COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SUBJECTS AND MOTIFS IN GERMAN LITERATURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
YAÖ 4021 SUBJECTS AND MOTIFS IN GERMAN LITERATURE COMPULSORY 2 0 0 3

Offered By

German Language Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR HALUK ÖZCAN

Offered to

German Language Teacher Education

Course Objective

To teach of selected literary motifs of German literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, processed in the framework of the age, the author and the work.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student can learn the concepts that form the basis of literary works
2   The student can grasp properties of the Subject, motifs and the symbol
3   The student is able to detect the usage of symbolic and metaphorically
4   The student examine motifs, which used by the different authors and in the different
5   The student can research the subject-motif-symbol in literary works

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic elements of literary works
2 The terms: substance, subject, symbol and motifs
3 The symbol of the unconscious and Classic
4 The poetic image, the symbolic universe of poetry
5 Symbolic language of the Grimms' fairy tales
6 Topics: night, adventure, abyss, androgyny,
7 Topics: Anxiety, Antigone, Apokalyse, workers, Arcadia
8 MIDTERM EXAM
9 Topics: limiting freedom, Blue Flower, Mountain
10 Topics: conflict brother, decadence, loneliness, Eros
11 Topics: Elektra, Faustus, Fortuna, friendship
12 Topics: garden, window, heart, island, Iphigenia, Jew
13 Topics: illness, landscape, light, love Lucifer
14 Topics: power, metamorphosis, night, Prometheus Topics: Castle, Lake City, Search, dream walker
15 FINAL EXAM

Recomended or Required Reading

- Horst S. und Ingrid Daemrich: Themen und Motive in der Literatur. Francke Verlag,
Tübingen 1987
- Elisabeth Frenzel: Stoffe der Weltliteratur; Gero von Wilpert: Sachwörterbuch der
Literatur. Kröner Verlag Stuttgart 1983
- Hermann Pongs: Das Bild in der Dichtung, Voruntersuchungen zum Symbol. Marburg
1973
- Otto F. Best: Handbuch literarischer Fachbegriffe, Definitionen und Beispiele. Fischer
Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1999
- Hermann Glaser: Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts in Motiven. Band I: 1870 bis 1918. Beck,
München 1988

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing, oral presentation, multimedia presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FINS FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 +FINS * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST* 0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

German

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

haluk.ozcan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 3 30
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 83

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11
LO.1423315323
LO.232434325334
LO.342443334442
LO.4343224422
LO.542443334442

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