Sessions will be organized around close reading of the texts. A historical, social and cultural context of nineteenth century America provided in class will reinforce the textual analysis. Texts will be discussed in class, so it is PARAMOUNT for students to have read the texts conscientiously before class sessions. Students are required to PARTICIPATE ACTIVELY in class discussions.

Note: 15 minutes of a class will be reserved, within the timetable established by the centre/title, for the completion by the students of the assessment surveys of the teaching staff's performance and the assessment of the subject.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment is based on:

• Essay (in-class) = 45%
• Exam = 45%
• Class Participation = 10%

Exact dates for all assessment activities will be confirmed at the start of the semester through a course calendar published on Moodle.

Please note:

• The assessment is continuous, unless the student opts for single assessment (see below).
• All the exercises are COMPULSORY.
• Students will obtain a "Not assessed"/"Not submitted" course grade unless they have submitted more than 30% of the assessment items (in this case, either the essay or the exam).
• The student's command of English will be taken into account when marking all exercises and for the final mark. It will count as 25% of this mark for all the exercises.
• On carrying out each assessment activity, lecturers will inform students of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.

SINGLE ASSESSMENT:

The single assessment will consist of an exam with three activities:

• Essay (45%)
• Commentary on a passage (22.5%)
• Comparative analysis exercise (22.5%)

Class participation will count as 10% of the single assessment.

REASSESSMENT CONDITIONS:

• The reassessment exam is a two-hour content-synthesis test scheduled by the Faculty.
• The student must previously have completed two thirds of the exercises in the continuous assessment (in this case, the essay and the exam) or have completed all of the tasks for the single assessment.
• For the single assessment, the same reassessment method as continuous assessment will be used.
• Students whose final average mark is 3,5 or higher can go to reassessment.
• Students who have passed the subject cannot opt for reassessment to improve their final grade.
• There is no limit to the grade that can be obtained through reassessment.
• Class participation (group work, etc) cannot be reassessed.

PLAGIARISM AND MISCONDUCT:

Partial or total plagiarising will immediately result in a FAIL (0) for the plagiarised exercise, which cannot be reassessed. PLAGIARISING consists of copying text from unacknowledged sources -whether this is part of a sentence or a whole text - with theintention of passing it off as the student'sown production. It includes cuttingand pasting from internet sources, presented unmodified in the student's own text. Plagiarising is a SERIOUS OFFENCE. Students must respect authors' intellectual property, always identifying the sources they may use; they must also be responsible for the originality and authenticity of their own texts.

In the event of a student committing any irregularity that may lead to a significant variation in the grade awarded to an assessment activity, the student will be given a zero for this activity, regardless of any disciplinary process that may take place. In the event of several irregularities in assessment activities of the same subject, the student will be given a zero as the final grade for this subject.

Irregularities refer, for instance, to copying in an exam, copying from sources without indiacting authorship, or a misuse of AI such as presenting work as original that has been generated by an AI tool or programme. These evaluation activities will not be re-assessed.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI):

This subject prohibits the use of AI technologies. The use of AI (or any other form of assistance) is not permitted during in-class assessments (exams, quizzes, and group work). The use of AI in any assessed activity will be considered academic dishonesty, and the activity will be awarded a zero and cannot be reassessed. In cases of greater infringement, more serious action may be taken.

Important note for exchange students (Erasmus, etc.) on exams and other tests: Erasmus students who request to bring forward an exam or any other type of assessment activity must present the teacher with an official document from their home university justifying their request.