ECTS - American Literature
American Literature (ELIT334) Course Detail
| Course Name | Course Code | Season | Lecture Hours | Application Hours | Lab Hours | Credit | ECTS |
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| American Literature | ELIT334 | Area Elective | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Pre-requisite Course(s) |
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| N/A |
| Course Language | English |
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| Course Type | Elective Courses |
| Course Level | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery | Face To Face |
| Learning and Teaching Strategies | Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer, Drill and Practice, Team/Group. |
| Course Lecturer(s) |
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| Course Objectives | This course primarily aims to familiarize the students with selected American poems ranging from Walt Whitman to Sylvia Plath and covering the 19th and 20th centuries. Strengthening the students’ skill of poetry appreciation is a natural aim, too. By in-class discussions, it is aimed that students concentrate on the elements that make a poem have a generic uniqueness. A general background to the poets’ lives and the socio-historical conditions of the era the poems were produced in will also be the focus of each lecture. |
| Course Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Content | Selected American literary works written between the late 18th to 20th century with a particular emphasis on the historical, social and political circumstances. |
Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies
| Week | Subjects | Preparation |
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| 1 | General Introduction, concepts and key terms | Poetry appreciation I: Denotation & Connotation Imagery – Figurative Language (Metaphor, personification, symbol, allegory) |
| 2 | Poetry appreciation I: Denotation & Connotation Imagery – Figurative Language (Metaphor, personification, symbol, allegory) | Poetry appreciation II: Figurative Language (Paradox, overstatement, understatement, irony, allusion, tone) |
| 3 | Poetry appreciation II: Figurative Language (Paradox, overstatement, understatement, irony, allusion, tone) | Selected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe |
| 4 | Selected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe | Selected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5 | Selected Poems of Edgar Allan Poe | Selected Poems of Walt Whitman |
| 6 | Selected Poems of Walt Whitman | Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson |
| 7 | Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson | Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson |
| 8 | Selected Poems of Emily Dickinson | Selected Poems of Robert Frost |
| 9 | Ara Sınav | Selected Poems of Robert Frost |
| 10 | Selected Poems of Robert Frost | Selected Poems of Wallace Stevens |
| 11 | Selected Poems of Wallace Stevens | Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams |
| 12 | Selected Poems of William Carlos Williams | Selected Poems of Ezra Pound |
| 13 | Selected Poems of Ezra Pound | Selected Poems of e. e. cummings |
| 14 | Selected Poems of e. e. cummings | Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath |
| 15 | Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath | Revision |
| 16 | Final |
Sources
| Other Sources | 1. Öğretim elemanı tarafından sağlanır. |
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Evaluation System
| Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance/Participation | 1 | 5 |
| Laboratory | - | - |
| Application | - | - |
| Field Work | - | - |
| Special Course Internship | - | - |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | - | - |
| Homework Assignments | 1 | 10 |
| Presentation | - | - |
| Project | - | - |
| Report | - | - |
| Seminar | - | - |
| Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury | 1 | 35 |
| Final Exam/Final Jury | 1 | 50 |
| Toplam | 4 | 100 |
| Percentage of Semester Work | 50 |
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| Percentage of Final Work | 50 |
| Total | 100 |
Course Category
| Core Courses | |
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| 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 | ||||
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| 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 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 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 | The ability to translate various kinds of texts from different disciplines both from English into Turkish and from Turkish into English | X | ||||
| 12 | To get prepared for professional life by developing a sense of responsibility through individual tasks and group projects | X | ||||
| 13 | 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 | ||||
| 14 | To be able to understand and be a part of world culture | X | ||||
ECTS/Workload Table
| Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload |
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| 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 | 2 | 28 |
| Presentation/Seminar Prepration | |||
| Project | |||
| Report | |||
| Homework Assignments | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Quizzes/Studio Critics | |||
| Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury | 1 | 25 | 25 |
| Total Workload | 131 | ||