ACL3098 Literary CriticismBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs ECONOMICS AND FINANCEGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
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
ACL3098 Literary Criticism Spring 3 0 3 6
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ELİF BAŞ
Course Lecturer(s): Prof. Dr. GÖNÜL BAKAY
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: The objective of this course is o study some of the significant developments and movements of twentieth century literary theory within their historical, cultural and philosophical contexts.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The students who succeed in this course will be able to:

1)use advanced, field specific theoretical and practical knowledge on literary theory
2) o define functions and meanings of social, geographical, historical and stylistic variations of the different literary theories
3)formulate interpretations of texts by the theories of various literary critics.
4)criticize and display creativity of thought in selected literary texts.
5)transfer theoretical knowledge and skills of literary citicism into the act of literary interpretation

Course Content

Literature, Theory and Criticism

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction
2) Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams Reading
3) Victor Shklovsky, ‘Art as Technique’ Reading
4) Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics Reading
5) Roland Barthes, ‘From Work to Text’ Reading
6) Paul Ricoeur, ‘Phenomenology and Theory of Literature’ Reading
7) V. N. Vološinov, ‘Marxism and the Philosophy of Language’ Reading
8) Review
9) M.M. Bakhtin, ‘Discourse in the Novel’ Reading
10) M.M. Bakhtin, ‘Discourse in the Novel’ Reading
11) Louis Althusser, ‘Ideology and the State’ Reading
12) Michel Foucault, ‘The Order of Discourse’ Reading
13) Elaine Showalter, ‘Towards a Feminist Poetics’ Reading
14) Bell Hooks, ‘Postmodern Blackness’ Reading
15) Final
16) Final

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Modern Literary Theory: A Reader, 3rd edn. Philip Rice and Patricia Waugh, eds. London and New York: Arnold, 1996.
References:

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 16 % 10
Quizzes 2 % 10
Midterms 1 % 30
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 7 98
Quizzes 2 2 4
Midterms 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
Total Workload 148

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) Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. 3
2) Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. 2
3) Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. 1
4) Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. 3
5) Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. 2
6) Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. 2
7) Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. 3
8) Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. 2
9) Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. 2
10) Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. 3