I. OVERVIEW
1. Major: Literature Theory
2. Code: 60 22 01 20
3. Faculty in charge: Department of literature theory, The Faculty of Philology
4. Attending majors
4.1. Suitable to:
BA of Literature, 
BA of Philology
BA of Literature Education, 
BA of Philology Education
4.2. Close to majors:Literature- History Education,
Literature- Geography Education, 
Literature- Civil Education; 
Vietnamese and Vietnamese Culture; 
Sino Nom, Vietnam Studies; 
Creating Literature Works
5. Objectives:
After graduation, learners of the course can become literature theorists at high schools, who are able to anticipate and implement fundamental and practical reforms effectively and totally at current high schools; to be able to participate in teaching literature theory at colleges and universities, researching at institutes, research centers of the field and at the same time continuing their study at doctoral level.
6. Output Standards:
6.1. Knowledge:

• Equip students with knowledge at high levels of literature theory so that they can work as literature theorists in researching and teaching literature theory, literature languages and literature theory and research methodology.
• Provide students intensive theoretical knowledge to update scientific and modern knowledge on literature theory to continue to study at doctoral level.
• Help students to master and apply creatively knowledge of literature theory into the practice of teaching in schools to meet the demand of fundamental and comprehensive education reform.

6.2. Skills:

• Build up and develop basic research skills in literature theory;
• Provide students with the ability to apply achievements in literature theory into the practice of teaching at universities, colleges and schools.
• Develop self-studying skills, improve independent working ability in cooperation, bilateral research projects at the Faculty of Philology.
• Have creative thinking; critical thinking, and ability to analyze and evaluate complicated literature issues in real life.
• Have good ability of foreign language so as to understand journals or speeches on topics related to major.

6.3. Requirement of foreign language:
B1 certificate (level 3/6) under 6-level Vietnam CEFR or equivalent (Appendix II, Circular 15, 15 May 2014 of the Ministry of Education and Training)
6.4. Autonomous Ability and Responsibility:

• Propose valuable ideas and conclusions of complex issues in practical teaching and researching literature theory.
• Have ability of leading on professional tasks and duties.
• Have ability of self-orientation, developing personal capacity, adapting to highly competitive working environment.

7. Curriculum
- General knowledge: 12 credits
- Fundamental knowledge: 18 credits
- Major knowledge: 20 credits
- Thesis:  10 credits
8. Additional requirement subjects for close major learners:   

• Subjects: 5; Total credits: 15
• Subject (name, code, credit)
• Modern Vietnamese Literature (3),
• Middle Vietnamese Literature (3),
• Introduction to Linguistics (3),
• Foreign Literature (3)
• Literature Theory (3) ….

II.    CURRICULUM

No.	Subject Code		Subject	Credits	Theory	Practice	Self-study
	Letter	Number
	GENERAL SUBJECTS			12
1.	PHIL	502	Philosophy	4	70%	30%	120
2.	ENGL	503	English	5	2	3	150
3.	CMMS	504	Curriculum, modern teaching methods and techniques	3	2	1	90
	GERENAL BASIC SUBJECTS			18
	1. Compulsory subjects			9
3	LITE	511	Poetics	3	2	1	90
4	LITE	512	Linguistics and Literature	3	2	1	90
5	LITE	513	Research Methodology of Authors and Literature Works	3	2	1	90
	2. Optional Subjects (Choose 3)			9
6	LITE	521	Philology in high schools	3	2	1	90
7	LITH	522	Literary Cognition	3	2	1	90
8	LITH	523	Theories of comparative literature	3	2	1	90
9	LITH	524	Middle Vietnamese prose genres	3	2	1	90
10	LITH	525	Vietnamese proses after 1975	3	2	1	90
11	LITH	526	Ming-Qing Novels	3	2	1	90
12	LITH	527	Russian Novels in 19th and 20th century	3	2	1	90
13	LITH	528	American Novels in 19th and 20th century	3	2	1	90
14	LITH	529	French Novels in 19th and 20th century	3	2	1	90

 

	II. MAJOR SUBJECTS 1. Compulsory subjects			20 11
15	LITH	541	Marx, Engels, Lenin- Vietnamese Communist Party and Theories of Art.	2	1	1	60
16	LITH	542	Literature, a form of art	3	2	1	90
17	LITH	543	Literary genres and the art of creating characteristics	3	2	1	90
18	LITH	544	Literature critics	3	2	1	90
2. Optional subjects (Choose 3)				09
19	LITH	551	Poems and some concepts of modern Vietnamese poems	3	2	1	90
20	LITH	552	Theory and history of Vietnamese Plays in 20th century	3	2	1	90
21	LITH	553	Theory of modern Vietnamese novels	3	2	1	90
22	LITH	554	Structuralism and research approach	3	2	1	90
23	LITH	555	Realism in Vietnamese Literature: Some issues of theory	3	2	1	90
24	LITH	556	Art styles: Some issues of theory	3	2	1	90
25	LITH	557	Post-modernism	3	2	1	90
Thesis				10
Total:                                           16 subjects				60