COURSE UNIT TITLE

: UTOPIAN LITERATURE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GKD 5056 UTOPIAN LITERATURE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Buca Faculty Of Education

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ŞERIF ALI BOZKAPLAN

Offered to

Music Teacher Education
Turkish Language Teacher Education
Computer and Instructional Technologies Teacher Education
Chemistry Teacher Education
Biology Teacher Education
Turkish Language and Literature Teacher Education
Geography Teacher Education
Physics Teacher Education
Special Teacher Education
ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS TEACHER EDUCATION
PRE - SCHOOL TEACHER EDUCATION
Mathematics Teacher Education
Elementary Teacher Education
FINE ARTS TEACHER EDUCATION
Guidance and Psychological Counseling
Social Studies Teacher Education
History Teacher Education
Science Teacher Education

Course Objective

To teach the history, characteristics and important examples of utopian literature.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to be able to define utopia
2   to know the characteristics of utopia
3   to know the types of utopia
4   to be able to analyze through sample of novels

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Definition and types of utopia
2 History of utopian literature
3 Plato and the Republic
4 Thomas Moore and Utopia
5 feminism and utopia
6 Dystopia and its origins
7 General review, course evaluation, midterm exam
8 Relationship between utopia, dystopia and science fiction
9 Ecology and utopia
10 Religion and utopia
11 Western utopia examples
12 Non-Western utopia examples
13 Utopia examples in Turkish literature
14 final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Bacon, F. (2002). New Atlantis. The University of Adelaide. https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/b/bacon/francis/b13na/
Bellamy, E. (1980). Looking Backward: 2000 1887. Dover Publications.
More, T. (2010). Utopia (R. M. Adams, Trans.). Oxford University Press. (Original work published 1516)
Huxley, A. (2004). Brave New World. Harper Perennial Modern Classics.
Orwell, G. (1949). Nineteen Eighty-Four. Harvill Secker.
Le Guin, U. K. (2004). The Dispossessed. Harper & Row.
Plato. (2008). The Republic (B. Jowett, Trans.). Dover Publications. (Original work published ca. 380 BCE)
Morris, W. (2003). News from Nowhere. Penguin Classics.
Wells, H. G. (2005). A Modern Utopia. The Floating Press.
Fukuyama, F. (2006). The End of History and the Last Man. Free Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, presentation, demonstration, discussion, question and answer

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 VZ Midterm
2 FN Semester final exam
3 BNS BNS Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examFN * 0.60
4 BUT Make-up note
5 BBN End of make-up grade Student examVZ * 0.40 + Student examBUT * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The student's success is determined by the grade he/she will receive from the midterm and final exams. Apart from this, there is no special evaluation criterion.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Students must prepare for the topics specified in the course program before coming to class. Attendance at 70% of classes is mandatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e.uslu@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 76

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.15
LO.25
LO.35
LO.45