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Description of Individual Course Units| Course Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | | 190301504100 | SHORT STORY | Compulsory | 2 | 4 | 5 |
| | Level of Course Unit | | First Cycle | | Objectives of the Course | | The objective of this course is to examine short story in a detailed way as a literary genre. Students are expected to learn the traits of the genre, to become familiar with the short stories and short story writers both from English literature and American literature and thematically and structurally examine the short stories under discussion. | | Name of Lecturer(s) | | Dr. Öğretim Üyesi Zafer ŞAFAK | | Learning Outcomes | | 1 | To know the chararcteristics of short story as a literary type. | | 2 | To comprehend the theoretical background and the terms/concepts of short story. | | 3 | To able to examine the short story. | | 4 | Being able to construct similiar fictional short stories in emulation of the authors from English and World literature. | | 5 | To be able to integrate the knowledge obtained from Short Story course with that of other courses. |
| | Mode of Delivery | | Daytime Class | | Prerequisites and co-requisities | | Basic Literary Terms | | Recommended Optional Programme Components | | Students are expected to obtain the books; The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms (Third Edition, by Peter Childs, Roger Fowler), Freytag’s Technique of the Drama: An Exposition of Dramatic Composition and Art (by Dr Gustav Freytag, An Authorized Translation from the Sixth German Edition by Elias J. MacEwan, Third Edition) and scrutinize the related subject matter given below:
(From the First Book) Exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, crisis, catastrophe, denoument,
(From the Second Book) Flashback, suspense, point of view, participant character, non-participant character, characterization, flat and round characters, stock character, protagonist, antagonist, anti-hero, foil, plot, sub-plot. | | Course Contents | | Course covers both signifcant terms to do mostly with short story to evaluate the genre better and notable short stories not only in British and American literature but also in World Literature. | | Weekly Detailed Course Contents | |
| 1 | Introduction
What is a short story ?
Freytag's pyramid/triangle (of a fiction/dramatic play)
Exposition, rising action, conflict, climax, falling action, crisis, catastrophe, denoument | - | - | | 2 | Some Basic Terms
Flashback, suspense, point of view, participant character, non-participant character, characterization, flat and round characters, stock character, protagonist, antagonist, anti-hero, foil, plot, sub-plot. | - | - | | 3 | The Gift of the Magi by O. Henry/William Sidney Porter | - | - | | 4 | The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe | - | - | | 5 | The Haunted House by Virginia Woolf | - | - | | 6 | The Lottery by Shirley Jackson | - | - | | 7 | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce | - | - | | 8 | Mid-Term Exam | - | - | | 9 | The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant | - | - | | 10 | Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl | - | - | | 11 | A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor | - | - | | 12 | Kashtanka by Anton Chekhov | - | - | | 13 | The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain | - | - | | 14 | A Clean, Well-Lighted Place by Ernest Hemingway | - | - |
| | Recommended or Required Reading | | The Routledge Dictionary of Literary Terms (Third Edition, by Peter Childs, Roger Fowler)
Freytag’s Technique of the Drama: An Exposition of Dramatic Composition and Art (by Dr Gustav Freytag, An Authorized Translation from the Sixth German Edition by Elias J. MacEwan, Third Edition)
The Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations (by Georges Polti, James Knapp Reeve, 1924)
Toward the End Closure and Structure in the American Short Story (by John Gerlach, The University of Alabama Press, 1985)
A Companion to the British and Irish Short Story (by David Malcolm, Cheryl Alexander Malcolm, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture) Wiley-Blackwell, 2008)
The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English (Cambridge Introductions to Literature, Adrian Hunter, 2007) | | Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods | | | Assessment Methods and Criteria | |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 100 | | SUM | 100 | |
| 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 | |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 20 | 20 | | Final Examination | 1 | 30 | 30 | | Attending Lectures | 14 | 3 | 42 | | Discussion | 1 | 20 | 20 | | Criticising Paper | 1 | 30 | 30 | |
| Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes | | LO1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | | LO2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | | LO3 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | | LO4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | | LO5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 |
| | * Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |
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