1. Accueil
  2. EN
  3. Studying at ULB
  4. Find your course
  5. UE
GERM-B115

Analyse de textes littéraires anglais I

academic year
2026-2027

Course teacher(s)

Graham RIACH (Coordinator)

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

english

Course content

This course introduces students to analysing prose fiction via the study of anglophone short stories.

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

Students should learn the specialized methodology and vocabulary needed to discuss theme and narrative devices in prose fiction.
Students should show sufficient mastery of English as used in a university context.

Prerequisites and Corequisites

Courses requiring this course

Teaching methods and learning activities

Lectures & tutorials 
 

References, bibliography, and recommended reading

Set texts are posted on the Virtual University at the beginning of the semester.

Course notes

  • Université virtuelle

Contribution to the teaching profile

  • Developing concepts/techniques of literary analysis and interpretation.

  • Learning to develop and structure an analysis/a question.

  • Developing a mastery of literary and scholarly English.

Other information

Contacts

Dr. Graham Riach
e-mail: graham.riach@ulb.be

Mr. Maxime Collignon 
e-mail: maxime.collignon2@ulb.be

Campus

Solbosch

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Oral examination

Oral examination

  • Out-of-session examination
  • Open question with short answer
  • Open question with long development

Examen oral

Mark calculation method (including weighting of intermediary marks)

  • Question ouverte à réponse courte
  • Question ouverte à développement long

The oral examination is with Mr. Maxime Collignon.

N.B.: should a student not succeed in a given academic year (overall grade below 10/20), partial grades for individual questions will not be transferred to the next academic year.

IMPORTANT: Students are prohibited from using Generative Artificial Intelligence for this course’s examinations. If an answer offered during the evaluation process is clearly IAG-based, this will automatically lead to the cancellation of the examination.

Language(s) of evaluation

  • english

Programmes