Syllabus

  1. Identification: ELL 104
  2. Description:
  3. Level: Upper- Intermediate
    1. Prerequisite: A perfect command of English.
    2. Objective: The course aims at initiating in the students an awareness in the ways and methods of deciphering contextual ambiguities, paradigms, shift in paradigms by highlighting canonical approaches in literary comprehension as well as updated multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches.   
    3. References:

Primary source: Akın, Nüzhet. The Organic Project of American Literature. Ankara: Platin. 2007.

Secondary source: Akın, Nüzhet. Analytical English. Ankara: Platin, 2007.

 

  1. Compulsory or Elective courses: Compulsory
  2. Teaching staff: Assist. Prof. Dr. Nüzhet Akın
  3. Length and Period:

 

Week 1: Introduction and Philosophy of the course.

 

Week 2: Settling the syllabus in collaboration with the students.

 

Week 3: Theoretical background.

 

Week 4: Idea, Definition, Dialectic, Dialectical Materialism, Evolution, revolution,

 

Week 5: Form, Content, Hypothesis, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Presupposition, Examples

 

Week 6: Interdisciplinary approaches. Examples

 

Week 7: Examples. (paragraphs, non-fiction, fiction [short-short story, short-story]

 

Week 8: Mid-Term

 

Week 9: Literary term and their application

 

Week 10: Debate

 

Week 11: Term-paper

 

Week 12: Extracts from novels

 

Week 13: Overall evaluation of the term.

 

  1. Teaching and learning methods:

Lectures: 80%

Field studies or projects: 10%

Class participation: 10%

 

8. Written exams: 80%

Field studies or projects: 10%

Class participation: 10%

 

9. The Language: English

 

 

 

 

  1. Teaching and Learning methods:
  2. Assessment:
  3. a. Exam Period
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  5. C. Types of Evaluation:
  6. The Language
  7. ECTS Credit Allocation: