COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MATERIAL CULTURE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 2012 MATERIAL CULTURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LEMAN GIRESUNLU

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

This course introduces students to major intellectual trends in American culture from the Turn of the Century to 1950s. The course is inclusive of major art works, architectural styles, cultural artifacts, literary works, intellectual trends, thoughts and values as part of the evolution and transformation underwent in the United States.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will acquire skills to collect information about cultural objects: identifying, recognizing, perceiving and remembering.
2   Students will acquire skills in hearing in English about cultural objects. In this respect audio/visual teaching resources: documentaries etc. will be included.
3   Students will acquire skills in paraphrasing brief original information.
4   Students will acquire skills in describing texts in various formats.
5   Students will have access to teaching material on a continuing basis with the intermediary of their course blog

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 introduction Introduction to American Studies/Culture studies/Gender Studies/Popular Culture etc. Subject areas, chronological perspective, interdisciplinary studies and contemporary academic trends in the area.
2 Introduction to American Studies Lecture/power point/documentary viewing/new terminology
3 Reforms in the USA in the 1900; Urbanisation Lecture power point/documentary viewing/new terminology
4 Reforms in the usa in the 1900; Urbanisation Lecture power point/documentary viewing/new terminology
5 Literature Upton Sinclair; Edith Warthon; Theodore Dreiser; Frank Baum Lecture power point/documentary viewing/new terminology reading--paraphrase
6 Art: Art Nouveau Vs. Art Deco Lecture power point/documentary viewing/new terminology reading--paraphrase
7 Art: Arts and Crafts Movement Landscaping and F.L. Olmstead Lecture power point/documentary viewing/new terminology
8 Midterm
9 Thornstein Weblen, the theory of the Leisure Class, Max Weber, The Protestant Work Ethic Lecture power point/documentary viewing/new terminology
10 Turn of the Century artistic trends and architecture Modernists; The Armory Show; Ash Can School; Precisionism and Technologic America; Frank L. Wright Lecture power point/documentary viewing/new terminology reading--paraphrase
11 Modernist art --continued: Jazz Age, F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby; Native American art and Western Modernism; Pueblo Style; Georgia O Keefe; Lecture power point/documentary viewing/new terminology reading--paraphrase
12 Modernist art--continued, Architecture Skyscrapers, New York: Art Deco, Fritz Lang, Metropolis, Utopia versus dystopia; Lecture power point/documentary viewing/new terminology reading--paraphrase
13 The New Deal; F.D. Roosevelt 1932; The Works Progress Administration; Murals; Rockefeller Center; Public Art; The Hoover Dam (1935); Migration from South to North and its effects on art 1930s; Jacob Lawrence, The Migration Series (Painter). Bölgeciler; Edward Hopper (Painter) ve New York. Lecture power point/documentary viewing/new terminology reading--paraphrase
14 Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

1) Corresponding documentary, movie, introducing cultural and artistic objects and personae.
Such audio visual maybe object to change each year. (i.e. Georgia O Keeffe, Norman Rockwell)
2) Course lecture and power point print-outs.
3) Works of Literature (in English); Various Reference material including the web.
4) The Course Blog web site and content.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Classes
1) All selected teaching material; written and visual are to be notified prior to the semester.
Syllabi maybe altered with due notice.
Lectures maybe inclusive of power point presentations; black board use, and handouts.
2) Teaching material is posted on the blog site (online) allowing for duly class preparation.
3) Audio/visual resources will be included to the class.
Computer applications:
The Course Blog will be inclusive of various course related reading and audio/visual material, as well as class related announcements.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Exams:
1. Throughout the semester two (2) exams will be administered.
2. Midterm: (%40)
Midterm exam will be in test form, inclusive of multiple choice, fill in the blanks, open ended
type questions. This exam aims to test student understanding of acquired information.
Final: (%60)
Final exam will be in test form, inclusive of multiple choice, fill in the blanks, open ended type
questions. This exam aims to test student understanding of acquired information.
Homeworks maybe assigned to constitue (%10) of the final grade.

Assessment Criteria


1) Exam questions require memorization of a concept, an author s name, a literary work, an aspect specific to an era, the name of a particular style, the essence of an intellectual trend etc.
2) In multiple-choice text exam answers are constant.
3) In Fill in the blank type questions correct answers and answers that are closest to the correct answer are accepted as correct. If the correct answer is worth two points (2) the answer closest to correct is to be graded as one (1) point.
4) In open ended type questions students are expected to remember a definition at its best possible form in a cause and effect relationship, showing their best understanding of it. If the correct answer is worth two points (2) the answer closest to correct is to be graded as one (1) point.
5) Test questions are commensurate with issues covered during the half semester in concern, and are prepared so as to allow for due response time.
6) In grading bell curve may be applied, with 70 median. University Oracle system is employed in the implementation of this calculation.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1) Class attendance is compulsory (%70)
2) Students exempt from class participation, should keep themselves updated with current year s course content, since it maybe subject to alteration.
3) Students are expected to adhere with academic code of ethics.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Faculty of Letters A-112

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Preperation for paper 1 15 15
Preperation for paper presentation 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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