NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 歐洲文學(一)(5511)
(Eng.) European Literature(I)
Offering Dept Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures
Course Type Elective Credits 3 Teacher ROSE HSIU-LI JUAN
Department Continuing Bachelor Program in Foreign Languages and Literatures(N)Undergraduate Language 中/英文 Semester 2025-FALL
Course Description This is a survey course with a view to bringing out the vibrancy and diversity of the literatures developed in continental Europe. The students will be guided to get acquainted with selected masterpieces through lectures. In addition to participating in discussions about assigned readings and films, the students will also be requested to do in-class presentations on topics of their choice.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
This course aims to develop the students' knowledge and understanding of Europe in terms of its literary, cultural, and intellectual richness. Through studying selected readings and films the students will learn to appreciate and evaluate Europe's contribution to and impact on contemporary world.
Exercises
Discussion
Lecturing
Written Presentation
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Week1(2/24) Preparation Week
Week 2 Week2(3/3) Introduction, Classic literature, film: The Reader《為愛朗讀》)
Week 3 Week3(3/10) Renaissance and Enlightenment; French lit: Balzac巴爾札克, film: The Little Chinese Seamstress《巴爾札克與小裁縫》(Candid)(《包法利夫人》Madame Bovary)(existentialism)
Week 4 Week4(3/17) Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil; (高更紀錄片4/11); global faculty program
Week 5 Week5(3/24): Proust, Remembrance of Things Past; (Hugo, film: The Miserable《悲慘世界》); global faculty program
Week 6 Week6(3/31): German lit: Goethe, Faust《浮士德》. (Goethe! 《少年歌德的煩惱》)(《少年維特的煩惱》,1774)
Week 7 Week7(4/7): 校慶活動補休假
Week 8 Week8(4/14): Brecht布萊希特,The Good Woman of Setzuan
Week 9 Week9(4/21): Kafka, Metamorphosis. Hannah Arendt《漢娜鄂蘭:真理無懼》(Good bye, Lenin!《再見列寧》)(midterm-exam week)
Week 10 Week10(4/28): Russian Lit: Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground《地下室手記》;(Tolstoy托爾斯泰,film: Anna Karenina《安娜‧卡列妮娜》;film: Doctor Zhivago《齊瓦哥醫生》)
Week 11 Week11(5/5): Spanish lit: Cervantes, Don Quixote;
Week 12 Week12 (5/12): Spanish film and arts: cubism, surrealism.
Khan Academy: Introduction to Twentieth-Century Art
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/art-history-basics/Art-1010/v/20-century-art
Khan Academy: Empires before WWI
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/history/euro-hist/world-war-I-tutorial/v/empires-before-world-war-i
Week 13 Week13 (5/19): Italian lit: Pirandello, Six Characters in Search of an Author; (Calvino)
Week 14 Week14 (5/26): Turkish lit: Pamuk, Istanbul; Pamuk, banquet speech, Nobel speech, The Museum of Innocence (Documentary: Intrigue Istanbul《伊斯坦堡傳奇》)
Week 15 Week15 (6/2): Expansion of European powers and literatures. Columbus. James Cook: the Maritime Adventures That Shaped the World (729.6 0427). WWII. (Casablanca. The English Patient. The Piano.)
Week 16 Week16 (6/9): Elie Wisel, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986, 諾貝爾和平獎1986. ( Fateless=非關命運,國資圖DVD 987.83 K81) (紀錄片Shoah) (義大利電影《美麗人生》(La vita è bella,「人生是美好的」)) (西班牙:《烽火樂園》(西班牙版《美麗人生》))。
Week17 (6/16): Presentation of term project. (Opera:華格納,《尼布龍根的指環》;歐洲文學文化共同體)
Week18 (6/23): presentation of term project (final exam week)
self-directed
learning
   02.Viewing multimedia materials related to industry and academia.

Evaluation
學期成績:口頭報告、書面報告、課堂參與各佔1/3.
加分規定:優良發言加分,全勤加分。
請假規定:當週未參與討論,下週補交缺課的報告,未補交報告扣3分。事先獲得同意請假,不扣分,其他每次扣2分。
影視及自我學習2小時折1小時

Textbook & other References
Texts:
Handouts prepared by the instructor.
References:
Puchner, Martin, et al., eds The Norton Anthology of World Literature. New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2012.
Schwanitz, Dietrich. Bildung: Alles Was Wissen Muss (Education: Everything You Must Know,《歐洲:一堂豐富的人文課》). Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag GmbH, 1999.

Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website
個人網頁: http://web.nchu.edu.tw/~rhjuan/




Office Hours
Wed. 1:10-3:00pm or by appointment. Rm1026




Sustainable Development Goals, SDGs(Link URL)
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