COURSE UNIT TITLE

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR AYŞEGÜL GÜNDOĞDU

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

This course aims to discuss and understand how disability in its different forms such as physical, emotional and mental is presented and discussed in various literary texts like novels, stories, plays and movies in American Literature.

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

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Disability (Clare Barker&Stuart Murray), The Routledge Companion to Literature and Disability (Alice Hall), The Birth Mark (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Good Country People (Flannery O'Connor), The Sound and The Fury (William Faulkner), Of Mice and Men (John Steinback), The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams), Children of a Lesser God (Mark Medoff)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Discussion of disability in different literary texts in American Literature

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students are expected to understand and analyze the presentations of disability in different texts in American Literature and to develop a critical mind regarding the concepts of disability and normalcy.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance is compulsory
Plagiarism will be punished.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

aysegul.gundogdu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

It will be announced to students each term.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes