Iğdır University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
180300506103	TURKISH FOLK LITERATURE V	Compulsory	3	6	3

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To introduce all aspects of Sufism and Sufi-based Tekke Literature/Religious-Sufistic Turkish Folk Literature.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi İsmail ABALI

Learning Outcomes

1	Learns the factors that cause the emergence of Sufi thought.
2	Gains knowledge about verse and prose types of Religious-Mystical Turkish literature.
3	Gains information about the main Sufi poets of Turkish literature.
4	Examines on Sufi texts.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introducing the sources related to religious-mystical Turkish Folk Literature.
2	Turks-Islam and Sufism, Concepts of Faith, Religion and Sufism
3	Some terms of Sufism, Sufi movements and sects in Anatolia
4	Formation of religious-mystical Turkish folk literature
5	Religious-mystical branches of Turkish Folk Literature
6	Poetry in Religious-Mystical Turkish Folk Literature
7	Prose in Religious-Mystical Turkish Folk Literature
8	Genre and Form in Religious-Mystical Turkish Folk Literature
9	Ahmet Yesevi
10	Yunus Emre
11	Mevlânâ Celâleddin Rûmî
12	Alevi-Bektashi Faith Fundamentals
13	Hacı Bektaş-ı Veli, Kaygusuz Abdal, Abdal Musa
14	Hacı Bayram Veli, Pir Sultan Abdal et al. poets

Recommended or Required Reading

Artun, Erman (2006), Dinî-Tasavvufî Halk Edebiyatı, İstanbul, Kitabevi yayınları. Ocak, Ahmet Yaşar (2000), Alevî ve Bektaşî İnançlarının İslâm Öncesi Temelleri, İstanbul, İletişim Yayınları. Akarpınar, R. Bahar Mustafa Arslan (2010), ?Tekke-Tasavvuf Edebiyatı?, Türk Halk Edebiyatı El Kitabı, 7.b., Ankara, Grafiker Yayınları, s.339-392.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	60
Homework	1	40
SUM		100
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Final Examination	1	100
SUM		100
Term (or Year) Learning Activities		40
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	14	2	28
Self Study	14	3	42
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	5	5
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	10	10
Homework	1	7	7
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			95

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12
LO1	3	4	4	5	5	4	4	4	5	3	5	5
LO2	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	3	4	5
LO3	5	4	4	4	3	4	5	5	5	5	5	3
LO4	4	4	5	5	5	5	4	5	4	4	5	4

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High