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
190301504101	18 TY CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE	Compulsory	2	4	5

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

By this course, students are going to have an insight into the 18th Century English Literature and appreciate the value of literary works crafted in the century.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr Öğr. Üyesi Zafer ŞAFAK

Learning Outcomes

1	Knows what 18th 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

In advance of this course, students must take 17th Century English Literature and pass it. Students are obliged to have read and examined the course material (notes, articles, source books, original works, books and book chapters) distributed both in advance of the class.

Recommended Optional Programme Components

The students are expected to have obtained Literature and the Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England, (by Stephen Copley, Routledge Library Editions, Vol. 6, 1986) scrutinize the book, particularly the related subject matters.

Course Contents

The course covers 18th Century English Literature with prominent voices of poets, critics, essayists, playwrights, novelists and of their preeminent works. The course gives a specific emphasis on the background of 18th Century whose social, cultural, political, philosophical and religious developments pave the way for the emergence of leading men of letters and their magna opera.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	The Neo-Classical Age 18th Century English Literature, The Neo-Classical Poetry, The Emergence of Novel	-	-
2	The Intellectual Background of the 18th Century, The Novel as a New Genre	-	-
3	Epic Theory and the Novel, Ancient and Moderns, Literary Forms as Novel, Poetry, Drama, Periodical Essays	-	-
4	Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) A Tale of a Tub	-	-
5	Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal Criticism and Essay Readings on A Modest Proposal (MGH. 348-351)	-	-
6	Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Essay on Criticism The Rape of (the) Lock The/An Essay on Man	-	-
7	Alexander Pope Criticism and Essay Readings on The Rape of (the) Lock & The/An Essay on Man (MGH. 375-380 / 384-390)	-	-
8	Mid-Term Exam / Discussion of Exam Question and General Overview of the First Half up to MidTerms	-	-
9	Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) Johnson’s Poetry and Satire The Vanity of Human Wishes Preface to Shakespeare	-	-
10	Samuel Johnson’s Prose Rasellas Preface to Shakespeare Criticism and Essay Readings on Preface to Shakespeare (MGH. 399-400)	-	-
11	18th Century English Literature Lyric Poetry Thomas Gray (1716-1771) Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard Criticism and Essay Readings on Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (MGH. 407-410)	-	-
12	18th Century Drama Sentimental Plays and Satirical Plays Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, or Mistakes of a Knight Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The School for Scandals	-	-
13	The 18th Century Novel Revisited Readers of the Novel, Themes of the Novel Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders	-	-
14	Samuel Richardson (1689-1761) Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded Henry Fielding (1707-1754) The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling	-	-

Recommended or Required Reading

English Literature to 1785 (by Kathleen McCoy, Judith A.V. Harlan, Harper Perennial/ Harper Collins Publishers, 1992) The McGraw-Hill Guide to English Literature (Vol. 2, William Blake to D.H. Lawrence by Karen Lawrence, Betsy Seifter and Lois Ratner, McGraw-Hill Paperbacks, 1985) The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1, 4th Edition, by M. H. Abrams, 1988 UCLA Publications of the 17th and 18th Centuries Studies, (Edit by, Earl Miner, University of California Press, 2023) His and Hers: Essays in Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature, (by Ann Messenger, The University Press of Kentucky, 1986) Literature and the Social Order in Eighteenth-Century England, (by Stephen Copley, Routledge Library Editions, Vol. 6, 1986)

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	1	1
Final Examination	1	1	1
Makeup Examination	1	1	1
Attending Lectures	14	1	14
Self Study	14	1	14
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	1	10	10
Individual Study for Final Examination	1	10	10
Performance	10	10	100
Homework	5	1	5
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	5	4	5	5	5	5	5	4	4	4	5	4	5	5	5
LO2	4	4	5	5	4	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	4	5
LO3	5	4	4	5	5	5	4	5	4	4	4	5	5	5	4	5
LO4	4	5	5	4	4	4	3	5	4	4	5	4	4	5	5	4
LO5	3	4	4	2	4	4	5	5	4	3	4	4	5	4	4	4

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