Description of Individual Course Units
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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 class offers a survey of schools of literary cultural criticism from past to present: modern and contemporary approaches: formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, new historicism/cultural poetics, feminism, queer theory; Post-colonialism, onwards in relation to American Culture and literature. Class meetings will cover introductory as well as major readings from these schools of criticism. |
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit |
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Mode of Delivery |
Face -to- Face |
Prerequisites and Co-requisites |
None |
Recomended Optional Programme Components |
None |
Course Contents |
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Recomended or Required Reading |
Greenblatt Stephen and Giles Gunn (eds.) Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of English and American Literary Studies. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1992. |
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. |
Assessment Methods |
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Further Notes About Assessment Methods |
Mid-term exam Midterm: in class exam: (%10) will cover material studied in-class, and will expect responses to major discussions in the area. |
Assessment Criteria |
1) Book reports are expected to display accurate understanding of reading assignments; and to display rigorous academic research placing the work into critical perspective. |
Language of Instruction |
English |
Course Policies and Rules |
1. Class attendance is compulsory (%70) |
Contact Details for the Lecturer(s) |
Faculty of Letters A/112 |
Office Hours |
To be announced |
Work Placement(s) |
None |
Workload Calculation |
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Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes |
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