COURSE UNIT TITLE

: 20TH CENTURY LITERARY MOVEMENTS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
IMT 4115 20TH CENTURY LITERARY MOVEMENTS ELECTIVE 3 0 0 4

Offered By

Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ATALAY GÜNDÜZ

Offered to

Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (English)
English Translation and Interpreting

Course Objective

Based upon the knowledge that translation is a profession in which world knowledge is very important, the aim of this course is to provide students with the skills of defining and interpreting 20th century written and verbal literary texts and to inform the students about the terminology of 20th century literary texts and the pioneers of literary trends and exemplary texts with various techniques.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Understand and analyze semantic and textual structures in source and target languages
2   Interpret written and verbal products of source language and culture system and compare them with the products of target language
3   Criticise during the translation process and display creativity
4   Learn terminolgy in literary translation through research
5   Learn working individually and in a group

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Modern Literary Schools
2 Romanticism & Transcendentalism
3 Realism with Sample Texts
4 Naturalism and its difference from Realism
5 Symbolism
6 Modernism with the main tenets
7 Mid-term
8 Impressionism as a technique with examples
9 Expressionism
10 Futurism and Dadaism as Avant-garde movements
11 Surrealism compared to symbolism
12 Existentialism
13 Post modernism, Magic Realism
14 Final Remarks

Recomended or Required Reading

Twentieth Century Literary Movements Dictionary by Helene Henderson 2000.
Realism and Naturalism in Nineteenth Century American Literature by Donald Pizer 1984, Carbondale.
Literature, Modernism and Myth by Michael Bell, 1997. Cambridge.
20th century Political Thought by Terence Ball & Richard Bellamy 2003. Cambridge.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Face-to-face and interactive courses. Critical reading and thinking skills will be enhanced. Dynamic, critical and effective reading will be promoted.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) VZ * 0.30 + ODV * 0.30 + FN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 BBN Bütünleme Sonu Başarı Notu VZ * 0.30 + ODV * 0.30 + BUT * 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Assessment will be based on assignments (20%) , participation and attendance(20%), mid-term (20%), a and final exam (40%).

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance is obligatory.
2. Texts to be read will be provided in advance and students are expected to be ready to discuss it in the class.
3. Students should avoid plagiarism in textual interpretation.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 11 11
Preparation for final exam 1 11 11
Preparing assignments 1 8 8
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 97

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