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(in Polish) Moomins as cultural phenomenon: philosophy, multimedia storytelling, double addressee

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Course ID: 0100-ERAL983
Erasmus code / ISCED: (unknown) / (0314) Sociology and cultural studies The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title: (unknown)
Name in Polish: Moomins as cultural phenomenon: philosophy, multimedia storytelling, double addressee
Organizational unit: Faculty of Philology
Course groups:
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): 0 OR 6.00 (depends on study program) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles:
  • the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS;
  • the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h;
  • 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes;
  • weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS;
  • work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load.
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Language: English
(in Polish) Forma studiów:

(in Polish) stacjonarne
Prerequisits:

Working knowledge of English, knowledge of Moomins of Tove Jansson
Short description:

The course may be of interest to students of many fields: creative writing, film, media, as well as education, not only in the field of children's literature. The issues discussed during the course concern the phenomenon of popular culture, popular Moomins, an essentially literary creation, but from the beginning multimedia, because "Moomins" are literature "for children", comics for children and adults, animated films, stage performances, gadgets, etc. At the same time, many people find a kind of consolation in these creations, hence the bibliotherapeutic thread present in the course. The course also discusses the art of storytelling and analyzes the material in a Scandinavian cultural context.
Learning outcomes:

After completing the course, the student:

1. knows and understands

a. the consequences of generic, genre and stylistic narrative techniques in different storytelling media;

01TP_1A_W03

2. can

a. apply the learned writing rules to create fictional and non-fictional stories in various media 01TP_1A_U01

b. apply adequate narrative strategies to achieve the selected goal, especially in terms of double addressing the story 01TP_1A_U02

c. analyze, interpret and evaluate their own and others' writing achievements in the field of storytelling in various media 01TP_1A_U06

3. is ready to

a. verification of knowledge and correction of writing achievements in the field of multimedia storytelling 01TP_1A_K01

Classes in period "Summer Semester 2025/2026" (future)

Time span: 2026-02-23 - 2026-09-30
Selected timetable range:
Go to timetable
Type of class:
Discussion class, 28 hours, 20 places more information
Coordinators: Jarosław Płuciennik
Group instructors: Jarosław Płuciennik
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Credit: Course - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
Discussion class - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
(in Polish) Czy ECTS?:

(in Polish) T
Additional Information:

This is a 100% online TEAMS course with the occasional use of Moodle. It would be best if you had working cameras, microphones and speakers. The classes merged into sessions will be held in 5-6-hour sessions (45 min/1h):

25.02 14:00-18:00

11.03 14:00-18:00

25.03 14:00-18:00

01.04 14:00-18:00

22.04 14:00-19:30 (final exam)

For organizational reasons and international requirements, classes are always held on Wednesdays 14:00-18:00. Classes are partly open to students of other fields of study, as well as other universities in the UNIC consortium.
(in Polish) Czy IRK BWZ?:

(in Polish) T
Teaching Method:

informative lecture;

seminar lecture;

didactic discussion;

exposing methods;

Active participation in discussions and group work;

Multimedia presentations;

exchange of ideas;

Individual and group performance of a multimedia presentation;

classic problem-solving method;

round table;

short written works
Method and Criteria of Assessment:

Assessment methods and criteria:

01TP_1A_W03 Participation in discussions and work during classes:

01TP_1A_U01; 01TP_1A_U02; 01TP_1A_U06; 01TP_1A_K01 Practical tasks during classes;
(in Polish) Metody weryfikacji i oceny stopnia osiągnięcia założonych efektów uczenia się:

Methods of verification and assessment of the degree of achievement of the assumed learning outcomes:

Rating by instructors (two main ones), self-assessment, peer-rating, Teams votes to rate performance from 1-5 stars, award badges for completing assignments
Course Content:

Learning content:

Topics covered during the course: 1. Introduction: the course and its implementation and other practices; 2. bibliotherapeutic approach; reading a fairy tale, author, character; 3. Tove Jansson as an author and Moomins as a fictional character; 4. Picture book/story homework; 5. remembering, memories; 6. Inhuman creatures, environmental issues, disasters; 7. other global issues: food, agriculture, multiculturalism, sustainable development, tolerance, "bravery"; 8. values: art, literature, nature, being together, freedom; 9. "terrible things", the seas, the subconscious; 10. joy, happiness, survival; 11. Fairy tales and sagas in Scandinavian cultures; 12 Adventure, horror, vitality, sisu and other Scandinavian values (lagom, hygge).
Bibliography:

Literature (in Polish, but during the classes there will also be readings for English-speaking students):

The analytical material is

Jansson Tove, jakiekolwiek wydania po polsku (bądź po angielsku i szwedzku): Małe trolle i duża powódź, Kometa nad Doliną Muminków, W Dolinie Muminków, Pamiętniki Tatusia Muminka, Lato Muminków, Zima Muminków, Opowiadania z Doliny Muminków, Tatuś Muminka i morze, Dolina Muminków w listopadzie, zbiór komiksów o muminkach Muminki Tove Jansson (2 tomy) oraz Lars Jansson (3. Tom).

Opracowania:

Dymel-Trzebiatowska, Hanna. Filozoficzne i translatoryczne wędrówki po Dolinie Muminków / Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2019.

Dymel-Trzebiatowska, Hanna. „Dla dzieci czy dla dorosłych? O dwuadresowości w literaturze dziecięcej na przykładzie książek o Muminkach Tove Jansson”. W Książki w życiu najmłodszych, Nauka – Dydaktyka – Praktyka, zredagowane przez Mariola Antczak i A. Walczak-Niewiadomska, 13–24. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Wydawnictwo Stowarzyszenia Bibliotekarzy Polskich, 2022. https://doi.org/10.18778/7969-789-2.02.

Dymel-Trzebiatowska, Hanna. W poszukiwaniu odrobiny pocieszenia: biblioterapeutyczny potencjał utworów Astrid Lindgren z perspektywy narratologii i psychoanalizy literackiej / Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska. Gdańsk ; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2014.

Westin, Boel. Tove Jansson. Mama Muminków. Przetłumaczone przez Bogumiła Ratajczak. Wydawnictwo Marginesy, 2012.

Suvilehto, Pirjo. „A study of animal characters as representations of humans: the animality/bibliotherapy test”. Journal of Poetry Therapy 32, nr 2 (3 kwiecień 2019): 95–108. https://doi.org/10.1080/08893675.2019.1583414.

Wróblewski, Michał. Powieść graficzna: studium gatunku w perspektywie kognitywistycznej, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016.

Classes in period "Summer Semester 2024/2025" (past)

Time span: 2025-03-03 - 2025-09-30
Selected timetable range:
Go to timetable
Type of class:
Discussion class, 30 hours, 20 places more information
Coordinators: Jarosław Płuciennik
Group instructors: Jarosław Płuciennik
Students list: (inaccessible to you)
Credit: Course - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
Discussion class - (in Polish) Ocena zgodna z regulaminem studiów
(in Polish) Czy ECTS?:

(in Polish) T
Additional Information:

This is a 100% online TEAMS course with the occasional use of Moodle. It would be best if you had working cameras, microphones and speakers. The classes merged into sessions will be held in 5-6-hour sessions (45 min/1h):

05.03 14:00-18:00

19.03 14:00-18:00

02.04 14:00-18:00

16.04 14:00-18:00

23.04 14:00-19:30 (final exam)

For organizational reasons and international requirements, classes are always held on Wednesdays 14:00-18:00. Classes are partly open to students of other fields of study, as well as other universities in the UNIC consortium.
(in Polish) Czy IRK BWZ?:

(in Polish) T
Teaching Method:

informative lecture;

seminar lecture;

didactic discussion;

exposing methods;

Active participation in discussions and group work;

Multimedia presentations;

exchange of ideas;

Individual and group performance of a multimedia presentation;

classic problem-solving method;

round table;

short written works
Method and Criteria of Assessment:

Assessment methods and criteria:

01TP_1A_W03 Participation in discussions and work during classes:

01TP_1A_U01; 01TP_1A_U02; 01TP_1A_U06; 01TP_1A_K01 Practical tasks during classes;
(in Polish) Metody weryfikacji i oceny stopnia osiągnięcia założonych efektów uczenia się:

Methods of verification and assessment of the degree of achievement of the assumed learning outcomes:

Rating by instructors (two main ones), self-assessment, peer-rating, Teams votes to rate performance from 1-5 stars, award badges for completing assignments
Course Content:

Learning content:

Topics covered during the course: 1. Introduction: the course and its implementation and other practices; 2. bibliotherapeutic approach; reading a fairy tale, author, character; 3. Tove Jansson as an author and Moomins as a fictional character; 4. Picture book/story homework; 5. remembering, memories; 6. Inhuman creatures, environmental issues, disasters; 7. other global issues: food, agriculture, multiculturalism, sustainable development, tolerance, "bravery"; 8. values: art, literature, nature, being together, freedom; 9. "terrible things", the seas, the subconscious; 10. joy, happiness, survival; 11. Fairy tales and sagas in Scandinavian cultures; 12 Adventure, horror, vitality, sisu and other Scandinavian values (lagom, hygge).
Bibliography:

Literature (in Polish, but during the classes there will also be readings for English-speaking students):

The analytical material is

Jansson Tove, jakiekolwiek wydania po polsku (bądź po angielsku i szwedzku): Małe trolle i duża powódź, Kometa nad Doliną Muminków, W Dolinie Muminków, Pamiętniki Tatusia Muminka, Lato Muminków, Zima Muminków, Opowiadania z Doliny Muminków, Tatuś Muminka i morze, Dolina Muminków w listopadzie, zbiór komiksów o muminkach Muminki Tove Jansson (2 tomy) oraz Lars Jansson (3. Tom).

Opracowania:

Dymel-Trzebiatowska, Hanna. Filozoficzne i translatoryczne wędrówki po Dolinie Muminków / Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska. Gdańsk: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2019.

Dymel-Trzebiatowska, Hanna. „Dla dzieci czy dla dorosłych? O dwuadresowości w literaturze dziecięcej na przykładzie książek o Muminkach Tove Jansson”. W Książki w życiu najmłodszych, Nauka – Dydaktyka – Praktyka, zredagowane przez Mariola Antczak i A. Walczak-Niewiadomska, 13–24. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Wydawnictwo Stowarzyszenia Bibliotekarzy Polskich, 2022. https://doi.org/10.18778/7969-789-2.02.

Dymel-Trzebiatowska, Hanna. W poszukiwaniu odrobiny pocieszenia: biblioterapeutyczny potencjał utworów Astrid Lindgren z perspektywy narratologii i psychoanalizy literackiej / Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska. Gdańsk ; Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2014.

Westin, Boel. Tove Jansson. Mama Muminków. Przetłumaczone przez Bogumiła Ratajczak. Wydawnictwo Marginesy, 2012.

Suvilehto, Pirjo. „A study of animal characters as representations of humans: the animality/bibliotherapy test”. Journal of Poetry Therapy 32, nr 2 (3 kwiecień 2019): 95–108. https://doi.org/10.1080/08893675.2019.1583414.

Wróblewski, Michał. Powieść graficzna: studium gatunku w perspektywie kognitywistycznej, Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2016.
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