Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Faculty of Letters
Study Guide
CONTENTS
The Deans Message
Part 1
Faculty Mission and History
Management & Structure
Part 2
Specialisations
Postgraduate (MA) Curricula
Course Descriptions
General and Romanian Linguistics
Romanian Language, Literature and Civilisation
Romanian Literature and Literary Hermeneutics
World and Comparative Literature
American Studies
Applied Linguistics Teaching EFL
Francophone Studies
Teaching French as a Foreign Language and Intercultural Education
German Culture in the European Context
English Language, Literature and Civilisation
French Language, Literature and Civilisation
Italian Language, Literature and Civilisation
Spanish Language, Literature and Civilisation
Classical languages, Literatures and Civilisations
Russian and Polish Languages, Literatures and Civilisations
Translation and Terminology
Techniques of Editorial Production
The Doctoral School
Part 3
Romanian Language Courses for Foreign Students
Erasmus Intensive Romanian Language Courses
Summer School Romania Language and Civilisation
Other Romanian Language Courses
Part 4
Erasmus Information
Part 5
Other Useful Information
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The Faculty of Letters is one of the founding faculties in Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, the
oldest higher education institution in Romania. During its long existence, it has made a name
for itself in the expertise of teaching generations of students. At the same time our teachers
efforts have had a share in our students high academic national and international
achievements.
If until not long ago, our graduates were qualified to hold mainly teaching positions, nowadays
our educational offer is set up to meet the demands and challenges of a changing world:
students may also choose to become journalists, specialists in communication sciences,
translators or interpreters, researchers in the philological field.
Many students make a choice of Letters because they have always had a liking for philological
sciences; others have strong doubts about it and just give it a try. Most of them choose to stay
because they have known from the very beginning they will make it to the end, others find out
they can do it and decide to continue their studies. The Faculty of Letters offers equal chances
to students keen on reading, linguistic research, journalism or translations, in other words to all
those who believe that the Romanian school, culture and civilisation need humanists
passionately fond of their profession and our inspiring traditions. Our goal is to equip you with
both the skills and self-confidence to begin your journey.
We truly hope that by reviewing these expectations, you will commit yourselves to the values of
our culture and to the academic mission of our Faculty and University.
Part
1
Faculty Mission and
History
Secretary Office
contact data:
Phone: +40 232 201052,
+40 232 201053
Fax: +40 232 201152
admlit@uaic.ro
http://letters.uaic.ro
Our Aim:
Prepare students for future careers such as: teachers in pre- and higher
education, researchers in the philological field, as well as specialists in
journalism and communication sciences, translation and interpreting.
Historical References
1860 (26 Oct)
1864
1867
1897
1905
1907
1918 (1 Dec.)
1925
1926
1960
1964
1974
1989
Inauguration of the University of Iasi - Foundation of the Faculty of Letters the first
Faculty of the University - Department of Classical (Latin) and Romanian
Literature
New law of education passed, university reorganised - Faculty of Letters and
Philosophy
Department of Romanian Literature and History
Inauguration of the New University Palace (present location)
Department of History of Greek Literature
Department of Romanian Philology
Department of History of French Literature
Department of Slavonic Languages
Department of German Studies
The Great Union of Romania
Department of English Language and Literature
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Department of Literary Criticism and Aesthetics
Lectorates for Foreign Languages are introduced
Department of World Literature
Department of Romanian Language for Foreign Students
Department of Journalism and Communication Sciences
Department of Comparative Literature and Cultural Anthropology
Management &
Structure
Dean: tefan Avdanei, Professor PhD
Vice-Dean: Lacramioara Dorina
Petrescu, Professor PhD
Vice-Dean: Dan Stoica, Associate
Professor PhD
Chancellor: Ioan Constantin Lihaciu,
Associate Professor PhD
Administrative Director: Bogdan
Constantinovici, Economist
Head Secretary: Doina Popescu
Departments
1. Department of Romanian Language and Literature and Comparative Literature
(Director: Mihaela Cernauti-Gorodetchi, Professor PhD):
Romanian Language and General Linguistics (Head: Alexandru Gafton, Professor PhD)
Romanian Language for Foreign Students (Head: Radu Rotaru, Associate Professor PhD)
Slavic Language and Literature (Head: Leonte Ivanov, Associate Professor PhD)
Classical languages, Italian and Spanish (Head: Mihaela Paraschiv, Associate Professor PhD)
Part
2
Programmes, Curricula & Course Descriptions
Undergraduate (BA) programmes:
I. Language and Literature
II.
III.
IV.
V.
Romanian Language and Literature (A) + Foreign Language and Literature (English, French,
German, Russian, Spanish, Italian) (B)
English Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (French, German, Russian,
Spanish, Italian) (B)
French Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (English, German, Russian,
Spanish, Italian) (B)
German Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (English, French, Russian,
Spanish, Italian) (B)
Italian Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (English, French, German,
Russian, Spanish) (B)
Spanish Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (English, French, German,
Russian, Italian) (B)
Russian Language (A) + Romanian Language or Foreign Language (English, French, German,
Italian, Spanish) (B)
Classical Languages (A) + Foreign Language (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) (B)
Comparative Literature (A) + Foreign Language (English, French, German, Italian, Spanish) (B)
2
2
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
1
MLB0931
MLB0932
MLB0933
MLB0934
MLB0935
MLB0941
MLB0942
MLB0943
MLB0944
MLB0945
Course title
General and Applied Linguistics
Linguistic Interferences and Contacts
Persuasive Strategies in the Political and Journalistic Discourse
Sociolinguistics
Onomastics and Toponymy
Morphosyntax of the Old Romanian Language
Lexical Semantics
Pragmatics
Ethnolinguistics
Present-day Psycholinguistics
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
1
2
2
2
2
9
6
14
1
1
1
1
1
5
6
6
6
6
6
28
28
14
28
14
14
28
28
28
28
238
14
14
28
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
154
42
42
42
42
28
28
42
42
42
42
392
30
30
60
1
1
1
1
10
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
14
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
Course
code
6
6
6
6
6
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
2
2
2
2
2
10
14
4
14
30
1
1
1
1
6
6
6
6
6
4
30
28
28
28
28
28
24
24
24
24
24
260
14
14
14
14
12
12
12
12
104
42
42
42
42
28
36
36
36
36
24
364
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
2
2
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
1
6
6
6
6
6
2
2
1
2
2
9
6
14
MCR0931
MCR0932
MCR0933
MCR0934
MCR0935
MCR0941
MCR0942
MCR0943
MCR0944
MCR0945
Course title
A Synthesis of Eminescu's Work
Literary Trends and Theories
Romanian Ideas and Attitudes in the History of Culture
Communication Theories and Practices
Onomastics and Toponymy
The Poetics and Hermeneutics of the Short Story
Research Practice (preparing the dissertation thesis)
Special Languages
The Technique of Scientific Research
Sociolinguistics and Ethnolinguistics
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
6
6
6
6
6
28
28
14
28
14
28
28
14
28
28
238
14
14
28
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
154
Total
42
42
42
42
28
42
42
28
42
42
392
30
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
2
2
2
2
2
ECTS
1
3
1
3
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
1
1
1
10
14
30
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
Course
code
1
1
1
1
1
5
Number of hours
2
5
14
1
2
6
6
6
6
6
Number of hours
C
28
28
28
28
28
24
0
12
0
24
200
14
0
14
14
14
12
0
0
0
36
12
36
68
84
Total
42
28
42
42
42
36
36
24
36
24
352
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
7
30
30
60
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
6
6
6
6
2
8
MLT0931
MLT0932
MLT0933
MLT0934
MLT0935
MLT0941
MLT0942
MLT0943
MLT0944
MLT0945
Course title
A Synthesis of Eminescu's Work
Literary Trends and Theories
The Art of Criticism
The Poetics and Hermeneutics of the Short Story
Research Practice (preparing the dissertation thesis)
A Synthesis of Eminescu's Work
National, European, Universal
Romanian Fantastic Prose
Romanian Ideas and Attitudes in the History of Culture
Research Practice (preparing the dissertation thesis)
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
1
1
1
1
6
6
6
6
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
14
224
112
14
2
2
30
Total
28
28
56
42
42
42
42
42
42
42
42
28
28
392
30
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
14
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
Course
code
2
2
2
2
Number of hours
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
2
2
Number of hours
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
28
28
28
28
14
14
14
14
42
42
42
42
6
6
6
6
6
24
24
24
12
12
12
6
6
6
6
184
92
36
36
36
24
300
24
24
Total
Total
ECTS
14
14
30
30
54
Course
code
MLC0931
MLC0932
MLC0933
MLC0934
MLC0935
MLC0941
MLC0942
MLC0943
MLC0944
MLC0945
Course title
Comparative Literature (III)
Comparative Literature (IV)
World Literature (III)
Literary Anthropology
Literary Hermeneutics
Comparative Literature (III)
World Literature (III)
Literary Anthropology
The Study of Mythology and Compared Folklore (II)
Poetics
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
Number of hours
C
28
14
28
14
14
28
14
28
14
28
210
28
14
28
14
14
28
14
28
14
0
182
Total
56
28
56
28
28
56
28
56
28
28
392
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
Number of hours
C
28
14
28
14
28
24
24
12
12
12
196
14
14
28
14
14
24
24
12
12
12
168
Total
42
28
56
28
42
48
48
24
24
24
364
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
Course code
MSA0811
MSA0812
MSA0813
MSA0814
MSA0815
MSA0821
MSA0822
MSA0823
MSA0824
MSA0825
Course title
American Studies: "Old and New" Paradigms
Multicultural Perspectives
Critical Thinking - Literary Thinking
American Linguistics
Cultural Contact Zones
American Studies: "Old and New" Paradigms
Multicultural Perspectives
Critical Thinking - Literary Thinking
American Linguistics
Cultural Contact Areas
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
CURRICULUM
2
2
2
2
1
2
MSA0931
MSA0932
MSA0933
MSA0934
MSA0935
MSA0941
MSA0942
MSA0943
MSA0944
MSA0945
Course title
Critical Thinking - Literary Thinking
Philosophical and Political Thinking
Arts
Regionalism
Mass Media
Critical Thinking - Literary Thinking
Philosophical and Political Thinking
Arts
Regionalism
Research (preparing the dissertation thesis)
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
2
2
2
2
1
9
ECTS
1
2
1
1
5
6
6
6
6
6
0
28
28
28
28
0
28
28
28
28
14
238
14
28
0
14
28
14
28
0
14
14
154
30
Total
42
56
28
42
28
42
56
28
42
28
392
30
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
2
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
2
1
14
14
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
Course code
6
6
6
6
6
1
2
ECTS
Number of hours
ECTS
Number of hours
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
14
1
2
2
1
1
2
2
1
2
2
6
6
6
6
6
28
14
14
28
14
12
24
24
12
0
170
14
14
28
28
14
12
24
24
12
0
170
Total
24
24
42
28
42
56
28
24
48
48
24
24
364
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
14
30
30
60
Course
code
MDE0811
MDE0812
MDE0813
MDE0814
MDE0815
MDE0821
MDE0822
MDE0823
MDE0824
MDE0825
Course title
Theories and Approaches to TEFL
Acquisition and Learning
Linguistics for EFL Teachers I
The Role of Literature in ELT
Teaching Practice I
Evaluation and Testing
EFL Methodology
The Management of Educational Organisations (from Teacher Training Module II)
Linguistics for EFL Teachers II
School Experience II
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
CURRICULUM
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
1
1
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
MDE0931
MDE0932
MDE0933
MDE0934
MDE0935
MDE0941
MDE0942
MDE0943
MDE0944
MDE0945
Course title
Assessing, Creating and Adapting Materials in ELT
Teaching English with Technology
Research Methods for English Language Teachers
New Developments in ELT Methodology (from Teacher Training Module II)
Teaching Practice (from Teacher Training Module II)
A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Second Language Acquisition
Classroom Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
Learning English in EU
Teaching Strategies
Research and preparation for the MA conference paper (advising and feedback) and for the
dissertation thesis
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
2
2
2
2
8
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
1
1
1
1
14
2
2
Total
28
28
28
14
14
28
28
28
28
0
224
14
14
14
14
0
14
14
14
14
0
112
0
0
0
0
28
0
0
0
0
28
56
42
42
42
28
42
42
42
42
42
28
392
30
30
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
2
1
2
2
1
1
1
1
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
2
2
2
2
1
1
1
1
14
Number of hours
ECTS
6
6
6
6
2
Total
ECTS
14
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
Course
code
Number of hours
C
Total
Total
ECTS
28
14
28
28
0
24
24
24
24
14
14
14
14
0
12
12
12
12
0
0
0
0
42
0
0
0
0
42
28
42
42
42
36
36
36
36
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
24
24
194
104
66
364
14
30
30
60
Course code
MSF0811
MSF0812
MSF0813
MSF0814
MSF0815
MSF0821
MSF0822
MSF0823
MSF0824
MSF0825
Course title
Contemporary French Literature
Varieties of French
Belgian Literature
Romanian Writers of French Expression
20th Century Linguistic Theories
Contemporary French Literature
Varieties of French
Canadian Literature
Swiss Literature
Theories of Drama and Theatre
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
Course code
MSF0931
MSF0932
MSF0933
MSF0934
MSF0935
MSF0941
MSF0942
MSF0943
MSF0944
MSF0945
Course title
Methodology of Literary Criticism
Discourse Pragamatics
Practicals
Media Techniques
Research Techniques
Contemporary Linguistic Theories
Methodology of Literary Criticism
African French Literature
Practicals
Research Techniques
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
CURRICULUM
Number of hours
C
14
14
28
28
28
14
14
28
28
28
224
14
14
0
0
0
14
14
0
0
0
56
Total
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
280
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
Number of hours
C
14
28
0
28
0
24
12
24
0
0
130
14
0
28
0
28
0
12
0
24
24
130
Total
28
28
28
28
28
24
24
24
24
24
260
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
Course code
MDF0931
MDF0932
MDF0933
MDF0934
MDF0935
MDF0941
MDF0942
MDF0943
MDF0944
Course title
Early Learning of a Foreign Language
FLE Teacher's Tools
Creation of a Multimedia Project
Evaluation Techniques
Corpus Analysis
Teaching Practice
Cultural Practice
Documentary Research
Research (preparing the dissertation thesis)
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
Number of hours
C
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
28
280
14
14
14
0
14
14
14
14
0
14
112
Total
42
42
42
28
42
42
42
42
28
42
392
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
Number of hours
C
28
28
28
28
28
0
0
24
0
164
14
14
14
0
14
48
48
28
84
60
156
Total
42
42
42
28
42
48
48
52
60
404
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
9
9
60
Course code
MGE0811
MGE0812
MGE0813
MGE0814
MGE0815
MGE0821
MGE0822
MGE0823
MGE0824
MGE0825
Course title
Central-European Literature in German
German Literature from a Comparative Perspective (Authors, Genres, Trends)
Literature and Culture. Aesthetics and Poetics
German Schools of Philosophy and Hermeneutics
Literary Translations: Art and Technique
Language and Culture. Semantics and Pragmatics
German Culture in Romania
German Literature from a Comparative Perspective (Authors, Genres, Trends)
Literary Translations: Art and Technique
Socio-Philosophical Thinking
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
Course code
MGE0931
MGE0932
MGE0933
MGE0934
MGE0935
MGE0941
MGE0942
MGE0943
MGE0944
MGE0945
Course title
German Literature from a Comparative Perspective (Authors, Genres, Trends)
Language, Religion and Culture in the Roman-German Middle Ages
Literary Translations: Art and Technique
Germany After 1945: the Constitutional and Political System
The Methodology of Cultural Studies
German Literature from a Comparative Perspective (Authors, Genres, Trends)
Language, Religion and Culture in the Roman-German Middle Ages
Literature and Other Arts
Translations Terminology
The Mass Media: Newspapers, Radio and Television in Germany, Austria and
Switzerland
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
7
14
Number of hours
C
28
14
28
28
28
28
14
14
28
28
238
28
14
Total
56
28
28
28
56
28
28
28
56
56
392
28
14
14
28
28
154
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
Number of hours
C
14
14
28
28
14
24
12
12
24
14
28
28
14
14
12
24
12
12
Total
Total
ECTS
28
42
56
42
28
36
36
24
36
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
24
12
36
194
170
364
14
30
30
60
Course code
MCEN0811,MCFR0811,
MCCL0811, MCIT0811,
MCEN0812,MCFR0812,
MCCL0812, MCIT0812,
CURRICULUM
Course title
MCGE0811, MCRU0811,
MCSP0811
MCGE0812, MCRU0812,
MCSP0812
UI 1*
Foreign Language: Morphosyntax and Language Semantics
Issues
Evolution of Literature: Diachrony of Forms and Genres
Number of hours
C
Total
Total
ECTS
28
14
14
56
28
14
14
56
28
14
42
28
14
42
UI 2
MCEN0813,MCFR0813,
MCCL0813, MCIT0813,
MCEN0814,MCFR0814,
MCCL0814, MCIT0814,
MCGE0813, MCRU0813,
MCSP0813
MCGE0814, MCRU0814,
MCSP0814
MCEN0821,MCFR0821,
MCCL0821, MCIT0821,
MCEN0822,MCFR0822,
MCCL0822, MCIT0822,
MCGE0821, MCRU0821,
MCSP0821
MCGE0822, MCRU0822,
MCSP0822
28
14
14
56
28
14
14
56
28
14
42
42
UI 2
MCEN0823,MCFR0823,
MCCL0823, MCIT0823,
MCEN0824,MCFR0824,
MCCL0824, MCIT0824,
MCGE0823, MCRU0823,
MCSP0823
MCGE0824, MCRU0824,
MCSP0824
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
1
4
14
7
2
30
Course title
28
14
224
112
56
392
14
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
Course code
2
8
30
60
Number of hours
C
Total
Total
ECTS
UI 1*
MCEN0931,MCFR0931,
MCCL0931, MCIT0931,
MCEN0932,MCFR0932,
MCCL0932, MCIT0932,
MCGE0931, MCRU0931,
MCSP0931
MCGE0932, MCRU0932,
MCSP0932
28
14
14
56
28
14
14
56
UI 2
MCEN0933,MCFR0933,
MCCL0933, MCIT0933,
MCEN0934,MCFR0934,
MCCL0934, MCIT0934,
MCGE0933, MCRU0933,
MCSP0933
MCGE0934, MCRU0934,
MCSP0934
28
14
42
28
14
42
UI 1*
MCEN0941,MCFR0941,
MCCL0941, MCIT0941,
MCEN0942,MCFR0942,
MCCL0942, MCIT0942,
MCGE0941, MCRU0941,
MCSP0941
MCGE0942, MCRU0942,
MCSP0942
24
12
12
48
24
12
12
48
UI 2
MCEN0943,MCFR0943,
MCCL0943, MCIT0943,
MCEN0944,MCFR0944,
MCCL0944, MCIT0944,
MCGE0943, MCRU0943,
MCSP0943
MCGE0944, MCRU0944,
MCSP0944
24
12
36
24
12
36
208
104
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
14
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
Students with a double specialisation will attend only Unit 1 (UI 1)
The seminar activity and practical work will be permanently assessed for the whole duration of the semester
The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
52
364
14
30
30
60
Course
code
MTR0811
MTR0812
MTR0813
MTR0814
MTR0815
MTR0821
MTR0822
MTR0823
MTR0824
MTR0825
Course title
Translation Studies
Terminology
Practice in Specialized Translation
Practice in Specialized Translation
Computer-Assisted Translation
Translation Studies
Terminology
Practice in Specialized Translation
Practice in Specialized Translation
Practical Training
CURRICULUM
2
2
2
2
EN
FR
ECTS
2
2
2
6
6
6
6
6
14
Course title
Translation Studies
Terminology
Practice in Specialized
Practice in Specialized
Practical Training
Translation Studies
Terminology
Practice in Specialized
Practice in Specialized
European Institutions
14
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
Total
28
28
0
0
0
28
28
0
0
0
112
28
28
0
0
0
28
28
0
0
0
112
0
0
28
28
28
0
0
28
28
28
168
56
56
28
28
28
56
56
28
28
28
392
2
2
2
2
ECTS
2
2
2
6
6
6
6
6
14
4
30
2
2
Translation EN
Translation FR
4
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
Total
ECTS
30
2
2
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
EN-English; FR=French
*The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
2
2
2
6
30
Translation EN
Translation FR
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
2
2
EN
FR
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
MTR0931
MTR0932
MTR0933
MTR0934
MTR0935
MTR0941
MTR0942
MTR0943
MTR0944
MTR0945
2
2
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
Course
code
Number of hours
14
2
2
2
6
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
Number of hours
C
Total
28
28
0
0
0
24
24
0
0
0
104
28
28
0
0
0
24
24
0
0
0
104
0
0
28
28
28
0
0
24
24
24
156
56
56
28
28
28
48
48
24
24
24
364
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
30
2
1
1
1
1
2
2
2
2
MJR0931
MJR0932
MJR0933
MJR0934
MJR0935
MJR0941
MJR0942
MJR0943
MJR0944
MJR0945
Course title
Geopolitics
Creativity in Advertising
Multimedia
The Practice of Public Relations*
Introduction to the Editorial System
Journalists and Writers
Interactive Media - Cyberculture
Multimedia
The Practice of Public Relations*
Introduction to the Editorial System
TOTAL HOURS/WEEK
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
During the 4 semesters, students will practice in at least two different public institutions.
The defence of the disseration is credited with 5 ECTS.
C=course, S=seminar, P=practicals
2
1
1
1
2
2
1
5
2
7
2
5
14
6
6
6
6
6
28
14
14
14
0
28
14
14
0
14
140
14
28
28
28
0
14
28
28
0
28
196
30
Total
42
42
42
42
28
42
42
42
28
42
392
28
28
0
56
30
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
60
2
2
2
1
2
2
1
14
TOTAL ECTS/SEMESTER
Course
code
6
6
6
6
6
Number of hours
ECTS
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
14
2
2
2
1
2
1
7
1
4
2
1
6
6
6
6
6
Number of hours
C
Total
28
28
28
0
14
24
24
24
0
12
182
14
28
0
0
14
12
24
0
0
12
104
0
0
28
14
0
0
0
24
12
0
78
42
56
56
14
28
36
48
48
12
24
364
Total
ECTS
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
6
14
30
30
60
Teaching methods: lecture, presentations, discussions and work on text editions, seminar project paper, reviews
on text editions
Assessment methods: mixed (ongoing evaluation, project work, seminar participation)
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: The Dynamycs of Morphosyntax
Course code: MLB0813
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Luminia Cruu
Course objective: Provide students with the relevant features of the lexico-grammatical classes; grammatical
categories specific to each part of speech.
Course contents: Morphosyntax of the noun, adjective, pronoun, numeral, verb, adverb and interjection.
Recommended reading: Gramatica limbii romne, vol 1, Cuvntul, vol al 2-lea, Enunul, Editura Academiei,
Bucureti, 2005; Guu-Romalo, Valeria, Sintaxa limbii romne. Probleme i interpretri, Editura didactic i
pedagogic, Bucureti, 1973; Hoar Lzrescu, Luminia, Probleme de sintax a limbii romne, Editura Cermi, Iai,
1999; Hoar Lzrescu, Luminia, Sinonimia i omonimia gramatical n limba romn, Editura Cermi, Iai, 1999;
Hoar Cruu, Luminia, Dinamica morfosintaxei i pragmaticii limbii romne actuale, Editura Cermi, 2007
Teaching methods: lecture
Assessment methods: examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Principles and Techniques of the Linguistic Analysis
Course code: MLB0814
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Eugen Munteanu
Course objective: Thorough study of the main concepts and distinctions of the text linguistics; acquire and
practice the skills to interprete and analyze biblical texts from a historical, philological, linguistic perspective.
Course contents: 1. The theory of texts of Coseriu. Inter- and intratextual comparison 2. The biblical text, ideal
for the diachronic and comparative study of language evolution. 3. Central moments of the Romanian biblical
tradition. 4. The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the phonetic level. 5 The historical dynamics of the
literary norms at the morphological level. 6. The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the semantic and
lexical levels. 7. The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the phraseological level. 8 The historical dynamics
of the literary norms at the syntactic level.
Recommended reading: Eugenio Coseriu, Textlinguistik. Eine Einfhrung, Franke, Tbingen/ Basel, 1994; Eugen
Coeriu, Lingvistic din perspectiv spaial i antropologic. Trei studii, tiina, Chiinu, 1994; Eugen Coeriu,
Sincronie, diacronie i istorie. Problema schimbrii lingvistice, Editura Enciclopedic, Bucureti, 1997; Eugen
Munteanu, Lexicologie biblic romneasc, Humanitas, Bucureti, 2006; *** Monumenta linguae Dacoromanorum
Biblia 1688, vol. I, Iai, 1988
Teaching methods: lecture, exercise, debate
Assessment methods: seminar participation, final written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: The Dynamics of the Vocabulary
Course code: MLB0815
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
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Recommended reading: Chomsky, Noam, Cunoaterea limbii, Bucureti, Editura tiinific,1996; Coseriu,
Eugenio, Lhomme et son language, Louvain-Paris, dition Peeters, 2001; Coseriu, Eugenio, Teoria limbajului i
lingvistica general. Cinci studii, Bucureti, Editura Enciclopedic, 2004; Lyons, John, Introducere n lingvistica
teoretic, Bucureti, Editura tiinific, 1995; Moeschler, Jacques i Auchlin, Antoine, Introducere n lingvistica
contemporan, Cluj, Editura Echinox, 2005
Teaching methods: lecture, text analysis, seminar project work
Assessment methods: examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Linguistic Interferences and Contacts
Course code: MLB0932
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ioan Lobiuc
Course objective: Initiate and familiarize students with one of the most important existing fertile fields of
research in todays world linguistics.
Course contents: History of the subject; description of the fundamental concepts and types of linguistic contacts;
linguistic interferences; contacts of the Romanian language with other idioms.
Recommended reading: Coeriu, E., Lingvistica din perspectiv spaial i antropologic, Chiinu, 1994; Lobiuc,
I., Contactele dintre limbi, I, Iai, 1998, Casa Editorial Demiurg, Iai, 2004; Mackey, W. Fr., Bilinguisme et contact
des langues, d. Klincksieck, Paris, 1976; Sala, Marius, Limbi n contact, Bucureti, 1997; Weinreich, U., Languages
in contact, Haga-Paris, 1953, 1963
Teaching methods: lecture, euristic conversation
Assessment methods: mixed (written and oral examination, seminar project work, ongoing evaluation)
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Persuasive Strategies in the Political and Journalistic Discourse
Course code: MLB0933
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ioan Milic
Course objective: Help students acquire and apply theoretical and methodological elements of pragmatics and
text linguistics.
Course contents: Central themes in the research of the political and journalistic discourse: the linguistic act,
between objectivity and subjectivity; the linguistic imaginary; the repeated discourse and the wooden language;
clichs and discourse innovations in publicity; the strategies of the sensational; the strategies of the manipulation;
types of pragmatic-stylistic markers recurring in the two types of discourse.
Recommended reading: Cesereanu, Ruxandra, 2003, Imaginarul violent al romnilor, Editura Humanitas,
Bucureti; Ionescu-Ruxndoiu, Liliana, 2003, Limbaj i comunicare. Elemente de pragmatic lingvistic, Editura All
Educational, Bucureti; Rad, Ilie (coord.), 2007, Stil i limbaj n mass-media din Romnia, Editura Polirom, Iai;
Zafiu, Rodica, 2004, Diversitate stilistic n romna actual, Editura Universitii din Bucureti; Zafiu, Rodica, 2007,
Limbaj i politic, Editura Universitii din Bucureti
Teaching methods: problem-solving, debate, text analysis, team work
Assessment methods: mixed (ongoing evaluation 50% + term paper 50%)
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Sociolinguistics
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Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Constantin Frncu, Ana Maria Minu
Course objective: The study of the morphologic and syntactic levels in the hierarchy of the old Romanian
language system
Course contents: Successive development stages of the morphologic and syntactic norms between 1532 - 1780;
the classification of morphological and syntactic aspects in two tendencies: the tendency of simplification,
reduction of contrasts, which is economically motivated, and the tendency to extension, clarification of expression;
the analysis of the syntactic phenomena according to internal or external factors; the emergence and definition of
over-dialectal literary norms.
Recommended reading: Constantin Frncu, Conjunctivul romnesc i raporturile lui cu alte moduri, Casa
Editorial Demiurg, Iai, 2000; Alexandru Gafton, Evoluia limbii romne prin traduceri biblice din secolul al XVI-lea,
Editura Universitii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iai, 2001; Ion Gheie (coordonator), Istoria limbii romne literare.
Epoca veche (1532-1780), Editura academiei Romne, Bucureti, 1997; Ana-Maria Minu, Morfosintaxa verbului n
limba romn veche, Editura Universitii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iai, 2002; tefan Munteanu, Vasile ra, Istoria
limbii romne literare. Privire general, Editura Didactic i Pedagogic, Bucureti, 1983
Teaching methods: interactive lecture, text analysis, debate
Assessment methods: mixed (written examination 50% + term project work 50%)
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Lexical Semantics
Course code: MLB0942
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Eugen Munteanu
Course objective: Provide students with the main concepts and distinctions in the lexical semantics. Develop and
train students skills and techniques of correctly analyzing the semantic level of languages.
Course contents: 1. General semantics. 2. Theoretical orientations in the lexical semantics. 3. Fundamental
concepts and distinctions; sense, reference, designation. 4. The structure of a language vocabulary. 4. The
semantic definition of the word. 5. The syntagmatic analysis of lexemes. 6. The paradigmatic analysis of lexemes.
7. The analysis of the components. 8. The principles of Coserius functional semantics: the functionalist principle,
the principle of opposition, the systematicity principle, the principle of neutralization. 8. The semantic changes.
Coserius diachronic semantics. Ethymology. 9. Phenomena of semantic interlinguistic transfer: lexical borrowing,
semantic borrowing or lexical calque of the signified. 10. Perspectives. The cognitive semantics. Semantics and
informatics, possible interferences.
Recommended reading: Bidu-Vrnceanu, Angela/ Forscu, Narcisa, Modele de structurare semantic. Cu
aplicaii la limba romn, Timioara, 1984; Buc, Marin/ Evseev, Ivan, Probleme de semasiologie, Timioara, 1976;
Coseriu, Eugenio, Einfhrung in die strukturelle Betractung des Wortschatzes, Tbingen, 1970; Coeriu, Eugen,
Simbol, semn, cuvnt, tom. XXXIX (1993), sec. 3-lingvistic, p. 5-22; Coeriu, Eugen, Semantica cognitiv i
semantica structural, n vol. Eugen Coeriu, Prelegeri i conferine (19921993), Iai, 1994, p. 8399; ineanu,
L., ncercare asupra semasiologiei romne. Studii istorice despre tranziiunea sensurilor, Bucureti, 1887
Teaching methods: lecture, debate, exercise
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, final written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Pragmatics
Course code: MLB0943
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
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Recommended reading: Croft, William, D. Alan Cruise, 2005, Cognitive linguistics, Cambridge University Press,
London; Evans, Vyvyan, Melanie Green, 2006, Cognitive linguistics: An introduction, Edinburgh University Press;
Pinker, Steven, 2007, The stuff of thought, Penguin Books; Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana, 1999, Psiholingvistica. O tiin
a comunicrii, Editura All, Bucureti; Stockwell, Peter, 2002, Cognitive Poetics: An Introduction, Routledge, London
Teaching methods: problem-solving and debate, team work
Assessment methods: mixed (written examination 60% + term project work 40%)
Language of instruction: Romanian
ROMANIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CIVILISATION
1ST YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: Literary Poetics and Hermeneutics
Course code: MCR0811
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Constantin Pricop
Course objective: Familiarize students with a wide range of critical approaches to the literary work.
Course contents: The objective of literary studies: an interpretation of the text. Important moments in the
history of text interpretation. Significant trends in the literary research during the last decades. Contemporary
criticism. New ways of understanding the literary work. Trends in criticism during the last decades. Poetics, semiotics
and semiology in the literary research. Opportunities offered by the new methods. Textual analysis and cultural
analysis. Literary hermeneutics vs. semiotics and semiology. The current standing of hermeneutics as a subject of
interpretation. Literary hermeneutics, a permanently replenishing subject.
Recommended reading: Ren Wellek, Istoria criticii literare moderne, vol. 1-4, Editura Univers, Bucureti, 19741979; Hans-Georg Gadamer, Adevr i metod, Editura Teora, Bucureti, 2001; Constantin Pricop, Marginea i
centrul, Editura Cartea romneasc, Bucureti, 1990; M. Bahtin, Probleme de literatur i estetic, Editura Univers,
Bucureti, 1982; M. Bahtin, Metoda formal n tiina literaturii, Editura Univers, Bucureti, 1992
Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving, text analysis
Assessment methods: written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Modernist and Avant-garde Romanian Poetry
Course code: MCR0812
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Emanuela Ilie
Course objective: The study of the Romanian poetry, the modern and modernist discourse, the avant-garde
poetry. Define the stylistics of modernism, in the wide range of its manifestations. Trends, programmes,
representatives, great authors. Develop students competence to compare and analyze the different types of poetic
visions. Reexamine traditional text interpretations; identify the particularity specific to the poetic language.
Course contents: Modern, modernism, modernity. Literary modernism and other types of modernism. Trends in the
poetry of the European literature in the 20th century, modernization of the poetic form. Aspects of the Romanian
literary modernism. Avant-garde. Phases of the Romanian avant-garde. Expressionism. Futurism. Dadaism.
Constructivism. Surrealism. Extentions of the avant-garde. Neomodernism.
Recommended reading: Matei Clinescu, Cinci fee ale modernitii, Editura Univers, Bucureti, 1995; Hugo
Friedrich, Structura liricii moderne de la mijlocul secolului al XIX-lea pn la mijlocul secolului al XX-lea, Editura
pentru Literatur Universal, Bucureti, 1969; Ovidiu Morar, Avangardismul romnesc, Editura Fundaiei Culturale
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Romne Ideea European, 2005; Ion Pop, Avangarda n literatura romn, Editura Minerva, Bucureti, 1990;
Marcel Raymond, De la Baudelaire la suprarealism, Editura Univers, Bucureti, 1970
Teaching methods: lecture, debate, discussions, case study, problem-solving, text analysis
Assessment methods: term project work, examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: The Dynamics of Morphosyntax
Course code: MCR0813
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Luminia Cruu
Course objective: Provide students with the relevant features of the lexico-grammatical classes; grammatical
categories specific to each part of speech.
Course contents: Morphosyntax of the noun, adjective, pronoun, numeral, verb, adverb and interjection.
Recommended reading: Gramatica limbii romne, vol 1, Cuvntul, vol al 2-lea, Enunul, Editura Academiei,
Bucureti, 2005; Guu-Romalo, Valeria, Sintaxa limbii romne. Probleme i interpretri, Editura didactic i
pedagogic, Bucureti, 1973; Hoar Lzrescu, Luminia, Probleme de sintax a limbii romne, Editura Cermi, Iai,
1999; Hoar Lzrescu, Luminia, Sinonimia i omonimia gramatical n limba romn, Editura Cermi, Iai, 1999;
Hoar Cruu, Luminia, Dinamica morfosintaxei i pragmaticii limbii romne actuale, Editura Cermi, 2007
Teaching methods: lecture
Assessment methods: examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: General and Applied Linguistics
Course code: MCR0814
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Eugen Munteanu
Course objective: Thorough study of the main concepts and distinctions in the text linguistics. Develop and train
students skills to interprete and analyze the biblical text from a historical, philological, linguistic perspective.
Course contents: 2. Theoretical orientations in the lexical semantics. 3. Fundamental concepts and distinctions;
sense, reference, designation. 4. The structure of a language vocabulary. 4. The semantic definition of the word. 5.
The syntagmatic analysis of lexemes. 6. The paradigmatic analysis of lexemes. 7. The analysis of the components.
8. The principles of Coserius functional semantics: the functionalist principle, the principle of opposition, the
systematicity principle, the principle of neutralization. 8. The semantic changes. Coserius diachronic semantics.
Ethymology. 9. Phenomena of semantic interlinguistic transfer: lexical borrowing, semantic borrowing or lexical
calque of the signified. 10. Perspectives. The cognitive semantics. Semantics and informatics, possible
interferences.
Course contents: 1. Coserius theory of the text. Inter- and intratextual comparison 2. The biblical text, an ideal
source for the diachronic and comparative study on the evolution of a language. 3. Decisive moments of the
Romanian biblical tradition. 4. The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the phonetic level. 5 The historical
dynamics of the literary norms at the morphological level. 6. The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the
semantic and lexical level semantic. 7. The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the phraseological level. 8
The historical dynamics of the literary norms at the syntactic level.
Recommended reading: Eugenio Coseriu, Textlinguistik. Eine Einfhrung, Franke, Tbingen / Basel, 1994;
Eugen Coeriu, Lingvistic din perspectiv spaial i antropologic. Trei studii, tiina, Chiinu, 1994; Eugen
Coeriu, Sincronie, diacronie i istorie. Problema schimbrii lingvistice, Editura Enciclopedic, Bucureti, 1997;
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Eugen Munteanu, Lexicologie biblic romneasc, Humanitas, Bucureti, 2006; *** Monumenta linguae
Dacoromanorum Biblia 1688, Iai, 1988
Teaching methods: lecture, exercise, debate
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, final written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Luminia Cruu
Course objective: Students knowledge of the meaning of discourse and talk-in-interaction notions; various
trends in talk-in-interaction analysis; the main concepts lying at the bottom of the ethnomethodological model in
the conversation analysis: adjacency pairs, repairs, pre-sequences etc.
Course contents: Definition of conversation; the conversation rules; trends in talk-in-interaction analysis;
discourse analysis vs conversation analysis; conversation analysis; ethnomethodological model; conversation
organization; adjacency pairs; repairs; pre- sequences; pragmatic markers; classification of pragmatic markers;
discourse markers; classification of discourse markers.
Recommended reading: Moeschler, J., Reboul, Anne, Dicionar enciclopedic de pragmatic, Editura Echinox,
Cluj, 1999; Hoar Cruu, Luminia, Elemente de analiz a structurii conversaiei , Editura Cermi, Iai, 2003;
Ionescu-Ruxndoiu, Liliana, Conversaia. Structuri i strategii, Editura All Educational, Bucureti, 1999; IonescuRuxndoiu, Liliana, Limbaj i comunicare. Elemente de pragmatic lingvistic, Editura All Educational, 2003; Hoar
Cruu, Luminia, Teorii i practici ale comunicrii, Editura Cermi, Iai, 2008
Teaching methods: lecture
Assessment methods: examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Diachronic Linguistics
Course code: MCR0825
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Alexandru Gafton
Course objective: Thorough study of the language evolution. Develop ways of thinking and evaluating from the
diachronic evolutive perspective.
Course contents: a) Diachronic linguistics. A study subject, the necessity of its study, related fields, the main
Schools. b) Research methods in diachronic linguistics. Principles of historical phonetics and linguistic geography;
phonetical evolution; the concept of phonetic law. Problems raised by the dynamics of the norms.
Recommended reading: Gafton Al., Hipercorectitudinea, Iai, 2000; Grammont M., Trait de phontique, Paris,
1933; Meillet A., Linguistique historique et linguistique gnrale, Paris, 1926; Philippide A., Opere alese, Bucureti,
1984; specialized journals (AA, ALIL, AUB, AUI, AUT, BIFR, DR, GS, LR, SCL)
Teaching methods: interactive lecture, debate, text analysis, problem-solving, discussions
Assessment methods: mixed (seminar participations, term project work, written examination)
Language of instruction: Romanian
2ND YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: A Synthesis of Eminescus Work
Course code: MCR0931
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Doru Scrltescu
Course objective: Comprehensive study of Eminescus work within the national and European context; exercise
students skills to analyze the poetic language.
Course contents: Eminescu between ordinary and extraordinary. Eminescu and Junimea. His published works.
The romantic style of Eminescu's writing. His great poems published during his lifetime. His great poems published
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posthumously. Fiction. Dramas. The cultural horizon. Eminescu and religion. Politics and (publicistic) literature.
Eminescu and his descendants.
Recommended reading: G. Clinescu, Opera lui Mihai Eminescu, vol. I-IV, Ed. Minerva, 1985; Rosa Del Conte,
Eminescu sau despre Absolut, Ed. Dacia, Cluj, 1990; I. Negoiescu, Poezia lui Eminescu, Ed. Dacia, Cluj-Napoca,
1995; Ioana Em. Petrescu, Eminescu poet tragic, Ed. Junimea, Iai, 2001; Iulian Costache, Eminescu. Negocierea
unei idei, Ed. Cartea Romneasc, Bucureti, 2008
Teaching methods: lecture, problem-solving, debate, text analysis
Assessment methods: seminar participations, written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Literary Trends and Theories
Course code: MCR0932
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Grigore ugui
Course objective: Strengthen students knowledge on the main literary trends, laying emphasis on the aesthetic
doctrines.
Course contents: Preliminary notions. Classicism: literary doctrine, literary art. Baroque in literature.
Romanticism: its dominants; universes and lyrical structures. Realism and naturalism. Symbolism; symbolist poetry.
Avant-garde trends: Dadaism, surrealism. Postmodernism: doctrine elements; the Romanian postmodernism.
Recommended reading: Aristotel, Poetica, Ed. Academiei, Bucureti, 1965; Arte poetice. Romantismul., Ed.
Univers, Bucureti, 1982; Ren Wellek, Conceptele criticii, Ed. Univers, Bucureti, 1970; Ph. von Tieghem, Marile
doctrine literare n Frana, Ed. Univers, Bucureti, 1972; Mario de Micheli, Avangarda artistic a secolului XX, Ed.
Meridiane, Bucureti, 1968
Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving, text analysis
Assessment methods: seminar participations, written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Romanian Ideas and Attitudes in the History of Culture
Course code: MCR0933
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Constantin Pricop
Course objective: Presentation of literary cultural ideas characteristic to the Romanian cultural space.
Course contents: The critical spirit (The evolution of the general critical spirit. The critical spirit in the Romanian
culture: Ibrileanu, Lovinescu. The evolution of the Romanian literary criticism. From general criticism and culture to
the aesthetic criticism). Literary history and literary criticism in the Romanian cultural space. Criticism and value
(Vianus contributions to the study of the value concept. The idea of value in the Romanian cultural context). National
specificity (The general evolution of the concept. Viewpoints on the specificity issue: the German model, the French
model. The evolution of the specificity issue in the Romanian culture). Modernism vs. Postmodernism.
Recommended reading: Clinescu, G., Istoria literaturii romne. De la origini pn n prezent, Editura Minerva,
Bucureti, 1982; Clinescu, G., Principii de estetic, E.P.L., Bucureti, 1968 ; Ibrileanu, G., Spiritul critic n cultura
romneasc, Viaa romneasc, Iai, 1922; Lovinescu, E., Istoria literaturii romne contemporane (1900 - 1937), n
Scrieri 6, Editura Minerva, 1975; Constantin Pricop, Seducia ideologiilor i luciditatea criticii. Privire asupra criticii
literare romneti din perioada interbelic, Editura Integral, Bucureti, 1999
Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving, text analysis
Assessment methods: written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
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Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Lcrmioara Petrescu
Course objective: The analysis of the short narrative forms in the Romanian literature of the 19th and 20th
centuries.
Course contents: The Romanian fiction in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The
characteristics of the short genre. Fiction forms: the literary physiology, the sketch story, the short story, the
novella. Stylistic-thematic registers: romanticism, realism, fantastic. The poetics of the novella and its relation to
the other short narrative forms. Novella vs. novel. Time and space in the novella fiction. Characters. Authors to be
studied: C. Negruzzi, Ion Ghica, I. Heliade-Rdulescu, M. Eminescu, I. L. Caragiale, I. Creang, I. Slavici, Gala
Galaction, V. Voiculescu.
Recommended reading: Al. Clinescu, Caragiale sau vrsta modern a literaturii, Editura Albatros, Bucureti,
1976; Paul Cornea, Originile romantismului romnesc, Editura Minerva, Bucureti, 1972; Sergiu Pavel Dan, Proza
fantastic romneasc, Minerva, Bucureti, 1975; Vasile Popovici, Eu, personajul, Editura Cartea Romneasc,
Bucureti, 1988; Eugen Simion, Proza lui Eminescu, Editura pentru Literatur, Bucureti, 1964
Teaching methods: lecture, debate
Assessment methods: term project work, written and oral examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Special Languages
Course code: MCR0943
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ioan Milic
Course objective: Exercise students skills to analyze and interprete the specificity of social-professional varieties
of the present-day Romanian language.
Course contents: Outlook on the genesis and development of special languages: the most important senses of
the special language concept; criteria to classify special languages; the status of special languages related to the
language system, the norm and the linguistic act; the functional expressive individuality of special languages
(practice on argots).
Recommended reading: Coeriu, Eugeniu, 2004, Teoria limbajului i lingvistica general. Cinci studii, Editura
Enciclopedic, Bucureti; Gennep, Arnold, van, 1908, Essai dune thorie des langues spciales in Revue des
tudes Etnographiques et Sociologiques, no. 6-7, June July 1908, Librairie Paul Geuthner, Paris, p. 327 338;
Sluanschi, Dan, 1971, Studiul vocabularelor speciale (Probleme de metod), in Studii i cercetri lingvistice, no.
6, p. 587-593; Ursu, N.A., 1962, Formarea terminologiei tiinifice romneti, Editura tiinific, Bucureti;
Vendryes, J., 1939, Le Langage. Introduction linguistique a lhistoire, ditions Albin Michel
Teaching methods: problem-solving, team work, field research
Assessment methods: mixed (written and oral examination 60% + individual field research 40%)
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: The Technique of Scientific Research
Course code: MCR0944
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Alexandru Gafton
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Course objective: Theoretical approach of the knowledge previously acquired during the following courses:
Introduction to Philology, Romanian Cyrillic Paleography and History of the Romanian Language. Practical approach
to learning techniques of editing texts in order for students to acquire abilities to provide text editions. Beside a
good command of language and theoretical knowledge necessary to a text editor, students will finally be familiar to
the philological labour of editing texts, having already acquired the practical skills and knowledge necessary to a
good text editor. The main objective focuses on practice, i.e. the capacity and quality level of producing texts.
Course contents: 1. Presentation of the subject; 2. Texts, text criticism and the technique of text editions. 3.
Problems concerning the scientific research. 4. Types of writings and their structure.
Recommended reading: Keraval P., Le langage crit, ses origines, son dveloppement et son mcanisme
intellectuel, Paris, 1897; Oprea Ioan, Introducere n filologie, Suceava, 2000 ; Philippide A., Opere alese, Bucureti,
1984 ; different editions of old texts (BB, CB, CS, CV, MOXA, Ps.S.); various scientific papers (dictionaries,
monographies etc.)
Teaching methods: lecture, presentation, problem-solving, discussions, practice in writing scientific papers
Assessment methods: mixed (ongoing evaluation, individual project work, practical activity)
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Sociolinguistics and Ethnolinguistics
Course code: MCR0945
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Mircea Ciubotaru
Course objective: Integrate students knowledge on the history of language, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics,
semantics and stylistics into a diachronic and comparative approach of the Romanian language in relation with the
culture and civilisation of the Romanian people.
Course contents: 1. The field of ethnolinguistics. Its relationships with ethnology, sociolinguistics and
dialectology. The Dacian civilisation, the Romanization, ruralization and christianization of Dacia. Linguistic
evidence. 2-3. Onomasiologic fields, terminology and idioms in ethnolinguistics. The Middle Ages and the Modern
Ages. 4-5. Social and administrative structures and rapports. 6. Family and kinship. 7-8. Time. Calendar customs.
9. Medicina Popular medicine. Culinary practice. 10. The folk costume, styles and garments. The daily life. 11-12.
Ethnical identity and alterity. Perception of foreigners. Comparative linguistic perspectives.
Recommended reading: Eugen Coeriu, Socio- i etnolingvistica. Bazele i sarcinile lor, n vol. Lingvistic din
perspectiv spaial i antropologic, Chiinu, 1994; Stelian Dumistrcel, Pn-n pnzele albe. Expresii romneti,
Iai, 2001; Lazr ineanu, ncercare asupra semasiologiei limbei romne, Bucureti, 1887; Zamfira Mihail,
Etimologia n perspectiv etnolingvistic, Bucureti, 2000; * * * Instituii feudale din rile romne. Dicionar,
Bucureti, 1988
Teaching methods: lecture, text analysis
Assessment methods: seminar project work, examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
ROMANIAN LITERATURE AND LITERARY HERMENEUTICS
1ST YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: Literary Poetics and Hermeneutics
Course code: MLT0811
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Constantin Pricop
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Course objective: Familiarize students with various critical approaches to the literary work.
Course contents: The objective of literary studies: an interpretation of the text. Important moments in the
history of text interpretation. Significant trends in the literary research during the last decades. Contemporary
criticism. New ways of understanding the literary work. Trends in criticism during the last decades. Poetics, semiotics
and semiology in the literary research. Opportunities offered by the new methods. Textual analysis and cultural
analysis. Literary hermeneutics vs. semiotics and semiology. The current standing of hermeneutics as a subject of
interpretation. Literary hermeneutics, a permanently replenishing subject.
Recommended reading: Ren Wellek, Istoria criticii literare moderne, vol. 1-4, Ed. Univers, Bucureti, 1974-1979;
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Adevr i metod, E. Teora, Bucureti, 2001; Constantin Pricop, Marginea i centrul, Ed.
Cartea romneasc, Bucureti, 1990; M. Bahtin, Probleme de literatur i estetic, Ed. Univers, Bucureti, 1982; M.
Bahtin, Metoda formal n tiina literaturii, Ed. Univers, Bucureti, 1992
Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving, text analysis
Assessment methods: written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Modernist and Postmodernist Romanian Fiction
Course code: MLT0812
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Antonio Patra
Course objective: Provide students with notions of aesthetics, history and literary critics for an adequate
comprehension of the analyzed works.
Course contents: Description of the ideological context which incurs the emergence of literary-aesthetic doctrines
and trends specific to modernism / postmodernism; analysis of the representative works of Camil Petrescu,
Blecher, Mateiu Caragiale, Urmuz, tefan Agopian, Mircea Nedelciu, Mircea Crtrescu, Radu Aldulescu and others.
Recommended reading: Nicolae Manolescu, Arca lui Noe, Ed. Gramar, 1999; Radu G. eposu, Viaa i opiniile
personajelor, Ed. Cartea Romneasc, 1983; Nicolae Balot, Romanul romnesc n secolul XX, Ed. Viitorul
Romnesc, 1997; Liviu Petrescu, Poetica postmodernismului, Ed. Paralela 45, 1997; Mircea Crtrescu,
Postmodernismul romnesc, Humanitas, 1999
Teaching methods: lecture, problem-solving, debate, text analysis
Assessment methods: written and oral examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Modernist and Avant-garde Romanian poetry
Course code: MLT0813
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Nicolae Creu
Course objective: Thorough study of the modernist, avant-garde and postmodernist Romanian poetry;
strengthen students skills to analyze, interprete, evaluate and rank the works of the prominent writers in the field.
Course contents: Key-concepts: modernism, avant-garde, postmodernism and their distinct implications in
poetry. Representative authors in the period between the two World Wars: Bacovia, Blaga, Arghezi, Ion Barbu and
others. The historical avant-garde and its extensions: Vinea, Tzara, Voronca, Fundoianu, Gellu Naum, Virgil
Mazilescu and others. Resurrection of the ballad: Doina, R. Stanca. A recluse: E. Botta. Modernist and
postmodernist authors after the two World Wars: Stnescu, Sorescu, I. Mlncioiu, C. Ivnescu, M. Dinescu, M.
Ursachi, E. Brumaru, I. Murean, M. Crtrescu, . Foar, Ioan Es. Pop and others. Analyses and evaluations in
the European and world contexts.
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Recommended reading: Hugo Friedrich, Structura liricii moderne; Adrian Marino, Modern, modernitate,
modernism; Matei Clinescu, Conceptul modern de poezie; Nicolae Manolescu, Despre poezie; Dan C. Mihilescu,
ntrebrile poeziei
Teaching methods: lecture, debate, exercises, problem-solving
Assessment methods: seminar participation, term project work, written and oral examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
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Recommended reading: Aristotel, Poetica, Editura Academiei, Bucureti, 1965; Arte poetice. Romantismul.,
Editura Univers, Bucureti, 1982; Ren Wellek, Conceptele criticii, Editura Univers, Bucureti, 1970; Ph. von
Tieghem, Marile doctrine literare n Frana, Editura Univers, Bucureti, 1972; Mario de Micheli, Avangarda artistic
a secolului XX, Editura Meridiane, Bucureti, 1968
Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving, text analysis
Assessment methods: seminar participation, written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: The Art of Criticism
Course code: MLT0933
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Lcrmioara Petrescu
Course objective: the analysis of the critical discourse
Course contents: Literary criticism: institutionalized form of reception. Defining relations among the literary work
and the critical text. Schools of criticism. Trends in interpretation. Hypostases and methodological options of the
critical act. The structuralism and poststructuralism (a short history, its development).
Recommended reading: G. Clinescu, Tehnica criticii i a istoriei literare, n Principii de estetic, EPL, 1968;
Albert Thibaudet, Fiziologia criticii. Pagini de critic i de istorie literar, EPLU, Bucureti, 1966; Romul Munteanu,
Metamorfozele criticii europene, Editura Univers, Bucureti, 1988; Jean-Yves Tadi, La Critique littraire au XXe
sicle, Pierre Belfond, 1987
Teaching methods: lecture, debate
Assessment methods: term project work, written and oral examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: The Poetics and Hermeneutics of the Short Story
Course code: MLT0934
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Lcrmioara Petrescu
Course objective: The analysis of the short narrative forms in the Romanian literature of the 19th and 20th
centuries.
Course contents: The Romanian fiction in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. The
characteristics of the short genre. Fiction forms: the literary physiology, the sketch story, the short story, the
novella. Stylistic-thematic registers: romanticism, realism, fantastic. The poetics of the novella and its relation to
the other short narrative forms. Novella vs. novel. Time and space in the novella fiction. Characters. Authors to be
studied: C. Negruzzi, Ion Ghica, I. Heliade-Rdulescu, M. Eminescu, I. L. Caragiale, I. Creang, I. Slavici, Gala
Galaction, V. Voiculescu.
Recommended reading: Al. Clinescu, Caragiale sau vrsta modern a literaturii, Editura Albatros, Bucureti,
1976; Paul Cornea, Originile romantismului romnesc, Editura Minerva, Bucureti, 1972; Sergiu Pavel Dan, Proza
fantastic romneasc, Minerva, Bucureti, 1975; Vasile Popovici, Eu, personajul, Editura Cartea Romneasc,
Bucureti, 1988; Eugen Simion, Proza lui Eminescu, Editura pentru Literatur, Bucureti, 1964
Teaching methods: lecture, debate
Assessment methods: term project work, written and oral examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: National, European, Universal
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Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Viorica S. Constantinescu
Course objective: The evolution and forms of the lyric genre: the Marian poetry. A synthetic presentation of the
main problems raised by the critical historical-literary evaluation of the Marian songs (the early monastic Mariology,
the Marian poetry in Latin, the Marian poetry in the Romance languages, a comparison between the troubadours
songs and the Marian songs).
Course contents: After the presentation of the religious artistic context of the Great Marian Century (the 12th
century), students will focus on the study of the elements found in the pre-Renaissance sweet new style poetry
and the romance poetry carrying on the rhetoric and mariological theme, which contributes to the definition of the
identity of the European lyrism.
Recommended reading: Marron, H-I, Trubadurii, Univers, Bucureti, 1983; Rougemont, Denis de, Lamour et
lOccident, Payot, Paris, 1984; Markale, J., Lamour courtois ou le couple infernal, Imago, Paris, 1987; Evola, J.,
Metaphysique du sexe, Payot, Paris, 1968
Teaching methods: lecture, problem-solving, debate
Assessment methods: written term examination, final oral examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: World Literature (I)
Course code: MLC0813
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ctlin Constantinescu
Course objective: Presentation of the main problems and controversies raised by the analysis of the modern
drama. An overview of the elements defining the structure and essence of modern drama, trying to rise above the
tradition of a synchronic conventionalism, in order to grasp the essential aspects in the modernization of the
dramatic discourse.
Course contents: Theories of the drama Conventions The drama of language Relation between theory and
practice The spectator Psychological relativism The absurd The theatre of derision Expressionist
dimensions The authority game The human condition Human types Guilt and betrayal Alienation Avantgarde Influences and movements Responsibility and social signification Theatre and cinematographic
adaptation The critical response.
Recommended reading: Abbott, Porter H., A Grammar for Being Elsewhere, in Journal of Modern Literature,
vol. 6, no. 1/1977, pp. 39-46; Domenach, Jean-Marie, ntoarcerea tragicului, Meridiane, Bucureti, 1995; Fortier,
Mark, Theatre Theory. An Introduction, Routledge, London, 1992; Reiter, Seymour, The Structure and Meaning of
Drama, Horizon Press, New York, 1973; Steiner, George, Moartea tragediei, Humanitas, Bucureti, 1996
Teaching methods: lecture, interactive reading
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, project paper
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Cultural Anthropology
Course code: MLC0814
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ana-Maria tefan
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Course objective: Familiarize students with the main concepts and theoretical approaches, facilitating the
understanding of their own culture, but also different cultures.
Course contents: Cultural anthropology as a science and academic subject. Mans adjustment to his
environment, the biological and cultural dimensions. The concepts of race, caste, class cultural products. Systems
of confining the societal man. The body language and body techniques as identity indicators. Language; the
avatars of the Babel Tower; language culture equation. Ethnicity; cultural co-existence and ethnical conflict. The
notion of person in the ancient cultures. The confirmation of the affiliation to a group: the rites of passage.
Masculine feminine: the distribution of the social roles and its relevance in the creation of identity.
Recommended reading: Ahmed, Akbar & Cris Shore (ed.), The Future of Anthropology. Its Relevance to the
Contemporary World, London & Atlantic Highlands, NJ, 1995; Barrett, Stanley R., Anthropology: A Students Guide
to Theory and Method, Univ. of Toronto Press, 1997; Breton, Roland, Horizons et frontires de lesprit, Comprendre
le multiculturalisme, Le Mot et le Reste, 2006; Cavalli-Sforza, Qui sommes-nous? Une histoire de la diversit
humaine, Albin Michel, 1994; Deschamps, Marc-Alain, Le Langage du corps et la communication corporelle, PUF,
2004
Teaching methods: lecture, debate on representative texts, discussions on audio-visual corpus
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: The Study of Mythology and Compared Folklore (I)
Course code: MLC0815
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Sorin Mocanu
Course objective: Familiarize students with the foundations of mythology and comparative folklore, laying
emphasis on the decisive moments in the evolution of this subject and the current stage of its research.
Course contents: Comparative analysis of the cosmogonical myths, of the rites of passage: childbirth, weddings,
deaths, the holidays and the popular customs in a year. Significances, evolutions and functional associations
contemporaneity of the folklore. The place and importance of the popular calendars in the traditional society.
Recommended reading: Caraman, Petru, Colindatul la romni, slavi i la alte popoare, Minerva, Bucureti, 1983;
Kernbach, Victor, Miturile eseniale, Editura tiinific i enciclopedic, Bucureti, 1978; Olteanu, Antoaneta;
Calendarele poporului romn, Paideia, Bucureti, 2001; Pop, Mihai, Ruxndoiu, Pavel, Folclor literar romnesc,
E.D.P., Bucureti, 1976; Van Gennep, Arnold, Riturile de trecere, Polirom, Iai, 1998
Teaching methods: lecture, text analysis
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, project paper
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: World Literature (I)
Course code: MLC0822
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Mihaela Cernui-Gorodechi
Course objective: Familiarize students with a popular fictional genre, with an emphasis on the interesting
evolution of some literary challenging experiments in the last couple of decades.
Course contents: The literary (poly)system; center and outer reaches. Sensational/suspenseful/detective
literature; thriller. The narrative detective model (the characteristic conventions; the rules/the formula to build the
type-narrative); structural variations; typologies (according to: reference to the canon; setting up of the actantial
system; profile of the main character); detectives having an impact on the public the serial story. Case studies:
early detective fiction; famous classical attractions of the genre cosies versus hard-boiled novels; exotic and
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historic detective writings; politicizing of the genre the detective and spy fiction in the (ex)communist
countries; experiments, the game according to the rules/with the rules; attempts of ennoblement.
Recommended reading: Ascari, Maurizio (ed.), Two Centuries of Detective Fiction, University of Bologna, 2000;
Eco, Umberto; Sebeok, Thomas A., The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce, Bloomington, Indiana UP, 1983;
Rzepka, Charles J., Detective Fiction, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2005; Todorov, Tzvetan, Typologie du roman
policier , n Potique de la prose, Paris, Seuil, 1971; Zeca, Daniela, Melonul domnului comisar. Repere ntr-o nou
poetic a romanului poliist clasic, Bucureti, Curtea Veche, 2005
Teaching methods: lecture, euristic conversation, problem-solving, case study
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation during seminars 50%; oral examination (presentation of a portfolio)
50%
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: World Literature (II)
Course code: MLC0823
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ana-Maria tefan
Course objective: A thorough study of the picaresque and gothic literary genres, together with a proposed
complex critical analysis from the historic, thematological and imagological viewpoint , paying equal attention to
the narratological aspects and the socio-cultural implications (complications) brought about by the development of
the two literary paradigms in the Old and New World.
Course contents: Module I. The paradigm of the journey and the picaresque mode. The picaresque tradition in
Europe. The picaro in The Promised Land. Continuity in the picaresque paradigm; mythical coordinates the
myth of the picaro and the Trickster archetype. Module II. The gothic, cultural and aesthetic dimensions. The
foundation of a European tradition. The gothic body the montrous: dialectic between sublime and grotesque.
The gothic, subordinated to the Romantic ideology; socio-political implications. The gothic and the Christian
morals. The gothic at the fin-de-sicle.
Recommended reading: Bjornson, Richard, The Picaresque Hero in European Fiction, The Univ. of Wisconsin
Press, 1977; Botting, Fred, Gothic, Routledge, 1996; Halberstam, Judith, Skin Shows. Gothic Horror and the
Technology of Monsters, Duke Univ. Press, 1995; Monteser, Frederick, The Picaresque Element in Western
Literature, Univ. of Alabama, 1975; Wicks, Ulrich, Picaresque Narrative, Picaresque Fictions: A Theory and
Research Guide, Greenwood Press, 1989
Teaching methods: lecture, discussions on representative texts
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Cultural Anthropology
Course code: MLC0824
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ana-Maria tefan
Course objective: Familiarize students with a fundamental theme of the classical cultural anthropology: the
magic (representations, beliefs, practices).
Course contents: Representations of the world: elementary beliefs. Mentality and primitive thinking. The
magic term, forms and taxonomies. Magicians and sorcerers. Sorcery vs. witchcraft. Sympathetic magic.
Psychological fundamentals of the belief in the magic effectiveness. The classical theory of the magic. Critical
evaluation of the theory Mauss-Hubert from the structuralist perspective. Polynesian mana Biblical manna: a
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terminological coincidence; mana in the Romanian folklore. The fate of the evolutionist model magic religion
science: J.G. Frazer, B. Malinowski, I.P. Culianu.
Recommended reading: I.P. Culianu, Eros i magie n Renatere. 1484, Nemira, 1999; Sigmund Freud, Totem i
tabu, n Opere I, Editura tiinific, 1991; L. Lvy-Bruhl, La mentalit primitive, PUF, 1960; Cl. Lvi-Strauss,
Gndirea slbatic. Totemismul azi, Editura tiinific, 1970; K.B. Malinowski, Magie, tiin i religie, Moldova, Iai,
1993; M. Mauss, H. Hubert, Teoria general a magiei, Polirom, 1996
Teaching methods: lecture, debate on representative texts, discussions on audio-visual corpus
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Aesthetics
Course code: MLC0825
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Lucia Cifor
Course objective: Familiarize students with the fundamental theme and concepts of the subject.
Course contents: Art from a philosophical / philosophy of art perspective: from Platon and Aristotel, to Immanuel
Kant and G.W.F. Hegel, to Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Theodor Adorno. From the philosophy of
art to aesthetics: Alexander Baumgarten. Identity and status of the aesthetics in the European area. Fundamental
aesthetical concepts: the beautiful, the sublime, the tragic, the comic, the ugly, the grotesque, the humour, the
irony, the graceful etc. Attitude and aesthetic value. Theories on the essence of the piece of art: appearance and
expression. Art from the content perspective: enigmatic content and/or truthful content. Reception of the piece of
art: aesthetic emotion, aesthetic experience, catharsis.
Recommended reading: Adorno, Theodor W., Teoria estetic, Editura Paralela 45, 2005; Hegel, G.W.F.,
Prelegeri de estetic, Editura Academiei, Bucureti, 1966; Moutsopoulos, E., Categoriile estetice. Introducere la o
axiologie a obiectului estetic, Editura Univers, Bucureti, 1984; Tatarkiewicz, Wladyslaw, Istoria esteticii, I-IV,
Bucureti, Editura Meridiane, 1978; Vianu, Tudor, Estetica, Bucureti, Editura pentru literatur, 1968
Teaching methods: lecture, problem-solving, debate
Assessment methods: written term examination, oral final examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
2ND YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: Comparative Literature (III)
Course code: MLC0931
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ctlin Constantinescu
Course objective: Familiarize students with one of the major themes of world literature utopia. The course
focuses on the distinctions among the possible paradigms of this polymorph concept, identifying the narrative
aspects of the literary utopia. By the end of the semester, students will be able to distinguish the defining features
of the literary paradigm of utopia, define the utopian method and comment on the canon of the genre.
Course contents: Narrative aspects of the (literary) utopia Utopia and dystopia Utopia as a forma mentis (C.-G.
Dubois, E. Bloch) The utopian method (A. Lalande) Utopia and religion The historical component of utopia The
representation of the political power in the literary utopia Utopia and arhitecture The notion of time and the
utopian thinking: utopia and uchrony The pedagogical discourse of utopia and the conditioning devices.
Recommended reading: Antohi, Sorin, Utopica. Studii asupra imaginarului social, Bucureti, Editura tiinific,
1991; Ciornescu, Alexandru, Viitorul trecutului. Utopie i literatur, Bucureti, Editura Cartea Romneasc, 1996;
Delumeau, Jean, Grdina desftrilor. O istorie a paradisului, Bucureti, Editura Humanitas, 1997; Trousson,
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Raymond, Voyages aux pays de nulle part. Histoire littraire de la pense utopique, 3e d., ditions de lUniversit
de Bruxelles, 1999; Wunenburger, Jean-Jacques, Utopia sau criza imaginarului, Cluj-Napoca, Editura Dacia, 2001
Teaching methods: lecture, interactive reading
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, project paper
Language of instruction: Romanian
Denumirea disciplinei: Comparative Literature (IV)
Course code: MLC0932
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Viorica S. Constantinescu
Course objective: Approach to the Biblical text from a cultural perspective, highlighting both the polyvalency of
the Bible (a book of culture, literature, anthropology, history), and its productivity (as a macrotext generating
European culture).
Course contents: The presentation of the history and structure of the Biblical text in relation to ancient Oriental,
Greek works etc., laying emphasis on the Biblical man, lyric poetry, heroic poetry, prophetic poetry, the short story.
The study on the poetrics/aesthetics of the Bible. Thematic and poetic influences of the Bible on the troubadour
and mystical European poetry, baroque poetry, romantic poetry, as well as on the European novel (theme, subject
inspiration). A separate chapter will be devoted to the evaluation of some Biblical miracles from the modern
sciences perspective.
Recommended reading: Laure Aynard, La Bible au fminin. De lancienne tradition un christianisme hellnis;
Alain Besanon, Imaginea interzis; Viorica S. Constantinescu, Cultura poetic; Evreul stereotip; (n colab. cu
Baruch Tercatin) Dicionar de personaje biblice i reprezentarea lor n arte; Northrop Frye, Marele Cod; Ion Ianoi,
Izvoare biblice, interpretri moderne; Sol Lipzin, Biblical Themes in World Literature.
Teaching methods: lecture, debate
Assessment methods: term written examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: World Literature (III)
Course code: MLC0933
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Constantin Dram
Course objective: Presentation of information and comments regarding the modern development of the theatre
as an art. The aesthetic validation of some essential moments in the history of the theatre, which had a great
impact on the development processes of modern structures of mentality. The importance of some opinion leaders,
the way the essential functions of the theatre worked, as well as the way the collective mentality crystallizes into
theatrical images. Special attention will be paid to the problems of terminology and the setting up of the dramatic
language structures, bearing in mind the distinction between the specificity of the literature and the theatre.
Course contents: 1-2-3. The representation, terminology of the imaginary, terminology of the theatre and
literature. 4. The emergence of the theatre, between history and myth. 5. European theatre, extra-European
theatre. 6. The Greek episode, the beginning of the tragedy. The first problems concerning the terminology and
structure of a new art. 7. The Roman theatre and Romes habits. 8. The huge trasition from ancient times to the
Middle Age. The theatre and literature. 9. Symbolic representations in the Middle Age. The beginning of a new
paradigm. 10. Mystery, drama, lithurgical ritual, miracle. Connotations and implications. 11 The passage from the
sacred to the profane. medieval ideologies and mentalities. 12. The town, the universities and the theatre. The
road to Renaissance. 13. Coordinates of the Renaissance. Jugglers, troubadours, singers, the farce and the
carnival. The literary theatre. 14. Commedia dellArte.
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Recommended reading: Aristotel, Poetica; Gordon Craig, Le thtre en marche, Gilles Girard, Lunivers du
thtre; Pierre Larthomas, Le language dramatique; Vito Pandolfi, Istoria teatrului universal; Patrice Pavis,
Dictionnaire du thtre; Ion Marin Sadoveanu, Istoria universal a dramei i teatrului; Anne Ubersfeld, Lire le
thtre; Ion Zamfirescu, Istoria universal a teatrului.
Ricur, Paul, Eseuri de hermeneutic, Bucureti, Humanitas, 1995 / Du texte laction. Essais dhermneutique,
II, Paris, Ed. du Seuil, 1986
Teaching methods: lecture, debate, problem-solving
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, final oral examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Comparative Literature (III)
Course code: MLC0941
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Mihaela Cernui-Gorodechi
Course objective: Grow stuidents interest in: 1) the thorough examination of the relations between media;
between literary/written communication, on the one hand, and the visual/theatrical/cinematographic
communication, on the other hand; 2) the identification and analysis of the adjustments induced /imposed by the
translation of a literary text into non-/paraverbal/complex artistic language (the book illustration; the ballet
performance; the musical; the film).
Course contents: Diegesis and mimesis. The book illustration possibilities and limits. Dramatization and filming
devices and strategies; risks; opening opportunities. Case studies literary texts/stories adapted to other media
(music, dansce/ballet, theatre, film).
Recommended reading: Arnheim, Rudolf, Art and Visual Perception: A Psychology of the Creative Eye, Berkeley
& Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1954/new version, 1974 / Arta i percepia vizual. O psihologie a
vzului creator, Bucureti, Meridiane, 1979; Aumont, Jean, Bergala, Alain .a., LEsthtique du film, Paris, Nathan,
1983; Burch, Nol, Une praxis du cinma, Paris, Gallimard, 1986 / Un praxis al cinematografului, Bucureti,
Meridiane, 2001; Cernui-Gorodechi, Mihaela, Medii i coduri, n Poetica basmului modern, ediia a doua, Iai,
Universitas XXI, 2002, pp. 30-74; Elam, Keir, The Semiotics of Theatre and Drama, London & New York, Methuen,
1980; Joly, Martine, Introduction lanalyse de limage, Paris, Nathan, 1994 / Introducere n analiza imaginii,
Bucureti, All Educational, 1998; Ubersfeld, Anne, Lire le thtre, I-III, Paris, Editions Belin, 1996
Teaching methods: lecture, euristic conversation, problem-solving, case study
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation during seminars 50%; oral examination (presentation of a portfolio)
50%
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: World Literature (III)
Course code: MLC0942
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Viorica S. Constantinescu
Course objective: Eminescus poetry as a manifestation of cultural intertextuality. The course aims at analyzing
Eminescus poetry from the universal culture perspective exisitng in the poetic text at all structural levels: substructure, structure, super-structure.
Course contents: Influences, translations, mythical implications, proper names, toponyms, semantic units
belonging to the German, Oriental culture, Greco-Latin classicism, Romanian and foreign medieval history.
Recommended reading: Eminescu i clasicismul greco-latin, Junimea, Iai, 1982; Dumitrescu-Buulenga, Zoe,
Eminescu i romatismul german, Eminescu, Bucureti, 1986; Guillermou, A., Geneza interioar a poeziilor lui
Eminescu, Junimea, Iai, 1977
Teaching methods: lecture, problem-solving, debate, text analysis
Assessment methods: term written examination, final oral examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
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Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Lucia Cifor
Course objective: Identification and description of the subject, status and tasks of the poetics in the classical and
modern (or postmodern) ages.
Course contents: Aristotles poetics the prototype of the classical poetics. Classical poetics, general poetics,
normative poetics. From classical poetics to modern poetics. Romanticism the beginning of the development of
modern poetics. Poetics in the 20th century. The contribution of the Russian Formalist School to the development of
modern poetics. Types of poetics specific to the 20th century: linguistic poetics, phenomenological poetics, psychoanalytical poetics, philosophical poetics. Types of linguistic poetics: formal poetics, structural poetics, semiotic
poetics, illocutionary poetics, integralist poetics. A type of psycho-analytical poetics: elemental poetics.
Recommended reading: Alexandrescu, Sorin, Introducere n poetica modern, n vol. Poetic i stilistic.
Orientri moderne, Editura Univers, Bucureti, 1972; Aristotel, Poetica, Studiu Introductiv, Bucureti, Editura
Academiei, 1965; Bachelard, Gaston, Poetica reveriei, Piteti, Paralela 45, 2005; Cifor, Lucia, Poezie i gnoz,
Timioara, Editura Augusta, 2000; Doleel, Lubomir, Poetica occidental. Tradiie i progres, Editura Univers,
Bucureti, 1998
Teaching methods: lecture, conversation, problem-solving
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, final oral examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
AMERICAN STUDIES
1ST YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: American Studies: Old and New Paradigms: American Typologies
Course code: MSA0811
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Codrin Liviu Cuitaru
Course objective: To develop the knowedge on identitary terminology in the American culture and literature; to
understand American liberalism as a mental and spiritual element included in ethnogenesis; to develop the
knowledge on American art as interdisciplinary phenomenon.
Course contents: Fictional and historical America: John Smith and Th.Morton. The New Canaan. The religious
experiment; The Puritan Experiment; the Gulf Colony, the Massachussetts colony; religous America; The Great
Awakening: Edwards, American rationalsim, the new mentality; The Great Crisis: the Revolution, the
Independence, the Founding Fathers (Jefferson, Franklin); American Liberalism: the Ocnstitution, industrialization,
the legal system: Modern America: denying the European model, the great prophets, psychological expansion; Premodern American Culture: the pioneers of literature, prairie literature; Modern American Culture: the Romantics
(Poe, Melville, Hawthorne), vertical constructions; Transcendentalism: Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman; 20th century
culture: alienation, revolt; Postmodernism: Barthes, Hassan; the Death of the author: campus literature, the
academic diary; The death of literature: Lentricchia.
Recommended reading: Finding Freedom. J.H.McElroy. Illinois UP, Chicago, 1991; The Norton Anthology of
American Civilisation. Ed.J.Pope. Norton Comp.: NY, 1992; The History of America. Ed. E.Dryden.Arizona UP,
Tucson, 1994; The Making of America. Ed.Ivonne Bryant. UP of America, NY, 1981; The Americans. David
Boorstine. Yale UP, New Haven, 1976; The Insular Dream. Paul Smith. Harvard UP, Cambridge, 1991
Teaching methods: lecture, discussions
Assessment methods: written exam, essay
Language of instruction: English
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Course title: American Studies: The Old and The New Paradigm
Course code: MSA0821
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Odette Blumenfeld
Course objective: The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the fundamental concepts operating in
cultural studies, with the texts, methods and theoretical tools specific to the American Studies by approaching a
diachronic perspective (the old paradigm) and a synchronic perspective (the new paradigm); the course will
cultivate multiperspectivism and the development of critical and creative thinking through an interdisciplinary
approach, facilitating the orientation of the students towards a variety of academic areas.
Course contents: The course will start by a short history of the topic, its relation to cultural studies and the main
areas of research. The Old Paradigm refers to the American exceptionalism from four perspectives: religious,
constitutional, nationalistic and socialist/Marxist, and the Myth and Symbol School. The New Paradigm is analyzed
from the perspective of a series of theories (melting pot, salad bowl, mosaic, multiculturalism, interculturalism),
concepts (hybridity, ethnicity and race) and critical and theoretical intersections (postcolonial theory, American
cultural imperialism, feminism, post nationalism, (neo)Marxism, globalization and globalism, post structuralism and
postmodernism).
Recommended reading: Campbell, Neil, Alasdair Kean. 1997. American Cultural Studies: An Introduction to
American Culture, London and New York: Routledge; Hartley, John, Roberta E. Pearson. 2000. American Cultural
Studies: A Reader, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press; Lipset, Seymour Martin. 1997. American
Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword, New York and London: Norton & Company; Maddox, Lucy. 1999. Locating
American Studies: The Evolution of a Discipline, Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press; Rowe,
John Carlos. 20002. The New American Studies, Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press
Teaching methods: lectures, debates, case studies (literary analyses)
Assessment methods: (a) mid-term test (written) and seminar participation (40%); (b) final test (60%)
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Multicultural Perspectives: Minority Voices in the New Canon: Latino/a Culture
Course code: MSA0822
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Veronica Popescu
Course objective: The course has as major objective familiarizing students with new perspectives and
methodologies in teaching American Studies considering the appearance of new powerful and influential cultural
voices that were formerly marginalized. Students will be exposed to a new perspective on concepts such as
identity, ethnicity, nation, difference, marginality, mestizaje, adaptation and resistance, the focus being on literary
texts from the new American canon.
Course contents: The colonization of South America and the consequences of the Spanish presence in the area
until the end of the 19th century; the expansionism of the United States and the geopolitical changes in the
territories that were once Spanish colonies; the appearance of Chicanos and their status in the U.S. (past and
present); Latino communities in the United States and the specificity of their cultures; the appearance of a Latino/a
literature and cinema; common traits and differences in perspective, preoccupations and style in Latino/a literature
(Rudolfo Corky Gonzales, Gloria Anzalda, Sandra Cisneros, Rudolfo Anaya, Toms Rivera, Piri Thomas, Cristina
Garca i Julia Alvarez).
Recommended reading: Bixler-Mrque et. al. Chicana/o Studies. 3rd ed. Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt
Publishing Company 2007 (1997); Novas, Hilmice, Everything You Need to Know about Latino History. New York:
Penguin Group, 2007; Romero, Mary et. al. (ed.), Challenging Fronteras. Structuring Latina and Latino Lives in the
U.S.A. An Anthology of Readings. New York/London: Routledge, 1997; Steinberg, Stephen. Ed. Race and Ethnicity
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in the United States. Issues and Debates. Malden Massachusetts: Blackwell, 2000; Torres, Rodolfo D. et al. Race,
Identity and Citizenship. A Reader. Malden Massachusetts: Blackwell. 2003 (1999)
Teaching methods: lectures, workshops
Assessment methods: midterm, final (written) test
Language of instruction: English
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Course title: Cultural Contact Zones: Anglophone Canada in a Cross-national Perspective. North American
Frontiers, Continua and Extremes
Course code: MSA0825
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Rodica Albu
Course objective: To re-define the notion of American as North-American, the Canadian space included; to
encourage students critical response to various forms of public and private discourse as cultural products and as
forms of cultural mediation; to develop the wish and ability to understand the complex US-Canada relations, as
well as Canadas relations to other political, geographic and cultural spaces.
Course contents: The course offers a basic introduction to Canadian Studies, with the focus on Canada's complex
relations with US and how the two neighbouring countries relate to the world at large. Political borders vs. ethnic,
cultural and linguistc continua, as well as specific public policies and personal attitudes will be tackled. Special
space is allotted to discussions of the ways in which these relations are reflected in language choices and discourse
strategies in fiction and non-fiction, in official regulations, in the media and in daily life. Immigration issues will
be approached from various angles: public policies, official reports on labour force dynamics, sociolinguistic
consequences, racial, ethnic and cultural hybridization, shifting identities.
Recommended reading: Albu, Rodica (ed.) Canada anglofon. Limb i identitate, Iai: Alexandru Ioan Cuza
University Publishing House, 2008; Cameron, Elspeth, Multiculturalism and Immigration in Canada: An Introductory
Reader, Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press Inc., 2004; James, Carl E. & Shadd, Adrienne, Talking about Identity:
Encounters in Race, Ethnicity, and Language, Toronto, ON: Between The Lines, 2001; Kamboureli, Smaro, Making
a Difference. Canadian Multicultural Literatures in English, Oxford Zuniversity Press, 2007; Taras, David and
Beverly Rasporich (eds.) A Passion for Identity. Canadian Studies for the 21st Century, Nelson, 2001
Teaching methods: lectures, workshops, on-line team teaching (with Professor Walter Epp, Lakehead University,
Thunder Bay, Western Ontario), guided individual research using the resources of the Centre for Canadian Studies
in Iasi and the Canadian Studies data bank of Lakehead University
Assessment methods: mixed type (continuous assessment, research project, final test)
Language of instruction: English
2ND YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: Critical Thinking / Literary Thinking: Postmodernist Aesthetics
Code: MSA0931
Type: compulsory
Level: MA
Year of Study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Dana Bdulescu
Course objective: Course of lectures given in English aimed at familiarizing students with the main characteristics
and aesthetics of postmodernism, with examples from literature and the arts, focusing upon the importance of
their iconoclastic, heterodox and playful spirit. The interactive approach is used with a view to improving the
students skills of debating and arguing coherently in English about various aspects of postmodernism.
Course contents: Informing students about the complex and problematic relation between modernism and
postmodernism starting from the differences between the two paradigms as they appear in Ihab Hassans schema.
Some lectures will debate postmodernism as a reincorporation of modernism. Some other lectures will introduce
the main characteristics and aesthetics of postmodernism, the philosophical and scientific bases of postmodernism,
and the main trends in contemporary North American arts.
Recommended reading: Bdulescu, Dana, PoMo Mosaics. PoMo City and PoMo Identities at the Crossroads, with
a preface by Thomas B. Byers, Demiurg Publishing House, Iai, 2004; Clinescu, Matei, Cinci fee ale modernitii.
Modernism, avangard, decaden, kitsch, postmodernism, Bucureti, Editura Univers, 1995; Foster, Hal (ed.), The
Anti-Aesthetic. Essays on Postmodern Culture, Edited and with an Introduction by Hal Foster, The New Press, New
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York, 1998; Jameson, Frederic, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Durham: Duke UP, 1991;
Lucie-Smith, Edward, Movements in Art since 1945, London: Thames and Hudson, 2001
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment: (a) mid-term (written) test; (b) final (written) test
Teaching language: English
Course title: Philosophical and Political Thinking: American Transcendentalism
Course code: MSA0932
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Codrin Liviu Cuitaru
Course objective: 1. To acquire the culture, literary and philosophical concepts connected to the American
Transcendentalism; 2. to understand the connection between American Transcendentalism and the specificity of
American history; 3. to develop the knowledge on Romanticism-Transcendentalism in America.
Course contents: Introduction to the traditional American Culture (Puritanism, the Revolution, the Civil War);
Transcendentalism general presentation (the specificity of American Romanticism); the foundations of
Transcendentalism (Emerson: Nature); Intellectual Transcendentalism (Emersons essays); Activist
Transcendentalism (Thoreaus essays and Walden); The relationship between Emerson and Thoreau (and American
paideia); Poetic Transcendentalism (Walt Whitman); Interractions with other trends Pragmatism (a general
view); Conclusions: foundations for an American philosophic system.
Recommended reading: Finding Freedom. J.H.McElroy. Illinois UP, Chicago, 1991; The Norton Anthology of
American Civilisation. Ed.J.Pope. Norton Comp., NY, 1992; The History of America. Ed. E.Dryden.Arizona UP,
Tucson, 1994; The Making of America. Ed.Ivonne Bryant. UP of America, NY, 1981; Essays. Ralph Waldo Emerson.
HBJ, NY, 1985; Walden. Henry David Thoreau. Free Press, Washington, 1990; Leaves of Grass. Walt Whitman.
Penguin Books, NY, 1982
Teaching methods: lecture, discussions
Assessment methods: written exam, essay
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Arts The New Theatre: Characteristics, Forms, Impact
Course code: MSA0933
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Odette Blumenfeld
Course objective: The course aims at acquisition of new notions operating in the studies dedicated with
performance arts, insisting on the mutations occurring in the traditional esthetics of drama through the appearance
of a new area performance studies. The students should be able to establish dialectical relationships of continuity
and clash between the American theatre of the last decades and the American avant-garde of the 60s.
Course contents: New Theater: definition, characteristics, derived traits; the semantic evolution of the words
performance, its meanings in various areas. Performance arts: the Happening; the Agitprop; the Acto; the AfroAmerican protesting theatre, exemplified by types such as the poetic collage, the ritual theater, the revolutionary
play; street theater, ritualized theater, image theater, ambiental theater. Impact: the echoes of this avantgarde on a series of playwrights evolving from the margin to the center: Sam Shepard; representatives of AfroAmerican theater: Adrienne Kennedy, Suzan-Lori Parks; female voices in Hispano-American theater: Maria Irene
Fornes and Cherrie Moraga; Queer Theater: Tony Kushner, David Henry Hwang, Holly Hughes.
Recommended reading: Bial, Henry, 2003. The Performance Studies Reader, London: Routledge; Case, SueEllen (ed.), 1990. Performing Feminisms: Feminist Critical Theory and Theater, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press; Cohn, Ruby, 1991. New American Dramatists: 1960-1990, London: Macmillan; Robinson, Marc, 1994. The
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Other American Drama, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Schechner, Richard, 1998. Performance Theory,
London: Routledge Classics
Assessment methods: (a) mid-term test (written) and seminar participation (40%); (b) final test (60%)
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Regionalism: The American South
Course code: MSA0934
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Iulia Milic
Course objective: The course aims at defining the idea of regional identity insisting on both common and
distinctive elements between the South and the dominant American mind. The students will be familiarized with
authors and texts of the 20th century by analyzing both central authors as well as representations of marginality
in the South both socially, racially and gender-wise.
Course contents: The main issues to be dealt with in the course have been chosen according to the various
representations of the South in literature: the South of the Agrarians: the aristocratic myth and the Southern tragic
fall; rasial representations in literature and the South represented by African-American authors; Southern women
and the Quentin Complex; representations of the poor white; deformity and grotesque in 20th century Southern
literature.
Recommended reading: Cash, W. J., The Mind of the South, Vintage Books. A Division of Random House Inc.,
New York, 1991; Degler, Carl N., Place over Time. The Continuity of Southern Distinctiveness, Louisiana University
Press, Baton Rouge and London, 1977; Kreyling, Michael, Inventing Southern Literature, University Press of
Mississippi, 1998; Wilson, Charles Reagan, Southern Religion(s), in A Companion to the Literature and Culture of
the American South, Richard Gray and Owen Robinson (eds.), Blackwell Publishing, 2004; Wilson, Charles Reagen
& William Ferris (eds.), The Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, University of North Carolina Press, 1989
Teaching methods: lectures, workshops
Assessment methods: mid-term essay; final (written) test
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Mass Media
Course code: MSA0935
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Course objective: Familiarize the students with the American press institutions; form the skills specific for the
analysis of the media phenomenon.
Course contents: Press institution in America; the news in written and electronic media; market proximity and
segmentation; features of the TV discourse; TV networks; PBS or public media in the American tradition;
deontological codes; audiences and publicity.
Recommended reading: Jean-Claude Bertrand, 2001, O introducere n presa scris i vorbit, Iasi, Editura
Polirom ; Leo Bogart , 1995, The Media System and the Public Interest, New York, Oxford, Oxford University
Press; Howard J. Blumenthal, Oliver Goodenough, 2005, This Bussiness of Television, New York, Billboard Books,
Watson-Guptil; Asa Briggs, Peter Burke, 2005, Mass-media. O istorie social, Iai, Editura Polirom; Mihai Coman,
coord.1997, 2001, Manual de jurnalism, Tehnici fundamentale de redactare, vol.I,II, Iai, Editura Polirom
Teaching methods: writing different texts, personal research, discussions, exercise solving
Assessment methods: participation in the course, writing a number of texts per semester, solving a writing task
in class with time limit and no helping materials
Language of instruction: English
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Course objective: This course of lectures aims to make students aware that the use of literary texts is
instrumental in acquiring a foreign language by contributing to developing the reading skill and critical thinking,
and by promoting tolerance and multicultural education.
Course contents: The lecturer will acquaint students with up-to-date modalities of integrating literature into the
English textbooks in use and the EFL curriculum, with special attention to the teaching of the literary text (poetry,
drama, fiction). Questions of language and style are also addressed, together with planning literature lessons in
ELT.
Recommended reading: Brumfit, C. J. (ed.), Language and Literature, Oxford: Pergamon, 1985; Brumfit, C.J.
and R. Carter (ed.) Literature and Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984; Carter, R. and M.
Long, Teaching Literature. London: Longman, 1991; Collie, J. and S.Slater, Literature in the Language Classroom.
CUP, 1987; Duff, A. and A. Maley, Literature. OUP, 1990
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: (a) progress test (written); (b) final test (written)
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Teaching Practice I
Course code: MDE0815
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ileana Oana Macari
Course objective: The course is intended to assist teachers in learning skills and strategies that allow them to
perform at their best in the classroom. The course is designed to enable teachers to: implement positive beliefs
and attitudes of teachers; to guide teaching practice; evaluate how cognitive belief paradigms influence
expectations and behavior in the classroom; use new strategies to build trust, communicate, and solve problems
with students and parents; guide students to take increased responsibility for academic performance, behavior
and positive peer interaction; devise a plan to utilize peer support and effective time management skills to
increase effectiveness in the classroom.
Course contents: Approaching teaching practice. Language-learning theories and approaches. Teaching
strategies. Organizing teaching. Planning lessons. Using resources and materials. Writing concept questions.
Teacher-student talking time. Classroom language. Class management and organization. Developing skills and
strategies. Sources and problems of motivation at different age-levels. Value of errors and error correction and
remediation. Giving feedback to students.
Recommended reading: Echevarria, Jana, MaryEllen Vogt, and Deborah J. Short, Making content
comprehensible for English language learners:The SIOP Model , Allyn and Bacon, 2000; Gower, Roger, Diane
Phillips and Steve Walters, Teaching Practice Handbook, Macmillan, 2005; Herrell, Adrienne and Michael Jordan,
Fifty Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners ,2nd Edition, 2004; Peregoy, Suzanne F. and Owen F.
Boyle Reading, writing, and learning in ESL: A resource book for K-12 teachers , Addison Wesley Longman, 2001,
3rd edition
Teaching methods: lectures, workshops
Assessment methods: essay, portfolio, practical project
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Evaluation and Testing
Course code: MDE0821
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Dumitru Dorobat
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Course objective: By the end of the course students will be: familiar with the main types of evaluation,
assessment and testing; able to make their own tests; able to use statistics in their classroom research.
Course contents: Types of evaluation, assessment, and testing. Testing the main skills and language system and
beyond it (discourse, culture). Alternative testing. Classroom research and testing. Statistics in evaluation.
Recommended reading: Dorobat, Dumitru, The Methodology of Evaluation and Testing, MEC, Bucuresti 2007;
Bachman, Lyle F., Fundamntal Considerations in Language. Testing, OUP, Oxford, 1990
Teaching methods: interactive lectures, presentations
Assessment methods: portfolio assessment, presentation, final test paper
Language of instruction: English
Course title: ELT Methodology (I)
Course code: MDE0822
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Anca Cehan
Course objective: The course, delivered in English, is meant to explore the role of the English language in the
process of educating through a foreign language, to clarify the principles of teaching and to familiarize students
with the classroom techniques. The course will be delivered using an interactive approach, directly aiming at
enhancing the students capacity to evaluate critically, plan and perform didactic activities.
Course contents: The lectures evaluate critically the new foreign languages teaching and learning practices,
including those that result from the national curriculum reform. The aim is to update the teaching/learning theories
and practice the main approaches, methods, and techniques. The course concentrates on adapting the classroom
strategies to the learners needs and examines the teachers roles in primary, secondary, and tertiary education.
The course covers topics not developed at undergraduate level; the seminars are mainly based on video
observation.
Recommended reading: Brown, H. Douglas, (2004), Teaching by Principles. An Interactive Approach to
Language Pedagogy, Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall Regent; Celce Murcia, Marianne (ed.), (1991), Teaching
English as a Second or Foreign Language, (2nd ed.), New York: Newbury House Publications Cook, Vivian, Second
Language Learning and Language Teaching, London, 2001; Ellis, R., Understanding Second Language Acquisition,
OUP, 1990; Harmer, Jeremy, The Practice of English Language Teaching, Longman, London, 2001; Hedge, Tricia,
Teaching and Learning in the Language Classroom, OUP, 2000
Teaching methods: interactive lectures
Assessment methods: on-going (oral) evaluation; mid-term (written) test; final (written) test
Language of instruction: English
Course title: The Management of Educational Organisations
Course code: MDE0823
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: tefan Colibaba
Course objective: This course of lectures aims to acquaint students with the most efficient ways of running
educational institutions, and also help students develop basic abilities as managers in foreign language education.
Course contents: The lecturer will present and discuss issues related to curriculum development and the
introduction of innovation, organising resources and information, communication in school (the individual: values,
attitudes, professional satisfaction; the group: group behaviour, communication, conflict management and
negotiation), recruiting and training personnel, promoting the organisation, the marketing offer, financial
documents.
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Recommended reading: Armstrong, M., 1991, How to Be an Even Better Manager, London: Kogan Page; Croft,
C., 1996, Time Management, Boston: International Thomson Business Press; Robbins, S., 2000, Organizational
Behavior, 9th ed., Prentice Hall; Rolheiser, C. and Joanne Quinn, 1997, Managing the Process of Change, New York:
Soros Institute; White, Ron, Martin M., Stimson, M. and Hodge, R., 1991, Management in English Language
Teaching. Cambridge: CUP
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: (a) progress test (written); (b) final test (written)
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Linguistics for EFL Teachers II
Course code: MSA0824
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Adrian Poruciuc
Course objective: The course is meant to provide a theoretical basis for the teaching not only of English
language, but also of English culture.
Course contents: (a) The general frame of the lectures is represented by the relationship between language and
identity, with direct reference to the English-speaking world. The theoretical main line will combine anthropological
linguistics and sociolinguistics, taking into account that language reflects all the other distinctive features of an
ethnos. (b) During seminars, students will have the opportunity to discuss aspects such as the evolution from
dialects to unifying standards, the opposition standard/non-standard, accent as social marker, etc.
Recommended reading: Pilch, Herbert, 1976. Empirical Linguistics. Mnchen: Francke; Poruciuc, Adrian, 1995.
Archaeolinguistica. Bucureti: Bibliotheca Thracologica; Trudgill,Peter, 1983. Sociolinguistics An Introduction to
Language and Society. Penguin Books; Poruciuc, Adrian, 2006. Language Obsolescence, Loss and Revival in
Europe. In Developing a pan-European Network of Language Resource Centres for Less Widely Used Less Taught
Languages (pp. 23-29)., ed. A. Colibaba et al. Iai: Editura CDRMO; Yule, George, 1985. The Study of Language.
Cambridge University Press
Teaching methods: interactive lectures, workshop-seminars
Assessment methods: essays; final (written) test
Language of instruction: English
2ND YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: Assessing, Creating and Adapting Materials in ELT
Course code: MDE0931
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: tefan Colibaba
Course objective: This course of lectures aims to acquaint students with the main assessment criteria for ELT
course books and also help them devise their own criteria. Special attention is given to designing support materials
and/or adapting existing materials for the ELT class in keeping with learner needs and levels.
Course contents: The lecturer will acquaint students with current techniques in assessing English course books,
and introduce basic concepts and principles. Up-to-date methods for adapting and elaborating materials,
visualisation techniques and conceptual models are presented with a view to developing the professional autonomy
of the teacher of English.
Recommended reading: Celce-Murcia, M., 1991, Teaching English as a Second or Foreign Language, Los
Angeles: Heinle and Heinle Publishers; Cunningsworth, Alan, 1995, Choosing your Coursebook, Oxford:
Heinemann; McDonough, J. and Shaw, C., 1993, Materials and Methods in ELT: A Teachers Guide, Oxford:
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Blackwells; Tomlinson, B., 1998, Materials Development in Language Teaching, Cambridge: CUP; Ur, Penny, 1996,
A Course in Language Teaching, Cambridge CUP
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: (a) progress test (written); (b) final test (written)
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Teaching English with Technology
Course code: MDE0932
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ileana Oana Macari
Course objective: Non-native speakers of English need to communicate meaningfully, collaborate in real life
situations, have access to information, receive guidance in developing their educational or work objectives, and be
assigned stimulating, relevant tasks. Computer resources (both on and off the Internet) can help classroom
teachers meet students' needs in all these areas. The course is designed to make students: understand the role of
computer technology in a classroom with non-native English speakers; demonstrate the basic skills needed to
utilize computer technology, including Internet resources, in the classroom; acquire the skills needed to evaluate
the most appropriate technological innovations, including software, computers, and Internet resources, for the
classroom.
Course contents: The effectiveness of a content-based curriculum as a vehicle for ESL/EFL instruction. The
integrated skills curriculum (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). Computer assisted instruction (using either
Internet or non-Internet resources. The potential of the Internet as a resource in second language instruction. The
role of the Internet in changing literacy and education. Current software evaluation. Computer activity
development. Computer use skill development. Current terms in educational computer technology.
Recommended reading: Warschauer, Shetzer & Meloni, Internet for English Teaching, TESOL Publications,
2000; Online journals: The Internet TESL Journal at http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~iteslj/ , Language Learning and
Technology at http://polyglot.cal.msu.edu/llt/ , CALL-EJ at http://www.lerc.ritsumei.ac.jp/callej, and the TESL-EJ at
http://www.kyoto-su.ac.jp/information/tesl-ej
Teaching methods: lectures, workshops
Assessment methods: reviews, computer activities, final exam
Course title: Research Methods for English Language Teachers
Course code: MDE0933
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Rodica Albu
Course objective: By the end of the semester the students will have enhanced their awareness of the research
principles, methods and instruments used in humanities in general and in the teaching of English in particular so that
they will be able to design and complete their own research projects.
Course contents: What is research the senses of the term. Academic research and classroom research. Tools
for research. Descriptive, relational and causal studies. Epistemology and methodology; deductive vs inductive;
beliefs about own research; quantitative vs. qualitative. Variables (Attributes, values, types of variables). The
features of good research evaluation criteria. Questionnaires and interviews. Guides for writing research papers
(APA, MLA, Chicago Style, Oxford, Cambridge) - general requirements and specific rules.
Recommended reading: Allwright, Dick, Kathleen M. Bailez, Focus on the English Classroom: An introduction to
Classroom Research for Language Teachers, CUP, Cambridge, 1991; Berg, Bruce L., Qualitative Research Methods
for the Social Sciences, Allin and Bacon, Boston etc., 2001; Brumfit, C. si Mitchell, R. (eds.) Research in the
Language Classroom, London: Modern English Publications in association with the British Council, 1989; Griffin,
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Gabriele, Research Methods for English Studies, Edinburgh University Press; McDonough, Jo and McDonough, S.,
Research Methods for English Language Teachers, Arnold, 1997
Teaching methods: academic lectures, brainstorming, students presentations; interactive orientation of lectures
and seminars
Assessment methods: continuous assessment, research project
Language of instruction: English
Course title: New Developments in ELT Methodology
Course code: MDE0934
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Anca Cehan
Course objective: The course, delivered in English, aims at exploring the role of the English classes in the
educational process, clarifying the principles of teaching and planning, as well as familiarizing the student with a
wide range of teaching strategies. It will make use of an interactive approach, in order to enhance the students
capacity to evaluate critically, plan and perform teaching activities.
Course contents: The course continues the enterprise started the previous semester, that of evaluating critically
the new foreign languages teaching/learning practices, including those resulted from the national curriculum
reform. The main aim of the course is to update the teaching/learning theories and practice with new approaches,
methods, and techniques. The course will adapt the classroom strategies to the learners needs and will examine
the teachers roles in primary, secondary, and tertiary education. The course covers topics which have not been
developed at undergraduate level and in the ELT Methodology (I) course.
Recommended reading: Cook, Vivian, Second Language Learning and Language Teaching, London, 2001;
Nunan, David, (1991), Communicative Tasks and the Language Curriculum, TESOL Quarterly 25: 279 295,
Language Teaching Methodology: A Textbook for Teachers, New York: Prentice Hall; Pachler, Norbert and Field K.,
Learning to Teach Modern Foreign Languages in the Secondary School, Routledge, London, 1997; Petty, Geoffrey,
Teaching Today, Nelson, 2001; Richards, J. C., and Nunan D., Second Language Teacher Education, CUP, 1993
Teaching methods: interactive lectures
Assessment methods: on-going (oral) evaluation; mid-term (written) test; final (written) test
Language of instruction: English
Course title: A Psycholinguistic Perspective on Second Language Acquisition
Course code: MDE0941
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Laura Cutitaru
Course objective: The students will familiarize with basic concepts in psycholinguistics, necessary for the proper
understanding of this kind of approach to the English language acquisition.
Course contents: The material will be structured into 14 weekly lectures: Psycholinguistic research. Aims and
methods. Learning vs. Acquisition. Is learning mechanic or predetermined? Language creativity. Optimal age for
2nd language learning. Bilingualism. Competitional models of foreign language acquisition (FLA) Contrastive
analysis of FLA. Barriers to FLA. Similarities and dissimilarities in FLA and mother tongue acquisition. Cerebral
representation of foreign languages. Aphasias in the bilinguals. Language the biological model vs. The
psychological model. Foreign language and emotions. Contamination. Further considerations. Conclusions.
Recommended reading: Chomsky, Noam. Knowledge of Language: Its Nature, Origin, and Use. New York:
1986; Fodor, Jerry. The Language of Thought. Harvard UP, 1975; Jay, Timothy. The Psychology of Language. New
Jersey, 2002; Pinker, Steven. The Language Instinct. New York: 1994; Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana. Psiholingvistica, o
tiin a comunicrii. Bucureti: 1999; Whorf, B.L. Language, Thought and Reality, MIT Press, 1956
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Recommended reading: Behring, E., Scriitori romni din exil, 1945-1989, o perspectiva istorico-literara,
Bucuresti, 2001; Calafeteanu, I., Politica si exil. Din istoria exilului romnesc (1946-1950), Bucuresti, 2000; Firan,
F., Popa, C., Literatura diasporei (antologie comentata), Craiova, 1994; Marinescu, A. S., O contributie la istoria
exilului romnesc, I, II, Bucuresti, 1999, 2002; Popa, M., Rentoarcerea n Ithaca. Scriitori romni din exil,
Bucuresti, 1998
Teaching methods: interactive lecture
Assessment methods: project work
Language of instruction: French
Course title: 20th Century Linguistic Theories
Course code: MSF0815
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Iulian Popescu
Course objective: Guillaumean psychosystematics as one of the most interesting linguistic theories in the 20th
century; the course intends to describe and analyze the the principles of this theory.
Course contents: The epistemological basics of psychosystematics: theory and phenomenon, trial and intuition;
language and thought: language as a theory of the reality; the form of the Guillaumean language: the radical
binary tensor, the operative time; language vs discourse; the verification means of the Guillaumean linguistics: the
article, the mood and tense, the verbal aspect.
Recommended reading: G. Guillaume, Langage et science du langage, 2-e dition, Nizet Presses de
lUniversit Laval, Paris Qubec, 1969; G. Guillaume, Prolgomnes la linguistique structurale I, Les Presses de
lUniversit Laval, Qubec, 2003; G. Guillaume, Prolgomnes la linguistique structurale II, Les Presses de
lUniversit Laval, Qubec, 2004; I. Popescu, Timp si limbaj. Introducere n lingvistica lui G. Guillaume, Institutul
European, Iasi, 2006
Teaching methods: interactive lecture
Assessment methods: (a) mid-term written examination; (b) final written examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: French Contemporary Litrature
Course code: MSF0821
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Simona Modreanu
Course objective: Familiarize students with the latest trends in the French literature, the evolutionary
perspectives and the main representatives.
Course contents: Preliminary considerations; characteristics; evolutions. The novel dominant genre. The
fragmental approach and postmodernism. Great Romance writers: J.M.-G. Le Clzio, Jean Echenoz, Michel
Houellebecq, Patrick Grainville, Amlie Nothomb, Pascal Quignard, Tahar Ben Jelloun etc.
Recommended reading: Becker Colette (dir.), Le Roman, Rosny-sous-bois, Bral, coll. Grand Amphi, 1999;
Rey Pierre-Louis, Le Roman, Hachette Suprieur, 1992; Bourneuf R., Ouellet Ral, LUnivers du roman, PUF, 1985;
Pigay-Gros Nathalie, Le Roman, GF Flammarion, coll. Corpus , 2005; Reuter Yves, Introduction lanalyse du
roman, Bordas, 1991
Teaching methods: interactive lecture
Assessment methods: final written examination, project work
Language of instruction: French
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Course contents: Austin and the emergence of pragmatics as a field in its own right; Grice and the
conversational logic approach; fiction and literality; grammaticality and the sentence. Coherence and discourse; the
approach of discourse in terms of pertinence.
Recommended reading: Austin, J.-L., 1970, Quand dire cest faire, Le Seuil, Paris; Fauconnier, G., 1984,
Espaces mentaux, Minuit, Paris; Poprda, O., 2000, Notes verser au dossier de la pragmalinguistique, Cantes,
Iasi; Reboul, A., Moeschler, J., 1998, La pragmatique aujourdhui, Seuil, Paris
Teaching methods: interactive lecture
Assessment methods: (a) mid-term written examination; (b) final written examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Methodology of Literary Criticism (II)
Course code: MSF0942
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Marina Mureanu
Course objective: Familiarize students with the main trends of the French criticism in the 20th and 21st centuries.
A thorough study and application of the main contemporary critical approaches.
Course contents: The evolution of trends in the literary criticism and the methods to approach the literary text in
the 20th and 21st centuries. The New criticism. The structural analysis of poetry. The structural analysis of
narrative. Narratology. Intertextuality. Reception Aesthetics. Literary semiotics and text criticism. Modernism and
postmodernism.
Recommended reading: Direcii n critica i poetica francez contemporan, coord. Val Panaitescu, Editura
Junimea, Iai, 1983; Elisabeth Ravoux Rallo, Mthodes de critique littraire, Armand Colin, Paris, 1993;
Terminologie poetic i retoric, coord. Val Panaitescu, Editura Universitatii Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iai, 1994;
Antoine Compagnon, Le dmon de la thorie, Ed du Seuil, Paris, 1998
Teaching methods: lecture, interactive debate
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, written examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: African French Literature
Course code: MSF0943
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Elena-Brndua Steiciuc
Course objective: Familiarize students with a less known cultural area of the Francophonie the Maghreb
whose literature of French expression began to emerge in the second half of the 20th century, subsequent to
colonialism and postcolonialism.
Course contents: Approach of the main trends and themes of these literatures (their relation to the former
colonizer; the Arabian-Muslim or Kabyl identity; the status of women in the Muslim culture; informing against
disorders during the postcolonial period and Islamism). Approach of the most representative contemporary writers
in the three countries: M. Feraoun, M. Mammeri, K. Yacine, A. Djebar, R. Mimouni, B. Sansal, A. Memmi, T. Ben
Jelloun.
Recommended reading: Anghelescu, Nadia, Introducere n islam, Bucureti, Editura Enciclopedic, 1993; Bonn,
Charles, Le roman algrien de langue franaise, Paris, Ed. lHarmattan, 1985; Djeux, Jean, La littrature
maghrbine dexpression franaise, Paris, PUF, 1992; Schpfel, Mariannick, Les crivains francophones du
Maghreb, Paris, Ed. Ellipses, 2000; Steiciuc, Elena-Brndua, Literatura de expresie franceza din Maghreb. O
introducere, Editura Universitii din Suceava, 2003
Teaching methods: interactive lecture
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Course contents: The operational concepts of intercultural pedagogy language and culture, linguistic
competence / cultural competence, interculturalism, transculturation, aculturation, alterity etc., cultural mediation
and language pedagogy, the teachers cultural competences, from monolinguism to the dialogue between
languages and cultures, plurilingualism as seen by the European Council and the European Parliament, the
intercultural pedagogy and the European education projects.
Recommended reading: Abdalah-Pretcheille, Martine Porcher, Louis, Education et communication
interculturelle, Paris, PUF, 1996; Baumgratz-Gangel, Gisela, Comptence transculturelle et changes ducatifs,
Paris, Hachette FLE, 1993; Demorgon, Jacques, Complexit des cultures et de linterculturel, Paris, Editions
Economica, 1996; Moirand, Sophie, Enseigner communiquer en langue trangre, Paris, Hachette, 1982; Renard,
Raymond, Une thique pour la francophonie, Paris, Didier Erudition, 2003
Teaching methods: interactive lecture, debate
Assessment methods: 50% portfolio; 50% final written examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Field Linguistics
Course code: MDF0814
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Patrice Brasseur
Course objective: Familiarize students with the field linguistics subject. Train students skills in the analysis and
interpretation of field surveys.
Course contents: Types of surveys. Research hypotheses. Survey and questionnaire design. Survey practice:
informers, situations, types of interviews. Transcribing and archiving documents. Computerized data.
Recommended reading: Brasseur, Patrice, Lenqute dialectologique. Les atlas linguistiques, in Louis-Jean
Calvet et Pierre Dumont (ds.), Lenqute sociolinguistique, Paris, LHarmattan, 1999, pp. 25-59 ; Brasseur,
Patrice, Lessor des tudes canadiennes en France, en linguistique franaise, in Jean-Michel Lacroix (dir.), tat des
lieux de la recherche sur le Canada en France (1976-2001), Bordeaux, AFEC, 2001, pp. 211-222; 2001 Brasseur,
Patrice, Le patrimoine lexical des les anglo-normandes, in Jean Foyard et Philippe Monneret (ds.), Mlanges de
dialectologie, toponymie, onomastique offerts Grard Taverdet, Dijon, ABELL (Universit de Bourgogne), pp. 6176; Andr Magord (d.), Les Franco-Terre-Neuviens de la pninsule de Port-au-Port, Moncton, Universit de
Moncton, 2002, pp. 53-82;
Brigitte Horiot, Elmar Schafroth et Marie-Rose Simoni-Aurembou (ds), Mlanges Lothar Wolf je parle donc je
suis de quelque part, Lyon, Centre dtudes linguistique de Lyon 3, 2005, pp 67-77
Teaching methods: lecture, text analysis, analysis and interpretation of field surveys
Assessment methods: project work (individual and team work)
Language of instruction: French
Course title: French for Specific Purposes
Course code: MDF0815
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Mihaela Lupu
Course objective: 1. Familiarize students with the specialized languages; a thorough study of certain specialized
fields. 2. Train non-philologist adult students who wich to speak French as a specialized language; improve their
linguistic competences.
Course contents: General language vs specialized language. (Lexical, morphosyntactic, syntactic, semantic,
stylistic) characteristics of the specialized languages. Scientific and technical terms. French for business. Legal
French. Medical French. French for tourism. French in the secretarial field.
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Recommended reading: Berchoud, M.-J., Rolland, D., Franais sur objectifs spcifiques: de la langue aux
metiers, in FDM Recherches et applications, Paris, Cl international, 2004; Challe, O., Enseigner le franais de
spcialit, Paris, Economica, 2002; Kocourek, R., La langue franaise des techniques et de la science, Brandstetter
Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1991; Lerat, Pierre - Les langues spcialises, Paris, P.U.F., coll. Linguistique nouvelle, 1995;
Mangiante, J.-M., Parpette, C., Le franais sur objectif spcifique : de lanalyse des besoins llaboration dun
cours, Paris, Hachette, 2004
Teaching methods: lecture (PowerPoint presentation), online exercises, specialized translations, dialogues etc.
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, examination, project work
Language of instruction: French
Cpuan, Marina Mureanu Ionescu, Liviu Malia, Culture et francophonie, Editura Fundaiei pentru Studii
Europene, Cluj-Napoca, 2003
Teaching methods: lecture, interactive debate, team work
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, written examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Variation in the French-Speaking World
Course code: MDF0823
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Maria Pavel
Course objective: Approach of the varieties of French in the francophone area from the viewpoint of the
development of discourse and referential components belonging to the communicative competences. The phonetic,
lexical, grammatical characteristics highlighting the diversity and dynamics of the contemporary French language.
Course contents: Familiarize students with the main regional varieties in Norhern France, Meridional France and
Franco-Provenal area. The relative defining of the varieties under the circumstances of permeable regional and
state borders. Variations belonging to the neighbouring francophone countries in Europe and the former colonies of
France. The history of its emergence and the status of the French language; representative phonetic, lexical,
grammatical characteristics; linguistic policies. Regional varieties in the French-speaking Belgium, Switzerland,
North America and Africa.
Recommended reading: Pavel, Maria, Elments de sociolinguistique, Iai, Casa Editorial Demiurg, 2007; Pavel,
Maria, Le Canada francophone, Iai, Casa Editorial Demiurg, 2008; Blampain, Daniel et alii, Le franais en
Belgique, Bruxelles, Duculot, 1999; Shlpfer, Robert (coord.), La Suisse aux quatre langues, Genve, Zo, 1985;
Walter, Henriette, Le franais dici, de l, de l-bas, Paris, J.C. Latts, 1998
Teaching methods: interactive lecture
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation, seminar participation; 50% final written examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Comparative Grammar: the Interlangue Concept
Course code: MDF0824
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Mihaela Lupu
Course objective: Familiarize students with the concept of interlanguage, the main didactic, cognitive and
linguistic aspects related to the process of learning a foreign language.
Course contents: Learning a foreign language: cognitive and didactic framework. The concept of interlanguage.
Inter- and intralingual mistakes. Transfer and interference. Special cases for Romanian students learning French.
Interlanguage at the phonetic level. Interlanguage at the lexical level. Interlanguage at the morphosyntactic
level. Interlanguage at the syntactic level.
Recommended reading: Berthoud, A.-C. & Py, B. Des linguistes et des enseignants: matrise et acquisition des
langues secondes, P. Lang, Berne, 1993; Castellotti V. et Py, B. La notion de comptence en langue, Neq, ENS
Editions, 2002; Colls L. (et. al.) Didactique des langues romanes: le dveloppement de comptences chez
lapprenant, De Boeck-Duculot, 2001; Vogel, K. Linterlangue, la langue de lapprenant, Toulouse, Presses
Universitaires du Mirail, 1995; Reviste : Glottopol, Le franais dans le monde.
Teaching methods: PowerPoint presentation, text analysis
Assessment methods: project work, final written examination
Language of instruction: French
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commun de rfrence
Teaching methods: interactive lecture, workshop, panel, teamwork, simulation, role play
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, portfolio
Language of instruction: French
Students will be able to: choose and adapt these evaluation techniques according to their purpose of learning and
students educational background; transfer to the classroom activity the results of the current research in French
teaching concerning the latest evaluation techniques.
Course contents: Evaluation from a teaching perspective. Objectivity and subjectivity in evaluation. Selfevaluation. Evaluation of performances. Evaluation of activities. Evaluation of competence.
-Types of evaluators: teaching staff, inspectors, parents, trainers. Actions of evaluation: to evaluate, to judge, to
appreciate, to estimate, to mark. Forms of evaluation: written, oral, group evaluation, timed evaluation, in
classroom. Functions of evaluation: selection, training, stimulation, sanction, adaptation.
-Types of evaluation: continuous and punctual, normative and criteria-based, leading to a diagnosis and for
training. Other types of evaluation.
-Division of levels: The Common European Framework of Reference and ALTE.
-Types of tests and ways of testing knowledge: TCF, TEF, TFI.
-Lanmguage certificates: CIEP (DELF - DALF).
Recommended reading: Chaduc, Marie-Thrse, Les grandes notions de pdagogie, Armand Colin/Bordas,
2000; Hadji, Charles, Lvaluation, rgles du jeu. Paris: ESF diteur, 1989; Lussier Denise, Evaluer les
apprentissages dans une approche communicative, Paris, Hachette FLE, Formation, 1992; Veltcheff, Caroline,
Hilton, Stanley, Lvaluation en FLE, Paris, Hachette FLE, Formation, 2003; Conseil dEurope: Les langues vivantes:
the Romanian/German linguistic interference from a phonological, morphological, syntactic and lexical-semantic
point of view. In its practical part the course provides a presentation of the linguistic interference phenomenon by
means of analysing recorded spoken texts.
Recommended reading: Johannes Beckert, Wolfgang Wildgen: Einfhrung in die Sprachkontaktforschung.
Darmstadt 1991; Bernhard Capesius: Linguistische Studien. Auswahl von Helmut Kelp. Mnchen 1990; Karin Ney:
Rumnische
Transferenzen
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siebenbrgisch-schsischen
Ortsmundarten
des
Kreises
Hermannstadt/Rumnien. Marburg 1984; Adolf Schullerus .a.: Siebenbrgisch-schsisches Wrterbuch. vol. 1-9,
Sibiu, Bucureti, Berlin, Kln, Weimar 1924-2006; Adina-Lucia Nistor: Rumnisch-deutsche/siebenbrgischschsische Sprachinterferenzen im Sdwesten Siebenbrgens. Iai 2001
Teaching methods: lectures and interactive approaches
Assessment methods: individual essay on a subject proposed by the professor or the student
Language of instruction: German
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(cultural science), which caused important changes within the humanistic sciences not only in Germany, but also in
the Anglo-Saxon space, where the concept of cultural studies has a totally different meaning.
Recommended reading: Assmann, Aleida: Assmann, Alejda / Hart, Dietrich (ed.), Mnemosyne. Formen und
Funktionen der kulturellen Erinnerung, Frankfurt/Main 1991; Assmann, Alejda, Erinnerungsrume, Mnchen 1999;
Bhme, Hartmut: ber die Geburt der Kultur aus dem Wasser. In: Macht um Welt, Wien 2007, S. 59-72; MllerFunk, Wolfgang: Die Kultur und ihre Narrative, Wien/New York 2002; Nnning, Ansgar/ Nnning, Vera:
Grundbegriffe der Kulturtheorie und Kulturwissenschaften, Stuttgart/Weimar 2008
Teaching methods: Lectures, essays and interactive approaches
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, two written papers each semester
Language of instruction: German, Romanian
Course title: Literature and Arts
Course code: MGE0943
Type of course: compulsory
Course level: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Elisabeth Berger
Course objective: The course analyses the connexion and interdependence between arts. The students are
encouraged to notice the intermedial structures. The Course objective is to analyse the modern Austrian culture,
including music, plastic arts, architecture and the cinematographic arts.
Course contents: At the beginning of the term students are provided a work plan.
Recommended reading: Handout Magister Lect. Elisabeth Berger
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: intermediate test (written); final test (written)
Language of instruction: German
Course title: Translation Terminology
Course code: MGE0944
Type of course: compulsory
Course level: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Cornelia Cujb
Course objective: Thoroughgoing study of the purposes of terminology: research in the field of functional
languages, standardisation of knowledge and planning of functional languages.
Course contents: Definitions, evolution of the terminology research and practice, notion and name, systems of
notions, equivalence, terminological activity, terminological data categories, electronic management of terminology.
Debates starting from the information provided during the courses and further information offered by the
recommended reading and the internet. Identification of characteristic features from audio-visual materials and
specialised texts. Terminological cards.
Recommended reading: R. Arntz/H. Picht/F. Mayer: Einfhrung in die Terminologiearbeit. Hildesheim, 42002; H.
Felber/G. Budin: Terminologie in Theorie und Praxis. Tbingen. 1989; U. Kautz, Handbuch Didaktik des
bersetzens und Dolmetschens. Mnchen, 2000; KWES = Konferenz der bersetzungsdienste westeuropischer
Sprachen: Empfehlungen fr die Terminologiearbeit. Bern, 1990; E. Wster: Einfhrung in die allgemeine
Terminologielehre und terminologische Lexikographie. Wien, 1991
Teaching methods: Exposition - illustration application; interactive system
Assessment methods: active attendance, terminological cards, active participation in discussions and debates;
other tasks required by the professor at the beginning of the semester
Language of instruction: German
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Course title: The Mass Media: Nespapers, Radio and Television in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Course code: MGE0945
Type of course: compulsory
Course level: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ioan Lihaciu
Course objective: To provide information about the media system in the German speaking world (Austria,
Germany and Switzerland).
Course contents: The effect of the rotation technique and the mass press; the radio; the TV industry;
documentaries and film scripts; theories about mass-media effects; technologies and interactive communication
systems. Literary magazines in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; Television and literature; Art and film; the
internet and the multi author novels.
Recommended reading: Melvin de Fleur, Sandra Ball Rokeach, Teorii ale comunicrii de mas, Polirom, Iasi,
1998; Gunther Maier u. Andreas Wildberger. In 8 Sekunden um die Welt: Kommunikation ber das Internet, Bonn,
1993; Rainer Baasner u. Thomas Anz (Hrsg.), Literaturkritik. Geschichte - Theorie Praxis, Muenchen, 2004
Teaching methods: lectures interactive
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation; written examination
Language of instruction: German
Course objective: By the end of the semester the students will have enhanced their awareness of language
variation and varieties, of terminological, sociolinguistic, sociocultural, political, ethnological and teaching problems
related to the present-day status of English as the language of globalization, but also to the wide range of regional
varieties that it displays..
Course contents: System-language-norm (Coseriu); review of the descriptive and prescriptive directions in the
study of language as a system. Language as a social phenomenon. Geographic, social-educational and functionalstylistic varieties. British English vs. American English and their spheres of influence. English as a non-native
language - which English? Sociolinguistic methods of research and their applicability. English in the European
Union. Global resources in English and Internet English.
Recommended reading: Albu, Rodica, Using English(es), Iai: Demiurg, 2005; Crowley, Tony, Proper English?
Readings in Language, History and Cultural Identity, London: Routledge, 1999; Gnutzmann, Claus (ed.), Teaching
and Learning English as a Global Language. Native and Non-Native Perspectives, Stauffenburg Verlag, 1999;
Kortmann, Bernd, Dialectology meets Typology. Dialect Grammar from a cross-linguistic perspective, Berlin, New
York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004; Varieties of English, 4 volume, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin & New York, 2008;
Internet sources, other audio an video teaching materials
Teaching methods: academic lectures, brainstorming, students presentations, individual and group work;
interactive orientation of lectures and seminars
Assessment methods: active participation in class, research project, final written examination
Language of instruction: English
Course title: English Language: Modality in English and Romanian
Course code: MCEN0821
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of credits: 8
Name of the lecturer: Tamara Lctuu
Course objective: Clarification of specific aspects related to characteristics and use of the English modals.
Comparative approach of modality in order to facilitate understanding as well as prevention/correction of errors.
Students should acquire the ability to discriminate the meanings of poly-semous modals and use them in
appropriate contexts. Identification of causes of errors and of solutions for proper translation of modals.
Course contents: Considerations on and means of expressing modality. Modality in relation to speech acts,
tense, aspect, voice, negation and interrogation. Deontic and epistemic meanings and uses of primary and
marginal modals. Structurally conditioned uses of the modals. Tendencies in presentday English. A comparative
approach of modality, with special emphasis on the problems encountered by Romanians in translating the modals
used in different registers.
Recommended reading: Br Elena, 1975. The Modal Systems of English and Romanian. A Contrastive Study,
TUB; Br, Elena, 1979. Aspects Of Modality in English, BUP; Depraetere, Ilse, Susan Reed, 2006. Mood and
Modality in English in The Handbook of European Linguistics, (Eds), B. Aarts and April McMahon, Blackwell
Publishing; Hulban, H., Tamara Lctuu, Clina Goglniceanu, 2007. Exerciii i teste de limba englez pentru
performan, Iai: Polirom ; Lctuu, Tamara, 1988. Dificulti ntmpinate de vorbitorii romni n nsuirea
verbelor modale englezeti n vol. Limbi i literaturi moderne, UAIC, Iai; http://www.ucl.ac.uk/englishusage/Internet Grammar of English
Teaching methods: interactive lectures, workshops, hands-on activity
Assesment methods: homework, in-class activity in seminars, final written exam
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Evolution of Literature: Diachrony of Forms and Genres
Course code: MCEN0822
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
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The newly acquired theoretical knowledge will enable them to practically explore the exceptional abilities of the
human minds to structure, innovate and create.
Course contents: The cognitive frame. Structural, functional and cognitive linguistics. Iconicity, indexicality,
symbolicity. Conceptualizing and construing operations. Categories, concepts and senses. The prototypical model
of categorial structures. Dynamic construal of meaning. Cognitive approaches in lexical semantics: from words to
senses (semasiologie), radial networks, from concepts to words (onomasiology); taxonomies. Cognitive approaches
to grammatical forms from idioms to construction grammar. Significant morphological structures. Grammar
combining concepts. Cross-cultural semantics: language, culture, thought. Applications: cognitive approaches to
multiple translation samples: concept maps individual and group projects (using the Win Esquema application).
Recommended reading: Croft, William, D. Alan Cruse, Cognitive Linguistics, Cambridge University Press, 2004;
Radden, Gnter, Ren Driven, Cognitive English Grammar, John Benjamins Publishing Companz, AmsterdamPhiladelphia, 2007; Spencer-Oatez, Helen, Culturally speaking. Managing Rapport through Talk across Cultures,
Continuum, London / New Work, 2000; Sperber, Dan, Deirdre Wilson, Relevance. Communication and Cognition,
Basil Blackwell, London, 1986; Wierbicka, Anna, English. Meaning and Culture, OUP, 2006
Teaching methods: academic lectures, brainstorming, students presentations, individual and group in-class
work; interactive orientation of lectures and seminars
Assessment methods: active participation in class, research project, final written examination
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Poetics and Analysis Techniques of the Literary Text
Course code: MCEN0932
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: tefan Avdanei
Course objective: To develop theoretical abilities; to familiarize the students with essential concepts in the study
of literature from a theoretical perspective; to understand the types of transfer that occurs beyond the limits of
literary analysis (of the literary texts) towards the generalizations and sublimations inferred in literary theory and
poetics.
Course contents: Themes: criticism: literary and critical thinking; questions and answers from the Antiquity;
textual criticism; the linguistic approach (stylistics, semiotics) objective criticism; exponential criticism; the
historical-biographical approach; the moral-humanistic approach; the criticism of genres; literature and society;
interdisciplinary criticism; comparative approaches, the critical metaphor. The Narrative: fiction narrative
perspective plot discourse; implicit author narrator; implicit reader narrator; story plot motives;
beginnings and endings; time and space, character, allegory and symbolism, evaluation fiction. Structuralist
poetics. Fiction and poetry: definitions, graphic shape, syntactic aspect; the semantics of poetry, figurative
language.
Recommended reading: Auerbach, Erich, Mimesis (Buc. 1967); Barthes, R. et all, Pentru o teorie a textului (Buc.
1980); Chatman, Seymour, Approaches to Poetics (New Zork, 1973) and Story and Discourse (Ithaca, 1978);
Ricoeur, P., Interpretation Theory, (Fort Worth, 1976); Wellek, R., A History of Modern Literary Criticism (Yale,
1968)
Teaching methods: interactive lectures
Assessment methods: homework; research project, (final written) test
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Special Language Course: Text Linguistics
Course code: MCEN0933
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
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Course title: French Language: Morph syntax and Language Semantics Issues
Course code: MCFR0811
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: Iulian Popescu
Course objective: Familiarize students with knowledge of semantics and initiate students in the French language
semantics.
Course contents: Course: terminology-related issues, basic notions of semantics: language functions, sign,
value, referent and reference, meaning and significance, denotation and connotation etc. Discussion on notions
belonging to the generative semantics or Guillaumes psycho mechanics. Issues of lexical semantics belonging to
the Gramasian perspective: the main concepts operating under this type of semantics (sem, lexem, clasem,
semem, isotopy). The semantic relationships and the changes of meaning. Seminar: Language and
communication; System, sign, meaning and significance; Units of meaning and significance; Semic analysis;
Discourse isotopy; Semantic relationships I; Semantic relationships II.
Recommended reading: Brekle, H.E., Smantique, Armand Colin, Paris, 1974; Greimas, A. J., Courts, Joseph,
Smiotique. Dictionnaire raisonn de la thorie du langage, Paris, Hachette, Tome I, 1979; tome II, 1983;
Greimas, A.J., Smantique structurale, Larousse, Paris, 1966; Kerbrat-Orecchioni, C., La Connotation, P.U. de
Lyon,1977; Le Guern, M., Smantique de la mtaphore et de la mtonymie, Larousse, Paris, 1973; Popescu, I.
Smantiques, Editura Chemarea, Iasi, 1998; Pottier, B., Smantique gnrale, P.U.F., Paris, 1992; Saussure, F. de,
Cours de linguistique gnrale, Payot, Paris, 1971
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: written examination, seminar participation
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Evolution of Literature: Diachrony of Forms and Genres
Course code: MCFR0812
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of the lecturer: Marina Mureanu
Course objective: The thorough study of poeticity. The characteristic features of the poetic discourse and the
way it works.
Course contents: Course: The concept of poeticity. Poetic genres and forms (in poetry and fiction). From the
poetic fiction to the prose poem: the emergence of a new genre (Bertrand, Baudelaire). The characteristic features
of the prose poem. The emergence of the genre in the 2nd half of the 19th Century and the 20th Century (Rimbaud,
Mallarm). Diversification of the poetic forms in the 20th century. Models of poem analysis, theories on the poetic
discourse. Seminar: poques, vnements, volution historiques; les dates repre. Dveloppement conomique
de la France. Mentalit et esprit XIXe Lenseignement et les sciences. Les courants artistiques et littraires du XIXe
sicle. Les arts: volution des formes, correspondance des arts. Situation et statut de la littrature et de lcrivain.
Typologie des genres et volution.
Recommended reading: Suzanne Bernard, Le pome en prose de Baudelaire jusqu nos jours, Nizet, 1959;
Alain Montandon, Les formes brves, Hachette, 1992; Michel Sandras, Lire le pome en prose, Dunod, 1995; Yves
Vad, Le pome en prose et ses territoires, Belin, 1996
Teaching methods: lecture, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation, 50% written examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: French Culture and Civilisation
Course code: MCFR0813
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Course contents: Familiarize students with the issues of meaning and reference, from the perspective of the
integrated semantics pragmatics. Meaning and reference; from quelquun to personne; the neutral demonstratives
in French: disagreement and textual cohesion; the quantifying articles; the use of un; French Romanian
convergences and contrasts.
Recommended reading: Chomsky, N., 1965, Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, Cambridge Mass., The M.I.T.
Press, Ducrot, O., 1973, La prevue et le dire, Mame, Paris, Jackendoff, R.S., 1971, Any vs. every, in Linguistic
Inquiry, 3,1:119-20, Manoliu, M., 1966, Le pronom ondefini dans le dacoroumain contemporain standard, in R.R.L.,
XI, 5: 441-468, Manoliu Manea, M., 1993, Gramatica, pragmasemantica si discurs, Litera, Bucuresti
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive methods
Assessment methods: 20% students spoken French language; 40% corpus and analysis file; 40% final written
examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Evolution of Literature: Diachrony of Forms and Genres
Course code: MCFR0822
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of the lecturer: Alexandru Clinescu
Course objective: An overview on the evolution of the French literature from the perspective of the cultural life
and the dynamics of ideas; a systematic approach of literature from its three different perspectives: language,
ideology, creativity.
Course contents: Course: Identify and highlight certain features defining the specificity of the French spirit and
the French cultural tradition. Presentation of the poetics dominating the literary production of various ages, in
order to familiarize students with the concepts and literary practices. Seminar: Theoretical and historical
landmarks. The place of literature and the conditions of its study. The literary production: unity and discontinuity.
The place of medieval literature in the emergence of the French spirit and in building its specific forms of
expression (the relevance of genres). Its recognition and its innovative principles. The classical doctrine and its role
in the emergence of the French dramatic genre. The diversity of the classical spirit. Sources and resources of the
Romantic creativity. Various types of discourse showing the urge of the literary creation for modernization. The
beginning of the 20th Century: the inheritance of the Romantic experience. The post-romantic response. The trends
of the innovative effort in the main forms of creation. The main trends of the 20th century. The contemporary
literary creation.
Teaching methods: lectures
Assessment methods: 50 % ongoing evaluation and a project + 50% examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: French Culture and Civilisation
Course code: MCFR0823
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: Simona Modreanu
Course objective: Familiarize students with the genesis of the main European cultures, the different forms of
identity, as well as the evolution of this notion during the globalization period; debates on the consequences
brought about by the changes of mentalities from the contemporary cultural and political perspective.
Course contents: Course: The notion of mentality; the evolution of mentalities from modernism to
postmodernism; the social meaning of the notions culture and civilisation; the struggle between liberalism and
communitarianism in this day and age; the criticism of identity between assumed freedom and joining; the
evolution of the notion of cultural identity in the context of modernization. Seminar: Debates: the non-situation
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of France between the European aspirations and the nationalist limitations; Englands ambiguous position;
European culture and identity in Finland and the Baltic countries; the Romanian mioria and Europe.
Recommended reading: Bridges, T., 1994, The Culture of Citizenship: Inventing Postmodern Civic Culture.
NewYork, SUNY Press; Candau, J., 1996, Anthropologie de la mmoire. Paris, Presses Universitaires de France,
1998; Febvre, Lucien, L'Europe: gense d'une civilisation / cours profess au Collge de France en 1944-1945
tabli, prsent et annot par Thrse Charmasson et Brigitte, Paris, Perrin, 1999; Histoire sociale, sensibilits
collectives et mentalits. Mlanges Robert Mandrou, Paris, PUF, 1985; Lloyd Geoffrey E. R, Pour en finir avec
l'histoire des mentalits, Paris: La Dcouverte, 1993; E. Morin, La complexit humaine, Paris, Flammarion, 1994
Teaching methods: interactive: lectures, debates, case analysis
Assessment methods: 50 % ongoing evaluation and a project + 50% examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Complex Course and Seminar: Varieties of French
Course code: MCFR0824
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of the lecturer: Maria Pavel
Course objective: Provide students with the main factors which led to the diversification of language in the
francophone areas; presentation of the regional representative varieties, develop students skills in identifying and
analyzing different topolects.
Course contents: The theoretical basics of the research on the regional variations and typologies within the
francophone areas. Operational concepts; Francophonie: concept, institutions, territories. The regional varieties of
French in France according to the former dialectal areas (emphasis on the phonetic, grammatical and lexical
variations): langue dol, langue doc and Franco-Provenal. The spread of regionalisms according to the state and
regional borders; the varieties of French in the neighbouring francophone countries and in Canada Frenchspeaking Belgium and Switzerland and those following the colonisation of Africa. Francophonie in North America.
Plurality of norms: norma hexagonal, the local standard French and the popular French (le joual and le chiac).
Confederative and provincial linguistic policies; the French in Qubec. The particularity regarding the pronunciation.
Regionalisms. The borrowings; the Acadian French.
Recommended reading: Pavel, Maria, Variaia fonic in Fonetismul limbii franceze. Convergen. Dinamic.
Diversitate, Iai, Editura Universitii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, 2001, p.3-43; Blampain, Daniel et alii (sous la
direction de), Le franais en Belgique, Bruxelles, Duculot, 1999; Cerquiglini, Bernard (sous la direction de), Le
franais dans tous ses tats, Paris; Flammarion, 2000; Plourde, Michel (sous la direction de), Le franais au
Qubec. 400 ans dhistoire et de vie, Montral, Fides, 2000; Rzeau, Pierre (sous la direction de), Varits
gographiques de France aujourdhui, Paris, Bruxelles, De Boeck & Larcier, 1999; Schlpfer, Robert (sous la
direction de), La Suisse aux quatre langues, Genve, Zo, 1985; Walter, Henriette, Le franais dans tous les sens,
Paris, Laffont, 1988; Le franais dici, de l, de l-bas, Paris, J.C. Latts, 1998
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive methods
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation +50% written examination
Language of instruction: French
2ND YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: French Language: Grammatical and Linguistic Theories
Course code: MCFR0931
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of the lecturer: Maria Pavel
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Course objective: Familiarize students with the discourse analysis from a pragmatic perspective.
Course contents: Course: Increase students pragmalinguistic competences for discourse analysis; evaluate the
main trends in the field, make practical applications to discourse types (the metapolitical discourse). Seminar:
Methods of discourse analysis general presentation: text grammar / discourse analysis - the main viewpoints;
laws and principles governing the discourse; argumentative connectors; case study: political / metapolitical
discourse; a. politics / policy; b. the political discourse, a form of interdiscourse; the pragmalinguistic analysis of a
corpus of (electoral) political and metapolitical discourses.
Recommended reading: Anscombre, J.-C., Ducrot, O., 1984, LArgumentation dans la langue, Mardaga, Liege,
Ducrot, O., 1984, Le dire et le dit, Bordas, Paris, Maingueneau, D., 1990, Pragmatique pour le discours litteraire,
Bordas, Paris, Martin, R., 1983, Pour une logique du sens, P.U.F.,Paris, Poprda, O., 2000, Notes a verser au
dossier de la pragmatique, Cantes, Iasi, Reboul, A., Moeschler, J., 1998, Pragmatique du discours, Armand Colin,
Paris, Salavastru, C., 1996, Modele argumentative in discursul educational, Editura Academiei Romane, Bucuresti,
Vignaux, G., 1976, Largumentation. Essai dune logique discursive, Droz, Paris
Teaching methods: interactive methods
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation + examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Poetics and Analysis Techniques of the Literary Text
Course code: MCFR0942
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: Marina Mureanu
Course objective: Familiarize students with the main trends of the French criticism in the 20th century. A
thorough study and application of the main critical contemporary approaches. The working mechanisms of the
critical discourse.
Course contents: Course: The evolution of trends in literary criticism and methods to approach the literary text in
the 20th and 21st centuries. Seminar: Criticism and the related fields: the literary history, aesthetics, poetics,
rhetoric, stylistics etc. Psychoanalytical criticism and psycho criticism. Thematic criticism. Sociocriticism. The New
Criticism. The poetry structural analysis. The narrative structural analysis. Narratology. Intertextuality. The
aesthetics of reception. Literary semiotics and the textual criticism. Modernism and postmodernism.
Recommended reading: Direcii n critica i poetica francez contemporan, coord. Val Panaitescu, Editura
Junimea, Iai, 1983; Elisabeth Ravoux Rallo, Mthodes de critique littraire, Armand Colin, Paris, 1993;
Terminologie poetic i retoric, coord. Val Panaitescu, Editura Univ. Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iai, 1994; Antoine
Compagnon, Le dmon de la thorie, Ed du Seuil, Paris, 1998
Teaching methods: lecture, debate, students presentations
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation, 50% project paper + final examination
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Special Course and Seminar: French Language (Style and Mentalities)
Course code: MCFR0943
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: Iulian Popescu
Course objective: The complex definition of style and the relation style writing mentality.
Course contents: Course: The course intends to approach the issue of literary writing. The starting point is the
historical character of the notion of writing: any piece of literary writing" involves certain particular
characteristics at the level of the signifier which may belong to one person, a group of persons, an ethnic group or
a culture. All these particular characteristics may be identified. They are constant stylistic features and may be
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grouped under writing models or patters. Thus the style and the poetic discourse are regarded as
diachronic notions performing in these models. The French literary signifier. Seminar: The style and its
definitions; language, norm, cart; the style as intensification"; "Form - meaning": the fundamental signifier; the
forms of the discourse; Rhythm, syntax, meaning; writing and reality.
Recommended reading: Alonso, A., Materie i form n poezie, Bucureti, Editura Univers, 1982; Benveniste, "La
notion de rythme dans son expression linguistique", in Problmes de linguistique gnrale, Paris, Gallimard, 1966;
Blaga, L., Trilogia culturii, Bucureti, Editura pentru Lit. Univ., 1969; Guiraud, P., Kuentz P., La stylistique, Paris,
Klincksieck, 1970; Kuhn, Th., Structura revoluiilor tiinifice, Bucureti. Editura tiinific i enciclopedic, 1976;
Meschonnic, H., Pour la potique, Paris, Gallimard, 1971; Morier, H., Dictionnaire de Potique et de Rhtorique,
Paris, P.U.F., 1981; Popescu, I., Stil i Mentaliti, Constanta, Editura Pontica, 1992; Sensuri din forme, Iai,
Editura Universitaii "Alexandru Ioan Cuza", 1996, p. 104-167; Ricoeur, P., La mtaphore vive, Paris, Editura du
Seuil, 1975
Teaching methods: lectures
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation + seminar participation + project papers
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Special Course and Seminar: French Literature
Course code: MCFR0944
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of the lecturer: Alexandru Clinescu
Course objective: Introduction to the theory of reading.
Course contents: Course: States of reading. Historical outlook. Ways to approach a text. Seminar: Identify the
course topic in different literary works.
Recommended reading: Alberto Manguel, Histoire de la lecture; Paul Cornea, Introducere n teoria lecturii
Teaching methods: interactive lecture
Assessment methods: examination + seminar participation
Language of instruction: French
ITALIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND CIVILISATION
1ST YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: Morphosyntactic and Semantic Problems in the Italian Language (I)
Course code: MCIT0811
Course type: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: Mirela Aioane
Course objective: Students should become familiar with the numerous lexical, morphological and syntactic
transformations that contemporary Italian has known in the past decades. La questione della lingua today,
expansion of spoken Italian in the disadvantage of the written Italian. Recognizing and practical use of the neostandard Italian: definitions, general characteristics. Linguistic analysis of contemporary texts.
Course contents: Lexical, morphological and syntactic transformations in contemporary Italian. Variety and unity,
a linguistic panorama of contemporary Italy. Definitions of the concepts of dialect and linguistic variety.
Linguistic varieties. General presentation. Linguistic registers. Standard and neostandard italian. Cultisms. English
loans. Colloquial Italian. Normal and marked word order of the Italian sentence components. Allocutive signals.
Recommended reading: Bazzanella, Carla, Le facce del parlare, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1994; Beccaria, Gian
Luigi, Italiano. Antico e nuovo, Milano, Garzanti, 2002; Berruto, Gaetano, Sociolinguistica dellitaliano
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contemporaneo, Roma, La Nuova Italia Scientifica, 1987; Cortelazzo, Michele, Italiano doggi, Padova, Esedra,
2000; Orletti, Franca, Fra conversazione e discorso, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 1993; Sobrero, A (a cura di), Introduzione
allitaliano contemporaneo, La variazione e gli usi, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 1993
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation; 50% final test (written)
Language of instruction: Italian
Course title: Evolution of Literature: Diachrony of Forms and Genres (I)
Course code: MCIT0812
Course type: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of the lecturer: Drago Cojocaru
Course objective: The course aims at identifying literary forms and genres from a diachronic perspective. The
evolution of prose, poesy and theatre will be discussed, special attention being given to the changes occurring
from one period to the other as well as to the specific characteristics of each period, inner influences and the
relationships with other European literatures. Thus the students will acquire deeper knowledge of literary theories
as well as a good perspective of the European cultural evolution, throughout centuries of continental history.
Seminar debates are meant to introduce students to theoretical aspects of the Italian literary movements
throughout several centuries.
Course contents: This course analyses the evolution of the theatre, the evolution of prose themes and
narrative techniques, the evolution of the forms and poetic species in Italy.
Recommended reading: *** Letteratura Italiana Laterza (istoria literaturii italiene), vol. I-X, Laterza, RomaBari, 1996; *** Comedia Renaterii italiene, antologie, prefa, traducere i note de Eta Boeriu, Univers,
Bucureti, 1979; *** Sonetul italian n Evul Mediu i Renatere, traducere, prefa i note de C.D. Zeletin, Editura
MINERVA, Bucureti, 1970; Cojocaru, Drago Suavul suspin. Studii i eseuri, Editura revistei Convorbiri literare,
Iai, 2004; Comorovski, Cornelia Literatura Umanismului i Renaterii ilustrat cu texte, vol. I, Editura Albatros,
Bucureti, 1972
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive debates (course), text analysis (seminars)
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation; 50% final test (written)
Language of instruction: Italian
Course title: Italian Culture and Civilisation
Course code: MCIT0813
Course type: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: Eleonora Crcleanu
Course objective: The lectures and albumes presented during this course are ment to increase the students
interest for art. The main purpose is to offer them models that will sharpen their aesthetic taste and help them
recognize physical and spiritual beauty.
Course contents: The course will analyse the issue of art and the artist during the Renaissance, from the
reaction to the outer world and the Medieval thinking to the affirmation of individual artistic views, the Renaissance
man being the central element of discussion. Special attention will be given to the Medici family and their
protective actions towards artists. The language of colour during the Renaissance, with examples from the works
of the great Renaissance artists, from Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci.
Recommended reading: ARGAN, C.G., Storia dellarte italiana, Sansoni, Firenze, 1968; BERENCE, Fred, La
Renaissance italienne, Arthaud, Paris, 1966; CHASTEL, Andr, Art et humanisme Florence au temps de Laurent le
magnifique, Paris, 1959; versiune romneasc de Smaranda Rou i Grigore Arbore, Art i umanism la Florena pe
vremea lui Lorenzo Magnificul, Meridiane, Bucureti, 1981 ; DUMITRESCU-BUSULENGA, Zoe, Renaterea,
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Umansimul i dialogul artelor, Albatros, Bucureti, 1971 ; MALTESE, Corrado, Storia dellarte italiana, Einaudi,
Torino, 1960
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive debates, video sessions, interactive analyses (seminar)
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation (including the research project), 50 % examination
Language of instruction: Italian
Course title: Italian Language Complex Course and Seminar
Course code: MCIT0814
Course type: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of the lecturer: Gabriela E. Dima
Course objective: Students will be provided a solid theoretical basis in the field of linguistic and cultural
mediation, as well as deeper knowledge of the problems and text analysis instruments in order to obtain high
competences of cultural mediation. Students will also receive theoretical training for their future activity as
translators and interpreters and will be provided information regarding the difficulties of an interpreters activities
and ways of approaching them.
Course contents: Introduction in the theory of translation studies, communication through translation,
maintaining various language functions through translation, transposing metatext from one language into the
other, translating extra-linguistic contents. The technique of written translation, stages of the translation process,
analysis of the main types of translation and their characteristics, rules for a good practice, the European norm ISO
2384.
Recommended reading: AAVV, La teoria della traduzione nella storia, Bompiani, 1993; Salmon, L., Teoria della
traduzione, Storia, scienza e professione, Milano, Antonio Vallardi 2003; Steiner, George, Aspetti del linguaggio e
della traduzione, Garzanti, 2004; Eco, Umberto, Dire quasi la stessa cosa. Esperienze di traduzione, Bompiani,
2003; Bertozzi, R. Equivalenza e Sapere Traduttivo, 1999
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive debates, multimedia presentations (course), translations (seminar)
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation; 50% final test (written)
Language of instruction: Italian
Course title: Language Morphosyntax and Semantic Problems (Ii)
Course code: MCIT0821
Course type: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: Mirela Aioane
Course objective: To introduce students to the restandardization tendencies of contemporary Italian; to provide
an overview of the contemporary Italian linguistic repertoire; new tendencies in word formation in Contemporary
Italian. Grammar notions: logical and semantic structure of the compound sentence and contextual, referential and
pragmatic information.
Course contents: The semantic component and the pragmatic forc of the sentence. Deixis. Context and
pragmatic perspective. The language of the young, a variety of the colloquial register. Italian diatopic varieties.
Lexical and morphosyntactic characteristics. Contemporary Italian lexis. Diastratic varieties. The popular Italian
language. General linguistic characteristics. Linguistic analysis of contemporary literary texts (G.Culicchia),
Linguistic aspects in the novel I Malavoglia by G.Verga.
Recommended reading: Andorno, Cecilia, Che cos la pragmatica linguistica?, Roma, Carocci, 2008; Bazzanella,
Carla, Le facce del parlare, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1994; Bianchi, Claudia, Pragmatica del linguaggio, Bari,
Laterza, 2003; Levinson, S.,C., La Pragmatica, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1993; Sobrero, A (a cura di), Introduzione
allitaliano contemporaneo. La variazione e gli usi, Bari-Roma, Laterza, 1993
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
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Course title: Poetics and Analysis Techniques of the Literary Text (I)
Course code: MCIT0932
Course type: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: Drago Cojocaru
Course objective: Students will improve their knowledge in the field; semiosis-related problems will be discussed
and analysed; literature as a communication process; creation of an analytical basis for the correct understanding
and interpretation of literature generally and Italian literature especially.
Course contents: Umberto Eco: in search of the perfect culture.
Recommended reading: Eco, Umberto, Opera aperta. Forma e indeterminazione nelle poetiche contemporanee,
Bompiani, Milano, 1993; Idem, Tratat de semiotic, trad. rom., Curtea Veche, 2002; Idem, Lector in fabula, trad.
rom., Univers, Bucureti, 1991; Idem, Arta i frumosul n estetica medieval, trad. rom., Meridiane, Bucureti,
1999; Idem, La ricerca della lingua perfetta nella cultura europea, Laterza, Roma-Bari, 1999
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation; 50% final test (written)
Language of instruction: Italian
Course title: Special Course and Seminar - Italian Language (I)
Course code: MCIT0933
Course type: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: Gabriela E. Dima
Course objective: Students will learn to use new technologies in the translation process. Defining and
establishing the role of the computer in the translation process. Students should become familiar with the
opportunities provided by the data bases on the internet, multilinguistic corpuses, online dictionaries, etc. students
will be informed about the electronic instruments available for the Italian language.
Course contents: The course presents the new technologies used in the translation practice, from the classical
translators tools (dictionaries, enciclopaedias) to the multimedia tools (e-dictionaries, terminological data bases)
and the internet. As well as this, the specific use of the computer in the translators activity will be presented,
taking into account the importance of the editing, processing, text correction and the assisted translation
programmes. The course will also describe the principles of machine translation and the basics of certain
commercial translation programmes.
Recommended reading: AAVV, La teoria della traduzione nella storia, Bompiani, 1993; Salmon, L., Teoria della
traduzione, Storia, scienza e professione, Milano, Antonio Vallardi 2003; Steiner, George, Aspetti del linguaggio e
della traduzione, Garzanti, 2004; Eco, Umberto, Dire quasi la stessa cosa. Esperienze di traduzione, Bompiani,
2003; Bertozzi, R. Equivalenza e Sapere Traduttivo, 1999, ISBN 88-7916-115-6
Teaching methods: lectures, multimedia presentations, computerized demonstrations
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation; 50% final test (written)
Language of instruction: Italian
Course title: Special Course and Seminar - Italian Literature and Civilisation (I)
Course code: MCIT0934
Course type: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of the lecturer: Gabriela E. Dima
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1965; Ricoeur, P., Despre traducere, Polirom, Iai, 2005; Ionescu, Gelu, Orizontul traducerii, Univers, Bucureti,
1981
Teaching methods: lectures, debates
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation (including the research project), 50 % final examination
Language of instruction: Italian
Course title: Special Course and Seminar - Italian Language (II)
Course code: MCIT0943
Course type: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: Gabriela E. Dima
Course objective: To develop students ability of approaching texts belonging to sectorial registers, by presenting
the particularities of specialized communication. To introduce students to morphological, syntactic and lexical
aspects of sectorial registers, with a special focus on the economic, legal and public administration language, in
order to help them develop their skills as authorised translators. To help students understand the linguistic
correspondence between the Romanian and Italian legal, administrative and economic systems.
Course contents: Specialized translations, from the characteristics of this communication type to the
methodology of specialized translation and improvement strategies. Interpreting problems, with a special view on
specialized language and possible solutions for them: adaptation, recreation, mediation.
Recommended reading: Scarpa, F., La traduzione specializzata. Lingue speciali e mediazione linguistica, Milano,
Hoepli 2001; Gotti, M., I linguaggi specialistici, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1991; Cherubini, N., Litaliano per gli affari,
Roma, Bonacci, 2005; Scarpelli, U. e P. Di Lucia, Il Linguaggio del Diritto (a cura di) , Universit degli Studi di
Milano, 1994, ISBN 88-7916-050-8; Duarte I Monteserrat, C. e A. Martinez Deu, Il linguaggio giuridico, Edizioni
Condaghes, 2000
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive debates, multimedia presentations
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation; 50% final test (written)
Language of instruction: Italian
Course title: Special Course and Seminar - Foreign Literature and Civilisation (II)
Course code: MCIT0944
Course type: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of the lecturer: Drago Cojocaru
Course objective: Comprising the whole history of the world, from old Egypt and Babylon to modern times, as
well as the geography of the planet, form far West of America to Japan, the Romantic and modern Italian
melodrama is a sum of the great values of European spirituality, from Shakespeare to Walter Scott, from Goethe to
Victor Hugo. Italian melodrama is not only the pride of Italy; it also represents a strong connection between
cultures. Besides deiscovering linguistic and literary elements, its study offers a better understanding of the world.
Course contents: The global adventure of Italian melodrama, between the end of the 19th century and the 20th
century: the maturity of Giuseppe Verdi and the return to Shakespeare, Arrito Boigo and the great universal
drama, the exoticism of Giacomo Pucini, from the European adventures of the verist opera.
Recommended reading: *** Enciclopedia dello spettacolo (a cura di Silvio DAmico), vol. I-IX + Aggiornamento
1955-1965 + Indice-Repertorio, Unedi Unione Editoriale, Roma, 1975; Bourgeois, Jacques Giuseppe Verdi,
Editura Eminescu, Bucureti, 1982; PANZA, Pierluigi Un palco allopera. Il Teatro alla Scala nelle pagine del
Corriere della Sera, Rizzoli, Milano, 2006; Sacchi, Filippo Toscanini. Un secol de muzic, Editura Muzical a
Uniunii Compozitorilor, Bucureti, 1967; Verdi, Giuseppe Libretti e lettere, Mondadori, Milano, 2001
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive debates, audio-video presentations
Assessment methods: 50% ongoing evaluation; 50% final test (written)
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comparative studies); laboratory: contrastive analyses and literary analyses of representative texts. Debates on
theoretical works.
Assessment methods: final examination (written)
Language of instruction: Spanish
Course title: Spanish culture and civilisation
Course code: MCSP0813, MCSP0823
Type of course: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st, 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8/8
Name of the lecturer: Antonia Escandell Tur
Course objective: The course aims at introducing students to fundamental aspects of Spanish culture and
civilisation, with a special focus on the strong connections between arts and literature in the context of specific
social and historical circumstances..
Course contents: I. 1. The Iberic Peninsula: geographic configuration. 2. Society, languages and culture. PreRoman Iberic populations; The Roman ifluence and the foundation of Hispania. Christianism and classical culture.
Al-Andalus. II. 1. Medieval society. Medieval culture, the beginnings of Spanish literature. 2. Mester de Clereca and
Mester de Juglara. The Roman art, the Gothic art and the Hispanic-muslim art. 3. Renaissance and Humanism.
The Inquisition. The golden centuries. The discovery of America. Baroque and Illuminism. Romanticism and the
evolution towards realism. The Avantgarde. 4. The Civil War (1936 1939). The poets of the year 98. The
generation of the year 27. Hispanic American literature. The Franchism. The transition. III. 1. La Celestina, El
Lazarillo de Tormes. 2. El Greco and the Baroque. 3. Velzquez and the naturalism. 4. Goya and the separation
from the neo-classic art. 5. Gaud and the modernism. 6. Picasso and the avant-gardes. 7. Garca Mrquez and the
Latin-American boom. 8. Vctor Erice, Paco Ibez, the dictatorship and the post-war period.
Recommended reading: Artola, Miguel, Historia de Espaa, Alianza Editorial, Madrid, 1988; AA. VV., El Greco,
Editura Meridiane, Bucureti, 1971; AA. VV., Historia del Arte, Ed. Anaya, Madrid, 1979; Freixa, Mireia, El
modernismo en Espaa, Ed. Ctedra, Madrid, 1986; Garca de Cortzar, Fernando, Gonzlez Vesga, Jos Manuel,
Breve Historia de Espaa, Alianza Editorial, 2005; Martn, JJ., Historia del Arte, Ed. Gredos, Madrid, 1994
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: final examination (written)
Language of instruction: Spanish
Course title: Complex Course and Seminar: The Catalan Language
Course code: MCSP0814, MCSP0824
Type of course: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st, 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7/7
Name of the lecturer: Antonia Escandell Tur
Course objective: The course aims to introduce students to the Catalan language and culture starting from basic
notions of phonetics and vocabulary, as well as applications to concrete contexts.
Course contents: I.The verb, declinations. II. Verbal modes and tenses. III. Irregular and reflexive verbs. IV. The
numeral. V. Gender and number. VI. Adverbs and prepositions. VII. The pronouns. VIII. Specific vocabulary. IX.
Vocabulay and pronounciation exercises.
Recommended reading: Bruguera i Talleda, Jordi, Diccionari de dubtes i dificultats del catal, Ed. Diccionaris de
lenciclopdia, Barcelona, 2000; Duran, Xavier, Les histries que les paraules amaguen, Ed. Mina, Barcelona 2000;
Massip, Francesc, PALAU I VERGS, Montserrat, L'obra dramtica de Merc Rodoreda, Edicions Proa, S.A.,
Barcelona, 2004; Ortega Robert, Rudolf, Tinc un dubte. El petit llibre del catal correcte, Ed. La Magrana,
Barcelona, 2007
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: final examination (written)
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sculptures, archaic temples). Classical arts. (Phidias and Pericles. The structure of a temple. The Ionic, Doric and
Corinthic styles. Zeus temple from Olympia. Athenian Acropolis, the Parthenon and the chryselephantine statue of
Athens. Classical painting). Hellenistic art.
Recommended reading: Boardman, J. Greek Sculpture: The Classical Period. London:Thames and Hudson 1985;
Daremberg Ch., Saglio Edm., Dictionnaire des antiquites grecques et romaines, 9 voll., Paris 1878-1918 (Graz
1962). http://dagr.univ-tlse2.fr/sdx/dagr/index.xsp; Laisn, C., Art Of Ancient Greece. Sculpture, Painting,
Architecture, Editions Pierre Terrail, Paris 1995; Metis: QTVR Interface For Ancient Greek Archaeological Sites
http://www.stoa.org/metis/; Seven Wonders of Ancient Greece (DVD). Dir. Chris Lethbridge; producer Patricia
Wrobel) Atlantic Productions, Discovery Channel. 2004; Stewart. A., Greek Sculpture: An Exploration (Part III.One
hundred Greek sculptors. Their Careers and Extant Works) New Haven and London, Yale University Press 1990,
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/; Van Der Eijk, Philip J., Medicine and philosophy in Classical antiquity (Doctors and
Philosophers on Nature, Soul, Health and Disease), Cambridge University Press, 2005
Teaching methods: lectures, text analysis, multimedia presentation (virtual tour of museums and archaeological
sites), interactive approaches, heuristic conversation
Assessment methods: (a) intermediate test (written); (b) final test (written)
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Foreign language complex course and seminar
Course code: MCCL0824
Type of course: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of the lecturer: Marius Alexianu
Course objective: Specific and similar characteristics of the Greek and Latin novel; ancient Romanian literature
as the forerunner of the modern European novel
Course contents: Greek and Latin novels in relation to other species. Genesis of the ancient novel. Pre-novels.
Chronology and beginnings of the Greek novel. Structure of the main Greek novels. The erotic novel. The historic
novel. The philosophical novel. The humoristic novel. The Latin novel: genesis, themes, archetypes, characters,
compositional proceedings, style, language. The influence of ancient novels in the evolution of the modern novel.
Recommended reading: Cizek, E., Evoluia romanului antic, Bucureti 1970; Schmeling, G. (ed.), The novel in
the Ancient World, Leiden, 1996; Pecera, O., Stramaglia, A., La letteratura di consumo del mondo greco, Cassino,
1996; Wolff, E., Le roman grec et latin, Paris, 1997; Dover, K.J., The Evolution of Greek prose style, New York,
1997
Teaching methods: lecture; text analysis and translation
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation; examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
2ND YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: Classic Languages: Grammatical and Linguistic Theories
Course code: MCCL0931, MCCL0941
Type of course: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd, 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7/7
Name of the lecturer: Mihaela Paraschiv
Course objective: Students are introduced to the main grammatical and linguistic theories of the Ancient Greek
and Latin, which actually form the basis of all the linguistic theories developed in the following centuries.
Course contents: 1.Evolution of linguistics in Ancient Greece. 1.1. Ancient Greeks theories on language. 1.2.
Contributions of the Alexandrine school to the foundation of grammar as an independent science. 2. Evolution of
linguistics in Ancient Rome (2.1. The dispute between analogy and anomaly. 2.2. Theoretical contributions on
linguistics in the works of M.Terentius Varro. 2.3. Cultivation of the language in the treaties of M. Tullius Cicero.
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2.4. Ideas about language in the works of M. Fabius Quintilianus. 2.5. Latin grammarians and philologists in the
imperial period (2nd4th centuries) 2.6. Aurelius Augustinus semiotician and philosopher of the language).
Recommended reading: J.Collart, Varron grammairien latin, Paris, 1952; H. Mihiescu, Analogie i anomalie.
Caesar i Cicero, Iai, VII (1940), p.149-164; Idem, Gramaticii latini i barbarismul, Iai, VI, 1940, p.77-96;
G.Mounin, Histoire de la linguistique des origines au XX-me sicle, Paris, 1970; H.Wald, Introducere n teoria
limbajului, Bucureti, 1978
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approach
Assessment methods: (a) mid-term (written); (b) final test (written)
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Poetics and techniques of literary texts analysis
Course code: MCCL0932
Type of course: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of the lecturer: Traian Diaconescu
Course objective: The course aims at improving students knowledge regarding the genesis and the evolution of
Greek and Latin poetics and rhetoric; students should become familiar with the techniques of literary text analysis
(elements of applied poetics and rhetoric).
Course contents: I. Introduction to the history of ancient rhetoric and poetics (1. The object of rhetoric as
defined by the Greek and Latin scholars) 2. The genesis and the evolution of Greek and Latin poetics and rhetoric.
II. Ancient poetic and rhetoric doctrines. (1.Great Greek public speakers: Isocrates and Demostenes. 2. Great Latin
public speakers: Cicero and Apuleius)
Recommended reading: Monier, H., Dictionnaire de poetique et rhetorique, Paris, Press Universitaire de France,
1961; Barthes, R., Lancienne rhetorique, Paris, 1970 (1972); Plebe, A., Breve storia della retorica antica; Roma,
1968 (1990); Lausberg, H., Handbuch der literarischen Retorik, Munchen, 1960; Grupul M, Retoric general, trad.
A. Constantinescu, Buc., 1974
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approach
Assessment methods: (a) mid-term (written); (b) final test (written)
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Special foreign language course and seminar
Course code: MCCL0933, MCCL0943
Type of course: compulsory
Level of the course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd, 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8/8
Name of the lecturer: Marius-Tiberiu Alexianu
Course objective: The course aims at explaining the development of the Greek language, the only IndoEuropean language that has always been accounted in writing, for over three thousand years. The MA students will
be presented the linguistic evolution of the Greek language, which, besides Latin, had a decisive influence upon the
formation of all European languages.
Course contents: Koine Greek: phonetics, morphology, syntax, vocabulary. The relationship between Koine
Greek and the other Greek dialects. Evolution of the post-Koine Greek.
Recommended reading: Humbert, J., Histoire de la langue grecque, Paris, 1972; Pisani V., Manuale storico della
lingua greca, Brescia, 1973; Meillet, A., Apercu dune histoire de la langue grecque7, Paris, 1975 ; Kapsomenos, S.
G., Apo tin istoria tis Ellinikis glossas, Thessaloniki, 1975
Assessment methods: (a) mid-term (written); (b) final test (written)
Language of instruction: Romanian
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Recommended reading: Garncarek Piotr, Czas na czasownik, Krakw 2002; Szelc Mays Magdalena, Rybicka
Elbieta, Sowa i swka, Krakw 2003; Szelc Mays Magdalena, Nowe sowa stare rzeczy, Krakw 2004; Pasieka
Magorzata, Jzyk polski dla cudzoziemcw. wiczenia dla pocztkujcych, Wrocaw 2001
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: (a) intermediate test (written); (b) final test (written)
Language of instruction: Polish, English, Russian
2ND YEAR OF STUDY
Course Title: Russian Language: Grammatical and Linguistic Theories. Schools of Slavic Linguistics and Philology
Course Code: MCRU0931
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of lecturer: Ilie Danilov
Course objective: This course introduces the students to the Slavic cultures and languages and develops their
awareness of these peoples presence in Europe and the world. It aims at developing the students linguistic and
philological competence; building a diachronic and synchronic outlook on Slavic languages and cultures.
Course contents: The Slavic world. Slavic writing systems. The oldest texts in Slavic languages. Linguistics in
time. Slavic schools of philology. Back to the classics. The age of encyclopedias. The comparative and historical
method. Protoslavic. Old Slavonic, an Esperanto of medieval Slavic culture. Schools and trends of linguistic thought
in the 18th and 19th cc. The Prague circle. Modern schools of philology. Mathematical linguistics. Structuralism.
Psycholinguistics. Functionalism. Contemporary schools of linguistics. Russian linguists. Linguists in other Slavic
countries.
Recommended
reading:
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..
1966
.
.
: / . . .. . , 1998; , .. 1999,
, ; Ariton Vraciu 1982 Gramatica comparat a limbilor slave EUAIC 1982;
T.Simenschy,Gh.Ivnescu 1981, Introducere n studiul limbilor IE, EDP 1981; Petru Caraman 1997, Studii de
etnografie si folclor, EUAIC 1997. Descolindatul
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: presentation, examination
Language of instruction: Romanian, Russian
Course Title: Poetics And Analysis Techniques of the Literary Text: Literature and Imagology
Course Code: MCRU0932
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of lecturer: Leonte Ivanov
Course objective: Definition of operational concepts. Short history of the discipline. Studies of applied imagology
issued in Romania. Debate regarding the way foreigners are perceived in Romania (especially the Russians, the
Poles and the Ukrainians), types of otherness. The role of the foreign element in the development of the foreign
spirituality. The relationship between Romanians and Russians. From love of others to xenophobia.
Course contents: Imagology. Definition of operational concepts. A short history of the discipline; types of
images. The name image; the linguistic image of the Other. Proverbs and sayings; the Other in letters and memoir
literature; stereotypes, cliches, prejudices; self- and hetero-images; some things about the Land of the
Muscovite; identity and alterity, or about the relationship I the Other; the state of the foreigners in the
Romanian Principalities. Studies in applied imagology in Romania. Debate on ways of representing the foreigners in
Romanian culture (with a special focus on the Russian, Poles, Ukrainians). Types of alterity. The role of the foreign
element in the development of local spirituality. Relationship of Romanians and Russians. From loving ones
neighbour to xenophobia The Fear of the Other; tolerance, intolerance, xenophobia. Does one hate what one
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does not understand?; Since the Russians have been around, or about the persistance of a phobia; alterity and
the media. Adverstisments and hysteria: the foreigner. Various writings by Paul Zarifopol, Alain Besancon, Neagu
Djuvara, Pyotr Cheaadaev, George Sion, Dan Horia Mazilu, Dimitrie C. Moruzzi, Tzvetan Todorov, Ion Codru
Drguanu, Andrei Oiteanu, Ion Ghica, Madame de Stael are discussed.
Recommended reading: Lucian Boia 2000, Pentru o istorie a imaginarului. Traducere din francez de Tatiana
Mochi, Editura Humanitas, Bucureti, 2000; Piotr Ceaadaev 1993, Scrisori filosofice, urmate de Apologia unui
nebun. Traducere i note de Janina Ianoi. Prezentare de Ion Ianoi, Editura Humanitas, Bucureti; Franco Cardini
2002, Europa i Islamul. Istoria unei nenelegeri. Traducere de Drago Cojocaru, Editura Polirom, Iai, 2002; Emil
Cioran 1990, Schimbarea la fa a Romniei, Editura Humanitas, Bucureti, 1990 ; F.M. Dostoievski, Jurnal de
scriitor, I-III. Traducere de Adriana Nicoar, Marina Vraciu, Leonte Ivanov i Emil Iordache. Studiu introductiv de
Sorina Blnescu, Editura Polirom, Iai, 2008; Leonte Ivanov 2004, Imaginea rusului i a Rusiei n literatura
romn. 1840-1945. Editura Cartier, Chiinu
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: referat, examen scris i oral
Language of instruction: Romanian and Russian
Course Title: Special Course and Seminar of Russian Language: Russian in Business Communication
Course Code: MCRU0933
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of lecturer: Marina Vraciu
Course objective: Developing/Improving students skills in general business Russian.
Course contents: Main topics of Russian grammar revised and practiced in dialogues; language skills practiced
for presentations, meetings, telephoning, reports. Terminologies. Types of texts. Pre-contract correspondence. Acts
of law. Ads. Topics: companies, exhibitions, delivery, ensurance, banks, the stock exchange.
Recommended reading: Olga Bridges, Irina Tverdokhlebova 1994, Business Russian, Routlege
Ion Jurconi, Floarea Mohanu 2004, Limba rus de afaceri, Niculescu, Bucureti; L.I.Eremiona, S.I.Liubimtseva,
B.M.Tarkovskaia 2001 , Russkij jazyk dlja biznesmenov. Intensivnij kurs. Russkij jazyk Moskva 2001; Mary de
Vries 2001, Internationally Yours. Writing and communicating successfully in todays global marketplace. Houghton
Mifflin Company, Boston-New York. Ves mir, Moscow; Evan Frendo 2005, How to Teach Business English,
Longman Pearson
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: presentations, internationally-recognized test
Language of instruction: Russian, Romanian, English
Course Title: Special Course and Seminar of Foreign Literature: The Russian Literary Avantgarde
Course Code: MCRU0934
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of lecturer: Livia Cotorcea
Course objective: Presentation of the specific features of the Russian and European literary and artistic avantgarde as a whole process of creative, poetical, linguistic, and philosophical thinking
Course contents: The Russian avant-garde in synchrony with European avant-garde: Marinetti and futurism. The
main goups and trends of the Russian avant-garde between 1894 (Mir iskusstva) and 1940 (Aleksei Kruchonykh).
Futurism, akmeism, imagism, OBERJU in literature; futurism, abstractionism, suprematism, rayonnism,
constructivism, analitism etc. in visual arts; futurism, constructivism, the theatre per se in performing arts;
futurism, constructivism in architecture; futurism in music and Igor Stravinsky
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Recommended reading: R. Alberes, L aventure intelectuelle du XX-eme siecle, Paris 1969; Livia Cotorcea,
Avangarda rus, Iai 2005; Hugo Friedrich, Structura liricii moderne, Bucureti 1969; Camilla Gray, The great
Experiment: Russian Art 1863-1922, New York 1962; A. Marino, Dicionar de idei literare, Bucureti 1975
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: project paper, written and oral examination
Language of instruction: Romanian and Russian
Course Title: Russian Language: Grammatical and Linguistic Theories. Language and Culture
Course Code: MCRU0941
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 7
Name of lecturer: Ludmila Bejenaru
Course objective: The course focuses on some basic concepts of Russian culture as illustrated in Russian
language and literature
Course contents: Cultural and linguistic stereotypes. The cultural component in Russian phraseology. Some
cultural concepts: Pravda-Istina, Dusha, Intelligentia, Mir-obshina, Tsar.
Recommended reading: M.V.Gorbanovski 2000, Moskovovedenie, ucebnoe, M.Izdateliskiidom Moskovskii
ucebnic 2000; E.N.Rogov 1993, Atlas istorii kulitur Rossii, M, Rapid Print; Alexandr Soljenitn 1995, Chestiunea
rus la sfrit de secol XX, ed.Anastasia; Iuri Lotman 1991, V tocke povorota, v.sur.Literaturnajagazeta, 1991;
V.M.Zivov, B.A Uspenski 1987, Cari bog, / Jazyki kultury i problemy perevodomosti, Moskva
Teaching methods: interactive
Assessment methods: project paper, written and oral examination
Language of instruction: Romanian, Russian
Course Title: Poetics And Analysis Techniques of the Literary Text: Literature and Culture
Course Code: MCRU0942
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 8
Name of lecturer: Leonte Ivanov
Course objective: This course is focused on the ways foreigners have been perceived and received in Romania,
the impact of their presence on Romanian culture and mentality; aspects of living next to them; to what extent has
the foreigner become a model?
Course contents: Ethnic portraits: the Jew, the Armenian, the Gypsy, The Russian and the Mallorussian, the
Hungarian, the Pole; Homo viator: Romanians discovering the world, Russian travelers in the Romanian
Principates, Polish travelers in the Romanian principates; journeys to Istanbul; false images projected outside the
country; ethnic symbols; principles of alterity; the foreign element and the need for affirmation.
Recommended reading: Dobrogeanu-Gherea, Amintiri din trecutul deprtat, Bucureti, [1912]. Alexandru Duu
1979, Modele, imagini, priveliti. Incursiune n cultura european modern, Editura Dacia, Cluj-Napoca.
Echidistane, nr. 3 (34), martie 1994. Numr consacrat Imagologiei. Angus Fraser 1998, iganii, Bucureti
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches
Assessment methods: referat, examen scris i oral
Language of instruction: Romanian and Russian
Course Title: Special Course of Polish Language: Polish in Business Communication
Course Code: MCRU0943
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
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Course contents: Translatable / untranslatable. Faithfulness / Freedom. Arguments for the impossibility of
translation and their demystification. G Mounins argumentation. J.-R. Ladmirals argumentation. P. Ricoeurs
argumentation. A. Bermans argumentation. H. Meschonnics argumentation. Target language/source language
orientations. Text typologies from the translation perspective. Translation of mainly informative / expressive /
operative texts. (Objective, subjective) limits of translation criticism and evaluation.
Recommended reading: Henri Meschonnic, Potique du traduire, Verdier, 1999 ; Georges Mounin, Les Belles
Infidles, PU Lille, 1994 ; Paul Ricur, Despre traducere, Polirom, Iasi, 2005 ; Antoine Berman, La traduction et la
lettre, Seuil, Paris, 1999 ; Magda Jeanrenaud, Universaliile traducerii, Polirom, Iasi, 2006; Magda Jearenaud, Studiu
introductiv la Paul Ricur, Despre traducere, Polirom, Iasi, 2005
Teaching methods: interactive lectures
Assessment methods: final examination (written)
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Terminology
Course code: MTR0812
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Rodica Albu
Course objective: By the end of the semester the students will be familiar with the basic theoretical problems, the
stages of terminological research, of elaboration and validation of terminological documents, as well as with the
dynamic of a discipline that was imposed on academic curricula by present-day practical necessities. (The graduates of
the applied linguistics section, who will partially resume the discipline taught in the second year, will be stimulated
to act as teaching assistants.)
Course contents: The meanings of terminology. History of the discipline and its relation to other disciplines. The
social function of terminology. Situational terminology. Term-Concept-Object. Term research and subject-field
research Terminological analysis. Sample terminological analysis. Terminology records. Comparative terminology
(Full equivalence. Partial equivalence discrepancies in meaning and usage). Synonymy. Definitions in
terminology. Term formation. Standardization. Terminology and the computers.
Recommended reading: Fredrik Chr. Brogger, Culture, Language, Text: Culture Studies within the Study of
English as a Foreign Language. Oslo: Scandinavian University Press, 1992; Robert Dubuc, Terminology: a practical
approach. Quebec: Linguatech, 1997; IATE (Termbank of the Comission of the European Union); E. Pavel & C.
Rucareanu, Introducere in terminologie, Editura Academiei Romne, Bucuresti, 2001; Wright, Sue Ellen & Gerhard
Budin, Handbook of Terminology Management, 2 vols. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia. John Benjamins Publishing
Company, Vol 1: 1997, vol. 2: 2001
Teaching methods: academic lectures, brainstorming, students presentations, pair and group work; interactive
orientation of lectures and seminars
Assessment methods: (1) Regular participation in class activities (2) Portfolio with in-class work and home
assignments (3) Final examination paper
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Computer-Assisted Translation
Course code: MTR0815
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Mihaela Brut
Course objective: The students will learn how to find the tools necessary for their translation activity on the
Internet (dictionaries, thesauruses, guides, and encyclopedias), to use them in concrete situations and to store the
information they are interested in on the computer. They will also learn how use the professional formatting
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facilities provided by the MS Word, in order to prepare the texts before translation. The main objective of this
course is to familiarize students with the computer-assisted programs package TRADOS: functioning, progressive
creation of translation memories and their utilization within the translation process itself, the purpose and the
employment of each instrument comprised in the TRADOS package. Moreover, the students will learn how to use
the MultiTerm iX application in order to create terminological glossaries, as well as the Dj Vu application, offering
development facilities both for the translation memories and for the terminological glossaries. The course also
provides an introduction to the facilities designed to localize the software applications provided by PASSOLO.
Course contents: Online translation tools (Google Language Tools) and useful online resources for translators
(dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauruses, specialized guides). MS Word: defining document formatting styles;
principles for desktop publishing with the help of MS Word. The automatic translation programs package
TRADOS. Translators Workbench Trados system for translations memorization, with document analysis facilities
and
pre-translation.
TagEditor
editing
environment
for
the
annotated
texts
in
HTML/XML/SGML/ASP/JSP/INC/PHP, FrameMaker, PageMaker, PowerPoint and Excel format. WinAlign tool for
segmenting the text into units in order to apply the translations stored in the database. Xtranslate for verifying
the translations accuracy, by focusing on context and content, on the basis of already translated texts. Dj vu:
development of translation memories and terminological glossaries for the translated texts. PASSOLO for localizing
the software applications. Practice on NotePad and WordPad
Recommended reading: TRADOS TM 6.5 Training Guide; eCoLoTrain Project: Training in eContent Localization
and Translation Tools for Teachers of Professional Translations: http://ecolotrain.uni-saarland.de; INterActive
Terminology
for
Europe:
http://iate.europa.eu;
Translating
for
a
Multilingual
Community:
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/bookshelf/brochure_en.pdf; DGT: Directorate-General for Translation:
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation; The DGT Multilingual Translation Memory of the Acquis Communautaire: DGTTM:
http://langtech.jrc.it/DGT-TM.html;
Language
and
documentary
material
in
Romanian:
http://ec.europa.eu/translation/language_aids/romanian_en.htm
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive approaches, case studies
Assessment methods: Practical test: formatting a Word document and its translation with the help of Trados
Multiterm (parallel development of a translation memory and a terminological glossary to be actually used in the
translation process). The terminological glossary should indicate the online resources used in translation.
Translation of the same text with the help of Deja-Vu.
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Practice in Specialized Translation: Business English
Course code: MTR0813
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Mariana Hurjui
Course objective: The course offers an in-depth practice in the translation of the main types of business
documents. Its objective is twofold: first, to provide an extensive study of the multifaceted aspects involved in the
translation of specific business documents and second, to develop students competence in the use of information
technology and translation reference tools.
Course contents: This practical course consists of a number of key business documents such as: internal (memo,
report) and external correspondence (letters of enquiry, offer, order, complaint), the formal report, human
resource package (job description, employment contracts)
Recommended reading: Maryann V. Piotrowski, 1996. Effective Business Writing, Collins;.Gerald J Alred et al,
2006. The Business Writers Handbook, St. Martins Press; Brookes Michael, David Horner, 1996. Business English,
Teora; Marcheteau M, 2000.Engleza pentru Economie, Editura Teora; Rodica Dimitriu, Karl-Heinz Freigang (eds.)
2008. Translation Technology in Translation Classes, Institutul European.
Teaching method: individual and pair/group-work
Assessment methods: portfolio of translated documents: business letters 25% + formal report 25% +job
description doc 25% + employment contract 25%
Language of instruction: English
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Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, portfolio containing the list of tasks to complete, the translations
provided (minimum nr. of translated pages: 40) as well as other activities of text-processing. Translations will be
assessed by an academic coordinator and a member of the partner institution.
2ND YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: Translation Studies
Course code: MTR0931, MTR0941
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd, 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6/6
Name of the lecturer: Rodica Dimitriu
Course objective: to develop the trainees various translation competences by relating theoretical concepts and
notions to the practice of translation; to develop their translation skills with regard to various text-types; to develop
the trainees capacity to use the critical metalanguage they have acquired for translation quality assessment.
Course contents: Introduction: main directions in contemporary Translation Studies; The communicative
dimension of translation: pragmatic approaches (speech acts, presupposition and implicature); Textual approaches:
the holistic and generic / text-type perspectives; Functionalist approaches: general considerations, translation
pedagogy, criticism and evaluation; Sociolinguistics and translation; The (inter)cultural dimension of translation;
Translation in the information technology era. The translators status: (in)visibility in the translated text and in
society; Translation as a profession.
During the seminars, the students will apply the course-related theoretical notions to translations of various texttypes and genres.
Recommended reading: Baker, Mona (ed.) (1998) Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Studies, London/New
York: Routledge; Chesterman, Andrew (1997) Memes of Translation, Amsterdam / Philadelphia: John Benjamins;
Munday, Jeremy (2009) The Routledge Companion to Translation Studies, London/New York: Routledge; Robinson,
Douglas (1997) Becoming a Translator, London and New York: Routledge; Snell-Hornby, Mary (2006) The Turns in
Translation Studies, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.
Teaching methods: lectures, interactive methods, teamwork
Assessment methods: a) coursework; b) portfolio with in-class work and home assignments; c) final
examination paper
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Practice in Specialised Translation: Legal English
Course code: MTR0933, MTR0943
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 1st, 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6/6
Name of the lecturer: Daniela Dobo
Course objective: the course is meant to familiarize students with the concepts of legal discourse so as to train
their ability to understand legal discourse in Romanian and English. After understanding the difficulties involved by
the two discourses belonging to two different legal systems, the ability of translating between the two systems is
trained. Basic legal concepts and notions are introduced, accompanied by texts for translation. The concepts in the
two legal systems are then analysed in view of assessing their equivalence.
Course contents: I. Theoretical introduction: Law, Language and Translation; Types of legal translation; Nature
of legal language; Types of legal discourse; Sources of difficulty in legal translation. II. Practice: The legal system:
European Union Law Euro-jargon; Company law; Contracts; Formation; Structure; Terms; Clauses; Employment
law; Torts; Property law; Sale contracts; Intellectual property law; Negotiable instruments; Information technology
law; Environment law.
Recommended reading: Brieger, Nick (2002) Test Your Professional English: Law, Pearson Education Ltd;
Brookes, Michael, David Holden & Wesley Hutchinson (2005) Engleza pentru juristi, Teora, Bucureti; Brown,
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Gillian D. & Sally Rice (2007) Professional English in Use: Law, Cambridge Univ. Press; Cao, Deborah (2007)
Translating Law, Multilingual Matters, Clevedon / Toronto; Krois-Lindner, Amy & TransLegal (2006) International
Legal English, Cambridge University Press
Teaching methods: interactive
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, final examination
Language of instruction: English
Course title: Practice in Specialised Translation: Business French
Course code: MTR0934, MTR0944
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd, 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6/6
Name of the lecturer: Monica Frunz
Course objective: The course aims at familiarising the students with the translation of specialised texts
pertaining to the field of economics and commerce, from French into Romanian.
Course contents: Thematic and terminological knowledge, as well as other characteristics of commercial and
economic language; Translation of texts with a terminology specific to the various economic subfields; tax and
finance, the Stock Exchange, employment, commerce, management.
Recommended reading: Bajard, Jean-Pierre, Sibieude, Christiane: Les affaires en franais, Paris, Didier, 2002;
Balazs, Luana, Horean, Dana: Traducere specializata, Bucuresti, Credis, 2001; magazines in the economic field
available on the Internet
Teaching methods: interactive
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, 2 papers
Language of instruction: French
Course title: Terminology
Course code: MTR0932
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Rodica Albu
Course objective: by the end of the semester the students will have enhanced they ability to deal with
terminological problems of a theoretical, as well as of an practical, field-oriented nature.
Course contents: this class will focus on concept classification systems, from terminologies to ontologies, frame
semantics, retrieving and validating relevant online information, ISO documents regarding terminology
management, terminology agreements, EU terminology, ampler individual and group terminology projects.
Individual presentations of recent contributions to terminology management will be encouraged.
Recommended reading: Galinski, Christian and J.W. Gebel, Guide to Terminology Agreements, TermNet, 1996;
E. Pavel & C. Rucareanu, Introducere in terminologie, Editura Academiei Romne, Bucuresti, 2001; Pearson,
Jennifer, Terms in Context, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1998; IATE (The
European Unions Multilingual Term Base) http://iate.europa.eu/ and Terminology Collection. Online Dictionaries
http://lipas.uwasa.fi/comm/termino/collect/
Wright, Sue Ellen & Gerhard Budin, Handbook of Terminology Management, 2 vols. Amsterdam/ Pliladelphia. John
Benjamins Publishing Company, Vol 1: 1997, vol. 2: 2001
Teaching methods: academic lectures, brainstorming, students presentations, pair and group work; interactive
orientation of lectures and seminars
Assessment methods: continuous assessment, research project
Language of instruction: English
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Course contents: Globalization and regionalization: assumptions, factors, impact, history; Protectionism and free
trade; customs union theory; The evolution of the European integration process; Freedom of movement: goods,
capital, services, people; Institutional system of the European Union; Introduction to European Macroeconomics;
Economic integration - a precondition of the political unification of the European Union; European Union - a model
of economic integration; Being a translator for the European institutions.
Recommended reading: Jacques Pelkmans, Integrare european. Metode i analiz economic, I.E.R.,
Bucureti, 2003; Gabriela Pascariu, Integrare economic european, www.cse.uaic.ro; Tiberiu Brilean,
Globalizarea, Institutul European, Iai, 2004; Paul Krugman, International Economics, 1994; Jorgen Drud Hansen,
.a., An Economic Analysis of the European Community, McGraw-Hill, London, 1992; Willem Molle, The Economics
of European Integration. Theory, Practice, Policy, Ashgat, USA, 2001
Teaching methods: lectures, workshops
Assessment methods: case studies, essays, final exam
Language of instruction: Romanian
TECHNIQUES OF EDITORIAL PRODUCTION IN PRINTED, AUDIOVISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA PRESS
1ST YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: On the Pragmatics of Communication. Persuasive Strategies of Media Discourse
Course code: MJR0811, MJR0821
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st, 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6/6
Name of the lecturer: Stelian Dumistrcel
Course objective: The performance analysis in the written and oral media discourse, characteristics conditioned
by the material support of its diffusion, the nonverbal language; the characteristics of the journalistic language
and the concept of trend from a functional perspective; familiarize students with languages specific to the style of
public and private communication, develop students skills in idiomatic and expressive competences.
Course contents: An outlook on the utterance (performance and defectology), the vocabulary (special emphasis
on deviation and innovation: anglicisms, the technical words in various fields); the concept of faticity;
phraseology and the qualities/deficiencies of the expression in relation to the architecture and structure of the text;
automatism and linguistic clich, the wooden language; the crisis discourse.
Recommended reading: Bagnal, Nicholas, Newspaper Language, Oxford, Focal Press, 1993; Dumistrcel,
Stelian, Discursul repetat n textul jurnalistic. Tentaia instituirii comuniunii fatice prin mass-media, Iai, Editura
Universitii Alexandra Ioan Cuza, 2006; Slama-Cazacu, Tatiana, Stratageme comunicaionale i manipularea,
Iai, Polirom, 2000; Zafiu, Rodica, Diversitate stilistic n romna actual, Bucureti, Editura Universitii Bucureti,
2001
Teaching methods: lecture, text applications, project work
Assessment methods: 30% seminar participation, 70% final examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: History of the 20th Century in Mass Media
Course code: MJR0812, MJR0822
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 1st, 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6/6
Name of the lecturer: Remus Zastroiu
Course objec0tive: Strengthen students general cultural background by a thorough study of the information
referring to the main national periodicals between 1880 and 1945, and their historical and cultural contribution.
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Course contents: Training the Romanian journalist in the 19th century; Titles of the Romanian gazettes between
1820 and 1916. A semantic perspective; Historical and analytical monographies of the great national periodicals
(Universul, Adevarul, Opinia, Evenimentul, Cuvantul, Curentul); Writing strategies of the newspapers in
the first half of the 20th century; the comparative approach of page layout and titles of newspapers between the
two World Wars and nowadays; accidents of the cultural message and expression in the European journalism.
Recommended reading: N. Iorga, Istoria presei romanesti, ed. II, Bucuresti, 1999; Ion Iliescu, O istorie
deschisa a presei romanesti, Timisoara, 1999; I. Hangiu, Presa literara romaneasca, I II, Bucuresti, 1968; I.
Hangiu, Dictionarul presei literare, Bucuresti, 2004; Georges Weill, Le Journal, Paris, 1934
Teaching methods: lecture, debate, text analysis
Assessment methods: 30% seminar participation, 70% final examination
Course title: Media Channels and Techniques Recent Developments. Radio-TV
Course code: MJR0813
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Alexandru Lazescu
Course objective: Familiarize student with the contemporary mass-media techniques and strategies; develop
students skills in building and interpreting journalistic messages by means of audiovisual media.
Course contents: Radio media techniques and strategies; TV media techniques and strategies; Journalistic
genres and styles. Specific differences; media convergence.
Recommended reading: Bertrand, Claude-Jean, O introducere n presa scris i vorbit, Iai, Polirom, 2001;
Flichy, Patrice; Negroponte, Nicholas, Era digital, Bucureti, All Eduational, 1999; Vaughan, Tay, Multimedia. Ghid
practic, Bucureti, Teora, 2002; Marinescu, Paul, Managementul institutiilor de presa din Romania, Polirom, Iasi,
1999; Navarro, Peter, The Well-Timed Strategy: Managing the Business Cycle for Competitive Advantage, Wharton
School Publishing, 2006
Teaching methods: lecture, dialogue
Assessment methods: project paper, examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Literary Attributes of the Journalistic Text
Course code: MJR0814
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Dorin Popa
Course objective: Familiarize students with the adequate use of terminology and the different genres and styles
in journalism as compared to fiction; the characteristics specific to the journalistic style, on the one hand, and to
fictional works, on the other hand. Develop students skills in identifying the fictional aspects in the journalistic
style; identify the elements of continuity / discontinuity in the relationship between the contemporary journalism
and the one before 1989.
Course contents: The journalistic style vs. fictional style. The essay between journalism and literature.
Journalistic styles with literary characteristics. Typologies. Exemplifications. Stages of evolution in journalism and
literary aesthetics in the Romanian press. From narrative journalism (the traditional genre of the general
journalistic text) to cultural journalism (superior form of specialized journalism). Stages in writing the journalistic
text. Journalism practiced worldwide. Cultural press in Romania.
Recommended reading: Bogdan-Dasclu, Doina, Limbajul publicistic actual, Timioara, Editura Augusta, 2006;
Montaigne, Michel de, Eseuri (orice ediie); Popa, Dorin, Aspecte ale receptrii mesajului mediatic, Iai, Editura
Institutul European, 2009; Popa, Dorin, Convorbiri euharistice. Dialoguri cu Petre uea, Neagu Djuvara, Sorin
Dumitrescu i Andrei Pleu, Iai, Editura Institutul European, 1992
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Teaching methods: lecture, heuristic conversation, explanation, debate, problem-solving, team work, workshops
Assessment methods: 30% seminar participation, 30% seminar papers, 40% final examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: The Practice of Public Relations
Course code: MJR0815, MJR0824
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 1st, 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6/6
Name of the lecturer: Dan Stoica
Course objective: Familiarize students with the PR practical activity (by means of analysis, simulation, strategybuilding, segmentation of publics)
Course contents: Coordinate students PR practical activity: case studies, discussions on the adequacy of
instruments which may be used, the pertinence of theories lying at the basis of the research and the ways to
continue the study applied in the respective project.
Recommended reading: McElreath, Mark, Miller, Page W., Introduction to Public Relations and Advertising: A
Reader from the Consumer's Point of View, ed. a 3-a, Needham Heights, MA., Ginn Press, 1993; Moldoveanu, M.,
Miron, D., Psihologia reclamei, Bucureti, Editura Libra, 1995; Ritt, Adriana, Comunicare i relaii publice,
Timioara, Universitatea de Vest din Timioara, 1999; Gheorghe-Ilie Frte, Comunicarea. O abordare praxiologic,
Iai, Editura Universitii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, 2004; Stanton, N., Comunicarea, Bucureti, Societatea tiin i
Tehnic, 1995; Thoveron, G., Comunicarea politic azi, Bucureti, Editura Antet, 1996
Teaching methods: discussions, project work
Assessment methods: 30% seminar participation, 70% project work
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Media Channels and Techniques. Printed and Online Press
Course code: MJR0823
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Daniel Condurache
Course objective: Familiarize students with the contemporary mass-media technologies and strategies; develop
students skills in building and interpreting journalistic messages in analogue and digital paradigms.
Course contents: Models of mass communication; the roles of the semantic coder and decoder; the analogue
paradigm of mass communication; communication media, specific codes; media techniques and strategies in the
printed press; media techniques and strategies in audiovisual; journalistic genres and styles, specific differences;
the digital paradigm of mass communication; the digital age; conceptual valences; on-line journalism; media
convergence.
Recommended reading: Bertrand, Claude-Jean, O introducere n presa scris i vorbit ,Iai, Polirom, 2001;
Flichy, Patrice, O istorie a comunicrii moderne. Spaiul public i viaa privat, Iai, Polirom, 1999; McLuhan,
Marshall, Mass-media sau mediul invizibil, Bucureti, Nemira, 1997; Negroponte, Nicholas, Era digital, Bucureti,
All Eduational, 1999; Vaughan, Tay, Multimedia. Ghid practic, Bucureti, Teora, 2002
Teaching methods: lecture, dialogue
Assessment methods: project work, examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Postmedia Research
Course code: MJR0825
Type of course: compulsory
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Level of course: MA
Year of study: 1st
Semester: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Florea Ioncioaia
Course objective: A thorough study on the cultural digital area and the implications following the radical
transformation of the public area through the digital technology.
Course contents: Define the postmedia phenomenon. Its relation to the classical media and the emphasis on the
novelty and the specificity of digital culture. The presentation of the main manifestations which might be integrated
to this phenomenon, from blogoshere to visual arts using postmedia as a form of expression and support. An
approach to the implications of this new form of expression and communication on the public culture.
Recommended reading: Barthes, Roland: Mythologies, Paris, Seuil, 1957 (trad. rom. de Maria Carpov, Iai,
Institutul European, 1997); Bourdieu, Pierre: Despre televiziune, Bucureti, Editura Meridiane, 1988;
Contraofensive, Bucureti, Editura Meridiane, 1999; Habermas, Jrgen: Contiina moral i aciune comunicativ,
Bucureti, All, 2000; Popa, Dorin: Mass-media azi, Iai, Institutul european, 1982
Teaching methods: discussions, project work, case study, text analysis
Assessment methods: written mid-term evaluation / final written examination / oral examination (seminar
participation)
Language of instruction: Romanian
2ND YEAR OF STUDY
Course title: Geopolitics
Course code: MJR0931
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Ctlin Turliuc
Course objective: Familiarize students with the historical evolution and definition of the modern concepts of
geopolitics, its main paradigms and analysis models. An international approach of the subject and current issues
taking place in the politics among the states of the world.
Course contents: Introduction. Theoretical and conceptual explanations and specifications. Structure. The
evaluation method; the emergence of the subject and its historical context; the German school; the Anglo-Saxon
school; the French school; the Romanian school; Ecopolitics; Demopolitics; Sociopolitics; Kratopolitics; EuroAtlantic integration from geopolitical perspective; Romanian and its geopolitical position within the modern
historical context.
Recommended reading: N. Anghel, Geopolitica de la ideologie la strategie politic, Bucureti, 1985;P. Dobrescu,
Geopolitica, comunicare.ro, Bucureti, 2003;I. Bdescu, Sociologia i geopolitica frontierei, Bucureti, 1995; F.
Chatelet, E. Pisier, Concepiile politice ale secolului XX, Bucureti, 1994;H. Keyserling, Analiza spectral a Europei,
Bucureti, 1994; P. Claval, Geopolitic i geostrategie, Bucureti, 2001;E.I. Emandi, Gh. Buzatu, V.S. Cucu,
Geopolitica, Iai, 1994; C. Turliuc, Istoria i teoria relaiilor internaionale, Iai, 2000; C. Turliuc, F. Solomon, Puni
n istorie. Studii romno-germane, Iai, 2001; S. Negru, Introducere n geopolitic, Bucureti, 2006
Teaching methods: lecture, problem-solving, exemplification
Assessment methods: examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Creativity in Advertising
Course code: MJR0932
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
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Miron, D., Psihologia reclamei, Bucureti, Editura Libra, 1995; Ritt, Adriana, Comunicare i relaii publice,
Timioara, Universitatea de Vest din Timioara, 1999; Gheorghe-Ilie Frte, Comunicarea. O abordare praxiologic,
Iai, Editura Universitii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, 2004; Stanton, N., Comunicarea, Bucureti, Societatea tiin i
Tehnic, 1995; Thoveron, G., Comunicarea politic azi, Bucureti, Editura Antet, 1996
Teaching methods: discussions, project work
Assessment methods: 30% seminar participation, 70% project work
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Introduction to the Editorial System
Course code: MJR0935, MJR0945
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 3rd, 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Silviu Lupescu
Course objective: Provide students with information on the organisation of the activity in a publishing house and
the tasks of various departments, selection of titles, develop students skills and knowledge to work in a publishing
house (proof reader, editor, designer, promotion, sales) or as a cultural editor in printed press and radio-TV.
Course contents: The publishing house and its functions; the organisation of the activity in a publishing house;
criteria of title selection; models in cultural industries; the main stages in the publishing process; publishing general
devices; the book production; distribution; marketing and promotion; intellectual ownership; price and publishing
costs; elements of financial management.
Recommended reading: Lupescu, Silviu, Introducere n sisteme editoriale, note de curs (.pdf), Schuwer,
Philippe, Tratat practic de editare, Editura Amacord, Timioara, 1999; Geiser, Elizabth A. (ed), The Bussines of
Book, Westview Press, Boulder and London, 1985; Lynette Owen, Tranzacia drepturilor de autor. Ghid practic
pentru editorii din Romnia, Editura Tehnic, Bucureti, 1996
Teaching methods: course, seminar (workshop)
Assessment methods: ongoing evaluation, final examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Journalists and Writers
Course code: MJR0941
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Dorin Popa
Course objective: Familiarize students with the adequate use of terminology and the different genres and styles
in journalism as compared to fiction; the characteristics specific to the journalistic style, on the one hand, and to
fictional works, on the other hand. Develop students skills in identifying the fictional aspects in the journalistic
style; familiarize students with the Romanian and foreign writers journalistic works.
Course contents: The journalistic style vs. fictional style. From newspaper writing to journalism. Writers role in
the emergence and evolution of the European and American press. Notions adjacent to the study of the journalistic
text: context, intertext, hypotext, hypertext, paratext, metatext. The architecture of the journalistic text: structure,
title. The cultural journalism. Journalists favourite writing styles; the argumentative journalistic genres. The
interview at the border of the forming and the informing process. Journalist writers worldwide. Romanian
journalist writers.
Recommended reading: Ghioi, Adriana, Caragiale Publicist, Bucureti, Editura Tritonic, 2007; Oprea,
Ioan, Comunicare cultural i comunicare lingvistic n spaiul european, Iasi, Editura Institutul European, 2008;
Popa, Dorin, Scriitorii i politica. 1990-2007 (dialog cu Liviu Antonesei), Iasi, Editura Institutul European, 2007;
Popa, Dorin, Jurnalistul Camil Petrescu, Iai, Editura Institutul European, 2007
Teaching methods: lecture, heuristic conversation, explanation, debate, problem-solving, team work, workshops
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Assessment methods: 30% seminar participation, 30% project paper, 40% final examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
Course title: Interactive Media - Cyberculture
Course code: MJR0942
Type of course: compulsory
Level of course: MA
Year of study: 2nd
Semester: 4th
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 6
Name of the lecturer: Mihaela Popovici
Course objective: The analysis of a medium continuously changing, offering a multiple access to education,
business and entertainment. Provide students with the tools necessary to understand the design-specific
technologies and elements relating to interactive media. The presentation of interactive media as a vector of
influence and action in the public medium.
Course contents: Interactive media analyzed as a communication object: interaction regarded as relation,
significance, action; medium is the message (Marshall Mc Luhan): comparative analysis: printed press, TV,
internet; the three components of analysis relating to interactive media: technology, industry, cultural product;
idea-project-product: analogue information/digital information, digital technologies for the text, graphics, images,
sound, narrativity and interaction, design principles; on and off line interactive products; the new media and the
new audience.
Recommended reading: Guu, Dorina, New Media, Editura Tritonic, Bucureti, 2007; Fidler, Roger,
Mediamorphosis (S nelegem noile media), Editura Idea Design & Print, Cluj, 2004; Lohisse, Jean, La
communication, Bruxelles, Editura De Boeck & Larcier, 2001; Comunicarea / De la transmiterea mecanic la
interaciune, Iai, Editura Polirom, 2002; Garrand, Timothy, A practical Guide to Content Development for Interactive
Media, Ed Elsevier, Burlington (Ma), USA, 2006
Teaching methods: course, seminar
Assessment methods: 50% project work, 50% final examination
Language of instruction: Romanian
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Poetics of the theatre I. Text vs. performance: a perpetual battle for supremacy. Theatrality as a perennial
phenomenon. II. The theatrical sign. Signifier, signified. Icon, index, symbol. Referent specificity in the theatre.
Referential illusion. III. The dramatic character. Definitions, typology. The actantial model. Character-personalityidentity. Actant-actor-role. Levels and means of analysis of the dramatic character IV. Dramatic discourse. Deictic
elements. Types of speech acts in drama. The applicability of Grices theory to drama. Levels of text coherence
manifestation.
Recommended reading: Elain Aston, Theatre as Sign System: A Semiotics of Text and Performance, Routledge,
1992; Odette Caufman-Blumenfeld, Perspectives in the Semiotics and Poetics of the Theatre, Alexandru Ioan
Cuza University Press, 1990; Anne Ubersfeld, Termenii cheie ai analizei teatrului, Institutul European, Iasi, 1999;
Maria Voda-Capusan, Dramatis personae, Dacia, Cluj-Napoca, 1980; Maria Voda-Capusan, Programatica teatrului,
Eminescu, Bucureti, 1987
Name of the lecturer: Horia Hulban (8 ore)
Metaphor and metonymy. Typology and text analysis
Recommended reading: tefan Avdanei, La nceput a fost metafora, Virginia, Iai, 1994; Hulban Horia, Style
in Language, Discourses and Literature, Lumen, vol. I, Iai, 2003
Name of the lecturer: Constantin Pricop (12 hours)
A. The object of literary studies: a text interpretation. Literary reality a result of individualised and personalised
reading of the literary text. Ways of establishing the coordinates of literary text reading.
B. Communication in literary research. Definitions of communication; introduction to literary communication;
significant tendencies in investigating literature with the instruments of the communication science
C. Competences of the literary text receiver: the way they connect with elements of cultural context. Processes
through which reception is influenced by the history of literature and the dominant tendencies in the culture of the
epoch
Recommended reading: Paul Ricoeur, Eseuri de hermeneutic. Translation by Vasile Tonoiu, Editura Humanitas,
1995; G. H. Gadamer, Adevr i metod. Translation by Gabriel Cercel, Larisa Dumitru, Gabriel Kohn, Clin
Petcana, Editura Teora, 2001; J. Habermas, Cunoatere i comunicare. Preface and translation by Andrei Marga,
Editura Politic, Bucureti, 1983; Maria Corti, Principiile comunicrii literare. Translation by tefania Mincu, Editura
Univers, Bucureti, 1981; Constantin Pricop, Literatura i tranziia, Editura Universitii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iai,
2000
2. PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT OF PHILOLOGICAL RESEARCH
1 s t S e m e s t e r (56 hours)
Assessment methods: term examination
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 10
Name of the lecturer: Eugen Munteanu (56 hours)
Introductive lecture. Philology as space and fundament of culture. Short historical background. Scholastics:
university space and the birth of the concept of intellectual freedom. The modern scientific spirit. The distinction
between humanistic sciences and natural sciences. The specific traits of philology as a humanistic science. The
principles of philological research: the ethical principle, the principle of creativity, the principle of objectivity, the
empirical principle, the critical principle, the principle of tradition. The ideal profile of the young philologist.
A. Philological research project
a) The meaning of the philological research management. Planning and organisation.
b) Definition of the philological research project (PRP). Typology. Individual project, group project. Institutional
project, informal project. Theoretical scientific research, applicative scientific research. The concurential principle.
c) Characteristics of the PRP. Subject legitimacy. Valid subjects, trivial subjects. Opportunity and usefulness of the
theme. The problem of originality, plagiarism.
d) The typology of philological research product: the monograph, the treaty, the encyclopaedia, the dictionary, the
study, the essay, the article, the review, the note. Oral forms: debate, seminar, conference, lecture, intervention.
B. Resources
a) Human: Staff selection and training. Definition and demarcation of staff tasks and responsibilities. Types of
competence. Providing incentives. Co-authors, collaborators, main collaborators, secondary collaborators. Types of
qualification. Master-disciple relationship. The leadership issue. Team activity.
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b) Material: Documentation. Types of documentation. The data bank. Instruments of philological research. The
bibliography. The file. The archive. The work space. The library. Specific materials. The computer.
c) Financial: Funding sources. Source identification. Sponsorship. Budget making. Quantification of research
operation. Paying the collaborators. Mobilities related to the PRP. Costs of capitalization (publication).
C. Planning. Definition of objectives, stages and specified operations. Exact definition of the research field and subfield. The issue of interdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity. Justifying the chosen subject, inserting preliminary
results. Present stage of research. Argumentation concerning the importance of the subject and of the preliminary
results. Scientific imagination. Courage, caution, realism of initiative. The principle of reasonability and feasibility.
Complete file of a PRP.
D. Project development. Project management. a) Definition of the general objectives and of the main stages of
project implementation. Time planning. b) Defining the tasks and responsibilities of the project manager. Defining
partial operations and specific tasks of the team members. Distribution of tasks and staff training. c) Enunciation of
work hypotheses and possible alternatives. d) Establishing work methods and techniques. General scientific
methods (observation, hypothesis, experimental, induction, deduction, analysis, synthesis) and specific philological
methods. e) Quantification of intermediary processes: documentation, editing, verification, re-editing. f) Organizing
work spaces, purchasing the materials.
E. Conclusion and verification of results. Elaboration of the final form and editing of the final product (PF).
Compulsory characteristics of the PF. The issue of originality. Formal demands, the propriety of style, precision and
univocity of terminology. Standard structure of a philological monograph: a) Introduction: subject description,
justification of the importance of the research. b) Detailed and critical presentation of the problem. c) Presentation
of the initial hypothesis and methodology d) Argumentation, for all the parts, chapters and sub-chapters of the
central thesis and secondary thesis. e) Conclusions and research perspectives, underlining explicitly the
contribution of the author. Exact indication of the sources. Bibliography.
F. Capitalization of outcomes
Communication of results within the scientific community. Dissemination of original contributions. Participation in
discussions, conferences or national and international congresses. Publication. Strategies of publication. Advertising
lobbying.
Recommended reading: Gaston Bachelard, Dialectica spiritului tiinific modern. Traducere, introducere i note
de Vasile Tonoiu, vol. I-II, Editura tiinific i Enciclopedic, Bucureti, 1986; Elena Barboric/ Mirela Teodorescu/
Liviu Onu, Introducere n filologia romneasc. Orientri n tehnica cercetrii tiinifice a limbii romne, Editura
Didactic i Pedagogic, Bucureti, 1972; Christophe Charle/ Jaques Verger, Istoria universitilor. Traducere de
Eugenia Zinescu, Institutul European, Iai, 2001 ; Stephen R. Covey, Managementul timpului sau Cum ne stabilim
prioritile. Traducere de Florin lapac i Gabriela Inea, ALLFA, Bucureti, 2002; I. Coteanu/ I. Dnil, Introducere
n lingvistica i filologia romneasc, Editura Enciclopedic, Bucureti, 1970; Umberto Eco, Cum se face o tez de
licen. Disciplinele umaniste. n romnete de George Popescu, Pontica, Constana, 2000; Constantin Enchescu,
Tratat de teoria cercetrii tiinifice, Polirom, Iai, 2005; Ion Gheie/ Al. Mare, Introducere n filologia romneasc,
Bucureti, 1974; Friedrich Nietzsche, Noi, filologii. Traducere, studiu introductiv i note de Vasile Musc, Editura
Dacia, Cuj-Napoca, 1994; Magdalena Vulpe, Ghidul cercettorului umanist. Introducere n cercetarea i redactarea
tiinific, Clusium, Cluj-Napoca, 2002
Notes:
The examination will consist of a written exam on a theme indicated by the professor (2 hours); least one week
before the written examination the student will present a portfolio that will contain the following elements:
a) The initial bibliography of the chosen research theme;
b) Reading slips samples (at least 10 bibliographic units)
c) A bibliographical list of works (volumes, magazines, articles, studies, etc) issued in the past 5 years and which
are of interest for the post graduate.
d) Detailed plan of the individual research project;
e) An original article or the review of another work in the field (maximum 1000 words)
Optional courses
1. HISTORY OF LITERARY DOCTRINES
2 n d S e m e s t e r (56 hours)
Assessment methods: term examination
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Recommended reading: Jean Bollack, Sens contra sens. Cum citim?. Translation into Romanian by Magda
Jeanrenaud, Polirom, Iai, 2001; Andrei Corbea, Despre teme. Explorri n dimensiunea antropologic a literaritii,
Editura Universitii Alexandru Ioan Cuza, Iai, 1995 ; Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Die Macht der Philologie,
Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 2003; Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Diesseits der Hermeneutik. Die Produktion von
Prsenz, Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main, 2004; Wolfgang Iser, Actul lecturii. O teorie a efectului estetic. Translation
into Romanian by Romania Constantinescu, Paralela 45, Piteti/ Bucureti 2006; Hans Robert Jauss, Hermeneutic
literar i experien estetic. Translation into Romanian by Andrei Corbea, Univers, Bucureti, 1983
Name of the lecturer: Lucia Cifor (18 de hours)
1. The identity of hermeneutics within literary hstory and geography 2. The notion of text from the perspective of
Christian hermeneutics and the Kaballa; relevance of the concept for contemporary literary hermeneutics 3.
Understanding and interpretation in traditional and modern hermeneutics 4. F.D.E.Schleiermachers hermeneutics
5. The impact of phylosophical hermeneutics on the development of literary studies 6. Hermeneutics and the
sciences of culture. 7. The hermeneutics of myths 8. The hermeneutics of symbols 9. Convergent, complementary
and concurrent hermeneutics
Recommended reading: Lucia Cifor, Principii de hermeneutic literar, Iai, Editura Universitii Alexandru Ioan
Cuza; Gilbert Durand, Aventurile imaginii. Imaginaia simbolic. Imaginarul. Translation by Mugura
Constantinescu and Anioara Bobocea, Nemira, Bucureti, 1999; Hans-Georg Gadamer, Adevr i metod.
Translation by Gabriel Cercel and Larisa Dumitru, Gabriel Kohn, Ctlin Peteana, Teora, Bucureti, 2001; Paul
Ricoeur, Eseuri de hermeneutic. Translation by Vasile Tonoiu, Humanitas, Bucureti, 1995; F.D.E. Schleiermacher,
Hermeneutica. Translation, notes and introductive study by Nicolae Rmbu, Polirom, Iai, 2001; Peter Szondi,
Einfhrung in die literarische Hermeneutik, herausgegeben von Jean Bollack und Helen Stierlien, Erste Auflage
1975, Suhrkamp Verlag Frankfurt am Main
Name of the lecturer: Marina Mureanu (14 hours)
I. Introduction to literary semiotics. Definition of the field. Terminology. II. Linguistic basis of literary semiotics. III.
Literary discourse from a semiotic perspective. IV. Narrative discourse semiotics. V. Poetic discourse semiotics. VI.
Dramatic discourse semiotics. VII. The intertext a semiotic perspective
Recommended reading: A. J. Greimas (coord.), Essais de smiotique potique, Larousse, Paris, 1972 ; Grupul ,
Retoric general. Introduction by Silvian Iosifescu, translation and notes by Antonia Constantinescu and Ileana
Littera, Univers, Bucureti, 1974; Grupul , Retorica poeziei Translation into Romanian by Marina Mureanu
Ionescu, Univers, Bucureti, 1997; Jean-Marie, Klinkenberg, Iniiere n semiotica general. Translation into
Romanian by Marina Mureanu Ionescu, Institutul European, Iasi, 2004
Name of the lecturer: Simona Modreanu (8 hours)
I. Production of literary signs. Some theoretical approaches II. Deciphering the signs of the world III. The
integral being of writing. Listening to multiple voices IV. Reading as an act of assuming
Recommended reading: Umberto Eco, O teorie a semioticii. Translation from English by Cezar Radu and Costin
Popescu, Meridiane, Bucureti, 2003; A.J. Greimas, Smantique structurale, PUF, Paris 2002
Name of the lecturer: Felicia Ni-Dumas (6 hours)
I. Non-verbal sign and communication II. Gestual semiology: methodologies and operative concepts III. The
liturgical gesture from a semiological perspective
Recommended reading: Felicia Dumas, Gest i expresie n liturghia ortodox. Studiu semiologic, Institutul
European, Iai, 2000; Jacques Cosnier, La communication non verbale, Delachaux et Niestl, Neuchtel/ Paris,
1984
3. PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE
2 n d S e m e s t e r (56 hours)
Assessment methods: term examination
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 10
Name of the lecturer: Eugen Munteanu (56 hours)
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A. The philosophic concept of language. Types of approach of the philosophic concept of language. The
semiological model of language, a constant dimension of the European thinking: Aristotel, Sf. Augustin, Scholastics,
J. Locke, Condillac, G. Frege, C. S. Peirce, R. Carnap, B. Russel.
B. Integrative alternatives of the semiological model of language: Platon, G. Vico, Wilhelm von Humboldt, B. Croce,
M. Heidegger, L. Wittgenstein, H.-G. Gadamer.
C. Coseriu and the philosophical foundations of integral linguistics. Theoretical foundations of Coserius linguistic
theory. Coseriu, language philosophy historian. Coserius thinking sourcs: Aristotel, Hegel, Humboldt, Saussure,
Croce, Hjelmslev. The processual nature of human language. Historical causes of linguistic transformations.
Distinction between theoretical approach and concrete linguistic activity : universal, historic, particular. The nature
of the relation between form and substance in the language. Defining the verbal sign as logos semantikos. The
poetic language. The distinction between designation and signification. The arbitrariness of the verbal sign. The
posterity of Coserian thinking.
Recommended reading: Aristotel, Despre interpretare, n Organon, translation and introductive study by Mircea
Florian, vol. I, Bucureti, 1957; Sfntul Augustin, De Magistro/Despre nvtor. Bi-lingual edition, translation,
introduction, comments, notes and bibliography by Eugen Munteanu, Institutul European, Iai, 1995; Benedetto
Croce, Estetica ca tiin a expresiei i lingvistic general. Translation into Romanian by Dumitru Tranc, Editura
Moldova, Iai, vol. I-II, 1996; Eugenio Coseriu, Die Geschichte der Sprachphilosophie von der Antike bis zur
Gegenwart. Eine bersicht. Teil I: Von der Antike bis Leibniz, zweite Auflage, Gunter Narr, Tbingen, 1975. Teil II:
Von Leibniz bis Rousseau, Gunter Narr Verlag, Tbingen, 1972; Eugen Coeriu, Omul i limbajul su. Translation by
Dumitru Irimia, n Cronica, nr. 7, anul XXVII, 1-15 aprilie 1992, p. 6-7, 10; Eugen Coeriu, Semn, simbol, cuvnt.
Romanian version by Eugen Munteanu, in Analele tiinifice ale Universitii Alexandru Ioan Cuza din Iai,
seciunea lingvistic, tomul XXXIX, 1993, p.5-22; Eugen Coeriu, Filosofia limbajului, in Eugen Coeriu, Prelegeri i
conferine (1992-1993), Iai, 1994, p. 7-26; Martin Heidegger, Caracterul de limb al poeziei. Translation into
Romanian by Thomas Kleininger and Gabriel Liiceanu, in Secolul XX, 1-2-3/1995 (358-359-360), p. 32-45;
Wilhelm von Humboldt, Despre diversitatea structural a limbilor i influena ei asupra dezvoltrii spirituale a
umanitii. Translation, introduction, note on the translation, chronological table, bibliography and indices by Eugen
Munteanu, Humanitas, Bucureti, 2008; Eugen Munteanu, Eugenio Coseriu. Fundamente filosofice ale unei
lingvistici integrale, in t. Afloroaiei (coord.), Ideea european n filosofia romneasc, I (special edition of
Hermeneia magazine), Iai, 2005, p. 126-135; Platon, Cratylos. Translation into Romanian by Simina Noica, in
Platon, Opere, vol. III, Bucureti, 1978; Platon, Sofistul. Translation into Romanian by Constantin Noica, in Platon,
Opere, vol. VI, Bucureti, 1989; Platon, Scrisoarea a VII-a. Translation into Romanian by Constantin Noica, in
Platon, Dialoguri, Bucureti, 1968; Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus logico-philosophicus. Translation, introduction
and notes by Alexandru Surdu, Humanitas, Bucureti, 1991
4. MODERN LINGUISTIC DOCTRINES
2 n d S e m e s t e r (56 hours)
Assessment methods: term examination
Number of ECTS credits allocated: 10
Name of the lecturer: Michael Metzeltin, Institute of Romance Studies, University of Vienna, Austria (18 hours)
equivalence and its various classifications. Translation models. Comparative stylistics and translators strategies.
III. Approaching translation from a pragmatic and discourse theory perspective. Speech acts, pressuposition and
implicature in translation. IV. Textual approaches on translation: the holistic perspective; the generic perspective.
V. Functionalist approaches on translation: the theory of skopos, receiver oriented translation models.
Recommended reading: Cristea Teodora, Contrastivit et traduction, TUB, Bucureti, 1982; Rodica Dimitriu,
Theories and Practice of Translation, Institutul European, Iai, 2002; Jeremy Munday, Introducing Translation
Studies, Routledge, London and New York, 2001; Eugene A. Nida, Traducerea sensurilor. Introductive study,
interview, translation and notes by, Rodica Dimitriu, Institutul European, Iai, 2004; Christiane Nord, Translating as
a Purposeful Activity, St. Jerome, Manchester, 1997; Jean Paul Vinay & Jean Darbelnet, Stylistique compare du
franais et de langlais, Didier, Paris, 1958 (Comparative Stylistics of French and English, John Benjamins,
Amsterdam and Philadelphia, 1997)
Name of the lecturer: Alexandru Gafton (6 hours)
I. Freedom in language and social freedom;
II. The relationship between the spoken literary aspect and the living language
III. The role of opinion moulders in the dynamics changes of language.
Recommended reading: Antohi S., Utopica. Studii asupra imaginarului social, Bucureti, 1991; Baylon, C.,
Sociolingvistica. Translation by Ioana Ocneanu, Iai, 1999; Le Goff, J., Imaginarul medieval, Bucureti, 1991
Name of the lecturer: Ioan Lobiuc (6 hours)
I. Linguistic epistemology and methodology II. Philosophical foundations of linguistic methodology III. Roblems of
contemporary linguistic semiotics
Recommended reading: Paul Miclu, Semiotic lingvistic, Dacia, Cluj, 1977; Umberto Eco, Tratat de semiotic
general. Translation by Anca Giurescu and Cezar Radu, postface and notes by Cezar Radu, Editura tiinific i
Enciclopedic, Bucureti, 1982
Name of the lecturer: Luminia Hoar Cruu (12 hours)
1. Definition of pragmatics and linguistic pragmatics; the contemporary interest in pragmatic linguistics; sciences
related to linguistic pragmatics: sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics
2. Subjectivity of language (Deixis); descriptive considerations; deictic persona; deictic time; deictic space; deictic
elements of discourse; social deictic elements
3. the concept of implicit in linguistics; explicit contents vs implicit contents; presupposition vs implicature;
conversational implicatures another type of linguistic implicature; presuppositions; semantic presupposition;
pragmatics
4. Definition of conversation; conversational rules; currents in the analysis of verbal interactions; discourse analysis
vs conversation analysis
5. Conversation analysis; the ethnomethological model; conversational organisation; adjacency pairs; corrections;
pre-sequences;
6. pragmatic marking; Taxonomy of pragmatic marking; discourse marking; taxonomy of discourse marking;
politeness theoretical aspects
Recommended reading: Hoar Cruu, Luminia, Pragmalingvistic. Concepte i taxinomii, Editura Cermi, Iai,
2004; Levinson, St. C., Pragmatics, Cambridge, 1983; Moeschler, J., Reboul, Anne, Dicionar enciclopedic de
pragmatic, Editura Echinox, Cluj, 1999
Name of the lecturer: Petru Zugun (4 hours)
I. Integral morphosyntactics II. The context as syntactic unit
Recommended reading: G. Pan-Dindelegan (coord.), Dicionar de tiine ale limbii, ed. a III-a, Bucureti, 2006;
Petru Zugun, Coeziunea frastic i Realizarea unitii comunicrii prin ipostazierea i convertirea funciilor sintactice
(to be published)
Final note
The assessment method, type and methods of examination for each discipline shall be established by
mutual agreement by all course lecturers and shall be communicated to the students on the first
course.
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Part 3
Romanian Language Courses for Foreign Students
I.
LEVEL OF
COURSES
LEVEL I: BEGINNER
ORGANISED:
NUMBER
OF
COURSES:
DATES:
31 AUGUST 25 SEPTEMBER
2009
18 JANUARY 12 FEBRUARY
2010
RECEPTION OF STUDENTS
The first meeting of the EILC students usually takes place in the Senate Hall of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University
(Building A, 2nd floor, Rectorate), at 9 o'clock a.m. on the first day of the course. EILC Erasmus students will meet
the Erasmus coordinators and the professors with whom they will be working during the course.
COURSE FACILITIES
TEACHING AIDS:
LANGUAGE LABORATORY:
LIBRARY:
LANGUAGE COMPONENT
h. 140
h. 80
h. 20
h. 40
CULTURAL
COMPONENT
- SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE CULTURAL ELEMENTS INCLUDED IN THE COURSE: OBJECTIVES AND TEACHING METHODS
The course, through the above-described methods, outlines the main values of Romanian culture and
civilisation (historical, ethnographic, folkloric aspects). The participation of the foreign students in different
cultural activities and at different artistic manifestations ensures their direct contact with the everyday realities
of Romanian culture and adds to its integration within the European context.
- DURATION
TOTAL HOURS OF ACTIVITIES
h. 30
SITE VISITS
Moldovia Monastery
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Radu Rotaru, Associate professor, PhD, Head of Department of Romanian for Foreign Students, EILC
Coordinator, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Romanian Language for Foreign
Students, Bd. Carol I, no. 11, Iasi 700506, Tel./Fax: 0040 232 201553
Ioana Pastinaru, Erasmus Officer, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Department of International Relations,
European Programmes Office, Bd. Carol I no. 11, 700506 Iasi , Tel. 0040 232 201021; Fax: 0040 232 201201,
email: erasmus@uaic.ro
See more on: http://www.uaic.ro/uaic/bin/view/Cooperation/languagecourses
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Excursions:
A sightseeing tour of Iasi. History and culture have made Iasi an outstanding spiritual and political centre.
Iasi was the capital of Moldavia until the Union of the Romanian Principalities in 1859. The first modern
university in Romania, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, was founded in Iasi in 1860.
A 3-day excursion to Northern Moldavia and to the famous monasteries with their exterior paintings, which
are located in wonderful and unspoilt landscapes.
ACCOMMODATION:
Gaudeamus Centre of International Exchanges, Codrescu Campus(C17), Str. Gh. Asachi no. 17, Iasi
MEALS:
The students' dining hall.
APPLICATION AND PAYMENT OF FEES:
Fees: 1090 EUR (all the above mentioned activities, accommodation and meals are included in the
courses fees)
Full fees will be paid at the beginning of the courses.
The application deadline is 1 June 2009.
CONTACT PERSONS
Livia Dimitriu, Senior International Officer, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Department of International
Relations, Bd. Carol I no. 11, 700506 Iasi, Tel. +40 232 201021; Fax: 0040 232 201201, email:
livia.vranescu@uaic.ro
Ecaterina Volintiru, Eng., Technical Support, Tel/Fax: +40 232 201251; email: evoli@uaic.ro
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Erasmus Information
Academic year 20092010:
75 partner universities in
16 EU countries
Erasmus Office
Contact:
Accommodation
Alexandru Ioan Cuza University offers accommodation for the
Erasmus students in Gaudeamus Centre for International
Exchanges (Str. Codrescu no.17, Tel.: +40 232 201077,
Director: Teodora Tanasa, Economist).
Gaudeamus Centre is situated in the campus, within walking
distance from the main University Building, the University
Library, and Titu Maiorescu Students Canteen. Places are
available in double or triple rooms, fully furnished, including
a TV set and a refrigerator. Each room has a private
bathroom and a little balcony. Access to the Internet is freeof-charge. On each floor there is a kitchen fully equipped for
cooking. Laundry can be done at request and free-of-charge.
The accommodation fee to be paid is 490 LEI/month for a place in a double room or triple room. It is not
possible to choose a single room. For accommodation periods shorter than one month the fee to be paid is 50
LEI/night for a place in a double room or triple room. In order to arrange for your accommodation in this hostel
(actually a two-star hotel) you are kindly asked to fill in the reservation form for student accommodation (see
http://www.uaic.ro/uaic/bin/download/Cooperation/accomodation/newaccommodationform.doc), mentioning the
date and hour of your arrival in Iasi. Upon arrival you will be given the key to your room from the Reception Desk,
which is open 24 hrs./day. Deadlines for sending the accommodation form to the Erasmus office:
Medical Services
Students Medical Office no. 7: Dr. Carmen CARARE, general practitioner, address: Titu Maiorescu Campus,
Student Residence no. C 8, ground floor, tel. +40 232 201324.
All the students of our University can have free-of-charge medical assistance in the Students Medical Office:
medical examinations, prescriptions, treatments, etc. Students must show their student card/certificate, their
passport and, if necessary, their medical insurance.
Meals
Students can cook their own meals (Gaudeamus Centre offers facilities for cooking) or eat at the Students
Dining Hall (Titu Maiorescu Canteen). This canteen is situated in the Titu Maiorescu Campus, near the main
University building. Students can have breakfast, lunch and dinner at about 20 EUR.
There are also other pizzerias and restaurants in the area (including Gaudeamus Restaurant), where prices are a
little higher.
Internet Facilities
In Gaudeamus Centre for International Exchanges, free-of-charge Internet connection can be provided in each
room. The Faculty provides several computer rooms, where students can have free-of-charge access to Internet.
It is possible to use these computers only based on the student card, which proves that the student is registered
at the Faculty of Letters.
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Pre-Arrival Advice
At least two months before you leave your home university, you should contact the Erasmus Faculty Coordinator
(Dana Badulescu, Lecturer PhD, dnbadulescu@yahoo.co.uk) in order to inform her about your coming. It is with
the Faculty Coordinator that you must discuss the details related to the courses you are going to choose and to
your study programme in general.
You must also get in contact with the Erasmus Officer of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, who will help you with
any practical information concerning registration, accommodation, travel to Iasi, Romanian language courses,
and any question or problem you may have related to your Erasmus mobility.
You faxed or mailed to the Erasmus Office of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University the required application forms:
Student Application Form; Learning Agreement; Accommodation Form.
You got your Transcript of Records from your home faculty (you will need it for registration at the Faculty of
Letters).
You got a letter from the coordinator or from the International Relations Office of your home university,
stating your name, your field of study, and your period of study in Iasi.
You told the Erasmus officer of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University the exact day and time of your arrival in Iasi.
You know what documents you will be requested when back to your home institution.
! Do not leave your arrangements until the last minute. It is very important that you get in touch
with the Erasmus Faculty Coordinator and the Erasmus Office of Alexandru Ioan Cuza University at
least two months before your arrival in Iasi
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any other documents you may need when back in your home institution (special forms and/or
standardised certificates to be duly signed and stamped by our University).
You can choose courses from several faculties of the University. The Erasmus Faculty Coordinators are always ready to
help you with the choice of your study programme.
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Useful Information
CAMPUS MAP
KEY TO UNIVERSITY
CAMPUS
Libraries
All the students enrolled at the Faculty of Letters, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, can have access to all the
University libraries and to other libraries in Iasi.
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