AMERICAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE FROM PAST TO PRESENT
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Course Title:
AMERICAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE FROM PAST TO PRESENT
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Course Code:
ING6114
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Type of Course:
Optional
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Level of Course:
Third Cycle
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Year of Study:
1
6
Semester:
2
7
ECTS Credits Allocated:
4
8
Theoretical (hour/week):
2
9
Practice (hour/week) :
0
10
Laboratory (hour/week) :
0
11
Prerequisites:
None
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Recommended optional programme components:
None
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Language:
Turkish
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Mode of Delivery:
Face to face
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Course Coordinator:
Dr. Ögr. Üyesi FİGUN DİNÇER
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Course Lecturers:
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Contactinformation of the Course Coordinator:
figun@uludag.edu.tr 0224 2942258 Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi, Eğitim Fakültesi, İngilizce Öğretmenliği, Görükle, Bursa
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Website:
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Objective of the Course:
The aim of the course is to set up a parallelism between the American history and American literary canon. The survey begins from the early colonial times up to the 20th. century. As an outcome of this course the students will be able to identify characteristics of distinctive literary periods in American Literature, identify major American authors and their works, place literary works in historical context and to improve their abilities to read, write, speak publicly, and formulate analyses and arguments.
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Contribution of the Course to Professional Development
They will improve their abilities to read, write, speak publicly, and formulate analyses and arguments. This course can provide students with access to the culture of the people whose language they learn and teach.
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Learning Outcomes:
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They will be able to analyze and study concepts related to the history of American literature.;
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They will be able to understand the interaction between the colonial period upto the 20th century American literature and history and its impact on social life.;
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They will be able to evaluate and criticize narratives written in different times of the literary history.;
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They will be able to understand and observe life and culture today in America.;
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Course Content:
Week
Theoretical
Practical
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Introduction to the course
(a timeline video display)
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Birth of a Nation-
American Literature in the Colonial time.
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Puritans
(a discussion on the movie "the Scarlet Letter"
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American Renaissance
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Romanticism
(Rip Van Winkle, Washington Irwing
The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe
Rhodora, Ralph W. Emerson)
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The Era of Realism and Naturalism
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THe discussion of the novella "Maggie: The Girl of the Streets" from naturalist perspective
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The twenties
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The thirties
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The forties ("the death of a salesman"- Arthur Miller)
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The sixties- examples from drama
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Examples from American poetry
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The twentieth-century black writers
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Students' presentations
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Textbooks, References and/or Other Materials:
1. High, Peter B., An Outline of American Literature, Longman, 2000. 2. Berke, Amy, Bleil, Robert R., Writing the Nation: A Concise Introduction to American Literature 1865 to Present, University Press of North Georgia, 2015. 3. Gray, Richard. A History of American Literature, Blackwell Publishing, 2004.
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Assesment
TERM LEARNING ACTIVITIES
NUMBER
PERCENT
Midterm Exam
1
20
Quiz
0
0
Homeworks, Performances
1
20
Final Exam
1
60
Total
3
100
Contribution of Term (Year) Learning Activities to Success Grade
40
Contribution of Final Exam to Success Grade
60
Total
100
Measurement and Evaluation Techniques Used in the Course
Open ended questions and essay writing
Information
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ECTS / WORK LOAD TABLE
Activites
NUMBER
TIME [Hour]
Total WorkLoad [Hour]
Theoretical
14
2
28
Practicals/Labs
0
0
0
Self Study and Preparation
6
10
60
Homeworks, Performances
1
10
20
Projects
1
10
10
Field Studies
0
0
0
Midtermexams
1
1
1
Others
0
0
0
Final Exams
1
1
1
Total WorkLoad
121
Total workload/ 30 hr
4
ECTS Credit of the Course
4
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CONTRIBUTION OF LEARNING OUTCOMES TO PROGRAMME QUALIFICATIONS
