ACL4001 Introduction to Women’s StudiesBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs MATHEMATICSGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
MATHEMATICS
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
ACL4001 Introduction to Women’s Studies Fall 3 0 3 5
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
Recommended Optional Program Components: none
Course Objectives: The objective of this course

* to introduce the students to Women’s Studies where they will explore gender as a variable that explains socio-economic status of women in the world that we live in.

* to give them a clear understanding of the major movements of feminist thought and related areas of the body of knowledge making up the field of Women's Studies.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Students who complete this course will:
* integrate and compare knowledge from this course with other literature courses
* learn the terminology related to feminist studies
• learn about key feminist theorist and critics
• learn about feminist literary criticism and other related schools of criticism
• learn to analyse literary texts from a feminist point of view

Course Content

Second Wave Feminism: Beauvoir, Millet, Friedan, Greer
Myth Criticism: Nancy Chodorow,Virginia Woolf, Mary Dally, Annis Pratt, Bettina L. Knapp

Marxist, Socialist , Feminist criticism: Tillie Olsen, Juliette Michele, Michael Barret

Psychoanalytic Criticism :Freud and Lacan , Juliette Michele, Ellen Moers and Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar,Zora Neale Hurston.

Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, Post modernism : Saussure, Foucault, Roland Barth, Hortense Spillers, Alice Jardine, Meaghan Morris,
Duplessis

Black Feminism: The African Diaspora and Caribbean Feminist Criticizm: Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Barbara Christian

Lesbian feminist criticism: Adrienne Rich, Bonnie Zimmerman,Toni Morrison , Jane Rule , Mary Dally

Third World Feminist Criticism: Rosario Castellanos, Chandra Mohanty, Gloria Andalzua, Rey Chow, Diane Bell

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Beauvoir-------The Second Sex pages 351- 392 ,445-500 The Feminine Mystique, pages 1-70 Germaine Greer ------The Female Eunuch Kate Millett--------Sexual Politics 60-108,157-176. Reading
2) Beauvoir-------The Second Sex pages 351- 392 ,445-500 The Feminine Mystique, pages 1-70 Germaine Greer ------The Female Eunuch Kate Millett--------Sexual Politics 60-108,157-176. Reading
3) Beauvoir-------The Second Sex pages 351- 392 ,445-500 The Feminine Mystique, pages 1-70 Germaine Greer ------The Female Eunuch Kate Millett--------Sexual Politics 60-108,157-176. Reading
4) Virginia Woolf--------To The Lighthouse D.V.D Nancy Chodorow-------The Reproduction of Mothering 11-39,72-92,191-219. Annis Pratt ---------Archtypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction. 3-12,73-94 Reading
5) Tillie Olsen-------Silences 6-21,122-152, Juliette Michele------Psychoanalysis and Feminism ,170-222. 253-273 Reading
6) Wittig-----The Straight Mind and other Essays 9-20 Helene Cixous -------Writing The Feminine 3-50 Luce Irigaray------The Speculum of The other Woman Julia Kristeva ----- Women’s Time. 187-211 Reading
7) Review Reading
8) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar-----The Madwoman in The Attic 45-70 Zora Neale Hurston ------Their Eyes Were Watching God 9-80 Reading
9) Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar-----The Madwoman in The Attic 45-70 Zora Neale Hurston ------Their Eyes Were Watching God 9-80 Reading
10) Foucoult: The Order of Things 30-50 Spivak : In Other Worlds 95-133 Reading
11) Alice Walker ----- The Meridian Audre Lorde------ Sister Outsider 13-64,81-109 Reading
12) Alice Walker ----- The Meridian Audre Lorde------ Sister Outsider 13-64,81-109 Reading
13) Adrienne Rich-----Of Woman Born 21-83 Toni Morrison----- Beloved Reading
14) Andalzua---- Borderlands, Making Face, Making Soul 75-114. Diane Bell-----Daughters of The Dreaming Reading
15) Final Reading
16) Final Reading

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: The Second Sex , The Feminine Mystique, The Female Eunuch, Sexual Politics, To The Lighthouse, The Reproduction of Mothering , Archtypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction, Silences ,Psychoanalysis and Feminism , The Straight Mind and other Essays ,
Writing The Feminine , The Speculum of The other Woman, Women’s Time, The Madwoman in The Attic
Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Order of Things , The Meridian , Sister Outsider, In Other Worlds, Of Woman Born, Beloved , Borderlands, Making Face, Making Soul , Daughters of The Dreaming
References: none

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Quizzes 3 % 20
Project 1 % 10
Midterms 1 % 20
Final 1 % 50
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 60
Total % 100

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) To have a grasp of basic mathematics, applied mathematics and theories and applications in Mathematics
2) To be able to understand and assess mathematical proofs and construct appropriate proofs of their own and also define and analyze problems and to find solutions based on scientific methods,
3) To be able to apply mathematics in real life with interdisciplinary approach and to discover their potentials,
4) To be able to acquire necessary information and to make modeling in any field that mathematics is used and to improve herself/himself, 4
5) To be able to tell theoretical and technical information easily to both experts in detail and non-experts in basic and comprehensible way,
6) To be familiar with computer programs used in the fields of mathematics and to be able to use at least one of them effectively at the European Computer Driving Licence Advanced Level,
7) To be able to behave in accordance with social, scientific and ethical values in each step of the projects involved and to be able to introduce and apply projects in terms of civic engagement,
8) To be able to evaluate all processes effectively and to have enough awareness about quality management by being conscious and having intellectual background in the universal sense, 4
9) By having a way of abstract thinking, to be able to connect concrete events and to transfer solutions, to be able to design experiments, collect data, and analyze results by scientific methods and to interfere,
10) To be able to continue lifelong learning by renewing the knowledge, the abilities and the competencies which have been developed during the program, and being conscious about lifelong learning,
11) To be able to adapt and transfer the knowledge gained in the areas of mathematics ; such as algebra, analysis, number theory, mathematical logic, geometry and topology to the level of secondary school,
12) To be able to conduct a research either as an individual or as a team member, and to be effective in each related step of the project, to take role in the decision process, to plan and manage the project by using time effectively.