Course Title : British History and Culture
Code		Course Type	Regular Semester	Lecture (hours/week)	Seminar (hours/week)	Lab (hours/week)	Credits	ECTS
ELL 315-1		B	5	4	0	0	4.00	5
Lecturer and Office Hours
Teaching Assistant and Office Hours
Language				English
Course Level
Description		A course that seeks to teach students the main elements of Modern British Culture and History
Objectives		1. To teach students the importance of class in understanding how English people think and behave. 2. To teach students the history of Britain from the end of the Roman occupation up to and including the Industrial Revolution. 3. To allow students to appreciate and understand how this history has made the society/ body politic that is in evidence in Britain today and how it has influenced the nature of British people. 4. To show students how British people interact and why they choose the forums and ways they do. 5. To encourage students to ask questions and draw conclusions about their own culture and compare it with British culture 6. To teach students the essence of Englishness. 7. To teach them what effect globalization has or hasn’t had on Englishness
Course Outline
Week	Topics
1	Introduction
2	Diamers - the Weather
3	Greeting each other
4	Humour
5	Linguistic Class Codes
6	Mobile phones
7	Social talk
8	Midterm Exam
9	Home
10	Home
11	Driving
12	Work
13	Play
14	Food
15	Rites of Passage
16	Final Exam
Prerequisites
Textbook
Other References
Laboratory Work
Computer Usage
Other
Learning Outcomes and Competences
1	To be able to appreciate the importance of class in understanding how English people think and behave.
2	To have an understanding of the history of Britain from the end of the Roman occupation through the Dark Ages and especially since the Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions.
3	To be able to appreciate and understand how this history has made the society/ body politic that is in evidence in Britain today and how it has influenced the nature of British people.
4	To be able to identify how British people interact and why they choose the forums and ways they do.
5	To be able to identify how their culture and British culture is different and the same and why it is so and to try to ask the same type of questions about their own culture as are being applied to British culture and society in this course.
Course Evaluation Methods
In-term studies						Quantity	Percentage
Midterms						1	30
Quizzes						0	0
Projects						1	15
Term Projects						0	0
Laboratory						0	0
Attendance						0	0
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade							45
Contribution of final examination to overall grade							55
Total							100
ECTS (Allocated Based on Student) Workload
Activities					Quantity	Duration (hours)	Total Workload (hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week : 16 x Total course hours)					16	4	64
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)					14	3	42
Assignments					1	5	5
Midterms					1	3	3
Final examination					1	5	5
Other					0	0	0
Total Work Load							119
Total Work Load / 25 (hours)							4.76
ECTS							5

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