MATHEMATICS
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
ELT4006	American Literature	Fall	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 MUSTAFA POLAT
Recommended Optional Program Components:	none
Course Objectives:	1. Students will be able to describe the development of the short story from its beginnings in 19th century American Lit through Realism, Modernism, and Post-modernist influences. 2. Students will be able to recognize and analyze how the form develops through each author’s use and purpose in writing. 3. Students will be able to show knowledge of applicable literary terms, movements, conventions, styles, etc., and overall command of the text. 4. Students will be able to write a literary analysis. 5. Students will be able to interpret, evaluate, compare and contrast the texts in classroom discussions.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. to see how the form develops through each author’s use and purpose in writing.

2. to determine how the author approaches the form of the short story.

Course Content

This course is designed to look at the development of the short story from its beginnings in 19th century American Lit through Realism, Modernism, and Post-modernist influences in America and elsewhere.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	1 Introduction
2)	Hawthorne “Young Goodman Brown” p.639-48; Poe “Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Philosophy of Composition” p.1264-77, 1659-60
3)	Hawthorne “The Birthmark” p.648-660; Poe “The Purloined Letter” p.1278-90
4)	Melville “Bartleby, the Scrivener” p.1085-1111
5)	Clemens (i.e. Twain) “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” and “The Invalid’s Story” p.300-9
6)	Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilych” p.1452-91 9 Chopin “The Story of an Hour” p.297-9; Gilman “The Yellow Wallpaper” p.597-608
7)	Crane “The Open Boat” p.379-396 Cather “Paul’s Case” p.235-49
8)	Conrad “Heart of Darkness” p.310-333 Conrad “Heart of Darkness” p.333-70
9)	Midterm
10)	Joyce “The Dead” p.755-84; Woolf “Kew Gardens” 1603-8 Faulkner “A Rose for Emily” and “Barn Burning” p.520-7, 535-47
11)	Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” p.661-665 (extra credit for finding and reading “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”)
12)	Baldwin “Sonny’s Blues” p.37-59 and Hurston “The Conscience of the Court” p.682-92 Carver “Cathedral” p.206-216
13)	Bradbury “The Veldt” p.155-65; Le Guinn “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas” p.862-6 O’Connor “Good Country People” p.1212-26
14)	Walker “Everyday Use” p.1512-8; Kincaid “Girl” p.828-9 Garcia Marquez “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” p.585-9
15)	Danticat “A Wall of Fire Rising” p.417-28

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Bausch, Richard and R.V. Cassill ed., The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction 7th edition
References:	Bausch, Richard and R.V. Cassill ed., The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction 7th edition

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	3	% 10
Homework Assignments	2	% 30
Presentation	1	% 20
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Special Course Internship (Work Placement)	4	12	48
Homework Assignments	4	12	48
Midterms	1	2	2
Final	1	2	2
Total Workload			142

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 have a grasp of basic mathematics, applied mathematics and theories and applications in Mathematics
2)	To be able to understand and assess mathematical proofs and construct appropriate proofs of their own and also define and analyze problems and to find solutions based on scientific methods,
3)	To be able to apply mathematics in real life with interdisciplinary approach and to discover their potentials,
4)	To be able to acquire necessary information and to make modeling in any field that mathematics is used and to improve herself/himself,	4
5)	To be able to tell theoretical and technical information easily to both experts in detail and non-experts in basic and comprehensible way,
6)	To be familiar with computer programs used in the fields of mathematics and to be able to use at least one of them effectively at the European Computer Driving Licence Advanced Level,
7)	To be able to behave in accordance with social, scientific and ethical values in each step of the projects involved and to be able to introduce and apply projects in terms of civic engagement,
8)	To be able to evaluate all processes effectively and to have enough awareness about quality management by being conscious and having intellectual background in the universal sense,	4
9)	By having a way of abstract thinking, to be able to connect concrete events and to transfer solutions, to be able to design experiments, collect data, and analyze results by scientific methods and to interfere,
10)	To be able to continue lifelong learning by renewing the knowledge, the abilities and the competencies which have been developed during the program, and being conscious about lifelong learning,
11)	To be able to adapt and transfer the knowledge gained in the areas of mathematics ; such as algebra, analysis, number theory, mathematical logic, geometry and topology to the level of secondary school,
12)	To be able to conduct a research either as an individual or as a team member, and to be effective in each related step of the project, to take role in the decision process, to plan and manage the project by using time effectively.