COURSE UNIT TITLE

: TECHNOLOGY AND LITERATURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 2014 TECHNOLOGY AND LITERATURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LEMAN GIRESUNLU

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

This class analysez the interrelation of science and technology with culture and literature in the United States.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   This class expects students to acquire a mastery of major arguments within the area

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction I am Legend (movie)/The Industrial Revolution (documentary) documentary / movie viewing --class discussion
2 Introduction to Alan Trachtenberg, The Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land Lecture --class discussion
3 Alan Trachtenberg, The Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol --continued... Lecture --class discussion
4 Alan Trachtenberg, The Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol Hart Crane, For the Marriage of Faustus and Helen Lecture --class discussion
5 Alan Trachtenberg, The Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol Hart Crane, from The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge Lecture --class discussion
6 Lecture on Edith Wharton, Alexander's Bridge Lecture --class discussion
7 Lecture on Edith Wharton, Alexander's Bridge Lecture --class discussion
8 excerpts from Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden The Sleepy Hollow Trains ...Documentary Lecture --class discussion
9 Midterm
10 Car Culture in America Lecture --class discussion
11 International Fairs Architecture and Skyscrapers Cecelia Tichi, Shifting Gears Lecture --class discussion
12 Communications and Media The Telephone/Radio/Photo Camera Henry James , The Golden Bowl Henry James,The Golden Bowl Lecture --class discussion
13 Communications and Media The Telephone/Radio/Photo Camera Jonathan Lethem, As She Climbed Across the Table Lecture --class discussion
14 Computers/Robots/Blogs/Social Media Dana Haraway and the Critical opinion Race, Class, Gender issues and technology Lecture --class discussion
15 Wrap up Lecture --class discussion Class Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Alan Trachtenberg, Leo Marx, Edith Warton, Henry Adams, Hart Crane
Henry James, David F.Noble, Dana Haraway. Various Movies and Documentaries.
Each semester an updated syllabus will be sahred with the class via a blog site, and the Sakai education platform for distant learning classes.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This class focuses on the study of science and technology and its interrelation with American literature and culture within the context of American (Culture) Studies, inclusive of major works published in the area, pertaining especially to technology's development through American history, and its examples in literature, art and popular culture in relation to social categories of race, class, ethnicity and gender

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE 1 MIDTERM EXAM 1
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.50 + FIN * 0.50
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE 1 * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

One Midterm and Final exam will be administered througout the semester.
The exams will be in test format, as well as inclusive of open ended questions.
These exams will be evaluating students' understanding of major arguments in the area:
knowledge of concepts, definitions, and ability to develop inferences will be evaluated

Assessment Criteria

1. Exam questions test course related knowledge.
2. In test questions correct answers and answers that are closest to the correct answer
are accepted as correct. If the correct answer is worth two points (2) the answer
closest to correct is to be graded as one (1) point.
3. In open ended type questions students are expected to remember a definition at its
best possible form in a cause and effect relationship, showing their best understanding
of it. If the correct answer is worth two points (2) the answer closest to correct is
to be graded as one (1) point.
4. All exam questions will be related with issues covered during the semester , and are
prepared so as to allow for due response time.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Class attendance required 70%

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Faculty of Letters

Office Hours

Will be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 1 15 15
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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