| Course Unit Code | Course Unit Title | Type of Course Unit | Year of Study | Semester | Number of ECTS Credits | | 190301508103 | Contemporary Movements of Thought | Compulsory | 4 | 8 | 5 |
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| Level of Course Unit |
| First Cycle |
| Objectives of the Course |
| Students are expected to become familiar with the contemporary movements of thoughts in a chronological order and from general to specific and be able to comprehend, analyze, discuss and criticize literature and culture in relation to the effects of these influential school of thoughts. |
| Name of Lecturer(s) |
| Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Zafer ŞAFAK |
| Learning Outcomes |
| 1 | Knows the main modern schools of thoughts. | | 2 | Comprehends the similarities and differences between contemporary school of thoughts. | | 3 | Be able to examine the major contemporary movements of thoughts . | | 4 | Be able to classify and synthesize the prominent contemporary school of thoughts according to various criteria. | | 5 | Be able to criticize/evaluate the selected literary texts according to various contemporary schools of thought. |
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| Mode of Delivery |
| Daytime Class |
| Prerequisites and co-requisities |
| Student must have an insight about Literary Criticism and Theory and be familiar with the necessary themes, concepts, notions etc. It is therefore a prerequisite for the students who will take this course must be successful in Literary Criticism and Theory in the previous semester. |
| Recommended Optional Programme Components |
| Students are responsible for obtaining The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism (by Stuart Sim, Routledge, 2011) and read attentively and take notes from the section titled as Part II Critical terms, A–Z so as to be acquainted with the background of this course. |
| Course Contents |
| The course covers prominent contemporary school of thoughts directing the course of literature, culture and art in the 20th and exerts its effects in the early 21st century. |
| Weekly Detailed Course Contents |
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| 1 | Introduction to the Contemporary School of Thoughts
Phenomenology
Martin Heidegger | - | - | | 2 | Phenomenology
Edmund Husserl | - | - | | 3 | Structuralism
Pierre Bourdieu | - | - | | 4 | Structuralism
Jacques Lacan | - | - | | 5 | Post-Structuralist Thought
Jacques Derrida | - | - | | 6 | Post-Structuralist Thought
Michel Foucault | - | - | | 7 | Post-Marxism
Giorgio Agamben | - | - | | 8 | Mid-Term Exam | - | - | | 9 | Post-Marxism
Theodor W. Adorno | - | - | | 10 | Modernity
Walter Benjamin | - | - | | 11 | Post-modernity
Jean Baudrillard | - | - | | 12 | Post-modernity
Jean-François Lyotard | - | - | | 13 | The Post-Human
Donna J. Haraway | - | - | | 14 | Vitalist-Inspired Thought
Gilles Deleuze | - | - |
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| Recommended or Required Reading |
| A History of Literary Criticism From Plato to the Present (by M. A. R. Habib, 2005)
The Routledge Companion to Postmodernism (by Stuart Sim, Routledge, 2011)
Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers, (by John Lechte, Routledge, 1994)
Fifty Key Contemporary Thinkers From Structuralism To Post-Humanism (by John Lechte, Routledge, 2008)
Fifty Major Philosophers (by Diané Collinson and Kathryn Plant, Routledge, 2006)
Fifty Eastern Thinkers (by Diané Collinson, Kathryn Plant and Robert Wilkinson, Routledge, 2002) |
| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods |
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| 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) | | - |
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| Workload Calculation |
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| Midterm Examination | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 3 | 3 |
| Attending Lectures | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Discussion | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Question-Answer | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Criticising Paper | 7 | 3 | 21 |
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| Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes |
| LO1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | | LO2 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 4 | | LO3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | | LO4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | | LO5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
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| * Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High |
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