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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS KDN 7038 BODY, GENDER AND MYTHOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Women's Studies Non-thesis

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PELIN TUAÇ YILMAZ

Offered to

Women's Studies Non-thesis

Course Objective

The course objective is to examine how codifications related to gender and body have retained their validity since the oldest belief systems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To analyze indirect constructs of superiority of masculinity in religious and mythologic systems; 2   To distinguish the passiveness attributed to nature as a feminine phenomenon and the activeness attributed to culture as a masculine phenomenon; 3   To distinguish the gender role patterns in mythical and biblical creations; 4   To analyze the body representations related to gender roles; 5   To distinguish the effects of archaic symbol systems on the current.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Roots of everything or the amorphous beginning 2 The patriarchal metamorphosis of myths 3 Logocentric codification and the rationalization of myths 4 The Dialectics of Enlightenment 5 The Body of Sin 6 The Grotesque or Composite beings 7 Midterm Exam 8 The Mother Archetype, Good Mother, Evil Mother 9 From the evil mother to the femme fatale 10 Apollon: Matricide, Dionysos: Mother's Boy 11 Between Orestes and Oidipus 12 Gendered Topographies 13 From Magic Mountains to Hells on Earth 14 General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

Aiskhylos, Sophokles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Friedrich Nietzsche, Mikhail Bakhtin, Adorno/Horkheimer.

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 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE 3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG* 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

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)

nevzat.kaya@deu.edu.tr Tel.: 02323019494

Office Hours

Will 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 Preparing assignments 1 15 15 Midterm 1 3 3 Final 1 3 3 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 117

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 LO.1 1 LO.2 1 1 LO.3 1 LO.4 1 1 LO.5 1 1