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 and published written material and study links maybe altered each semester, and
are duly announced in the class blog site.

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 be prepared for a rigorous class discussion.
3) All assigned reaction papers and or book reports are due prior to the start of each class session.
4) Late assignments will be subject to deduction in grading.
5) Students are expected to abide by the academic code of ethics.

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Midterm: in class exam: will asses acquired knowledge and will expect responses to major discussions in the area.
Prior to the submission of the final paper students will submit a paper proposal and paper drafts at due times indicated in the syllabus.
Article/Book reports: Students will submit a critical examination ( formatted as a response paper) of assigned texts contextualizing issues within contemporary debates. Book reports will be presented in class as well as submitted in print format prior to each class session.
Research paper ): ( 10 pages minimum MLA style latest version) 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 article/book presentations and subsequent class discussions will count towards the final grade, as 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

1) Article/Book reports are expected to display accurate understanding of reading assignments; to display rigorous academic
research establishing the work into critical perspective.
2) Article/Book reports are submitted in written to the class instructor prior to each class session/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 with
issues proposed.
8) Final paper projects should be inclusive of a bibliography page.
9) Final paper projects should be submitted in MLA format latest edition.
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 held exempt from class participation are expected to stay updated with the current course content.
3. Students are expected to abide by the academic code 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