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INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE COURSE IDENTIFICATION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Code	Name of the Course Unit	Semester	In-Class Hours (T+P)	Credit	ECTS Credit
ELL207	INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE	3	3	3	6

WEEKLY COURSE CONTENTS AND STUDY MATERIALS FOR PRELIMINARY & FURTHER STUDY
Week	Preparatory	Topics(Subjects)	Method
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	-	MID-TERM EXAM	-
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	-	FINAL EXAM	-
17	-	FINAL EXAM	-