COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ADVANCED STUDIES IN AMERICAN NOVEL II

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 6019 ADVANCED STUDIES IN AMERICAN NOVEL II ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LEMAN GIRESUNLU

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

The purpose of this course is to expose the students to the critical works with which they will more easily understand and evaluate the American novel from the Civil War to the second half of the 20th century. The novels will be examined in their social, political, and cultural contexts. Emphasis will be given to the representative masterpieces through which the students are invited to decipher the milieu of the works.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To analyze the critical texts;
2   To analyze the evolution of literature reflective of American literary periods;
3   To evaluate the assigned texts by reading between the lines;
4   To apply different critical approaches to the assigned texts;
5   To write a fully developed essay in accordance with the MLA format.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 American Adam Reading and Discussion
2 Love and Death in the American Novel Reading and Discussion
3 Deceit, Desire, and the Novel Reading and Discussion
4 The Nature of Narrative Reading and Discussion
5 The Dialogic Imagination Reading and Discussion
6 Don Kişot'tan Bugüne Roman Reading and Discussion
7 Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1884 Reading and Discussion
8 William Dean Howells, A Hazard of New Fortunes, 1890 Reading and Discussion
9 Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900 Reading and Discussion
10 Henry James, The Ambassadors, 1903 Reading and Discussion
11 F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, 1925 Reading and Discussion
12 William Faulkner, Light in August, 1932 Reading and Discussion
13 Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men, 1946 Reading and Discussion
14 Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952 Reading and Discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
American Adam, R.W.B. Lewis, 1959
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel, Rene Girard, 1961
Don Kişot'tan Bugüne Roman, Jale Parla, 2000.
Love and Death in the American Novel, Leslie A. Fiedler, 1960.
The Dialogic Imagination, M. Bakhtin, 1981
The Nature of Narrative, Scholes& Kellogg, 1966

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

* Read the text before coming to the class;
* Collaborate with other students to enhance learning;
* Complete all class activities and writings on time.

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 * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

The students will be asked whether they can
* Determine which information he / she needs;
* Evaluate and analyze the given information;
* Make use of the information by documenting sources;
* Write a paper observing all the rules of MLA format.

Assessment Criteria

The students are asked to
* demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of major facts relevant to the topics;
* evaluate and analyze the given information.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

* According to the university policy the students are required to attend 70% of all scheduled classes.
* The students are required to come to the class having read the assigned text.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Faculty of Letters Building
Phone: 18645
e-mail: nuray.onder@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

By appointment

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 8 112
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 205

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.155
LO.25545
LO.35455
LO.454
LO.5555

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