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Ders Öğretim Planı

Dersin Kodu Dersin Adı Dersin Türü Yıl Yarıyıl AKTS Kredi
EILL206 American Literature II Ders 2 4 6.00 3.00

Dersin Seviyesi

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Dersin Amacı

To allow students to get acquaintance with the basic narratives of English Renaissance by learning the styles of prominent authors of the period. A variety of genres within the period will be analyzed to get a clear literary picture of the age.

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Öğrenme Çıktıları

1 Identify significant aspects, major literary works and personalities in American Literature.
2 Analyze, explain and discuss a literary work through critical thinking.
3 Possess a respectable idea about American historical, social and literary background
4 Compare and contrast significant cultural & temporal variations in American literature.

Öğrenim Türü

Birinci Öğretim

Dersin Ön Koşulu Olan Dersler

Ders İçin Önerilen Diğer Hususlar

Yok

Dersin İçeriği

Students will read, analyze, and discuss a selection of works that are representative of American Literature Students will learn major literary texts and characteristics of each genres in American History.

Haftalık Ayrıntılı Ders İçeriği

Hafta Teorik [OgretimYontemVeTeknikleri] [OnHazirlik]
1 Introduction to the course, syllabus review American Icons - Whitman: “Song of Myself” - Dickinson - Twain: “Notorious Jumping Frog...”
2 American Regionalism - Bierce: “Chickamauga” - Jewett: “A White Heron” - S. Far: “Mrs. Spring Fragrance” Native-American - Winnemucca: “Life Among Piutes” - Oskison: “Problem of Old Harjo” - Zitkala-Sa: “The School Days...”
3 The Woman Question - H. James: “Daisy Miller” - Chopin: “Desiree’s Baby” - Gilman: “The Yellow Wall-paper” African-American - Washington: “Up from Slavery” - Chesnutt: “Goophered Grapevine” - DuBois: “Souls of Black Folk”
4 Nature & Industry - S. Crane: “The Open Boat” - London: “The Law of Life” - Sinclair: “The Jungle”
5 The American “Normal” - Masters: “Trainor, the Druggist,” “Nellie Clark,” “Abel Melveny” - Frost: “Mending Wall,” “The Road Not Taken,” “Birches,” “Out Out,” “Stopping by Woods...” - Anderson: “Hands” The Harlem Renaissance - Hurston: “How It Feels to Be...” - Toomer: “Cane” - Hughes: “The Negro Speaks...,” “I, Too,” “The Weary Blues,” “Theme for English B,” “Silhouette”
6 The Big Three - Fitzgerald: “Diamond as Big...” (eL) - Faulkner: “Barn Burning” - Hemingway: “Hills Like White...” The Expat Poets - Stein: “Objects” - Pound: “In a Station...,” “The RiverMerchant’s Wife,” “Canto 1” - Eliot: “The Love Song...,” “The Hollow Men,” “Journey of the Magi”
7 The Americanists - Stevens: “The Snow Man,” “The Emperor...,” “Sunday Morning,” “Thirteen Ways...,” “Idea of Order...” - Williams: “Spring and All,” “To Elsie,” “The Red Wheelbarrow,” “This is Just to Say,” “Landscape...” - Moore: “Poetry,” “To a Snail,” “The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing” The Experimentalists - Cummings: “in Just,” “O sweet spontaneous,” “Buffalo Bill’s,” “next to of course...,” “i sing of Olaf...” - Dos Passos: “U.S.A.” - H. Crane: “The Bridge”
8 Midterm
9 The Modern South - Porter: “The Circus” (eL) - Wolfe: “The Lost Boy” - R. Wright: “Man Who Was Almost...”
10 Contemporary Prose - Baldwin: “Going to Meet the Man” - O’Connor: “A Good Man...” - Carver: “What We Talk...” (eL) - Morrison: “Recitatif” - Kingston: “No Name Woman” - Hannah: “Water Liars” (eL)
11 Contemporary Poetry Bishop: “The Man-Moth,” “The Fish,” “In the Waiting Room,” “The Moose,” “One Art” - Berryman: “Dream Songs 1, 14, 29” - Brooks: “We Real Cool,” “The Bean Eaters,” “The Last Quatrain...” Ginsberg: “Howl,” “Footnote to Howl,” “Supermarket in California” - J. Wright: “A Blessing,” “Centenary Ode,” “Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry Ohio” - Plath: “Morning Song,” “Daddy,” “The Applicant”
12 Contemporary Drama - Shepard: “True West” - Wilson: “Fences” - Mamet: “Glengarry Glen Ross”
13 Writers Today (Prose) - Alexie: “What You Pawn...” (eL) - Lahiri: “Sexy” - Diaz: “Drown” Writers Today (Poetry) - Komunyakaa: “Facing It,” “My Father’s Love Letters,” “Slam, Dunk, & Hook” - Lee: “The Gift,” “Persimmons,” “Eating Together” - Tretheway: “Graveyard Blues,” “Photograph...,” “Native Guard”
14 Genre-Fiction (Horror) - Wharton: “The Eyes” (eL) - Lovecraft: “The Thing...” (eL) - Bradbury: “The Veldt” (eL) Genre-Fiction (Sci-Fi) - Dick: “Precious Artifact” - Le Guin: “Schrodinger’s Cat” - DeLillo: “Airborne Toxic Event” Creative Nonfiction - Dillard: “Seeing” - Thompson: “Fear & Loathing...” (eL) - D. Wallace: “Consider the Lobster” Comics/Graphic-Novel - Course Evaluations Spiegelman: “Maus”

Ders Kitabı Malzemesi Önerilen Kaynaklar

Focus on English and American Literature, Kenneth Brodey & Fabio Malgaretti, Modern Languages The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1865 to the Present (Vols. C, D, & E). Eds. Robert Levine, Michael Elliott, Sandra Gustafson, Amy Hungerford, & Mary Loeffelholz. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016. [ISBN: 978-0-393-26455-5]. 9th Edition.

Planlanan Öğrenme Aktiviteleri ve Metodları

Değerlendirme

Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri Adet Değer
Ara Sınav 1 100
Toplam 100
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri Adet Değer
Makale Yazma 1 100
Toplam 100
Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri 40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri 60

Staj Durumu

İş Yükü Hesaplaması

Etkinlikler Sayısı Süresi (saat) Toplam İş Yükü (saat)
Ara Sınav 5 4 20
Final Sınavı 6 8 48
Ara Sınav İçin Bireysel Çalışma 5 4 20
Final Sınavı içiin Bireysel Çalışma 8 8 64
Toplam İş Yükü (saat) 152

Program ve Öğrenme Çıktıları İlişkisi

PÇ 1 PÇ 2 PÇ 3 PÇ 4 PÇ 5 PÇ 6 PÇ 7 PÇ 8 PÇ 9 PÇ 10 PÇ 11 PÇ 12 PÇ 13 PÇ 14 PÇ 15
ÖÇ 1 4 4 4 5 5 4 4 5 4 4 5 4 5 4 5
ÖÇ 2 5 4 5 5 4 5 4 5 5 4 4 4 5 4
ÖÇ 3 4 4 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 4 5 4 5 4 4
ÖÇ 4 4 5 4 4 5 4 5 4 5 4 4 5 5 4 5
* Katkı Düzeyi : 1 Çok düşük 2 Düşük 3 Orta 4 Yüksek 5 Çok yüksek