Information for Erasmus students in the Department of English and American Studies
Courses offered to Erasmus+ exchange students in autumn 2025
Codes preceded by AJL0 are reserved for first-year students (if Erasmus+ students are interested in enrolling in these courses, please contact department Erasmus+ coordinator at fortova@phil.muni.cz), courses AJ1 are Bachelor’s level courses, AJL2 are Master’s level courses. Translation courses are only open to students fluent in both English and Czech.
Detailed information and syllabi for individual courses are available through the Masaryk University Information System (IS) on www.is.muni.cz (Studies - Course Catalogue) where you can look them up by typing in the course codes.
List of Courses
COURSE CODE |
COURSE NAME |
ECTS CREDITS |
STUDY CYCLE |
Introduction to Linguistics |
6 |
BA |
|
Introduction to British Studies I |
3 |
BA |
|
Introduction to American Studies I |
3 |
BA |
|
Spoken Fluency Practice |
6 |
BA |
|
Introduction to Corpus Linguistics |
6 |
BA |
|
Introduction to Syntax |
6 |
BA |
|
Introduction to Sociolinguistics |
6 |
BA |
|
Introduction to Semantics |
6 |
BA |
|
Introduction to Stylistics |
6 |
BA |
|
Academic Writing |
5 |
BA |
|
Aspects of 17th Century and 18th Century British Literature, Society and Culture |
6 |
BA |
|
Elements of British and Central European Modernist Literature |
6 |
BA |
|
English Literature 500-1700: The Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period |
6 |
BA |
|
English Literature 1700-1830: The Augustans and Romantics |
6 |
BA |
|
Modern Anglophone Poetry 1900-2016 |
6 |
BA |
|
American Literature 1: Beginnings-1890 |
6 |
BA |
|
British Drama and Theatre Since Modernism |
6 |
BA |
|
Contemporary Issues in US and UK Culture and Politics |
6 |
BA |
|
Ethnography of North American Indigenous Peoples |
6 |
BA |
|
Genre Studies: American Science-Fiction Film |
6 |
BA |
|
The Critical Vision: North American Visual Art and Social and Political Commentary |
6 |
BA |
|
Australian literature and culture |
6 |
BA |
|
Queer Studies |
5 |
BA |
|
Literary and Cultural Theory I |
8 |
MA |
|
The Historical Development of English |
8 |
MA |
|
English Philology in the Czech Environment |
8 |
MA |
|
Semantics: The English Verb |
6 |
MA |
|
Pragmatics: Meaning in Context |
6 |
MA |
|
Linguistic analysis of broadcast talk |
6 |
MA |
|
Contemporary British Women Novelists |
6 |
MA |
|
Forrest Reid |
6 |
MA |
|
English Renaissance Theatre: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries |
6 |
MA |
|
Tom Stoppard, playwright |
6 |
MA |
|
Aspects of Later Nineteenth and Earlier Twentieth Century British and Central European Literature |
6 |
MA |
|
Cultural Perspectives on the Colonization of North America |
6 |
MA |
|
Emily Dickinson |
6 |
MA |
|
Film in the USA: Institutions, Genres, Film-makers, Criticism |
6 |
MA |
|
The Critical Vision: North American Visual Art and Social and Political Commentary |
6 |
MA |
|
Indigenous Australia |
6 |
MA |