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| ELL3029 | Comparative Literature | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | -- | | Co-Lecturer | None | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | To gain exposure to some of the most striking and thought provoking works of contemporary, world literature
To engage with critical secondary sources and think about their relationship to the text(s)
To gain confidence, experience, and poise as a public speaker
To gain experience working through collaborative projects
To refine your writing skills through a variety of writing exercises
To build and refine your critical reading and thinking skills within a community of learners |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | To gain exposure to some of the most striking and thought provoking works of contemporary, world literature | 1,2,3,4,5,7,10,13,14,15,16 | 1 | | LO - 2 : | To engage with critical secondary sources and think about their relationship to the text(s) | 1,2,3,5,6,8,10,11 | 1 | | LO - 3 : | To gain confidence, experience, and poise as a public speaker | 4,8,13,14,17,18,20,23 | 1 | | LO - 4 : | To gain experience working through collaborative projects | 1,2,4,6,9,11,17,20 | 1 | | LO - 5 : | To refine your writing skills through a variety of writing exercises | 1,2,5,8,10,17 | 1 | | LO - 6 : | To build and refine your critical reading and thinking skills within a community of learners | 4,8,12,15,18 | 1 | | LO - 7 : | To acquaint the student with the different genres, movements and trends in literature in a cross cultural perspective | 3,5,8,12,14,19 | 1 | | LO - 8 : | To familiarise the student with the concept of comparative study of literature and to promote an international approach to the study of literature; | 2,4,10,15,20 | 1 | | LO - 9 : | To prepare students for a methodological investigation of problems involving more than one literature so that she/he may acquire a broader sense of literary history and tradition than may be derived from the study of a single literature; | 1,2,6,11,15,18,19 | 1 | | LO - 10 : | To develop the ability to critically analyse literary texts in a broader perspective of world literature. | 2,3,6,9,12,14,17 | 1 | | 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), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| History, theory, and methodology of comparative literature; issues of national literature, world literature, and comparative literature; relation between comparative literature and
other disciplines and mediums; oral presentation; critique of research papers; discussion of current problems in teaching and research in comparative literature. Required for all
entering comparative literature students. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Introduction to and Insights into Comparative Literature | | | Week 2 | From the Imperial Era to Modern Republic: Historical Background of Western Literature and Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 3 | Modernism in Western Literature and Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 4 | Issues in Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 5 | Image of East in Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 6 | Image of West in Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 7 | Ideology and Modernization in Western Literature and Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 8 | Fantastic or Grotesque Characters in Western Literature and Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 9 | City and Space in Western Literature and Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 10 | References to Modern Sciences and Psychology in Western Literature and Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 11 | History as a Tool in Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 12 | Fictional Characters in Western Literature and Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 13 | Postmodernist Turn in Western Literature Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 14 | Postmodernist Turn in Western Literature Modern Turkish Novel | | | Week 15 | Term Revision and Final Exam | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Introduction to the Theory of Literature and Comparative Literary Studies | | | 2 | A survey of Modern Western Literature Fiction: Novel and Short Story (Select Authors | | | 3 | Modern Literary Movements and Theories Eastern and Western. | | | 4 | Saussy, Haun, ed. Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. | | | 5 | MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. Seventh Edition. 2009. | | | 6 | Aldridge, Owen, ed. Comparative Literature: Matter and Method. Urbana:University of Illinois Press, 1964 | | | 7 | Bassnett, Susan. Comparative Literature: A Critical Introduction. Oxford, UK/Cambridge, USA: Blackwell, 1993. | | | 8 | Jost, Francois. Introduction to Comparative Literature. Indianapolis: BobbsMerrill, 1974 | | | 9 | Guillen, Claudio. The Challenge of Comparative Literature. Trans. Cola Franzen. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993. | | | 10 | Tanpınar, Ahmet Hamdi. The Time-Regulation Institute. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | | 2 | 30 | | Presentation | 14 | | 1 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 17 | | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 5 | 14 | 70 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 6 | 1 | 6 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Ödev | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Proje | 2 | 14 | 28 | | Kısa sınav | 1 | 12 | 12 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 206 |
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