COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRITICAL THEORY II

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
AKE 5002 CRITICAL THEORY II ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

American Culture and Literature

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR LEMAN GIRESUNLU

Offered to

American Culture and Literature

Course Objective

This class offers a survey of schools of literary cultural criticism from past to present: modern and contemporary approaches: formalism, structuralism, post-structuralism, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, new historicism/cultural poetics, feminism, queer theory; Post-colonialism, onwards in relation to American Culture and literature. Class meetings will cover introductory as well as major readings from these schools of criticism.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will acquire knowledge in Critical Theory.
2   Students will develop criticial thinking and advanced academic writing skills
3   Students will acquire in class discussion, and presentations skills in an advanced academic setting.
4   Students will develop skills in advanced academic research.
5   Students will develop skills in synthesizing classical and current issues in Critical theoretical positions.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 introduction Lecture/book presentation/ Class discussion
2 Formalism New Criticism Analysis of Poems in class activity (Ralph Waldo Emerson) Lecture/book presentation/ Class discussion
3 New Criticism and Formalism Presentations Lecture/book presentation/ Class discussion
4 Structuralism Ferdinand de Saussure, Presentations Lecture/book presentation/ Class discussion
5 Marxism Fredric Jameson, Presentations Lecture/book presentation/ Class discussion
6 Post-Structuralism Roland Barthes, Foucault, Jacques Derrida Presentations Lecture/book presentation/ Class discussion
7 Psychoanalysis Freud, Lacan Presentations Lecture/book presentation/ Class discussion
8 Class Discussion Class Discussion
9 Feminist Criticism Virginia Woolf, Julia Kristeva, Presentations Lecture/book presentation/ Class discussion
10 Queer Theory Judith Butler Presentations Lecture/book presentation/ Class discussion
11 African-American Criticism Presentations Lecture/book presentation/ Class discussion
12 New Historicism and Cultural Studies Presentations Lecture/book presentation/ Class discussion
13 Post-colonial Studies/Transculture/Cosmpolitanism An overview Presentations Lecture/ book presentation/ Class discussion
14 Wrap up-- Lecture/ book presentation/ Class discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction.Minneapolis: University of Minneapolis
Press, 1983.
Greenblatt Stephen and Giles Gunn (eds.) Redrawing the Boundaries: The Transformation of
English and American Literary Studies. New York: Modern Language Association of
America, 1992.
Jameson, Fredric. The Political Unconscious: Narrative as a Socially Symbolic Act. New
York: Cornell University Press, 1981.
Lodge, David and Nigel Wood (eds.) Modern Criticism and Theory: A Reader. UK: Longman, 2000.
Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism. 2001
Peck John and Martin Coyle. Literary Terms and Criticism. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Sarup, Madan. An Introductory Guide to Post-Structuralism and Postmodernism. Athens:
The University of Georgia Press, 1993.

All audio visual and published written material and study links maybe altered each semester, and
are duly announced in the class blog site.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) All selected teaching material; written and visual are to be notified prior to the semester.Syllabi maybe altered with due notice.
2) Students are expected to be prepared for a rigorous class discussion.
3) All assigned reaction papers and or book reports are due prior to the start of each class session.
4) Late assignments will be subject to deduction in grading.
5) Students are expected to abide by the academic code of ethics.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + PRS * 0.30 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + PRS * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Midterm: in class exam: will asses acquired knowledge and will expect responses to major discussions in the area.
Prior to the submission of the final paper students will submit a paper proposal and paper drafts at due times indicated in the syllabus.
Article/Book reports: Students will submit a critical examination ( formatted as a response paper) of assigned texts contextualizing issues within contemporary debates. Book reports will be presented in class as well as submitted in print format prior to each class session.
Research paper ): ( 10 pages minimum MLA style latest version) Final paper should focus upon an issue in American culture and literature. The topic of analysis should display thorough and proper scholarship, abiding by academic standards of research and ethics.
Weekly article/book presentations and subsequent class discussions will count towards the final grade, as active participation to class.
Final in-class exam : will cover material studied in-class, and will expect responses to major discussions in the area.

Assessment Criteria

1) Article/Book reports are expected to display accurate understanding of reading assignments; to display rigorous academic
research establishing the work into critical perspective.
2) Article/Book reports are submitted in written to the class instructor prior to each class session/presentations.
3) Paper proposals should display the aim and scope of the research to be conducted.
4) Paper proposals should be inclusive of an annotated bibliography.
5) Paper proposals are submitted in written to the class instructor at due date.
6) Paper draft assessment aims to evaluate and guide progress during research.
7) Final paper projects are expected to display genuine synthesis of theoretical material with
issues proposed.
8) Final paper projects should be inclusive of a bibliography page.
9) Final paper projects should be submitted in MLA format latest edition.
10) Final paper projects, all class assignments, and conduct should abide by academic rules of ethics

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

1. Class attendance is compulsory (%70)
2. Students held exempt from class participation are expected to stay updated with the current course content.
3. Students are expected to abide by the academic code of ethics.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Faculty of Letters

Office Hours

To be Announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for quiz etc. 1 26 26
Preparation for final exam 1 17 17
Preparation for midterm exam 1 17 17
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 1 17 17
Preparing assignments 1 28 28
Preparing presentations 1 28 28
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 178

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