Contemporary Poetry (ELIT519) Course Detail

Course Name	Course Code	Season	Lecture Hours	Application Hours	Lab Hours	Credit	ECTS
Contemporary Poetry	ELIT519	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, Brain Storming.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)	Dersin öğretim elemanı (Academic staff)
Course Assistants
Course Objectives	This course is designed to trace and examine the main trends, currents and developments in English poetry from the 1970s to the present day by studying, in some detail, selected poems by major poets.
Course Learning Outcomes	The students who succeeded in this course; know the main trends and currents in English poems written after 1970, know the effects of historical and social events on the poetry, enhance their ability of poetry analysis.
Course Content	Historical and literary context; main developments and trends in English poetry from the 1950`s to the present; selections from the work of major poets.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week	Subjects	Preparation
1	Historical, Cultural and Literary Context	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
2	20th Century English Poetry	Draper, R.P., “Introduction”, An Introduction to Twentieth Century Poetry in English
3	Thomas Hardy; T. S. Eliot and Modernist Poetry; Poetry of War: Wilfred Owen and W. B. Yeats	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
4	Poetry of the 1930s: W. H. Auden; Poetry of the 1940s: Dylan Thomas	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
5	Poems of Philip Larkin	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
6	Poems of Thom Gunn	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
7	Poems of Ted Hughes	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
8	Poems of Geoffrey Hill	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
9	Midterm Exam
10	Women Poets: Eavan Boland, Carol Ann Duffy	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
11	Regional, National and Post-Colonial Poetry	“Nation, Race, and Language”: The Norton Anthology of English Literature; Kamau Brathwaite: “Nation Language” The Norton Anthology of English Literature
12	Seamus Heaney	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
13	Paul Muldoon	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
14	Derek Walcott	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
15	Grace Nichols	The Norton Anthology of English Literature
16	Final Exam	Preparation

Sources

Course Book	1. Acheson, James and Romana Huk (eds.), Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism, New York: State University of New York Press, 1996
	2. Blanton, C. D., and Nigel Alderman (eds.), A Concise Companion to Post-War British and Irish Poetry, Oxford: Blackwell, 2006
	3. Brinton, Ian, Contemporary Poetry: Poets and Poetry since 1990, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
	4. Broom, Sarah. Contemporary British and Irish Poetry: An Introduction, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
	5. Corcoran, Neil. English Poetry Since 1940, London and New York: Longman, 1993
	6. Corcoran, Neil (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007
	7. Draper, R.P., An Introduction to Twentieth Century Poetry in English, Macmillan Press,1999
	8. Falci, Eric, The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry 1945-2010, Cambridge University Press, 2005
	9. McDonald, Peter, Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill, Oxford: Clarendon Press 2002
	10. Roberts, Neil (ed.), A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, Oxford: Blackwell, 1988
	11. Robinson, Peter (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013
	12. Schmidt, Michael (ed.), The Great Modern Poets, London: Quercus, 2006
	13. Williams, John, Twentieth-Century British Poetry: A Critical Introduction, London: Edward Arnold, 1987

Evaluation System

Requirements	Number	Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation	-	-
Laboratory	-	-
Application	-	-
Field Work	-	-
Special Course Internship	-	-
Quizzes/Studio Critics	-	-
Homework Assignments	1	10
Presentation	1	10
Project	-	-
Report	-	-
Seminar	-	-
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury	1	30
Final Exam/Final Jury	1	50
Toplam	4	100

Percentage of Semester Work	50
Percentage of Final Work	50
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
#	Program Qualifications / Competencies	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)	16	3	48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class	14	4	56
Presentation/Seminar Prepration	1	5	5
Project
Report
Homework Assignments	1	5	5
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury	1	5	5
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury	1	10	10
Total Workload			129