COURSE UNIT TITLE

: YOUTH LITERATURE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
EDB 5003 YOUTH LITERATURE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Turkish Language and Literature Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR SABAHATTIN ÇAĞIN

Offered to

Turkish Language and Literature Teacher Education

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to make Turkish Language and Literature teacher candidates feel the place and importance of youth literature in Turkish Language and Literature Education in general, to make students perceive the closeness between the field of youth literature and Turkish Language and Literature teaching, to comprehend the relationship between educational science and youth literature.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understands the place and importance of youth literature in Turkish Language and Literature education.
2   Recognizes the types of youth literature.
3   Recognizes youth literature poets and writers.
4   Plan a lesson using the knowledge of youth literature.
5   Can create a selection of quality youth books.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Development of Youth Literature in the World and in Türkiye
2 Basic Function of Youth Literature
3 The importance of Youth Books in the Development Process of Teens
4 The Effect of Youth Books in the Language Development of Teens
5 The Effect of the teen's cognitive development of children's books
6 The Effect of teen's Books Child's Personality
7 The Effect of teen's on Books teen's Social Development
8 Midterm exam
9 The Genres of teen's Literature
10 The Basic Elements of teen's Literature: The Examples of teen's books Character
11 Subject and Message of teen's Literature
12 Language, Expression and Pictures of teen's Literature
13 Basic Principles of teen's Literature
14 Evaluation of teen's literature products
15 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Kaminski, Winfred. Çocuk ve Gençlik Edebiyatına Giriş. Ankara: MEB Yayınları, 2019.
Uslu Üstten, Aliye. Gençlik Edebiyatı. Ankara, Nobel Yay., 2018.
Türk Dili Dil ve Edebiyat Dergisi, Çocuk ve Ilk Gençlik Edebiyatı Özel Sayısı. Ankara: TDK Yay., 2017.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Question and Answer, Discussion.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The success of the student is determined by the midterm and final exam grades. Apart from this, there is no special evaluation criterion.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students should be prepared for the topics specified in the syllabus before coming to the classes. Attendance to 70% of the courses is compulsory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

s.cagin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday, 15:00-16:00.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 92

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.142
LO.2432
LO.3432
LO.452
LO.552