Within the current European Convergence Process and the development of the new University Degrees, there is a compromise to adapt the English Studies (before English Philology) curricula to the current needs of students in a highly competitive society. Starting from a previous work on the adaptation of a literary subject (“Origins of Theatre in the USA”), we suggest the possible strategies designed for the implementation of the objectives and competences (social abilities, technical skills, and specific knowledge), and the possible ways to evaluate the learning results that we propose in our Teaching Guides, as part of the general European convergence process. Specifically, in this work we will deal with the implementation of a group task consisting of a written paper plus a previous oral presentation on this written work, which we have asked our students in the last two academic years to do as part of the required tasks of the course. This has helped our students to work on specific competences as well as to us as, teachers, to evaluate their work from a new and more integral perspective.

Keywords: European Convergence Process, New English Studies, literary courses, competences, learning strategies and results.