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Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
GEP1710 Turkish Poets and Poems Fall 3 0 3 5
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: Turkish
Type of course: GE-Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: E-Learning
Course Coordinator : Instructor KENAN SAYACI
Course Lecturer(s): Instructor KENAN SAYACI
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: In addition to providing students with language awareness by introducing our prominent poets in our cultural history with the periods they lived in, their short life stories, their literary personalities and works, to provide information about the development of our poetry; to develop students' text analysis, interpretation and critical thinking skills with the poetry samples to be discussed.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The students who succeeded in this course;

-will be able to recognize the main features of the historical periods the poets have lived in.
-will be able to see the reflections of the daily language of a given period in classical poetry.
-will define basic poetic differences among the poets who had lived in the same period.
-will be able to identify how a poet uses the language and different meanings he has given to the words.
-will be able to critically and analytically compare the poetic language with contemporary Turkish.
-will be able to identify historical and cultural motivations behind the classical poetry.
-will be able to identify every single characteristics and difference among the poets by comparing him/her with the others analyzed in class.

Course Content

Major Turkish poets through the historical evolution of Turkish literature.
Teaching methods and techniques used in the course are: lecture, reading, individual work, sample examination, and discussion.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) COURSE AIMS, COURSE PROCESSING METHODS, LANGUAGE CULTURE, GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT POETRY, VARIOUS EXAMPLES FROM OUR POETRY TRADITION Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
2) BRIEFLY WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS YUNUS EMRE- NESİMÎ Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
3) HACI BAYRAM-I VELİ EŞREFOĞLU RUMÎ WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
4) WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS KAYGUSUZ ABDAL- PIR SULTAN ABDAL Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
5) BRIEFLY WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS NIYAZÎ-I MISRÎ- DADALOĞLU Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
6) SHEM’Î- KARACAOĞLAN WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
7) RUHSÂTÎ-ÂŞIK VEYSEL FUZÛLÎ WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
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9) BRIEFLY ABOUT BÂKÎ- NÂBÎ- NEF’Î WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
10) NEDIM-ŞEYH GÂLİP WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS IN BRIEF Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
11) NAMIK KEMAL- ZIYA PAŞA WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS IN BRIEF Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
12) TEVFIK FIKRET-ZIYA GÖKALP WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS IN BRIEF Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
13) BRIEFLY WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS NAZIM HİKMET RAN- MEHMET AKIF ERSOY Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.
14) BRIEFLY WITH HIS LIFE STORY, LITERARY PERSONALITY AND SELECTED POEMS YAHYA KEMAL BEYATLI-NECİP FAZIL KISAKÜREK Studies related to written, oral, visual and auditory education/training documents on the Itslearning portal.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References: Türk Edebiyatında İlk Mutasavvıflar, Fuat Köprülü
Türk Dili ve Edebiyatı Ansiklopedisi, Dergâh Yayınları
Resimli Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi, N. Sami Banarlı
Türk Edebiyatı Tarihi, Attila Özkırımlı
Batı Tesirinde Türk Şiir Antolojisi, Kenan Akyüz
Türk Halk Edebiyatı El Kitabı,
Âşıklık Geleneği ve Âşık Edebiyatı, Erman Artun

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments 1 % 10
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 60
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 60
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 13 3 39
Study Hours Out of Class 13 4 52
Homework Assignments 1 20 20
Midterms 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
Total Workload 115

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