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
190301503102	16 TH CENTRY ENGLISH LITERATURE	Compulsory	2	3	5

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The course will introduce students to the 16th century. It aims to help them recognize the general characteristics of English Literature, understand the works of this period, and compare the similar and different features in these works.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Zafer ŞAFAK

Learning Outcomes

1	Knows what 16th century English Literature is and which period it covers.
2	Have the knowledge about the authors and literary genres of English Literature.
3	Able to analyze the literary genres of the period stylistically and thematically.
4	Able to write qualified introductory and critical essays by making connections between poets-authors and their works.
5	Able to evaluate the qualified studies done about the literary works of the period.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

Middle/Medieval English Literature

Recommended Optional Programme Components

The participants are expected to have obtained The Oxford Companion to English Literature (Sixth Edition, by Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells, Oxford University Press, 2000), A Companion To English Renaissance Literature and Culture (by Michael Hattaway, Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 2003) and scrutinize the two books.

Course Contents

The course will cover the scope of 16th Century English Literature, cultural features of the age, prominent figures and works of the period and the content, themes and the arguments of these works.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction English Renaissance Literature (1485 to 1603): Renaissance Period Literary and Cultural Atmosphere Religion and Nationalism Education and the Renaissance Man Humanism Patronage The Theater Audience Forms: Pastoral Poems, Lyrics, Sonnets, Dramatic Forms	-	-
2	Poetry and the Development of the Sonnet Sonnet Form Italian Sonnet Early English Sonnets Sonnet Cycles	-	-
3	Later English Sonneteers Sir Philip Sidney	-	-
4	Sir Philip Sidney Astrophel and Stella	-	-
5	Sir Philip Sidney Defence of Poetry	-	-
6	Edmund Spencer The Shepheardes Calender The Faerie Queene	-	-
7	Shakespearean Sonnets	-	-
8	Mid-Term Exam	-	-
9	Classical Influence Actors Theaters The Masque Acting Companies Playwrights Christopher Marlowe	-	-
10	Christopher Marlowe The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus	-	-
11	Bir Oyun yazarı Olarak William Shakespeare Myths about Shakespeare The Plays of Shakespeare Hamlet Prince of Denmark The Tempest	-	-
12	Sir Thomas More Utopia	-	-
13	Sir Thomas Hoby: The Courtier Roger Ascham John Lyly	-	-
14	General Overview

Recommended or Required Reading

The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1, 4th Edition, by M. H. Abrams, 1988 English Literature to 1789 by Kathleen McCoy, Judith A.V. Harlan, Harper Perennial/ Harper Collins Publishers, 1992 The McGraw-Hill Guide to English Literature/Vol. 1, Beowulf to Jane Austen by Karen Lawrence, Betsy Seifter and Lois Ratner, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1985

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
Midterm Examination	1	100
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

English

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	3	3
Final Examination	1	3	3
Attending Lectures	14	3	42
Discussion	6	3	18
Question-Answer	14	3	42
Criticising Paper	6	8	48
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			156

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	PO 13	PO 14	PO 15	PO 16
LO1	5	4	3	4	2	5	4	5	5	4	4	5	4	4	4	5
LO2	4	5	4	3	4	5	3	4	4	5	3	4	5	4	4	5
LO3	5	4	3	4	4	4	5	5	2	4	4	3	5	4	3	2
LO4	4	1	2	4	3	2	4	1	4	5	3	5	4	5	2	3
LO5	4	2	1	4	5	5	2	3	4	2	5	4	2	3	5	4

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