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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
ACL2003 Introduction to Novel 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 HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN
Course Lecturer(s): Prof. Dr. GÖNÜL BAKAY
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ELİF BAŞ
Recommended Optional Program Components: none
Course Objectives: to give the students a comprehensive undrestanding of the novel form , pointing to the different genres of the novel

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Students will have achieved in depth understanding of:
• the emergence of the novel as a new literary form in the 18 century
• the socio-political and historical contexts in which these novels were written
• the ways in which the authors’ life implicates the work produced

Course Content

18th, 19th and 20 th century novels by English writers

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Moll Flanders pages 1 -75. Reading
2) Moll Flanders 75-150 Reading
3) Moll Flanders 150-225 Reading
4) Moll Flanders 225-330. Reading
5) Hard Times 1-100 Reading
6) Hard Times 100-230. Reading
7) Review Reading
8) 1984 1-75 Reading
9) 1984 75-150 Reading
10) 1884 150 -225 Reading
11) 1984 225-325 Reading
12) Mrs Dalloway 1-75 Reading
13) Mrs Dalloway 75-150 Reading
14) Mrs Dalloway 150 -225 Reading
15) Final -
16) Final -

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Moll Flanders- Daniel Defoe

Hard Times- Charles Dickens

1984- George Orwell

Mrs Dalloway- Virginia Woolf
References: none

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Quizzes 3 % 20
Presentation 1 % 10
Midterms 1 % 20
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 15 2 30
Project 1 10 10
Quizzes 4 3 12
Midterms 1 30 30
Final 1 40 40
Total Workload 164

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