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
190301505104	INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN LITERATURE	Elective	3	5	5

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

Course aims to teach and let students research about the National Beginnings of American Literature, authors writing within the scope of Romanticism and Reason, The American Short Story and 19th Century Developments, authors writing under the scope of Realism and Reaction, Modern Voices in Prose and Poetry.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Dr. Öğretim Üyesi Zafer ŞAFAK

Learning Outcomes

1	Knowing the developmental stages of American literature.
2	Comprehending the historical, social and economic variables led to the emergence of American literature.
3	Being able to put forward the similarities and differences among the authors and their works that belong to different periods.
4	Being able to evaluate the literary movements/trends emerged in American Literature in comparison with the inclinations observed in literature of other countries.
5	Being able to make predictions about the evoluation of American literature at the light of last century.

Mode of Delivery

Daytime Class

Prerequisites and co-requisities

Recommended Optional Programme Components

The participants are expected to have obtained A Companion to American Literature Volume I, II, III, 2020 (Edit. by Susan Belasco) and scrutinize the three volume. Students have to read and study the related content before the course sessions.

Course Contents

The course will cover the National Beginnings of American Literature, authors writing within the scope of Romanticism and Reason, The American Short Story and 19th Century Developments, authors writing under the scope of Realism and Reaction, Modern Voices in Prose and Poetry (Roughly from early 17th Century to the mid-20th Century)

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction Background National Beginnings, Benjamin Franklin, An Excerpt from The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin	-	-
2	Washington Irving, An Excerpt from Rip Van Winkle	-	-
3	James Fenimore Cooper, An Excerpt from The Last of the Mohicans	-	-
4	Edgar Allan Poe, An Excerpt from Anna Bel Lee, Raven, The Black Cat	-	-
5	Background Romanticism and Reason, Ralph Waldo Emerson, An Excerpt from Self-Reliance, Henry David Thoreau, An Excerpt from Walden, Herman Melville, An Excerpt from Moby-Dick
6	Nathaniel Hawthorne, An Excerpt from The Scarlet Letter Mark Twain, An Excerpt from Life on the Mississippi, Stephen Crane, An Excerpt from Red Badge of Courage	-	-
7	Mid-Term Exam	-	-
8	Henry James, Ambrosse Bierce/An Excerpt from An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge	-	-
9	Background Realism and Reaction, Theodore Dreiser, An Excerpt from Sister Carrie, Carl Sandburg, Sinclair Lewis	-	-
10	F. Scott Fitzgerald An excerpt from The Great Gatsby, John Steinbeck, An Excerpt from The Grapes of Wrath	-	-
11	Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Robert Frost/The Road Not Taken	-	-
12	Background Modern Voices in Prose and Poetry	-	-
13	Saul Bellow, Katherine Anne Porter, Ralph Ellison, An Excerpt from Invisible Man	-	-

Recommended or Required Reading

A Companion to American Literature Volume I, II, III, (Edit. by Susan Belasco) A Companion to American Fiction 1780–1865 (Edit. by Shirley Samuels), Blackwell Publishing, 2004. A Companion to American Fiction 1865–1914 (Edit. by Robert Paul Lamb and G. R. Thompson), Blackwell Publishing, 2005. Highlights of American Literature, (by Carl Bode, 1981)

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	20	20
Final Examination	1	30	30
Attending Lectures	14	3	42
Discussion	2	20	40
Criticising Paper	1	30	30
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			162

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
LO2
LO3
LO4	5	4	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	4	5	5	5
LO5

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