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 : |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Prof. Dr. GÖNÜL BAKAY
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN
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Recommended Optional Program Components: |
none |
Course Objectives: |
This course will cover sample stories and novels written in the 20th century of the USA. Works to be studied shall be selected from writers of naturalism, impressionism, modernism and other literary movements of the post-war generation writers like S. Anderson, J. London, E. Hemingway, F.S. Fitzgerald, T. Capote, W. Faulkner, J. Steinbeck, K. A. Porter, J. Kerouac, T. Capote; C. Mc Cullers, F. O’Connor, J. D. Salinger, J. Updike, T. Morrison and P. Auster.
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F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, Sherwood Anderson, “Death in the Woods”,John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, William Faulkner ve 1940lar; üç kısa romanından biri: Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, and The Bear (1942, novellas),Ernest Hemingway ve 1950ler,The Old Man and the Sea,Truman Capote, “Children on Their Birthdays”,Jerome David Salinger The Catcher in the Rye,Jack Kerouac & 1960lar, On the Road,Toni Morrison & the 1970ler, The Bluest Eye,Paul Auster & 1980ler, The City of Glass/Cam Kent (New York Üçlemesi’nin ilk kitabı) |
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Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
Modernism and the 1920s The Lost Generation |
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby |
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Naturalism & Modernism |
Sherwood Anderson, “Death in the Woods” |
3) |
Naturalism, 1930s, The Great Depression |
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath |
4) |
1930s, Naturalism & The Great Depression |
Comparative discussion of the cult movie by H. Ford: The Grapes of Wrath, with the novel |
5) |
William Faulkner and the 1940s |
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories (1942, short stories)
Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, and The Bear (1942, novellas)
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6) |
Ernest Hemingway, and the 1950s |
The Old Man and the Sea |
7) |
Ernest Hemingway |
The Old Man and the Sea |
8) |
Review |
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9) |
Truman Capote |
“Children on Their Birthdays” |
10) |
Jerome David Salinger |
The Catcher in the Rye |
11) |
Jack Kerouac & and 1960s |
On the Road |
12) |
Jack Kerouac & and 1960s |
On the Road |
13) |
Toni Morrison & the 1970s |
The Bluest Eye |
14) |
Paul Auster & the 1980s |
The City of Glass (first book of The New York Trilogy) |
15) |
Final Exam |
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16) |
Final Exam |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
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Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products. |
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2) |
Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems. |
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3) |
Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging. |
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4) |
Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem. |
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5) |
Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation. |
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6) |
Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically. |
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7) |
Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams. |
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8) |
Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems. |
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9) |
Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system. |
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10) |
Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities. |
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Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life. |
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12) |
Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions. |
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13) |
Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions. |
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