COURSE UNIT TITLE

: WOMEN TRAVEL WRITERS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

History

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR FÜSUN ÇOBAN DÖŞKAYA

Offered to

History

Course Objective

This course aims to introduce the genre of travelogues and its historical development and to discuss the necessary methods and terms with the students. The main activity of the course is to examine the basic characteristics of women travelers and to analyze the works of important women travelers.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To have knowledge about women travel writers.
2   To have a basic knowledge of some travel writing and gender based concepts
3   To be competent in textual analysis.
4   To be capable of using course's terminology.
5   To have a basic knowledge of theoretical approaches used in travel writing and to evaluate the differences between texts written by men and women.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Defining travel literature Introduction
2 General information on women travel writers Class Discussion
3 Lady Montague (The Turkish Embassy Letters) Class Discussion
4 Julia Pardoe (The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836) Class Discussion
5 Esme Scott-Stevenson General Information about Travel Literature (Our Home in Cyprus) Class Discussion
6 Hester Donaldson Jenkins The Daughters of Robert College: Missionary, Feminism, Foreign Schools (Behind Turkish Lattices) Class Discussion
7 Grace Ellison A Mansion and New Women in Istanbul (An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem) Class Discussion
8 Mid-term Exam
9 Ruth Frances Woodsmall Muslim Women Step into a New World (Moslem Women Enter a New World) Class Discussion
10 Zeynep Hanım An Ottoman woman in quest of freedom (A Turkish Woman's European Impressions) Class Discussion
11 Mary Mills Patrick: Istanbul of the Last Sultans: Politics, Modernization, Foreign Schools (Under Five Sultans) Class Discussion
12 Eliza Cheney Abbott Schneider The Believers and the Infidels in an Ottoman City (Letters from Broosa. Asia Minor) 1846 Class Discussion
13 Melek Hanım- Grace Ellison (Abdulhamit's Daughter) Class Discussion
14 Demetra Vaka Brown (Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women) Class Discussion
15 Review Class Discussion
16 Final Exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Lady Montague (The Turkish Embassy Letters)
Esme Scott-Stevenson (Our Home in Cyprus)
Julia Pardoe (The City of the Sultan and Domestic Manners of the Turks in 1836)
Grace Ellison (An Englishwoman in a Turkish Harem)
Ruth Frances Woodsmall (Moslem Women Enter a New World)
Zeynep Hanım (A Turkish Woman s European Impressions)
Mary Mills Patrick (Under Five Sultans)
Demetra Vaka Brown (Haremlik: Some Pages from the Life of Turkish Women)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Explaining the topic to students through interactive presentations and supporting it with visual materials, followed by in-depth analysis of the topic through student discussions.

Assessment Methods

To be announced!

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To abide by ethical criteria in academic work.

Assessment Criteria

1. Ability to understand and define basic concepts correctly
2. Relating related concepts to each other and using them in context.
3. Analyzing a given text or discourse and using the terminology in the course content effectively.
4. Using language correctly and effectively.
5. Relating and applying the knowledge learned to real in real world examples.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% attendance is compulsory.
2. It is important to attend classes and come to class by reading the subject beforehand.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

fusun.doskaya@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday 08:30-09:30
Tuesday 08.30-09:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 30 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 30 30
Preparation for final exam 1 30 30
Preparing presentations 13 10 130
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 265

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.144
LO.24
LO.355
LO.4
LO.53

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