COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR LEMAN GIRESUNLU

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

This course introduces selected trends in American Literature (Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Post-modernism) from the American Civil War onwards.
Major coresponding examples from American Literature will be thsi course s subject of analysis.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Mark Twain, Sarah Orne Jewett,
William Dean Howells, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser,
Stephen Crane, Willa Cather, William Faulkner
F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jean Toomer, Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes.
Henry James
T.S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein Wallace Stevens
Richard Wright, Ralph Elison
Barth, Barthelme, Gass
Plath, Pynchon, Don DeLillo,
Paul Auster,

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) All selected teaching material; written and visual are to be notified prior to the semester.
Syllabi maybe altered with due notice.
2) Students are expected to attend class prepared for a rigorous class discussion.
3) All assigned homework and book reports are due prior to the start of the class to the instructor.
4) Grades are to be deducted from late papers.
5) Students are expected to adhere with the academic code of ethics.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Students will be expected to prepare two book reports. There will be two in class examinations (midterm and final) in addition to which a final paper (ten pages minimum) will be due during the finals week. Midterm in class exam: will cover material studied in-class, and will expect responses to major discussions in the area.Prior to the submission of the final paper students will submit their proposal , and paper drafts at due times indicated in the syllabus. Book reports: Students will be expected to elucidate upon major arguments of their assigned books; offer a critical examination of the text, and place the work within contemporary debates. Book reports will be presented in class as well as submitted in print format . Two book reports will constitute of the total grade which will add up to the in class exam counting towards the Midterm grade.
Research paper : (10 pages minimum MLA style) Final paper should focus upon a major issue in American culture displaying an understanding of past, and present methodologies in the area of American Studies contributing to the process of meaning making. The topic of analysis should display thorough and proper scholarship, abiding by academic standards of research and ethics. weekly book presentations and subsequent class discussion comprise of active participation to class.

Final in-class exam: will cover material studied in-class, and will expect responses to major discussions in the area.

Assessment Criteria

Book reports are expected to display accurate understanding of reading assignments; and to display rigorous academic research placing the work into critical perspective.
2) Book reports are submitted in written to the class instructor prior to due class discussions/presentations
3) Paper proposals should display the aim and scope of the research to be conducted.
4) Paper proposals should be inclusive of an annotated bibliography.
5) Paper proposals are submitted in written to the class instructor at due date.
6) Paper draft assessment monitors student progress during research, and offers guidance.
7) Final paper projects are expected to display genuine synthesis of theoretical material along issues proposed.
8) Final paper projects should be inclusive of a bibliography page.
9) Final paper projects should be submitted in MLA format.
10) Final paper projects, all class assignments, and conduct should abide by academic rules of ethics

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Class attendance is compulsory (%70)
2. Students held exempt from participation to the class, are expected to stay updated with the current year s course content, as it may be subject to alteration.
3. All student conduct, projects, class assignments, should adhere with academic rules of ethics

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Faculty of Letters

Office Hours

To be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes