ENERGY SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
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
ACL2002	Introduction to Poetry	Spring	3	0	3	6

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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 :
Course Lecturer(s):	Assoc. Prof. HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN
Recommended Optional Program Components:	none
Course Objectives:	This course will introduce students to a variety of poetic topics, subjects, terms and movements with specific emphasis on the analysis of the form and content of sample poems from various ages of poetry form around the world written in English, the majority being from American and English poetry.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. The students will do an extensive reading of sample poems from the masters of poetry and learn how to analyze them.
2. They will develop an insight about the form and content, the structure, language, style and discourse of poetry.
3. They will develop an insight about the significance of verse and its various forms and techniques.
4. They will learn about the major themes, symbols, literary movements of the poetry genre.
5. They will learn about the basic ideas and intents of the writers that shape their creative mind towards the making of a poem.
6. They will develop the ability to analyze and discuss major intellectual issues via poetry.
7. They will get ready to the study of major works of American poetry in their later years and to the discussion and argumentation of their ideas orally in class and in the exams.

Course Content

Selections from world poetry are analysed with specific emphasis on the intention of the poet, diction, reading the poem, syntax, tone, literal and figurative meanings, and figures of speech like metaphors, usage of images and symbols, allegories, in addition to the forms of poetry.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction to Reading Poetry Responsively, What is poetry? Approaching a Poem? Reading Poetry. Writing about poetry	Carol Ann Duffy, “Valentine”, Billy Collins, “Introduction to Poetry”; Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring&Fall: To a Young Child”, Elizabeth Bishop, “Manners”,
2)	Word Choice, Word Order and Tone; Denotation, Connotation	Marge Piercy, “The Secretary’s Chant”; Robert Hayden, “Those Winter Sundays”; John Updike, “Dog’s Death”; Robert Francis, “Catch”; Randall Jarrell, “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”; John Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”; Andrew Marvell, “To His Coy Mistress”, Gwendolyn Brooks, “We Real Cool”;
3)	Imagery (Types: Tactile, Audio, Visual, tied image, free image, literal image, figurative image)	e.e. cummings, “l(a”; Alice Walker, “a woman is not a potted plant”; William Carlos Williams, “Poem”; Theodore Roethke, “Root Cellar”; Seamus Heaney, “The Pitchfork”; Hilda Doolittle, “Heat”;
4)	Imagery & , image clusters (Types: Tactile, Audio, Visual, tied image, free image, literal image, figurative image)	William Blake, “London”; Wilfred Owen, “Dulce et Decorum Est”; Carolyn Kizer, “Food for Love”; Ezra Pound, “In a Station of the Metro”;
5)	Figures of Speech: simile, metaphor, pun, hyperbole, conceit, allusion, paradox	Margaret Atwood, “you fit into me”; Emily Dickinson, “Presentiment”; Edmund Conti, “Pragmatist”; Sylvia Plath, “Metaphors”, “Mirror”; Can Yücel, “Zamparadox”
6)	Figures of Speech: personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, alliteration, assonance, consonance, oxymoron	Dylan Thomas, “The Hand That Signed the Paper”; Walt Whitman, “A Noiseless Patient Spider”, “The Soul, reaching, throwing out for love”; John Donne, “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”;
7)	Irony (verbal, situational, dramatic, irony of fate, sarcasm, cynicism, innuendo, insinuation, satire)	William Blake, “The Sick Rose”, William Heyen, “Pterodactyl Rose”; Edwin Arlington Robinson, “Richard Cory”; Kenneth Fearing, “AD”; e.e. cummings, “next to of course god america i”; Stephen Crane, “A Man Said to the Universe”; Thomas Hardy, “The Man He Killed”
8)	Review
9)	Symbol and allegory	Edgar Allan Poe, “The Haunted Palace”; Robert Frost, “Acquainted with the Night”; William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper”; “John Masefield, “Cargoes”;
10)	Listening to Poetry; Sounds (repetition, rhyme, implied image and allusion via sound/ eg. Alliteration, Assonance, Consonance, Sibilance and onomatopoeia )	Anonymous, “Scarborough Fair”; Emily Dickinson, “A Bird Came Down the Walk”; Sylvia Plath, “Mushrooms”; William Heyen, “The Trains”; Maxine Hong Kingston, “Restaurant”; Paul Humphrey, “Blow”; Robert Francis, “The Pitcher”; Helen Chasin, “The Word Plum”;
11)	Patterns of Rhythm; Meter, prosody, stress patterns, accentuation, masculine ending, feminine ending, end-stopped line, run-on-line, enjambment	William Wordsworth, “My Heart Leaps Up”; Timothy Steele, “Waiting for the Storm”; William Butler Yeats, “That the Night Come”; A. E. Housman, “When I was one-and-twenty”; William Blake, “The Lamb”, “The Tyger”; Theodore Roethke “My Papa’s Waltz”; Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Break, Break, Break”
12)	Poetic Forms (fixed form, free verse or open form, the Stanza, the couplet, terza rima, the Lyric, ballad, the villanelle, Prosaic poetry, the Sonnet, the sestina, limerick, epigram	A. E. Housman, “Loveliest of trees, the cherry now”; Robert Herrick, “Upon Julia’s Clothes”; William Shakespeare, “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun”; Edna St. Vincent Millay, “I will put Chaos into fourteen lines”; P. B. Shelley, “Ozymandias”; John Donne, “Holy Sonnet”; Mark Jarman, “Unholy Sonnet”; Dylan Thomas, “Do not go gentle into that good night”; Julia Alvarez, “Woman’s Work”; Elizabeth Bishop, “Sestina”; Florence Cassen Mayers, “All American Sestina”; Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “What is an Epigram?”; “A. R. Ammons, “Coward”; Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Theology”; Laurence Perrine, “The limerick’s never averse”; Elizabeth Bishop, “One Art”
13)	Poetic Forms & types (the Haiku, Elegy, Ode, Picture poems, concrete poems, parody) & the Open Form, decriptive poems, narrative poems, reflective poems,	Haikular: Matsuo Basho like “Under cherry trees”; Etheridge Knight, Oruç Aruoba, Yelda Karataş, Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç & Yusuf Eradam; Diğer Şiirler: Seamus Heaney, “Mid-term Break”; Andrew Hudgins, “Elegy for My Father, Who Is Not Dead”; Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”; Michael McFee, “In Medias Res”; Peter De Vries, “To His Importunate Mistress”; Walt Whitman, from “I Sing the Body Electric”; W.C. Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow”; Denise Levertov, “Gathered at the River”; Tato Laviera, “AmeRícan”; Marilyn Nelson Waniek, “Emily Dickinson’s Defunct”; Miroslav Holub, “Fairy Tale”, “The Door”.
14)	Analysis of poems of students’ own choice	Poems from the Bedford anthology or from other sources
15)	Final
16)	Final Exam

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Çeşitli seçkilerden okuma listeleri, özellikle: The Bedford Introduction to Literature (pages: 670-924) ve teksirler. The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. I & II. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath & Co., 1990. Babette Deutsch, Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms, New York: Funk & Wangalis, 1962.
References:	The Reading List from various anthologies, namely: The Bedford Introduction to Literature (pages: 670-924) and handouts. The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Vol. I & II. Lexington, Massachusetts: D.C. Heath & Co., 1990. Babette Deutsch, Poetry Handbook: A Dictionary of Terms, New York: Funk & Wangalis, 1962.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	9	% 10
Quizzes	4	% 20
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
Quizzes	4	4	16
Midterms	1	30	30
Final	1	30	30
Total Workload			118

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)	Adequate knowledge in mathematics and science.
2)	Adequate knowledge in subjects specific to Energy Systems Engineering.
3)	Ability to apply theoretical and practical knowledge in Energy Systems Engineering to complex engineering problems.
4)	Ability to identify, define, and formulate complex engineering problems.
5)	Ability to select and apply appropriate analysis and modeling methods for solving complex engineering problems.
6)	Ability to design a complex system, process, device, or product under realistic constraints and conditions to meet specific requirements; ability to apply modern design methods for this purpose.
7)	Ability to develop, select, and use modern techniques and tools necessary for the analysis and solution of complex problems encountered in Energy Systems Engineering applications.
8)	Ability to use information technologies effectively.
9)	Ability to design experiments for investigating complex engineering problems or Energy Systems Engineering research topics.
10)	Ability to conduct experiments, collect data, analyze, and interpret results for investigating complex engineering problems or Energy Systems Engineering research topics.
11)	Ability to work effectively in intra-disciplinary teams.
12)	Ability to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams.
13)	Ability to work individually.
14)	Ability to communicate effectively in oral and written forms.
15)	Knowledge of at least one foreign language.
16)	Ability to write effective reports and understand written reports, and to prepare design and production reports.
17)	Ability to make effective presentations, and to give and receive clear and understandable instructions.
18)	Awareness of the necessity of life-long learning.
19)	Ability to access information, follow developments in science and technology, and continuously renew oneself.
20)	Possession of professional and ethical responsibility and the ability to act in accordance with ethical principles.
21)	Knowledge of standards used in engineering applications.
22)	Knowledge of business practices such as project management, risk management, and change management.
23)	Awareness of entrepreneurship and innovation.
24)	Knowledge of sustainable development.
25)	Knowledge of the effects of engineering applications on health, environment, and safety in universal and social dimensions; and problems of the era reflected in the field of engineering.
26)	Awareness of the legal consequences of engineering solutions.