6 ECTS credits
180 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 1005579AER for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (A) Bachelor - preliminary level.

Semester
1st and 2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Possible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculty of Languages & Humanities
Department
Linguistics and Literary Studies
Educational team
Stefan Clappaert
Hans Vandevoorde (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
26 contact hours Lecture
26 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
50 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

This course provides an overview of Dutch literature from the Middle Ages to the present.

 

 
Course material
Course text (Required) : Geschiedenis van de Nederlandstalige letterkunde, Middeleeuwen tot 1850, Vervaeck - Vandevoorde, VUB, 2220170010168, 2023
Digital course material (Required) : Ppts, Canvas
Digital course material (Required) : Reader, Canvas
Course text (Required) : Schrijven met stijl, Oefeningen in schrijfvaardigheid, Rovers - van Zoggel - Verhees - Clappaert, VUB, 2220170010021, 2023
Additional info

This course is taught in Dutch. 
A syllabus and a bundle of digital texts (Canvas) must be prepared for the lecture course. Slides on Canvas support the course guide.

There is also a course guide for the excercies, Schrijven met stijl, which explains the basic principles for writing about literature

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

- Students know texts of the Dutch literary Canon from the Middle ages till the beginning of modern literature.

Students can situate texts with attention to other art- and cultural shapes as to contextual factors as economics, religion and worldview

Students gain insight in the diversity of Dutch literary works, based on period, genre, style, …

- Students can explain things as ‘allegorie’, ‘epiek’,

Students can find secondary literature and write an analysis in which they prove that they can discuss texts and relate to the origin of texts.

- Students can evaluate the literary value of texts.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
Other determines 30% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Oral Examination with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 70% of the final mark.

    Note: Oral examination with written preparation (min. 15 minutes). Students will not be able to pass the exam if they do not have a thorough command of standard Dutch. The written preparation serves as no more than an aid for the students. They will be asked to submit the unaltered preparation at the end of the exam, but this document will not be accorded a grade.

Within the Other category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Permanent evaluation with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

    Note: Only for the second examination period the permanent evaluation can be replaced by a written task.

Additional info regarding evaluation

Oral examination on the lecture course (70% of the marks) and continuous assessment (30% of the marks).

For the second examination period all tasks for the exercises and the permanent evaluation must be handed in before 31 of July. 

A study guide provided by the lecturer at the start of the semester clarifies the assessment in a binding fashion.
 

 
Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Bachelor of Philosophy and Moral Sciences: default (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: Standaard traject (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: Minor Minor Human Sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of History: minor Social Sciences (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-English (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-French (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Italian (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-Spanish (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and Literary Studies: Dutch-German (only offered in Dutch)
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-English
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-German
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-French
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-Italian
Bachelor of Linguistics and LiteraryStudies: Dutch-Spanish
Master of Interpreting: 1 main language
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literary Studies: one language - TTK (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literary Studies: two languages (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literary Studies: one language (only offered in Dutch)
Preparatory Programme Master of Arts in Linguistics and Literary Studies: one language - after third lng (only offered in Dutch)