BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| 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 |
| ACL4005 | Literature and Film | Spring | 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 |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | none |
| Course Objectives: | This course will examine how fiction, short story and/or plays have provided the textual foundations for cinematic productions. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course; Students will learn • how to interpret a film and comment/ discuss its treatment of a literary and/or dramatic text, • to point out distortions of texts on screen end evaluate reasons for such distortions, • to differentiate free adaptations (such as postmodernist) from distorted versions of texts, • to develop their own critical assesment and write argumentative papers by the end of the semester. |
Course Content
| works of literature and their adaptation to film |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Capote’s Novella, Analysis/ Discussion | Reading |
| 2) | Film /Analysis/ Discussion Breakfast at Tiffany’s | Reading |
| 3) | Harper Lee’s novel: To Kill a Mockingbird / Analysis/ Discussion | Reading |
| 4) | Analysis/ Discussion | Reading |
| 5) | Film /Analysis/ Discussion | Reading |
| 6) | Introduction to Asian-American writers. | Reading |
| 7) | Analysis/ Discussion of the novel | Reading |
| 8) | Analysis/ Discussion of the novel | Reading |
| 9) | Joy Luck Club Analysis/ Discussion | Reading |
| 10) | general discussion | |
| 11) | Introduction to Jane Austen & 18th century | Reading |
| 12) | Analysis/ Discussion of Pride and Prejudice | Reading |
| 13) | Lost in Austen /Analysis/ Discussion | Reading |
| 14) | Over-all wrap up discussion | Reading |
| 15) | Final Examination | |
| 16) | Final Examination |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | 1. Truman Capote: Breakfast at Tiffany’s (film: Breakfast at Tiffany’s) 2. Harper Lee: To Kill a Mockingbird (film: To Kill a Mockingbird) 3. Amy Tan: Joy Luck Club (film: Joy Luck Club) 4. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice ( Film:Lost in Austen) |
| References: | Film History, Thomas& Bordwell |
Evaluation System
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Quizzes | 5 | % 30 |
| Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
| 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 |
| Homework Assignments | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Quizzes | 3 | 6 | 18 |
| Midterms | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Final | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Total Workload | 89 | ||
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 |