COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SHORT STORY AND WORLD LITERATURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KAR 5033 SHORT STORY AND WORLD LITERATURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Comparative Literature

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR HÜLYA KAYA

Offered to

Comparative Literature

Course Objective

This course aims to study the short story as a genre

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To use his/her knowledge about the short story as a literary genre
2   To analyze texts in regard to the development of the short story
3   To use their skills of critical reading.
4   To analyze texts in regard to the respective literary movement
5   To employ the theoretical perspectives to analyze and compare the literary texts.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: the presentation of lecture
2 The short story as a genre: theories and definitions
3 An overview of the history and evolution of the genre
4 Edgar Allan Poe and short story criticism
5 Nineteenth and early twentieth-century short fiction
6 Innovation in twentieth-century short story
7 Structure, narrative and technique in short stories
8 Text analysis and presentation
9 Text analysis and presentation
10 Text analysis and presentation
11 Text analysis and presentation
12 Text analysis and presentation
13 Text analysis and presentation
14 Wrap-Up

Recomended or Required Reading

March-Russell, Paul, The Short Story: An Introduction,Edinburgh UP, Edinbrugh, 2009.
Chialant, Maria Teresa, Lops, M. Eds., Time and the Short Story, Peter Lang, Bern, 2012.
Bendixen, Alfred, A Companion to the American Short Story, Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester, 2010.
Krueger, Kate. British Women Writers and the Short Story: 1850-1930, Palgrave Macmillan, New York, 2014.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures, in class discussions, assignments and presentations.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Will be announced.

Assessment Criteria

Will be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% attendance is obligatory.
2. Any kind of plagiarism will be subject to disciplinary action.
3. Preparation to weekly lectures (reading the respective material) and contribution to in class discussion is obligatory.
4. Students prepare presentations about topics given by the instructor.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ufuk.gundogan@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 4 56
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 157

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.44
LO.54

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