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Associate | TR-NQF-HE: Level 5 | QF-EHEA: Short Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 5 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ACL4096 | Science Fiction and Fantasy in Literature | Spring Fall |
3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Associate (Short Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | none |
Course Objectives: | to explore through literature and film the fundamental fears and hopes about science and technology |
The students who have succeeded in this course; Students will learn • to identify themes and writing strategies common to science fiction and fantasy • to discover what these novels have in common, and how reading them together helps us form a basic understanding of the principles of this genre. • to understand what continuities and differences there have been in the public imagination about science and technology over the last century. |
a selection of classic science fiction and fantasy texts and films from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to Class | - |
2) | The War of the Worlds | Reading |
3) | The War of the Worlds | Reading |
4) | The War of the Worlds | Reading |
5) | Do Androids dream of electronic sheep? | Reading |
6) | Do Androids dream of electronic sheep? | Reading |
7) | Do Androids dream of electronic sheep? | Reading |
8) | Review | Reading |
9) | Never Let Me Go | Reading |
10) | Never Let Me Go | Reading |
11) | Never Let Me Go | Reading |
12) | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Reading |
13) | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Reading |
14) | Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World | Reading |
15) | Final | - |
16) | Final | - |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells Do Androids dream of electronic sheep? By Philip Dick The Handmaid’s Tale by Margeret Atwood Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami |
References: | Roslynn D. Haynes, From Faust to Strangelove: Representations of the Scientist in Western Literature, Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. JRUL: 809/H315 Ludmilla Jordanova (ed.), Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and Literature, London : Free Association, 1986. JRUL: 809/J70 Gillian Beer, Darwin’s Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Elliot and Nineteenth-century Fiction, London: Routledge, 1983. JRUL: 823.09/B63. See also Beer’s Open Fields: Science in Cultural Encounter, Oxford: OUP, 1996. JRUL: 820.9/B318 Jon Turney, Frankenstein’s Footsteps: Science, Genetics and Popular Culture, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. JRUL: 501.45/T1 Rosalind Williams, Notes on the Underground: An Essay on Technology, Society and the Imagination, Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 1990 Brian Aldiss, The Billion Year Spree, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1973 Hilary Rose, "Dreaming the future: other worlds." chapter 9 of Love, Power and Knowledge: towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences, Bloomington: Indiana Press, 1994, pp. 208-229. Adam Roberts, Science Fiction: The New Critical Idiom, London: Routledge, 2000. JRUL: 809.3/R59. Geoff King & Tanya Krzywinska, Science Fiction Cinema, London: Wallflower, 2000. JRUL: 791.459/K6. Vivian Sobchack, Screening Space: The American Science Fiction Film, London: Rutgers University Press, 1987. JRUL: 791.4673/S17. Gregg Rickman, ed., The Science Fiction Film Reader, New York: Limelight, 2004. JRUL: 791.459/R10. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 16 | % 10 |
Quizzes | 2 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 1 | 15 |
Quizzes | 2 | 10 | 20 |
Midterms | 1 | 20 | 20 |
Final | 1 | 30 | 30 |
Total Workload | 127 |
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. |