, Tim (2014). Life in a Roman Legionary Fortress. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 14.

Gerald Harriss, Shaping the Nation: England 1360-1461 (New Oxford History of England) (2005).

J. Steven Watson, The Reign of George III, 1760-1815 (Oxford History of England) (1960) online free to borrow.

Gerard O'Brien, "The Grattan Mystique." Eighteenth-Century Ireland/Iris an dá chultúr (1986): 177-194 online.

Patrick M. Geoghegan, The Irish Act of Union: a study in high politics, 1798-1801 (Gill & Macmillan, 1999).

J. M. Thompson, Napoleon Bonaparte: His rise and fall (1951) pp 235-40

R.E. Foster, Wellington and Waterloo: The Duke, the Battle and Posterity 1815-2015(2014)

Jeremy Black, The War of 1812 in the Age of Napoleon (2009)

E.L. Woodward, The Age of Reform 1815-1870 (1938) online free

Boyd Hilton, A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783-1846 (New Oxford History of England, 2008).

Kenneth Baker, "George IV: A Sketch," History Today 2005 55(10): 30–36.

Brock, Michael "William IV (1765–1837)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, (2004) doi :10.1093/ref:odnb/29451

Jeremy Black, A military history of Britain: from 1775 to the present (2008), pp. 74–77