EUROPEAN UNION RELATIONS
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 Spring 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 be able to examine, interpret data and assess ideas with the scientific methods in the area of EU studies. 2
2) To be able to inform authorities and institutions in the area of EU studies, to be able to transfer ideas and proposals supported by quantitative and qualitative data about the problems. 2
3) To be introduced to and to get involved in other disciplines that EU studies are strongly related with (political science, international relations, law, economics, sociology, etc.) and to be able to conduct multi-disciplinary research and analysis on European politics. 3
4) To be able to evaluate current news on European Union and Turkey-EU relations and identify, analyze current issues relating to the EU’s politics and policies. 2
5) To be able to use English in written and oral communication in general and in the field of EU studies in particular. 1
6) To have ethical, social and scientific values throughout the processes of collecting, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data related to EU studies. 1
7) To be able to assess the historical development, functioning of the institutions and decision-making system and common policies of the European Union throughout its economic and political integration in a supranational framework. 2
8) To be able to evaluate the current legal, financial and institutional changes that the EU is going through. 2
9) To explain the dynamics of enlargement processes of the EU by identifying the main actors and institutions involved and compare previous enlargement processes and accession process of Turkey. 2
10) To be able to analyze the influence of the EU on political, social and economic system of Turkey. 2
11) To acquire insight in EU project culture and to build up project preparation skills in line with EU format and develop the ability to work in groups and cooperate with peers. 2
12) To be able to recognize theories and concepts used by the discipline of international relations and relate them to the historical development of the EU as a unique post-War political project. 3