COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WOMEN'S LITERATURE REVIEW

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KDN 7005 WOMEN'S LITERATURE REVIEW COMPULSORY 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Women's Studies Non-thesis

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR YEŞIM BAŞARIR

Offered to

Women's Studies Non-thesis

Course Objective

Examine novels written by women in world literature that portray the perception of woman in social, historical and intellectual context.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand the intellectual and ideological parameters pertaining to the role of women in cultural memory,
2   Make a discourse analysis of womens literary voice specifically in novel
3   Define the critical perpectives that underlie the thematic and symbolic patterns dominating the text-in-study
4   Discuss the literary conventions and archetypal forms that define the position of women in literature
5   Evaluate women novelists and women in novels as partnering arguments of the same cultural debate

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Course introduction
2 Geniş Geniş Bir Deniz, Jean Rhys, 1966
3 Sevgili Arsız Ölüm, Latife Tekin, 1983
4 Acı Çikolata, Laura Esquivel, 1989
5 Hayat Bir Kervansaray, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, 1990
6 Kara Su, Joyce Carol Oates, 1992
7 Kabuk Adam, Aslı Erdoğan, 1994
8 Mahrem, Elif Şafak, 1999
9 Yere Düşen Dualar, Sema Kaygusuz, 2006
10 Biz Kimden Kaçıyorduk Anne, Perihan Mağden, 2007
11 Çoluk Çocuk, Patti Smith, 2010
12 Tavan Arasındaki Buda, Julie Otsuka, 2011

Recomended or Required Reading

Geniş Geniş Bir Deniz, Jean Rhys, 1966
Sevgili Arsız Ölüm, Latife Tekin, 1983
Acı Çikolata, Laura Esquivel, 1989
Hayat Bir Kervansaray, Emine Sevgi Özdamar, 1990
Kara Su, Joyce Carol Oates, 1992
Mahrem, Elif Şafak, 1999
Yere Düşen Dualar, Sema Kaygusuz, 2006
Biz Kimden Kaçıyorduk Anne, Perihan Mağden, 2007
Kabuk Adam, Aslı Erdoğan, 2008
Çoluk Çocuk, Patti Smith, 2010
Tavan Arasındaki Buda, Julie Otsuka, 2011

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Courses: Of the teaching strategies, courses are the primary components of instruction to lay the theoretical basis of subject and introduce the reading material relevant to the studied topic. Courses display a central role in getting to know the terms and concepts defining the topic.
2. In-class discussions: In-class discussions aim at questioning the applicability of course material to diverse situations, thus increasing the factual tangibility of the information. The last hour of each weekly lecture is reserved for discussions.
3. Visual presentations and films: It includes the in-class projection of visual data such as pictures, illustrations, photographs, and maps as well as films and documentaries complementing the topic.

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 * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + STT * 0.20 + RST * 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students are required to attend 70% of the course schedule.
2. Exam questions are based on open-book and open-note principle to improve students thinking abilities and encourage them for higher cognitive responses.
3. Any form of cheating in the exam will result in a zero grade and also in disciplinary action.
4. Midterm exam covers the topics instructed in class from the beginning of semester to the day of the exam. Final exam covers the topics instructed in class after the midterm exam to the end of the semester, with some vital references to the content of the midterm exam.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: yesim.basarir@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 13:00-14:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
Preparing assignments 1 14 14
Preparing presentations 1 14 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 174

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.144
LO.24344
LO.354454
LO.44344
LO.54