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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS AKE 4039 THE AMERICAN ESSAY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

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 and produce examples of contemporary essay writing in order to ascertain and widen the range of creative non-fiction today.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To identify reading and writing practices that exhibit lacunae in knowledge and errors in thinking 2   To identify stylistic clichés 3   To identify reductive ideological readings and writing 4   To identify the machinations of pleasure and fantasy in reading and writing 5   To read and write non-fiction creatively

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Objectivity and subjectivity Discussion 2 The elements of a scene Discussion 3 Intimate detail Discussion 4 Framing Discussion 5 Manipulating time Discussion 6 Organization Discussion 7 Focus Discussion 8 Midterm exam 9 Research Discussion 10 Thinking Discussion 11 Immersion Discussion 12 Quoting and irony Discussion 13 Reflection Discussion 14 General evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Lopate, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay (1994) 2. Gutkind. The Art of Creative Nonfiction ( 1997) 3. Wilbers. Keys to Great Writing (2000) 4. Cottrell. Critical Thinking Skills (2011) 5. Jacobs. The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (2011) 6. Fish. How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One (2011) 7. Selected essays

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 7 84 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) 132

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 PO.12 PO.13 PO.14 LO.1 5 LO.2 5 LO.3 5 5 LO.4 5 5 LO.5 5