Shakespeare Studies (ELIT505) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Shakespeare Studies ELIT505 General Elective 3 0 0 3 5
Pre-requisite Course(s)
N/A
Course Language English
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Level Social Sciences Master's Degree
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
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Course Objectives This course evaluates early modern culture and society through the traces in the Shakespearean text. With the help of new historicist theory and postmodernist attitudes of history, we will try to understand the early modern culture.
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • To analyze Shakespeare’s plays in new historicist and cultural materialist viewpoint
  • To be able to analyze Shakespeare and his culture in social and political standpoints.
  • To be able to understand early modern culture and modes of production
  • To be able to make intensive research and write academically on Shakespeare’s plays
Course Content Analysis of Shakespeare`s plays.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Overview of Renaissance and Shakespearean drama in a cultural context
2 Theoretical background, Troilus and Cressida Read: Troilus and Cressida
3 Troilus and Cressida Finish reading Troilus and Cressida, Read chapters in Hillman, Thomas and Schanzer
4 All’s Well that Ends Well All’s Well that Ends Well
5 All’s Well that Ends Well Finish reading All’s Well that Ends Well. Read chapters in Hillman, Thomas and Schanzer
6 Measure for Measure Measure for Measure
7 Measure for Measure Finish reading Measure for Measure. Read chapters in Hillman, Thomas and Schanzer
8 Measure for Measure
9 Merchant of Venice Merchant of Venice
10 Julius Caesar Julius Caesar
11 Julius Caesar Read chapters in Hillman, Thomas and Schanzer
12 Hamlet Hamlet
13 Hamlet Read chapters in Hillman, Thomas and Schanzer
14 Odds’n Ends

Sources

Course Book 1. The Riverside Shakespeare, 2nd Edition.
Other Sources 2. A. R. Braunmuller and Michael Hattaway, (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama, 2nd ed., (Cambridge, Cambridge UP, 2003)
3. Michael Hattaway, Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance, (London, Routledge, 1982, repr. 2008).
4. Louis Montrose, The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and The Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre, (Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1996).
5. A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume IV: The Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays Ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (Blackwell, 2005)
6. Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism, 2nd ed. Eds. Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield. Cornell UP, 1994 (esp. Dollimore and McLuskie)

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation 1 10
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments 1 30
Presentation 1 20
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury - -
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 40
Toplam 4 100
Percentage of Semester Work 60
Percentage of Final Work 40
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses X
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 To be able to use English language competently concerning four basic skills, namely listening, reading, speaking, and writing. X
2 To have extensive theoretical knowledge about English Culture and literature. X
3 To gain knowledge about literary theories and to be able to apply these theories to various literary texts. X
4 To acquire detailed knowledge about British culture in all its aspects. X
5 To be able to compare and contrast English culture and literature with other literatures through works from different periods and genres. X
6 To be able to compare and contrast British culture with other cultures. X
7 To plan, organize, and conduct the activities related to the field. X
8 To acquire the skills of creative, critical, and analytical thinking. X
9 To gain knowledge about how to conduct an academic research and to use the acquired knowledge in accordance with the purpose of the research. X
10 To acquire professional ethics and to use them in the process of research and production. X
11 To get prepared for professional life by developing a sense of responsibility through individual tasks and group projects. X
12 To be able to understand and decipher various discourses involved in literature such as literary, philosophical, psychological, cultural, critical and theoretical discourses in English language. X
13 To be able to understand and be a part of world culture. X

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours)
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 15 5 75
Presentation/Seminar Prepration
Project
Report
Homework Assignments
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury
Total Workload 75