COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LEMAN GIRESUNLU

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

This class offers a survey of schools of literary cultural criticism from past to present: modern and contemporary approaches: formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, new historicism/cultural poetics, feminism, queer theory; Post-colonialism, onwards in relation to American Culture and literature. Class meetings will cover introductory as well as major readings from these schools of criticism.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction.Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis
Press, 1983.
Greenblatt Stephen and Giles Gunn (eds.) Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of
English and American Literary Studies. New York: Modern Language Association of
America, 1992.
Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. New
York: Cornell University Press, 1981.
Lodge, David and Nigel Wood (eds.) Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. UK: Longman, 2000.
Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2001
Peck John and Martin Coyle. Literary Terms and Criticism. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Sarup, Madan. An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism. Athens:
The University of Georgia Press, 1993.
All audio visual material and study links are to be announced in class blog prior to the semester

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) All selected teaching material; written and visual are to be notified prior to the semester.
Syllabi maybe altered with due notice.
2) Students are expected to attend class prepared for a rigorous class discussion.
3) All assigned homework and book reports are due prior to the start of the class.
4) Grades are to be deducted from all late papers.
5) Students are expected to adhere with academic code of ethics.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Midterm: in class exam: will expect responses to major discussions in the area.
Prior to the submission of the final paper students will submit their proposal and paper drafts at due times indicated in the syllabus.
Book reports : Students will submit a critical examination of assigned texts contextualizing them within contemporary debates. Book reports will be presented in class as well as submitted in print format prior to the presentation .
Research paper ): (10 pages minimum MLA style) Final paper should focus upon an issue in American culture and literature The topic of analysis should display thorough and proper scholarship, abiding by academic standards of research and ethics.
weekly book presentations and subsequent class discussion comprise of active participation to class
Final in-class exam : will cover material studied in-class, and will expect responses to major discussions in the area.

Assessment Criteria

Book reports are expected to display accurate understanding of reading assignments; and to display rigorous academic research placing the work into critical perspective.
2) Book reports are submitted in written to the class instructor prior to class discussions/presentations.
3) Paper proposals should display the aim and scope of the research to be conducted.
4) Paper proposals should be inclusive of an annotated bibliography.
5) Paper proposals are submitted in written to the class instructor at due date.
6) Paper draft assessment aims to evaluate and guide progress during research.
7) Final paper projects are expected to display genuine synthesis of theoretical material along
issues proposed.
8) Final paper projects should be inclusive of a bibliography page.
9) Final paper projects should be submitted in MLA format.
10) Final paper projects, all class assignments, and conduct should abide by academic rules of ethics

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Class attendance is compulsory (%70)
2. Students who have already fulfilled attendance but have failed the course on an earlier year,
and are regarded by university rule and regulations exempt from participation to the class,
are expected to stay updated with the current year s course content, as it may be subject to alteration.
3. All student conduct, projects, class assignments, should adhere with academic rules of ethics.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Faculty of Letters

Office Hours

To be Announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes