PSYCHOLOGY
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 Womens Studies	Fall	3	0	3	5

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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 :	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 develop an interest in the human mind and behavior, to be able to evaluate theories using empirical findings, to understand that psychology is an evidence-based science by acquiring critical thinking skills.
2)	To gain a biopsychosocial perspective on human behavior. To understand the biological, psychological, and social variables of behavior.
3)	To learn the basic concepts in psychology and the theoretical and practical approaches used to study them (e.g. basic observation and interview techniques).
4)	To acquire the methods and skills to access and write information using English as the dominant language in the psychological literature, to recognize and apply scientific research and data evaluation techniques (e.g. correlational, experimental, cross-sectional and longitudinal studies, case studies).
5)	To be against discrimination and prejudice; to have ethical concerns while working in research and practice areas.
6)	To recognize the main subfields of psychology (experimental, developmental, clinical, cognitive, social and industrial/organizational psychology) and their related fields of study and specialization.
7)	To acquire the skills necessary for analyzing, interpreting and presenting the findings as well as problem posing, hypothesizing and data collection, which are the basic elements of scientific studies.
8)	To gain the basic knowledge and skills necessary for psychological assessment and evaluation.
9)	To acquire basic knowledge of other disciplines (medicine, genetics, biology, economics, sociology, political science, communication, philosophy, anthropology, literature, law, art, etc.) that will contribute to psychology and to use this knowledge in the understanding and interpretation of psychological processes.
10)	To develop sensitivity towards social problems; to take responsibility in activities that benefit the field of psychology and society.
11)	To have problem solving skills and to be able to develop the necessary analytical approaches for this.
12)	To be able to criticize any subject in business and academic life and to be able to express their thoughts.