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GRADUATE INSTITUTE of SOCIAL SCIENCES / DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE / Applied Linguistics-Masters with Thesis
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IDE5910Historical and Marxist Criticism3+0+0ECTS:7.5
Year / SemesterSpring Semester
Level of CourseSecond Cycle
Status Elective
DepartmentDEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE
Prerequisites and co-requisitesNone
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
Contact Hours14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week
Lecturer--
Co-LecturerNone
Language of instruction
Professional practise ( internship ) None
 
The aim of the course:
Main aim of this course to teach Historical and Marxist criticism. Other aim of this course to teach practicing Historical and Marxist criticism while work analysing.
 
Programme OutcomesCTPOTOA
Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to :
PO - 1 : provide information about Historical and Marxist criticism
PO - 2 : academically analyze works with Historical and Marxist criticism
CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), PO : Learning Outcome

 
Contents of the Course
Historical background and literature of Historical and Marxist criticism. Method of Historical and Marxist criticism for literary works.
 
Course Syllabus
 WeekSubjectRelated Notes / Files
 Week 1Introduction
 Week 2Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, ?The Communist Manifesto.?
 Week 3Georg Lukacs. Realism in Our Time.
 Week 4Raymond Williams, ?Culture is Ordinary.?
 Week 5Walter Benjamin, ?The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction?
 Week 6Theodore Adorno and Max Horkheimer, ?The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception?
 Week 7Louis Althusser, ?Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses (Notes towards an Investigation)?
 Week 8Stuart Hall, ?Signification, Representation, Ideology: Althusser and the Post-Structuralist Debates? (1985)
 Week 9Student presentation
 Week 10Student presentation
 Week 11Marxist theory and contemporary revisions
 Week 12Giovanni Arrighi, "World Income Inequality and the Future of Socialism."
 Week 13Slavoj Zizek, Mapping Ideology.
 Week 14Final Exam
 
Textbook / Material
 
Recommended Reading
 
Method of Assessment
Type of assessmentWeek NoDate

Duration (hours)Weight (%)
Mid-term exam 9 04/04/2016 2 30
Quiz 12 25/04/2016 2 20
End-of-term exam 16 23/05/2016 2 50
 
Student Work Load and its Distribution
Type of workDuration (hours pw)

No of weeks / Number of activity

Hours in total per term
Yüz yüze eğitim 3 14 42
Sınıf dışı çalışma 8 14 112
Arasınav için hazırlık 8 1 8
Arasınav 1 1 1
Ödev 7 3 21
Kısa sınav 5 1 5
Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık 9 1 9
Dönem sonu sınavı 2 1 2
Total work load200