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A Course in Linguistics for Second-Year Undergraduate Students of English
(Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou, 2023) BERBAR Katia
Linguistics is the scientific study of language. It explores how language works, how it is structured, how people use it, and how it changes over time. This course introduces students to the main areas of linguistics. It consists of five chapters covered during semesters three and four. Each chapter introduces a major branch of linguistics and provides an overview of its core concepts. The chapters progress from the study of sound systems, through word formation and internal word structure, to sentence structure and meaning.The course is designed to help students develop a clear understanding of linguistic systemsby combining explanations, examples, and activities that support learning. By the end of the course, students will gainbasic knowledge of phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics
A Course of Travel Writing for First Year Master Students in General and Comparative Literature
(Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou, 2026) BOUTIRNA Dounia
This course introduces students to the genre of travel literature through critical readings of travel literary works from diverse cultures in different historical periods from the antiquity to the modern times. The travel narratives range across historical time-periods to enable an understanding of the way the genre has evolved through time in form and content, and how every travel narrative as a discourse is impacted by the social and cultural conditions of its production. Students would be made to develop a contextual understanding of travel writing’s relation with the processes of European colonialism and post-colonialism and would be able to examine the ideologies underlying travel texts such as gender, racism and Orientalism. Through critical readings, the students are expected to develop analytical skills and to produce critical essays about different issues related to travel literature, such as the representation of the ‘other,’ the imperial gaze, the binary division of the Occident and the Orient, stereotyping peoples and places, gender issues and exile.
Writing Essays about Colonialism and Postcolonialism
(Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou, 2024) GADA Said
This course attempts to chart the area of Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. It is designed for Master I students in Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches. The course is composed of a lecture and a tutorial of 1h 30 mn each. Semester One of this master’s program is tailored for students who seek to study and understand colonial practices of power and their manifestations in the past and the present. The consequences of colonial conquests and discourses of the world need exploration. Thus, this master’s syllabus in “Writing Essays about Colonialism and Postcolonialism” is proposed to suggest areas of studies so as to meet the needs for critical analysis of the meanings, implications, and consequences of colonialism. The task, therefore, is to critically examine the manifestations of civilizational and Eurocentric discourses mainly in literary, political, economic, cultural, and artistic representations. During the first semester, the program of the courses will focus on the history of imperialism and aims at taking students to different corners of the world through studying shared experiences. It particularly lays the foundation with studies in the history of the French and the British Empires and the impacts on their colonial territories. Then, central theories in postcolonial criticism will be provided through studies of texts of authors from the Caribbean, East Indies, North and Sub-Saharan Africa.
Civilisation de la langue 1
(Mouloud Mammeri University of Tizi Ouzou, 2024) GADA Said
This course is designed for First Year students in civilization. It intends to cover the history of Britain. By the end of the first semester, students should be able to explain the collapse of the Roman Empire in Britain and its consequences in the 5th century, identify the Germanic groups (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) who migrated to Britain and describe the development of early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms (the Heptarchy). Throughout the sessions, students should discover the Norman Conquest and the invasion of William the Conqueror. The course also covers the different dynasties and the main events that marked their reign over the English crown. The main focus will be on the Plantagenets and Magna Carta, the Hundred Years War, The War of the Roses, The Tudors and the reign of Henry VIII, the Anglican Church, the Elizabethan Era, and finally the Stuarts and the Civil War. Then, it would be followed by the Glorious Revolution and the Constitutional Monarchy.
Writing Academic Research
(Mouloud MAMMERI University of Tizi-Ouzou, 2024) AMMOUR Kamila
The course Writing Academic Researchis an advanced methodology module designed for Master’s students in Foreign Language Didacticswho are preparing their Master’s dissertations. It aims to develop both students’ research competence and their academic writing literacy, enabling them to produce a coherent, methodologically sound, and academically credible dissertation. The course begins by distinguishing between doing research and writing research, emphasizing that collecting data and reportingit in an academic text require different but complementary skills. The Master’s dissertation is treated as an academic genre, following Swales’s (1990) theory of genre as a socially recognized form of communication characterized by a specific communicative purpose, schematic structure, content, and style. Students learn that their dissertation must follow the traditional simple model (Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Results, Discussion, Conclusion), whichis the standard format required by the Department of English. A core component of the course focuses on research planning, including the selection of a research topic, formulation of a research problem, definition of research aims and objectives, and the choice of an appropriate research design (case study, survey, experimental, or interpretive). Following Creswell (2014) and Cohen et al. (2007), students are trained to ensure that their research is systematic, empirically grounded, and theoretically informed. Students are then guided through the writing of a research proposal, which includes the title, background literature, objectives, methodology, significance of the study, and key references. Special attention is given to the rhetorical structure of the dissertation introduction based on Swales and Feak’s (1994) Create-A-Research-Space (CARS) model, which teaches students how to establish a research territory, identify a gap, and position their own study. Finally, the course develops students’ ability to write the main chapters of the dissertation, literature review, methodology, results, discussion, and conclusion, and to use the APA referencing system correctly, ensuring academic integrity, clarity, and scholarly credibility.
Research Methodology
(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou, 2024) AMMOUR Kamila
The course “Research Methodology in Social Sciences” is a foundational component of the Master One programme in Foreign Language Didactics at Mouloud Mammeri University. It is designed to develop students’ ability to conceptualise, design, conduct, and report empirical research in applied language studies and the wider social sciences. The course equips future researchers with both theoretical and procedural knowledge required to engage in rigorous and ethically sound academic inquiry. The course begins by introducing students to the nature and purposes of scientific research, with a particular focus on its role in educational and applied linguistics contexts. Students are guided through the philosophical underpinnings of research, notably positivism and interpretivism, enabling them to understand how epistemological assumptions shape research design, data collection, and interpretation. This theoretical grounding prepares learners to differentiate between quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods approaches, and to select the most appropriate methodological framework in relation to their research questions. A central emphasis of the course is placed on research design and planning. Students learn how to formulate research problems, define variables, develop research questions and hypotheses, and choose suitable designs such as case studies, surveys, experimental research, and interpretive studies. These skills are essential for conducting systematic investigations in foreign language education and social sciences more broadly (Cohen, Manion & Morrison, 2005;Dörnyei, 2007). The course also develops students’ competence in data collection and analysis. Learners are trained to use key instruments including questionnaires, interviews, classroom observations, and document analysis, and to analyse data through both qualitative techniques (e.g., content analysis, discourse analysis, conversation analysis) and quantitative procedures (e.g., descriptive and inferential statistics, SPSS). This dual focus ensures that students can handle diverse types of data and produce valid and reliable findings (Brown & Rodgers, 2002; Kumar, 2011). Finally, strong attention is given to sampling procedures and ethical issues, highlighting the responsibility of researchers to protect participants, ensure transparency, and maintain academic integrity. The course culminates in the design of a full research proposal, enabling students to integrate all components of the research process into a coherent and credible academic project. By the end of the course, students are not only equipped with methodological tools but are also able to think and act as novice researchers within the field of foreign language didactics and applied linguistics.
A course in Contemporary British Fiction for Master’s Students of Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches
(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-ouzou, 2024) CHABANE CHAOUCH Sarah
Literature refers to an imaginative written literary text, especially poetry, drama and fiction. Writers can rely on different literary genres, such as realistic, romance, thriller, dystopian fiction, and speculative fiction. They also introduce contemporary themes including gender, history, multiculturalism, and nature. This course introduces some contemporary themes for Masters’ students. The introduction delves into the complex realm of postmodernism, elucidating its fundamental tenets. This lecture focuses on Linda Hutcheon’s A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction because it is the main theoretical framework that explains postmodernism. The first chapter delves into multiculturalism in The Buddha of Suburbia. It defines multiculturalism and explains its main concepts, elucidating its core themes such as racism, hybridity, belonging, and integration within British society. The second chapter deals with dystopian literature and science fiction, offering a compelling reflection of humanity’s fear of advancing technology. The last chapter investigates ecocriticism and climate change in Ian McEwan’s Solar
Classical and Neo-classical Literature : Greek and Medieval
(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou, 2024) KHELIFA Arezki
The semester syllabus below is displayed in a chronological order, starting with Aeschylus and finishing with Aristophanes. The first lecture consists of explaining Aeschylus’s art by referring to his remaining works. His initiative in performative and aesthetic creativity was to be emulated and enriched by Sophocles. And always from a chronological perspective, readings and discussions of Euripides’s and Aristophanes’s plays will follow during this same semester. The reason for arranging this module’s program in a chronological pattern rather than any other is that it is intended to indicate some very significant aesthetic changes in the historical development of Greek Tragedy as art. As for the way all of these masterpieces will be read and commented, it is relevant to make reference to Aristotle’s aesthetic characteristics about Greek tragedy in order to make students re-explore the Greek myths and assimilate the inextricable links between the selected plays and the aesthetic principles of Greek tragedy as defined by Aristotle. Some of these principles, as explained in the first lecture/lesson, will constitute a core point to this module’s teaching over the whole semester. Other appeals to modern philosophical perspectives might also be made for the purpose of signaling effective influence of Greek tragedy upon modern literature

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