AUDIOMETRY (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)	The student acquires theoretical and practical knowledge related to his field at a basic level.
2)	The student owns information about moral discipline and ethical rules related to his field.
3)	The student uses theoretical and practical knowledge related to his field at a basic level; basic fundamental computer programs and related technologies.
4)	The student manages a duty independently by using the knowledge about his field at a basic level.
5)	The student possesses the consciousness of wholelife learning.
6)	The student evaluates the knowledge about his field at a basic level with a critical approach, he designates his learning needs and directs his learning.
7)	The student is sensitive to and he monitors progress about the events related to his field of study and in the agenda of the society and the world. He informs relevant people and institutions by using his acquired basic knowledge and skills about these issues.
8)	The student supports the social environment projects and activities with a sense of social responsibility.
9)	The student monitors the information about his field and communicates with his colleagues by using a foreign language.
10)	The student uses information and communication technologies with basic level of computer software which his field of study requires.
11)	The student contributes to the stages of data collection, interpretation, implementation and announcing the results related to his field of study in accordance with social, scientific, cultural and ethical values.
12)	The student complies with and contributes to quality management and processes.
13)	The student has sufficient consciousness about individual and public health, environmental protection and work safety issues.
14)	The student acts in accordance with laws, regulations, legislations and professional ethics related to individual duties, rights and responsibilities.