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 course examines the interaction of Science and Technology with culture and literature in the United States with the influence of Enlightenment thought and the industrial revolution.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To learn the examples in culture and literature of the diversity of ideas that guide American thought, which aims to progress and develop technologically and scientifically.

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 Hart Crane, The Bridge: To Brooklyn Bridge Lecture --class discussion
4 Alan Trachtenberg, The Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol Hart Crane, The Marriage of Faustus and Helen Lecture --class discussion
5 Alan Trachtenberg, The Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol The Dynamo and the Virgin (1900) from The Education of Henry Adams Lecture --class discussion
6 Lecture on Willa Cather, Alexander's Bridge Lecture --class discussion
7 Midterm Exam Evaluation
8 How the second industrial revolution changed American Lives Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Transport ( Trains and Car Culture) Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn Documentary viewing Lecture --class discussion
9 How the Second Industrial Revolution changed American Lives Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Mark Twain, Huckleberry Finn Transport ( Trains and Car Culture) Lecture --class discussion
10 International Fairs Architecture and Skyscrapers Cecelia Tichi, Shifting Gears Lecture --class discussion
11 Communications media The Telephone/Radio/Photo Camera Henry James , The Golden Bowl n Bowl Lecture --class discussion
12 Communications media The Telephone/Radio/Photo Camera Henry James, The Golden Bowl Lecture --class discussion
13 Computers/Social Media/Robots/AI Dana Haraway and the Current Critical perspectives. Race, Class, Gender issues and technology Lecture --class discussion
14 Computers/ Social Media/Robots/AI Dana Haraway and Current Critical perspectives. Wrap up Lecture --class discussion
15 Wrap up Class discussion
16 Final Exam Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Alan Trachtenberg, Leo Marx, Willa Cather, Henry Adams, Hart Crane
Henry James, David F.Noble, Dana Haraway. Various Movies and Documentaries.

Each semester an updated course syllabus is announced to the students at the start of the semester through Sakai distance learning platform.
Thus, access to written, and audio visual resources in various formats is provided throughout the semester.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

This class focuses on the study of science and technology and its interrelation with American culture and literature 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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

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

Assessment Criteria

1. Exam questions cover course material studied during the semester.
2. Exam questions test course related knowledge.
3. Test and or Open ended exam questions expect students to remember concepts and definitions at their
best possible form, in a cause and effect relationship, showing their best understanding of it.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

70% attendance is compulsory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Faculty of Letters

Office Hours

Fridays 13:00-14:00 PM

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
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) 135

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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