COURSE UNIT TITLE

: COMPARATIVE LITERARY HISTORY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TAR 5054 COMPARATIVE LITERARY HISTORY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 10

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR NEVZAT KAYA

Offered to

History

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to study the mechanisms of mutual reception and categorization of societies from the perspective of comparative literature.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To recognize the importance of literary products as historical documents.
2   To ascertain the highly visible reflections of social history in literature.
3   To distinguish the equivalence of literary texts to historical documents from the psychohistorical perspective.
4   To draw conclusions about the respective period of time from literary products.
5   To use literary history as an auxiliary discipline.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Tragedies: The Urbanisation of Myths
2 Urbanisation and Becoming The Other
3 The Problematics of Being Eucumenic and The Ethnological Approach
4 Renaissance: Towards Modernity
5 The Dialectics of Enlightenment
6 Mythic Topographies
7 Exotism, Orientalism
8 Midterm
9 Naturalism
10 Expressionism
11 Nietzsche and A Review
12 Body versus Mind
13 Meta-Stories
14 Global Disintegration

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
Susan Bassnett: Comparative Literature. A Critical Introduction, London, 1993.
Materials: Various papers related to course topics.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lectures
2. Participation
3. Discussion
4. Assignment/presentation

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced at the beginning of the semester.

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes will be assessed by questions regarding the course topics in midterm and final exam and by the evaluation of assignments and/or presentations prepared by the students.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% participation is obligatory.
2. All kinds of attempts at plagiarism will result in disciplinary action.
3. Students have to prepare to class and do their readings and participate in in-class discussions.
4. Students prepare assignments/presentation about topics determined by the instructor.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Tel.: 0232 3019494, nevzat.kaya@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

By appointment

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 25 25
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing assignments 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 1 30 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 7 84
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 244

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.144
LO.23333344
LO.344
LO.444
LO.54

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