BACHELOR OF ARTS PROGRAM

MAJOR: VĂN HỌC/ LITERATURE

CODE: 52220330

(Under the decision no. 3596/QĐ-ĐHQGHN, issued on December 30, 2015 by the Director of VNU-Hanoi)

 

PART I: GENERAL INTRODUCTION

1. General information

• Major name:

+ Tiếng Việt:                               Văn học

+ Tiếng Anh:                               Literature

     -     Major code:                                       52220330

     -     Title:                                                   Bachelor

-    Duration:                                           4 years

     -     Degree:

+ Tiếng Việt:                               Cử nhân ngành Văn học

+ Tiếng Anh:                               The Degree of Bachelor in Literature

    -  Authorized training unit: University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU Hanoi.

2. Goals of training

- General goals

Bachelors of Arts graduating from the department of literature can work as literary researchers and work in such literature-related fields as teaching literature in middle school, high school, college; journalism and publication; management of culture and art-related activities.

- Particular goals

Bachelors of Arts graduating from the department of literature have ability of researching, preserving, and developing traditional national heritage; introducing world literatures into Vietnam and vice versa; participating in such various activities of the contemporary literary life as literary review, criticism and creative writing.

 

3. Admission

• Ways of Admission: Under the terms of VNU

PART II: OUTCOME STANDARDS OF THE PROGRAM

1.1. Learnings

Students who graduate from the department of literature have a deep theoretical learning in the major; have skills and practical experiences to deal with complex questions related to cultural and literary issues; accumulate basic learnings related to primary principles of social sciences and humanities to prepare for higher level of education such as Master and Ph.D programs; have skills of management, law and environment protection related to the major. Besides, they have following specialized learnings and skills:

1.1.1. General Learnings

- Grasping basic contents of Marxism-Leninism, thoughts of Ho Chi Minh, and revolutionary principles of Communist party of Vietnam; having main skills of basic informatic practices, national defense education and physical exercise education

- Grasping basic contents of some of social sciences and humanities related to the majors of the group of general learnings; towards the ability of applying skills and knowledge of interdisciplinary approach and literary research.

- Being able to use basic skills of foreign languages of level 4 in the 6 level frame of using foreign languages authorized in Vietnam.

1.1.2. Learnings of general majors

- Having learnings of such general majors as “Basic Vietnamese Culture,” “Methods of Research,” “Environment and Development,” “General Logic,” “History of Civilizations,” “General Government and Law,” and “General Sociology.” Besides, there are some optional supplemental majors such as “General Economics,” “General Psychology,” “Statistics for Social Sciences,” and “Practices of Vietnamese”

- Having ability of applying those learnings to dealing with particular issuses of the specialty.

1.1.3. Learnings of basic majors

- Having basic learnings of “General Sino-Nom,” “Introduction to Linguistics,” “General Arts Studies,” and General History of Vietnam.”

- In addition to those requisite learnings, there are some optional courses to help students to improve knowledge of “General Vietnamese literature,” “General Vietnamese,” Vietnamese Stylistics,” “General Anthropology,” “General Aesthetics,” and “General Journalism”

1.1.4. Learnings of majors

- Having basic knowledge about “Principles of Literary Theories,” “Vietnamese Folklore,” and “Theories and Criticism of Arts”; Having ability of applying this knowledge to studying the majors. This knowledge is requisite to the students of the majors.

- In addition to the requisite knowledge above, the students could choose to register for some courses to improve knowledge of Sino-Nom, Sociology of arts, practices of journalism and creative writing, Vietnamese Grammar, and Regional Literatures.

1.1.5. Learnings of specialized majors:

Including:

- Learnings of history of Vietnamese literature: Vietnamese literature from the 10^th century to the mid-18^th century; Vietnamese literature from the late 18^th century to the 19^th century; Vietnamese literature from 1900 to 1945; Eastern-Western cultural exchange and the change of literary paradigm in Vietnamese literature of the era of modernization. Besides, there are some optional courses to supplement speicialized learnings of Confucianism and national literature, some key authors such as Nguyen Trai, Nguyen Du, as well as the progress of modern Vietnamese poetry and short stories.

- Learnings of Russian literature and Western literature: students are required to systematically grasp issues of Russian and Western literature as well as some major schools of literary theories and criticism in the West. Besides, there are some optional supplemental courses such as “20^th century Western novels,” “French poem”… Espeically, these optional supplemental courses help students to have a comparative perspective when studying Vietnamese literature to be able to observe the process of cultural and literary exchange and reception.

- Knowledge about Oriental literature: students are required to systematically grasp issues of some primary literatures in Asia such as Chinese literature, Northeastern and Southeastern literature. Besides, there are some optional supplemental courses about the reception of Tang poem in Vietnam and poetical narratives in South East Asia. Espeically, these optional supplemental courses help students to have a comparative perspective when studying Vietnamese literature to be able to observe the process of cultural and literary exchange and reception.

- Knowledge about literary theories: students are required to systematically grasp issues of literary theories including literary genres and literary texts. Besides, students are required to grasp knowledge about methods of creative writing, methods of literary research and teaching; connecting knowledge about literary theories with others about Vietnamese literature and world literature as well as contemporary life of literature.

- Knowledge about arts studies: the students are required to systematically grasp drama and film script-related issues as well as theoretical and practical issues of adaptation, and connect this knowledge with knowledge about literature to have an interdisciplinary perspective in research.

 

1.2. Ability of self-control and responsibility

Students who graduate from the department have ability of leadership in the academic field they have been trained; have ability of thinking originally and critically in their work; have ability of self-control and adaptibility to various situation of work; self-learning and self-accumulation of knowledge to improve their own knowledge and skills; have ability of observing and drawing conclusion of academic issues; have ability of organizing and moderating when working; have ability of evaluating and improving academic activities in general.

 

2. Skills

2.1 Specialty skills

2.1.1 Job-related skills

- Having skills to complete complicated job which requires the knowledge obtained from the academic program; having skills of analyzing and synthizing materials and information and then drawing conclusion; having ability of leadership in the academic field to deal with the issues in particular situations.

- Having ability of research and critique in the literary field, updating issues of contemprorary life of literary research, theories and criticism

- Based on the knowledge and skills obtained from the training, students are able to grasp more difficult issues related to methodology of literary research, criticism and teaching; enhancing the artistic and literary sense, building up basic and necessary skills a literary a literary researcher needs to have and will use in various situations of jobmarket.

- Undertaking jobs of literary research and such literature-related fields as teaching in schools, management of culture-related activities; having ability of research and preservation of national cultural heritage; having ability of introducing primary world literatures into Vietnam and Vietnamese literature to the world; participating in the contemporary life of literature with such activities as literary criticism and publication.

2.1.2. Khả năng lập luận tư duy và giải quyết vấn đề/ Ability of critical thinking

- Having skills of synthesizing information about literary events from which to generalize the literary life with various events and offer anticipation of the possibility of literary movements in the life.

- Forming ideas, collecting materials, analyzing information, developing and completing a small-scale literary research project.

2.1.3. Ability of researching and creating knowledge.

- Having ability of using knowledge about literature and methods of literary research to carry out a small-scale literary research project or participate in bigger literary research projects

- Mastering skills of writing critique of arts, especially that of literature and film; having ability of writing film script and TV show script; having ability of dealing with literary texts such as editing, writing critique of literature and arts.

 

2.1.4. Thinking systematically

- Having ability of raising ideas and topic for research project; thinking and dealing systematically with literary issues.

- Having ability of analyzing, interpreting and evaluating such a literary phenomenon as a literary text or a group of literary texts based on systematically using knowledge about literature and literary theories and criticism

2.1.5. Social context

Having ability of and responsibility for developing the field of literary research; deeply understanding the role and influence of literary research on society and social demands required for literary research in the contemporary context, in the future, domestic context as well as international context.

2.1.6. Context of working organization

Having ability of synthesizing and anylyzing the outside context and inside context of the working organization, strategies for development of the organization as well as the relationship between the organization and the major.

2.1.7. Ability of applying theoretical knowledge to practice

- Grasping main characteristics of arts and use that knowledge in creative writing and literary research

- Being oriented to develop skills of offering, consulting about phenomena of literature and arts as well as developing arts-related media projects.

2.1.8. Ability of original creation, development and leadership in jobmarket

- Having initiative in discovering and creating the newness and original thinking in teaching, research and imaginative writing

- Having interdisciplinary knowledge to be able to work in various fields of literature, arts, and culture.

 

2.2. Supplemental skills

2.2.1. Supplemental skills for individual

- Having skills of self-control in academic activities.

 

- Having skills of making plan for academic activities.

 

- Having skills of self-adaptibility to various complex contexts.

- Having skills of time-management for academic activities.

 

2.2.2. Teamwork skills

- Having teamwork skills; managing, developing and adjusting team to be adapted with situation to get good results.

- Building up good relationship with friends and co-workers.

 

2.2.3. Skills of management and leadership

- Having skills of management in the field of culture and literature.

- Having ability of leading the organization in tasks of teaching, research, creative writing.

2.2.4. Skills of communication

- Having skills of building up ideas, arguments, communication in the form of written text; having skills of communication through such media as technologies, personal communication, and presentation.

- Having skills of understanding the addressee and learning how to appropriately communicate with the addressee.

2.2.5. Skills of communication in foreign language

- Having ability of reading and understanding main ideas of a literary research paper or a literature-related paper; having ability of using foreign language to express ideas, dealing with some common situation in the field of specialty; having ability of writing a simple report in foreign language, expressing ideas related to the specialty.

2.2.6. Other supplemental skills

- Having ability of reasoning and expressing clearly and coherently issues of specialty.

 

- Mastering such informatic programs as Microsoft Word, Powerpoint

 

- Having ability of how to search to find documents and information online; initially applying informatic programs to tasks of storing and processing information related to the specialty.

3. Ethics

3.1. Individual ethics

- Understanding and behaving in accordance with the social morality

- Understanding and living in accordance with the constitution, law, and regulation in the organization.

 

3.2. Professional ethics

- Responsibility for the job

- Having virtues of honesty and unprejudicedness in doing research; having tolerance with and respect for the variousness of aesthetic values.

- Being independent, confident; critical thinking and reasoning in studying; being open-minded; being unprejudiced and open to the newness.

3.3. Ethics in accordance with social morality

- Understanding the role of intellectuals in the society; having responsibility for social matters consisting of literary and artistic issues in particular and issues of human life in general.

- Being aware of using knowledge obtained from the training and education to contribute to the development of society.

 

4. Job opportunites for the student who graduate from this Advanced Program of the department

Students who graduate from this Advanced Program of the department can pursue the job of creative writing, journalism, research, teaching literature in schools; working in culture-related organizations; literary and artistic-related journalism and publication; management of culture-related activities; creative writing of film script and drama show script…

5. Opportunities of pursuing higher education after graduation

Pursuing Master and Ph.D. programs in Literature of Vietnam National Univeristy as well as other academic institutes.

 

 

Part 3: Content of the curriculum

1. Summary of curriculum requirements

Total credits accumulated: 139 credits, inwhich:

• Block of general knowledge in VNU: 27 credits            

      (Excluding the Physical Education and Defence and security Education, supporting skills)       

• Block of knowledge by field: 26 credits

            + Required: 20 credits

+ Optional: 6/10 credits

• Block of knowledge by major: 18 credits

            + Required:                 12 credits

            + Optional:                 6/18 credits

• Block of knowledge by group of major: 15 credits         

+ Required:                 9 credits

            + Optional:                 6/18 credits

• Block of knowledge by specific major: 53 credits

            + Required:                 35credits

            + Optional:                 8/24 credits

Annual Assignment, internships and graduation thesis: 10 credits

2. Curriculum Framework

No	Code	Courses	Credits	Credit hours			Code Prerequisite course
				Theory	Practice	Selff study
I		Block of general knowledge (M1) (Excluding subjects from 9 to11)	27
	PHI1004	Fundamentals of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy 1	2	24	6
	PHI1005	Fundamentals of Marxist-Leninist Philosophy 2	3	36	9		PHI1004
	POL1001	Ho Chi Minh's Ideology	2	20	10		PHI 1005
	HIS1002	Revolutionary Guidelines of Vietnam Communist Party	3	42	3		POL1001
	INT1004	Informatics	3	17	28
		Foreign Language 1	4	16	40	4
	FLF2101	English 1
	FLF2201	Russian 1
	FLF2301	French 1
	FLF2401	Chinese 1
		Foreign Language 2	5	20	50	5
	FLF2102	English 2					FLF2101
	FLF2202	Russian 2					FLF2201
	FLF2302	French 2					FLF2301
	FLF2402	Chinese 2					FLF2401
		Foreign Language 3	5	20	50	5
	FLF2103	English 3					FLF2102
	FLF2203	Russian 3					FLF2202
	FLF2303	French 3					FLF2302
	FLF2403	Chinese 3					FLF2402
		Physical Education	4
		Defense – Security Education	8
		Supporting skills	3
II		Block of knowledge by field (M2)	26
II.1		Required courses	20
12	MNS1053	Research Methods	3	36	9
13	HIS1056	Fundamentals of Vietnamese Culture	3	42	3
14	HIS1053	History of World Civilization	3	42	3
15	PHI1054	General Logics	3	31	14
16	THL1057	General State and Law	2	20	5	5	PHI1004
17	PSY1051	General Psychology	3	45
18	SOC1051	General Sociology	3	39	6
II.2.		Optional courses	6/10
19	INE1014	General Economics	2	20	10
20	EVS1001	Environment and Development	2	26	4
21	MAT1078	Statistics for Social Sciences	2	20	10
22	LIN1050	Practicing on Vietnamese Texts	2	20	10
23	LIB1050	Introduction to Information Literacy	2	20	10
III		Block of knowledge by major (M3)	18
III.1		Required courses	12
24	LIN2033	Introduction to Linguistics	3	45
25	SIN1001	Basic Sino-Nom	3	30	15
26	HIS1100	Overview of Vietnam History	3	42	3
27	LIT1100	General Artistry	3	45
III.2		Optional courses	6/18
28	JOU1051	Fundamentals of Mass Communication	3	39	6
29	PHI1100	General Aesthetics	3	36	9
30	ANT1100	Introduction to Anthropology	3	39	6
31	LIN1102	Vietnamese Stylistics	3	45			LIN2033
32	LIT1101	General Vietnamese Literature	3	45
33	LIN1103	General Vietnamese Language Study	3	45			LIN2033
IV		Block of knowledge by group of major (M4)	15
IV.1		Required courses	9
34	LIT3001	Principles of Literary Theory	2	30
35	LIT3044	Vietnamese Folk Literature	5	75
36	LIT3048	Theories and Critics of Arts	2	28	2		LIT1100
IV.2		Optional courses	6/18
37	LIT1154	Classical Chinese in Vietnam	3	45
38	LIT1155	Sociology of Art	3	45			LIT 1100
39	LIT1156	Practical Journalism and  Literary Creation	3	42	3
40	LIT1157	Indian Literature	3	45
41	LIT1158	North American and Latin American Literature	3	45
42	LIT1159	Grammar of Vietnamese Language	3	45			LIN 2033
V.		Block of knowledge by specific major (M5)	53
V.1		Required courses	35
43	LIT1150	Film Art – An Introduction	2	28	2		LIT 1100
44	LIT3057	Literary Works and Literary Genres	4	60			LIT 3001
45	LIT3005	Vietnamese Literature from 10th  Century to First Half of 18th Century	3	45
46	LIT3050	Vietnammese Literature from the Late Half of 18thCentury to 19th Century	4	60			LIT 3005
47	LIT3051	Vietnamese Literature from 1900 to 1945	4	60			LIT 3050
48	LIT3058	Vietnamese Literature from 1945 to now	3	45			LIT 3051
49	LIT3053	Chinese Literature	4	60
50	LIT3014	Southeast and Northeast Asian Literature	2	30
51	LIT3059	European Literature	5	75
52	LIT3055	Russian Literature	4	60
V.2		Optional courses	8/24
53	LIT3043	Creative Methodology	2	30
54	LIT3020	Poetics of Folk Literature	2	30			LIT 3044
55	LIT3021	Confucianism and National Literature	2	30			LIT 3050
56	LIT3049	Nguyen Trai and Nguyen Du in the History of Vietnamese Literature	2	30			LIT 3050
57	LIT3022	The Process of Modern Vietnamese Poetry	2	30			LIT 3058
58	LIT3019	Short Story: Theoretical and Practical Issues of Genre	2	30			LIT 3058
59	LIT3024	Southeast Asian Narrative Verse	2	30
60	LIT3034	Reception of Tang Poetry in Vietnam	2	30			LIT 3053
61	LIT3000	Western Novel in the 20th Century: Trends and Characteristics	2	30			LIT 3059
62	LIT3037	French Poetry: Some Issues of Theory	2	30			LIT 3059
63	LIT3056	Adaptation in Film Art	2	28	2		LIT 1150
64	LIT3063	Issues in Contemporary Chinese Literature	2	30			LIT 3053
V.3		Annual Assignment, Internship and Graduation thesis	10
65	LIT4051	Internship	3	9	27	9
66	LIT4050	Annual Thesis	2	10	10	10
67	LIT4052	Final Thesis	5
		Graduation thesis  or Replacement Subjects	5
68	LIT4053	Historical Features of Vietnamese Literature	3	45
69	LIT4054	Evolution Progress of Literary Theories	2	30
Total			139