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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 -