| Course Name | Introduction to Contemporary Western Literature |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ETI 309 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | face to face | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionGroup WorkQ&ACritical feedbackLecturing / Presentation | |||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | Examining the terms and concepts necessary to analyze, criticize and translate literary works, comparing the different reading made possible by various theoretical perspectives, to anayze and interpret literary texts. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | In this course, the possibility to read and interpret a literary text in various ways through different perspectives will be discussed. Different types of literature will be examined in the light of critical theory. |
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| Major Area Courses | ||
| Supportive Courses | X | |
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | What is literature? Types of literature | " The Appointment in Samarra" by Somerset Maugham |
| 2 | Elements of fiction (Plot, structure, theme, character, setting, point of view) | "The Night Drive" by Rubem Fonseca |
| 3 | Brief overview of British literature | |
| 4 | Brief overview of British literature | “A&P" by John Updike |
| 5 | Contemporary prose; Elements of fiction (Language and style, irony, symbol) | "The Story of an Hour" by Kate Chopin |
| 6 | Elements of poetry (voice, imagery, figures of speech, symbolismm and allegory, syntax, sound, rhythm, meter, structure); contemporary poetry | "Design" by Robert Frost, "One Art" by Elizabeth Bishop. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth |
| 7 | Elements of drama (Plot, character, dialogue, theme, staging); contemporary drama | "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell |
| 8 | Literary Theory: Formalism and Structuralism | |
| 9 | Literary Theory: Psychoanalytic, Marxist and Feminist theory | |
| 10 | Literary Theory: Gender Theory, Historicism, and Post Colonialism | |
| 11 | Literary Theory: Post Structuralism, Post Modernism, Deconstruction | |
| 12 | Analyzing literature | |
| 13 | Writing a literary paper | |
| 14 | Presenting a paper | |
| 15 | Feedback&Discussion /Review of the semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Andrew Bennet and Nicholas Royle, An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory, (Longman Publishers, 2009), ilgili makale, yazın metni ve power point sunumlar |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | 1 | 15 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 25 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 30 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 4 | 70 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 30 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 | |
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | 1 | 19 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 15 | |
| Final Exams | 1 | 20 | |
| Total | 150 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to use advanced, field-specific conceptual, theoretical, and practical knowledge acquired, | |||||
| 2 | To be able to analyze and research field-specific concepts and ideas and to interpret data individually or as a team using scientific methods, | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to understand and use grammatical and semantic structures of the source and target languages, | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to obtain information about social, cultural, and historical approaches within the source and target languages and to use this information for textual analysis and production, | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to understand and interpret written and oral texts in the source language and to transfer these texts into the target language using a semantically and functionally appropriate language, | |||||
| 6 | To be able to produce creative translations and assess the translation products critically by defining the steps, strategies and problems in the translation process in the light of field-specific theoretical knowledge and skills acquired, | |||||
| 7 | To be able to transfer the theoretical knowledge and research skills within different areas of expertise to translational act, | |||||
| 8 | To be able to use computer-assisted translation tools and machine translation effectively at each step of the translation process, and to follow the theoretical and practical developments in these fields, | |||||
| 9 | To be able to gain awareness of the translator’s social role, job profile, and professional ethical values and to acquire workload management skills for individual or team work, | |||||
| 10 | To be able to access necessary sources to improve quality at each step of the translation process and to assess the target text in accordance with the quality objectives by using these sources, | |||||
| 11 | To be able to establish effective oral and written communication skills both in English and Turkish, to be able to speak a second foreign language at a good level, to be able to use a third foreign language at intermediate level, | |||||
| 12 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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