COURSE UNIT TITLE

: AMERICAN SOUTHERN LITERATURE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 3034 AMERICAN SOUTHERN LITERATURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

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 analyze the American South and its specific socio-cultural structure and political and historical period in various literary texts like novels, strories, plays in American Literature.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To analyze the American South with its history of slavery and the Civil War and with its socio-cultural structure and the ways this structure is presented in American Literature in various literary texts
2   To discuss the socio-cultural characteristics and the structure of the antebellum South and the post Civil War period in American South
3   To analyze the Southern Renaissance which is a significant literary period of the American South and which has a significant place in American Literature
4   To analyze the place and effect of the American South and its specific socio-cultural structure in the American Literature
5   To make academic research and write essays with a critical mind on the American South with its historical, cultural and literary characteristics and the way these characteristics are presented in American Literature

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction Discussion
2 A Streetcar Named Desire Discussion
3 A Streetcar Named Desire Discussion
4 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories (selected stories) Discussion
5 The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories (selected stories) Discussion
6 A Good Man is Hard to Find (selected stories) Discussion
7 Vize Discussion
8 A Good Man is Hard to Find (selected stories) Discussion
9 The Optimist's Daughter Discussion
10 The Optimist's Daughter Discussion
11 Crimes of the Heart Discussion
12 Crimes of the Heart Discussion
13 Wise Blood Discussion
14 Wise Blood Discussion
15 Evaluation Discussion
16 Final

Recomended or Required Reading

A Companion to the Literature and Culture of the South (Richard Grey&Owen Robinson), Wise Blood (Flannery O'Connor),The Ballad of the Sad Cafe and Other Stories (Carson McCullers) A Confederacy of Dunces (John Kennedy Toole), The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty (Eudora Welty), La Belle Zoraide, Desiree's Baby (Kate Chopin), Sing, Unburied, Sing (Jesymn Ward) A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Flannery O'Connor) The Optimist's Daughter (Eudora Welty) Crimes of the Heart (Beth Henley)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

To discuss the characteristics of the American South and the ways these characteristics are presented in the American Literature

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

None

Assessment Criteria

The students are expected to develop a critical mind to understand and analyze the American South and its social, cultural and historical periods in different literary texts of the American Literature

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 the students each term.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Final 1 1,5 2
Midterm 1 1,5 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 130

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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