COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRITICAL THEORY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 3024 CRITICAL THEORY COMPULSORY 3 0 0 4

Offered By

American Culture and Literature (English)

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

HAKAN DIBEL

Offered to

American Culture and Literature (English)

Course Objective

This course aims to examine major contemporary literary/cultural/political theories, theorists, critics and theoretical works.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To identify major figures and works in literary criticism/theory
2   To explain and use theoretical terminology
3   To interpret theoretical texts
4   To produce specific theoretical readings of particular literary texts
5   To use textual analysis in tandem with cultural context analysis

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Psychoanalytic criticism Discussion
2 Marxist criticism Discussion
3 New criticism Discussion
4 Reader-Response criticism Discussion
5 Structuralist criticism Discussion
6 Deconstructive criticism Discussion
7 New Historical and Cultural criticism Discussion
8 Midterm
9 Queer criticism Discussion
10 Feminist criticism Discussion
11 African-American criticism Discussion
12 Postcolonial criticism Discussion
13 What is theory Discussion
14 General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Tyson. Critical Theory Today (Routledge 2006)
2. Bennett and Royle. An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (Pearson 2009)
3. Rapaport. The Literary Theory Toolkit (Wiley 2011)
4. Selected theoretical works

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Reading, discussion, writing

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 3 36
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 5 60
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 5 5
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 108

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.155
LO.255
LO.35
LO.455
LO.555