Passing the study plan
FF FBAJpH English Language and Literature
Name in Czech: Anglický jazyk a literatura
Bachelor's full-time major, language of instruction: Czech
Included in the programme: FF B-AJ_ English Language and Literature
Bachelor's full-time major, language of instruction: Czech
Included in the programme: FF B-AJ_ English Language and Literature
Study-related information
- Parts of the final state examination and its content1. Written exam from linguistics (a test), English language (a test), literature (an essay) and cultrual studies (an essay).
Linguistics: The test consists of nine parts, each testing the knowledge of one linguistic discipline. First two parts correspond to the compulsory courses, the rest to the compulsory-optional linguistic courses offered at the Department of English and American Studies within the Bc program. Student must answer questions from the first two parts and then chooses questions from two parts out of seven.
English language: The English Proficiency Examination is a written test which lasts 90 minutes and has three sections - reading, use of English, and listening.
Literature: Students have 120 minutes to write an essay in response to one out of six offered discussion questions. The questions are of a more general and comparative character, covering topics from more than one literary courses.
Cultural studies: Students have 120 minutes to write an essay in response to one out of six offered discussion questions. The questions are of a more general and comparative character, covering topics from more than one cultural studies courses.
2. Oral defence of the Bachelor's Thesis (c. 15 minutes), only for students in the major or completus form of the program. It includes a short introduction of the thesis and its main conclusions, student's responses to issues raised in the supervisor's and opponent's reports, and futher discussion.
More details about state exams on the Department website:
https://english.phil.muni.cz/studies/informace-ke-studiu/bachelors-exam - Suggestion of theses topics and the topics of defended thesesThe Evolution of the Skinhead Subculture and its Depiction in Two Selected Movies
Comparative Analysis - Characters in J. D. Salinger's Novels and Short Stories
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita - the Role of the Narrator, his Influence on the Story, the Devices he uses to Create a Narration favorable to his Character
English Renaissance Drama: Playwrights and Collaborative Authorship
English Spoken by Non-native Speakers and the Influence of the Speakers' Mother Tongues
Internal Lexical and Collocability
Recommended progress through the study plan
Společný univerzitní základ (15 kr.)
Bakalářská práce (min. 10 kr.)
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:AJL19800 | Bachelor's Thesis Seminar I | z | 5 | 5 | P |
FF:AJL19801 | Bachelor's Thesis Seminar II | z | 5 | 6 | P |
FF:AJL19850 | Bachelor’s Thesis | z | - | 6 | P |
10 credits |
Compulsory courses
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:AJL01001 | Practical English I | z | 3 | 1 | Z |
FF:AJL01002 | Practical English II | zk | 3 | 2 | Z |
FF:AJL02003 | English Grammar I | z | 3 | 1 | Z |
FF:AJL02004 | English Grammar I (Seminar) | z | 2 | 1 | Z |
FF:AJL02001 | Introduction to Linguistics | zk | 6 | 1 | Z |
FF:AJL02002 | Introduction to Phonetics and Phonology | zk | 6 | 2 | Z |
FF:AJL02005 | English Grammar II (Lecture) | z | 1 | 2 | Z |
FF:AJL02006 | English Grammar II (Seminar) | z | 2 | 2 | Z |
FF:AJL04000 | Introduction to Literary Studies I | zk | 6 | 1 | Z |
FF:AJL04001 | Introduction to Literary Studies I (seminar) | zk | 5 | 1 | Z |
FF:AJL04002 | Introduction to Literary Studies II Lecture | z | 1 | 2 | Z |
FF:AJL04003 | Introduction to Literary Studies II | zk | 5 | 2 | Z |
FF:AJL06001 | Introduction to British Studies I | zk | 3 | 1 | Z |
FF:AJL06002 | Introduction to British Studies II | zk | 3 | 2 | Z |
FF:AJL07001 | Introduction to American Studies I | zk | 3 | 1 | Z |
FF:AJL07002 | Introduction to American Studies: Topics in Culture | zk | 3 | 2 | Z |
FF:AJL11010 | Practical English Exam | zk | - | 4 | P |
FF:AJL11020 | English Language Oral Proficiency Exam | zk | - | - | - |
FF:AJL11501 | Spoken Fluency Practice | zk | 6 | 3 | P |
FF:AJL13001 | Academic Writing | zk | 5 | 3 | P |
FF:AJL19000 | Introduction to Translation | zk | 6 | 4 | P |
72 credits |
Selective courses
Literatura
Britská literatura
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:AJL14101 | English Literature 500-1700: The Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period | zk | 6 | 3 | P |
FF:AJL14102 | English Literature 1700-1830: The Augustans and Romantics | zk | 6 | 4 | P |
FF:AJL14103 | English Literature 1830-1920: The Victorian Age and Modernism | zk | 6 | 5 | P |
FF:AJL14104 | English Literature 1920-2020: Late Modernism and After | zk | 6 | 4 | P |
24 credits |
Americká literatura
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:AJL15101 | American Literature 1: Beginnings-1890 | zk | 6 | 3 | P |
FF:AJL15102 | American Literature 2: 1890-1960 | zk | 6 | 4 | P |
FF:AJL15103 | American Literature 3: 1960-Present | zk | 6 | 5 | P |
18 credits |
Kulturní studia
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:AJL16059 | Post-1945 British Poetry, Culture and Society | zk | 6 | 5 | P |
FF:AJL16064 | Aspects of Modern Irish Literature and Culture | zk | 6 | 4 | P |
FF:AJL16071 | Seventeenth Century Poetry, Thought, and Culture | zk | 6 | 6 | P |
FF:AJL16072 | British Empire and Imperialism: Narratives | zk | 6 | 3 | P |
FF:AJL16073 | The North: Cultural Representations of Northern England, Scotland and Wales | zk | 6 | 6 | P |
FF:AJL16171 | Queer Studies | zk | 6 | 6 | P |
FF:AJL16172 | Contemporary Issues in US and UK Culture and Politics | zk | 6 | 3 | P |
FF:AJL17050 | Ethnography of North American Indigenous Peoples | zk | 6 | 6 | P |
FF:AJL17051 | Introduction to African American History and Culture | zk | 6 | 4 | P |
FF:AJL17053 | Genre Studies: American Science-Fiction Film | zk | 6 | 5 | P |
FF:AJL17057 | Blackness in American Film | zk | 6 | 6 | P |
FF:AJL17059 | American Geographies | zk | 6 | 4 | P |
FF:AJL18083 | Australian literature and culture | zk | 6 | 5 | P |
78 credits |
Lingvistika
Code | Name | Type of Completion | Credits | Term | Profile Cat. |
FF:AJL12070 | Introduction to Sociolinguistics | zk | 6 | 3 | P |
FF:AJL12071 | Introduction to Semantics | zk | 6 | 4 | P |
FF:AJL12102 | Introduction to Functional Syntax | zk | 6 | 5 | P |
FF:AJL12103 | Introduction to Morphology and Lexicology | zk | 6 | 3 | P |
FF:AJL12104 | Introduction to Stylistics | zk | 6 | 4 | P |
30 credits |