Description of Individual Course Units
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Offered By |
American Culture and Literature |
Level of Course Unit |
First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree) |
Course Coordinator |
PROFESSOR DOCTOR NILSEN GÖKÇEN ULUK |
Offered to |
American Culture and Literature |
Course Objective |
This course is designed to present to the students the roots and historical development of approaches to nature and environment in American culture, history, and literature. The students will be introduced to the concepts such as virgin land, wilderness vs. civilizations, and frontier in American history and their extensions to the environmental debates on preservation vs. conservation, bio-centrism vs. anthropocentrism, technology and progress vs. primitivism and sustainable development. They will develop an understanding of the recent concerns and types of environmental discourse and their major principles. The students will not only read material that discusses theoretical and historical aspects of these concerns but also study literary texts from the perspective that such material exposes to them. They are expected to reach an understanding of the environment as an essential arena of power relations that interacts intimately with race, gender, and class. |
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit |
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Mode of Delivery |
Face -to- Face |
Prerequisites and Co-requisites |
None |
Recomended Optional Programme Components |
None |
Course Contents |
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Recomended or Required Reading |
History and Theory: |
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
Lectures |
Assessment Methods |
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*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable. |
Further Notes About Assessment Methods |
None |
Assessment Criteria |
If either the midterm or the final of this course involves writing a research paper, the minimum criteria in the evaluation of this assignment will be the sensibleness and coherence of the argument, fluency of the development of ideas and thoughts, the quality and range of research, the intellectual level of the analyses and syntheses of the sources, their integration to the main idea, and the success in the accuracy, fluency in the idiomatic usage of language. |
Language of Instruction |
English |
Course Policies and Rules |
This course includes lectures and class discussions. The professor will provide much of the context for readings in lectures while the students are to read and evaluate the assigned text for each week. In addition from the second week on, one hour of the class is allocated to student presentations. Performance at these presentations and class participation will affect the overall grade from this course. In addition to the midterm and the final exams, there will also be pop quizzes from this course based on the assigned reading for the week. |
Contact Details for the Lecturer(s) |
Office phone: 232 301 8678 |
Office Hours |
By appointment |
Work Placement(s) |
None |
Workload Calculation |
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Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes |
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