MECHATRONICS (TURKISH)
Associate	TR-NQF-HE: Level 5	QF-EHEA: Short Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 5

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
GEP1702	Critical Thinking and Literary Criticism	Fall Spring	3	0	3	4

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	Turkish
Type of course:	GE-Elective
Course Level:	Associate (Short Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course is a survey of major critical approaches, from Aristotle's Poetics to Romanticism. It aims to familiarize students with some of the main themes and currents of literary theory by dealing with the questions as what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
• understanding of major critical approaches;
• knowledge of selected prominent critics and their works;
• some of the skills necessary for critical thinking and literary criticism.
• to demonstrate an understanding of the importance of the literature and the role of criticism in deciphering cultural production and social change;
• to demonstrate knowledge of the terminology related to literary criticism;
• to demonstrate oral presentation skills as they relate to literary and cultural studies;
• to demonstrate skills to integrate and compare the knowledge from this course with other culture courses
• to recognize the value of multiple perspectives and develop competence in giving and receiving constructive criticism;
• to identify and decipher the aesthetic, political, and cultural importance of literature.

Course Content

Literary Criticim and Classical Antiquity
Medieval Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism in the Renaissance Period
Literary Criticism in the 17th and 18th centuries
End of the Classical Tradition
Romanticism(s)

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Giriş
2)	On critical thinking and literary criticism
3)	Literary Criticism and Classical Antiquity	Plato (excerpts from Republic Book II, III & X; Ion) Aristotle (Poetics)
4)	Literary Criticim and Classical Antiquity	Horace (excerpts from Ars Poetica) Longinus (excerpts from “On The Sublime”)
5)	Medieval Literary Criticism	St. Augustine (excerpts from On Christian Doctrine) Aquinas, (excerpts from The Nature and Domain of Sacred Doctrine)
6)	Medieval Literary Criticism	Dante (excerpts from “Letter to Can Grande Della Scala”) Boccaccio (excerpts from Life of Dante, Genealogy of the Gentile Gods)
7)	Literary Criticism in the Renaissance Period	Sir Philip Sidney (excerpts from “An Apology for Poetry”) Francis Bacon (excerpts from The Advancement of Learning)
8)	Literary Criticism in the 17th and 18th centuries	John Dryden (excerpts from Essay on Dramatic Poesy) Jonathan Swift (excerpts from The Battle of the Books)
9)	Literary Criticism in the 17th and 18th centuries	Alexander Pope (excerpts from An Essay on Criticism)
10)	End of the Classical Tradition	Samuel Johnson (excerpts from “Preface to Shakespeare”)
11)	Romanticism(s)	Criticism:The Major Texts, “Introduction” (Romanticism and After)
12)	Romanticism(s)	Kant (excerpts from Critique of Judgement) Schelling (excerpts On the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature)
13)	Romanticism(s)	William Wordsworth (excerpts from “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (excerpts from Biographia Literaria)
14)	Concluding Remarks & General Review

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	T. S. Dorsch, Classical Literary Criticism, London: Penguin Books, 1969. M. H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1953. Berna Moran, Edebiyat Kuramları ve Eleştiri, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 1999. The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed.Vincent B. Leitch, New York: Norton, 2001
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Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Midterms	1	% 40
Final	1	% 50
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	2	28
Midterms	1	10	10
Final	1	20	20
Total Workload			100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	To improve fundamental computer knowledge, to encourage students using office and package programs.
2)	Ability to have and use of fundamental mathematics knowledge and skills the usage of relevant materials.
3)	Ability to recognize general structures of machine equipments and the features of shaping
4)	Ability to grasp manufacturing processes and cutting tool materials, materials, statics, mechanics and fluid science fundemantal knowledge.
5)	Ability to draw assembly and auxilary devices as well as to draw whole or details of a system.
6)	Ability to have a knowledge of fundemantal manufacturing process such as turning, milling, punching,grinding and welding techniques and to have a self esteem in order to work behind the bench.
7)	Ability to do computer aided design and write program on digital benches.
8)	Ability to prepare project report, follow up project process and implement projects.
9)	ability to learn the areas of usage of electronic circuit components. Ability to grasp and write programs for micro controllers and for their components. Ability to design relevant circuits.
10)	Ability to understand the electric motors principles and AC-DC analysis
11)	Ability to gain a dominaion on visual programming
12)	Having the ability to communicate efficiently in verbal and written Turkish, to know at least one foreign language in order to communicate with the colleagues and customers.	3