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 |
Recommended Optional Program Components: |
none |
Course Objectives: |
This course aims at giving the students a background to modernism with T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and others, and move to more experimental movements like imagism, confessional and Beat poetry and the Harlem Renaissance to analyze the poetry namely by Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W.C. Williams, R. Frost, W. Stevens, M. Moore, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes, E. Bishop, A. Rich, S. Plath, A. Sexton, A. Ginsberg, others up to the 1970s. |
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Related Preparation |
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Revision of the 19th Century poetry, especially of Whitman & Dickinson and Introduction to Modernism |
Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol II. |
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Modernism & Naturalism: Stephen Crane & Edwin Arlington Robinson |
Crane: In the Desert (from The Black Riders), ‘A Newspaper is a Collection of Half-Injustices’ (from War is Kind)
Robinson: Richard Cory, Miniver Cheevy, Eros Turannos
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T.S. Eliot |
The Waste Land, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Gerontion, Journey of the Magi |
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Robert Frost |
Mending Wall, Out Out- , Design, The Road Not Taken, Fire & Ice, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, The Gift Outright |
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Imagism & Ezra Pound |
In a Station of the Metro, Portrait d’un Femme, The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter, A Pact, The Rest, Cantos. |
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William Carlos Williams |
Poem, Spring and All, The Red Wheelbarrow, The Dance, This Is Just to Say, Death |
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Wallace Stevens |
Sunday Morning, Snowman, Emperor of Ice-Cream, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird |
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Review |
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Hart Crane |
At Melville’s Tomb, Chaplinesque (Written after Charles Chaplin’s film The Kid , 1921); from Voyages No I, ; To Brooklyn Bridge. |
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Marianne Moore & Theodore Roethke |
Moore: Poetry, The Past is the Present, New York, A Grave, The Student, In Distrust of Merits
Roethke: Root Cellar, My Papa’s Waltz, The Waking, I Knew a Woman
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e.e. cummings |
l(a , she being Brand, next to of course god america i; thy fingers make early flowers of, in Just-, anyone lived in a pretty bow town, Buffalo Bill’s, my sweet old etcetera, since feeling is first, o sweet spontaneous, somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond; spring is a perhaps hand. |
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Langston Hughes & Harlem Renaissance |
Harlem, Same in Blues, Weary Blues, Theme for English B |
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Adrienne Rich |
Adrienne Rich: Diving into the Wreck, Living in Sin, Rape, Storm Warnings, Face to Face, A Valediction Forbidding Mourning (after John Donne’s poem). |
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Confessional Poetry |
John Berryman: Dream Songs 14, 29, 76, A Professor’s Song.
Robert Lowell: Skunk Hour, To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage, Mr. Edwards and the Spider, Eye and Tooth.
Sylvia Plath: Daddy, Guardian, Elm, Mirror, Metaphors, Morning Song, Lady Lazarus, Ariel, Edge,Words.
Anne Sexton: The Kiss, Lobster, You, Dr. Martin, All My Pretty Ones, Sylvia’s Death.)
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Final Exam |
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Final Exam |
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
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Adequate knowledge in mathematics, science and computer engineering; the ability to use theoretical and practical knowledge in these areas in complex engineering problems.
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Ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems; ability to select and apply appropriate analysis and modeling methods for this purpose.
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Ability to design a complex system, process, device or product to meet specific requirements under realistic constraints and conditions; ability to apply modern design methods for this purpose.
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Ability to develop, select and use modern techniques and tools necessary for the analysis and solution of complex problems encountered in computer engineering applications; ability to use information technologies effectively.
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Ability to design, conduct experiments, collect data, analyze and interpret results for the study of complex engineering problems or computer engineering research topics.
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Ability to work effectively within and multi-disciplinary teams; individual study skills.
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Ability to communicate effectively in verbal and written Turkish; knowledge of at least one foreign language; ability to write active reports and understand written reports, to prepare design and production reports, to make effective presentations, to give and receive clear and understandable instructions.
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Awareness of the necessity of lifelong learning; ability to access information, to follow developments in science and technology and to renew continuously.
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To act in accordance with ethical principles, professional and ethical responsibility; information on the standards used in engineering applications.
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Information on business practices such as project management, risk management and change management; awareness of entrepreneurship and innovation; information about sustainable development.
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Knowledge of the effects of engineering practices on health, environment and safety in the universal and social scale and the problems of the era reflected in engineering; awareness of the legal consequences of engineering solutions.
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