Language of instruction: |
English |
Type of course: |
Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: |
Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
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Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face
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Course Coordinator : |
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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.
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Subject |
Related Preparation |
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1 Introduction
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Hawthorne “Young Goodman Brown” p.639-48; Poe “Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Philosophy of Composition” p.1264-77, 1659-60 |
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Hawthorne “The Birthmark” p.648-660; Poe “The Purloined Letter” p.1278-90 |
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Melville “Bartleby, the Scrivener” p.1085-1111 |
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Clemens (i.e. Twain) “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” and “The Invalid’s Story” p.300-9 |
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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
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Crane “The Open Boat” p.379-396
Cather “Paul’s Case” p.235-49
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Conrad “Heart of Darkness” p.310-333
Conrad “Heart of Darkness” p.333-70
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Midterm |
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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
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Hemingway “Hills Like White Elephants” p.661-665 (extra credit for finding and reading “A Clean Well-Lighted Place”) |
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Baldwin “Sonny’s Blues” p.37-59 and Hurston “The Conscience of the Court” p.682-92
Carver “Cathedral” p.206-216
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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
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Walker “Everyday Use” p.1512-8; Kincaid “Girl” p.828-9
Garcia Marquez “The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World” p.585-9
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15) |
Danticat “A Wall of Fire Rising” p.417-28 |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
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To prepare students to become communication professionals by focusing on strategic thinking, professional writing, ethical practices, and the innovative use of both traditional and new media |
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To be able to explain and define problems related to the relationship between facts and phenomena in areas such as Advertising, Persuasive Communication, and Brand Management |
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To critically discuss and interpret theories, concepts, methods, tools, and ideas in the field of advertising |
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To be able to follow and interpret innovations in the field of advertising |
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To demonstrate a scientific perspective in line with the topics they are curious about in the field. |
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To address and solve the needs and problems of the field through the developed scientific perspective |
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To recognize and understand all the dynamics within the field of advertising |
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To analyze and develop solutions to problems encountered in the practical field of advertising |
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