Program Overview

Program Details

The University of Copenhagen offers a course titled "Analytical Seminar" (HLVK03851U) as part of its Literature Studies program.

Course Description

The course trains students in theoretically informed analysis of literary texts, focusing on identifying questions raised by a given text through its unique literary devices and selecting theoretical texts to help answer or explore these questions. The course is divided into three thematic blocks: style, narratology, and topos.

• The style block focuses on the literary text's stylistic features, covering topics such as tropes and figures, syntax, vocabulary, and rhythm.
• The narratology block deals with the text's narrative conditions and dramaturgy, touching on subjects like voice, focalization, unnatural narrators, and plot.
• The topos block concentrates on topology, intertextuality, motif history, and analysis.

Teaching Methods

The teaching consists of lectures providing an overview of selected methodological and theoretical questions within each thematic block, and workshops where the focus is on the students' active analytical work with literary texts. Fixed working forms in the seminars include collective close reading and discussion of mini-writing exercises.

Workload

The workload is distributed as follows:

• Lectures: 24 hours
• Preparation (estimated): 276 hours
• Seminars: 36 hours
• Examination: 84 hours
• Total: 420 hours

Feedback

Students receive feedback in several forms:

• Ongoing feedback during the teaching process
• Feedback at the final examination (beyond the grade)
• Peer feedback (students giving each other feedback)

Enrollment and Examination

• Enrollment is through the self-service system on KUnet.
• The examination is a 15 ECTS point oral exam, with all aids allowed except Generative AI, and no external censorship.

Course Information

• Language: Danish
• Course code: HLVK03851U
• Points: 15 ECTS
• Level: Master's
• Duration: 1 semester
• Placement: Autumn semester
• Study board: Study Board for Art and Cultural Studies
• Offering institute: Department of Arts and Cultural Studies
• Offering faculty: The Faculty of Humanities
• Course responsible: Lilian Munk Rösing and Tue Andersen Nexø
• Teachers: Lilian Munk Rösing and Tue Andersen Nexø

Capacity and Timetable

• Course capacity: 40 students
• Timetable: Available through the university's scheduling system, with seminars A and B listed under "LIT Analyseseminar".