ARCHITECTURE
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	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.

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)	Using the theoretical/conceptual and practical knowledge acquired for architectural design, design activities and research.
2)	Identifying, defining and effectively discussing aesthetic, functional and structural requirements for solving design problems using critical thinking methods.
3)	Being aware of the diversity of social patterns and user needs, values and behavioral norms, which are important inputs in the formation of the built environment, at local, regional, national and international scales.
4)	Gaining knowledge and skills about architectural design methods that are focused on people and society, sensitive to natural and built environment in the field of architecture.
5)	Gaining skills to understand the relationship between architecture and other disciplines, to be able to cooperate, to develop comprehensive projects; to take responsibility in independent studies and group work.
6)	Giving importance to the protection of natural and cultural values in the design of the built environment by being aware of the responsibilities in terms of human rights and social interests.
7)	Giving importance to sustainability in the solution of design problems and the use of natural and artificial resources by considering the social, cultural and environmental issues of architecture.
8)	Being able to convey and communicate all kinds of conceptual and practical thoughts related to the field of architecture by using written, verbal and visual media and information technologies.
9)	Gaining the ability to understand and use technical information about building technology such as structural systems, building materials, building service systems, construction systems, life safety.
10)	Being aware of legal and ethical responsibilities in design and application processes.