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 X
Major Area Courses
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 Develop understanding of translation theories, concepts and history, and their application to the processes used in translating
2 Develop critical knowledge and understanding of current issues, European Union and international relations, law and technical issues in terms of translation studies
3 Detect, define, formulate and solve the problems to be encountered in translation process
4 Acquire the skills of translation analysis, criticism and hermeneutics
5 Develop critical understanding of international affairs and cultural studies regarding to profession of translation
6 Improve skills of research techniques, use CAT tools, databases and other printed and electronic devices and sources efficiently
7 Develop efficient individual and group working skills, build self-confidence for taking responsibility and acquire powerful communication skills.
8 Build awareness for life-long learning; to catch the developments in science and technology and sustain continuous personal development.
9 Acquire knowledge on ethical and professional issues in translation
10 Build awareness about project management and the rights of employees and the legal consequences of translation applications.
11 Build awareness about the universal and societal dimensions of translation studies and gather information about the problems of the contemporary World.
12 Improve skills to use source and target languages fluently in presentations and academic studies
13 Acquire knowledge on terminology management and global translation quality standards at a professional level

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