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INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE DERS TANITIM VE UYGULAMA BİLGİLERİ

Kodu Dersin Adı Yarıyıl Süresi(T+U) Kredisi AKTS Kredisi
ELL207 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE 3 3 3 6

DERS BİLGİLERİ

Dersin Öğretim Dili : İngilizce
Dersin Düzeyi LİSANS, TYY: + 6.Düzey, EQF-LLL: 6.Düzey, QF-EHEA: 1.Düzey
Dersin Türü Zorunlu
Dersin Veriliş Şekli -
Dersin Koordinatörü Dr.Öğr.Üyesi TUĞBA AKMAN KAPLAN
Dersi Veren Öğretim Üyesi/Öğretim Görevlisi Dr.Öğr.Üyesi TUĞBA AKMAN KAPLAN
Ders Ön Koşulu Yok

AMAÇ VE İÇERİK

Amaç: This course aims to develop a sense of a literature and culture based on racially and ethnically different background and to explore crucial features of the American cultural and literary experience in different genres, like short story, poem and novel, from the colonial period to the Antebellum Era.
İçerik: This course is a survey in American literature dating back to discovery of America, and the syllabus is therefore designed to introduce a variety of different American writers, scholars and political figures from the colonial period to the Antebellum Era.

DERSİN ÖĞRENME ÇIKTILARI (Öğrenciler, bu dersi başarı ile tamamladıklarında aşağıda belirtilen bilgi, beceri ve/veya yetkinlikleri gösterirler.)

summarise how American Literature is originated and developed.
select fundamental terminology and concepts significant in analysing early representative works of American literature from the colonial period to the Antebellum Era.
demonstrate critical thinking in the evaluation of the various American literary works from the colonial period to the Antebellum Era.
relate the early American writers’ use of language and narrative techniques to American cultural heritage and values.
use textual interpretation skills on works of American literature both in class and in a well-organised essay.

HAFTALIK DERS KONULARI VE ÖNGÖRÜLEN HAZIRLIK ÇALIŞMALARI

Hafta Ön Hazırlık Konular Yöntem
1 - Introduction to the Course, Goals, Assignments, Schedule, Criteria, Policies “We arrived a New Land” by Amerigo Vespucci Lecture
2 Reading the Material Assigned “The Journal of the First Voyage” by Christopher Columbus “Information to Those Who Would Remove to America” by Benjamin Franklin “Chief Seatle’s 1854 Oration” “On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake” by Alexander L. Posey Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
3 Reading the Material Assigned “City upon a Hill” by John Winthrop “Rip Van Winkle” by Washington Irving “The May-Pole of Merry Mount” by Nathaniel Hawthorne Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
4 Reading the Material Assigned “A Rose for Emily,” by William Faulkner “Eve's Diary” by Mark Twain “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
5 Reading the Material Assigned “The Tell-Tale Heart ” by Edgar Allan Poe, “Hills Like White Elephant” by Ernest Hemingway “The Snake” by John Steinbeck Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
6 Reading the Material Assigned “Désirée’s Baby” by Kate Chopin “A Worn Path” by Eudora Welty “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
7 Reading the Material Assigned “Racial Mountain” by Langston Hughes “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston “Nothing New” by Marita Bonner Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
8 - ARA SINAV -
9 Reading the Material Assigned “Racial Mountain” by Langston Hughes “How It Feels to Be Colored Me” by Zora Neale Hurston “Nothing New” by Marita Bonner Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
10 Reading the Material Assigned American Poetry “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman “I Heard a Fly Buzz when I died” by Emily Dickinson “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe “I walk alone” by Lonnie Poco “I, Too”, “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes “Incident,” “A Brown Girl Dead” Countee Cullen “Power” by Audre Lorde “Jailhouse Blues” by Bessie Smith Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
11 Reading the Material Assigned American Poetry “I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman “I Heard a Fly Buzz when I died” by Emily Dickinson “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe “I walk alone” by Lonnie Poco “I, Too”, “The Weary Blues” by Langston Hughes “Incident,” “A Brown Girl Dead” Countee Cullen “Power” by Audre Lorde “Jailhouse Blues” by Bessie Smith Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
12 Reading the Material Assigned Bartleby, The Scrivener by Herman Melville Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
13 Reading the Material Assigned Trifles by Susan Glaspell Color Struck by Zora Neale Hurston Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
14 Reading the Material Assigned Cat on A Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
15 Reading the Material Assigned The Help by Kathryn Stockett Lecture & Discussion & Inquiry-based Learning
16 - FİNAL -
17 - FİNAL -

KAYNAKLAR

Axelrod, S. G., Roman, C., & Travisano, T. J. (2003). The New Anthology of American Poetry. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
Bryfonski, D. (2012). Womens issues in Kate Chopins The awakening. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press.
Taylor, P. J. (2001). Modern short stories: For students of english. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.
Taylor, P. J. (1996). More modern short stories: For Students of English. S.l.: Oxford University Press.
Gilman, C. P. (2014). "The yellow wallpaper" and other stories. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications.

ÖLÇME VE DEĞERLENDİRME

Yarıyıl İçi Yapılan Çalışmaların Ölçme ve Değerlendirmesi Etkinlik Sayısı Katkı Yüzdesi Açıklama
(0) Etkisiz (1) En Düşük (2) Düşük (3) Orta (4) İyi (5) Çok İyi
0 1 2 3 4 5

DERSİN PROGRAM ÖĞRENME ÇIKTILARINA KATKISI

KNOWLEDGE
Theoretical
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları Katkı Düzeyi
0 1 2 3 4 5
1
The graduate will be able to identify the main characteristics of literary movements such as modernism, postmodernism, and postcolonialism during the process of analysing a literary text verbally or in an essay.
3
2
The graduate will be able to relate language structure to its functions in a literary text.
5
3
The graduate will be able to explain and generate ideas on literary texts or visual work such as films.
4
4
The graduate will be able to identify the language and the writing style of a wide range of authors, poets, and playwrights from different periods.
5
KNOWLEDGE
Factual
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları Katkı Düzeyi
0 1 2 3 4 5
1
The graduate will be able to explain the key terms and concepts associated with language, literature, and culture.
5
2
The graduate will be able to historically categorise various centuries or periods of time such as the Renaissance or the 20th century according to the literary, theoretical, social, and political developments reflected in literary texts.
2
SKILLS
Cognitive
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları Katkı Düzeyi
0 1 2 3 4 5
1
The graduate will be able to compare and contrast characteristics of different literary genres.
5
2
The graduate will be able to interpret literary works produced in various cultures with different ethnical background.
5
3
The graduate will be able to compare and contrast different periods of time such as the Middle Ages and the Victorian Era in accordance with their distinctive literary, theoretical, social, and political background verbally or in an essay.
1
SKILLS
Practical
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları Katkı Düzeyi
0 1 2 3 4 5
1
The graduate will be able to apply literary theories and develop argument of their own in the process of writing a research paper.
5
2
The graduate will be able to formulate a sophisticated argument/thesis in compliance with the ethical requirements needed to avoid plagiarism during the process of writing a research paper.
5
3
The graduate will be able to apply research skills to gather, organise, and present information skills in a research paper.
5
4
The graduate will be able to employ translation methods while translating a text from English to Turkish or vice versa.
0
OCCUPATIONAL
Autonomy & Responsibility
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları Katkı Düzeyi
0 1 2 3 4 5
1
The graduate will be able to organise occupational and academic activities including meeting, seminars, and conferences.
1
OCCUPATIONAL
Learning to Learn
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları Katkı Düzeyi
0 1 2 3 4 5
1
The graduate will be able to determine his or her own learning requirements and goals to develop sustainable attitude towards life-long learning.
3
OCCUPATIONAL
Communication & Social
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları Katkı Düzeyi
0 1 2 3 4 5
1
The graduate will be able to develop effective oral and written communication skills in English.
5
OCCUPATIONAL
Occupational and/or Vocational
Program Yeterlilikleri/Çıktıları Katkı Düzeyi
0 1 2 3 4 5
1
The graduate will be able to appraise and criticise development of the social rights, democracy, social justice, gender and racial identity, cultural and ethical values.
5

DERSİN İŞ YÜKÜ VE AKTS KREDİSİ

Öğrenme-Öğretme Etkinlikleri İş Yükü
Öğrenme-Öğretme Etkinlikleri Etkinlik(hafta sayısı) Süresi(saat sayısı) Toplam İş Yükü
Ders 14 3 42
Derse Ön Hazırlık ve Ders Sonrası Pekiştirme 13 3 39
Arazi Çalışması 0 0 0
Grup Çalışması / Ödevi 0 0 0
Laboratuvar 0 0 0
Okuma 2 15 30
Ödev 0 0 0
Proje Hazırlama 0 0 0
Seminer 0 0 0
Staj 0 0 0
Teknik Gezi 0 0 0
Web Tab. Öğrenme 0 0 0
Uygulama 0 0 0
Yerinde Uygulama 0 0 0
Mesleki Faaliyet 0 0 0
Sosyal Faaliyet 0 0 0
Tez Hazırlama 0 0 0
Alan Çalışması 0 0 0
Rapor Yazma 0 0 0
Final Sınavı 1 1 1
Final Sınavı Hazırlığı 1 20 20
Ara Sınav 1 1 1
Ara Sınav Hazırlığı 1 20 20
Kısa Sınav 0 0 0
Kısa Sınav Hazırlığı 0 0 0
TOPLAM 33 0 153
Genel Toplam 153
Toplam İş Yükü / 25.5 6
Dersin AKTS(ECTS) Kredisi 6,0