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 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

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

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

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes