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 |
Comparative literature provides possibilities for dialogues between different languages and cultures. Therefore, it has the potential to create a democratic platform on which different cultural norms can be negotiated and appreciated. This course is designed to look into these possibilities and potentials in the selected material from a variety of national literatures. This semester, we will examine the body, one of the most controversial issues of all time, and its differing configurations and representations in the novels written at different times and in different cultures. At the end of this course, in addition to learning the basic theories and concerns of comparative literature, the students are expected to discern how the body has been conceptualized and perceived in its gendered, racial(ized) postcolonial, religious, and animal(ized) materializations. |
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 |
Ali Behdad and Dominic Thomas, eds., A Companion to Comparative Literature |
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
Lecture |
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 |
Either the midterm or the final of this course will involve 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 |
In order to be able to follow class discussions and lectures, the students must read the required material for the week. Each student is thus expected to be ready to participate in an intellectually stimulating discussion of the texts. In addition, s/he is expected to establish ties between the present and previously introduced material in order to be able to develop a wider perspective on underlying issues. |
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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