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Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
ACL4001	Introduction to Womens Studies	Spring	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 :	Assist. Prof. 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 apply theoretical concepts related to mass communication, consumer behavior, psychology, persuasion,sociology, marketing, and other related fields to understand how advertising and brand communication works in a free-market economy.	2
2)	To be able to critically discuss and interpret theories, concepts, methods, tools and ideas in the field of advertising.	2
3)	To be able to research, create, design, write, and present an advertising campaign and brand strategies of their own creation and compete for an account as they would at an advertising agency.	2
4)	To be able to analyze primary and secondary research data for a variety of products and services.	2
5)	To be able to develop an understanding of the history of advertising as it relates to the emergence of mass media outlets and the importance of advertising in the marketplace.	2
6)	To be able to follow developments, techniques, methods, as well as research in advertising field; and to be able to communicate with international colleagues in a foreign language. (“European Language Portfolio Global Scale”, Level B1)	2
7)	To be able to take responsibility in an individual capacity or as a team in generating solutions to unexpected problems that arise during implementation process in the Advertising field.	3
8)	To be able to understand how advertising works in a global economy, taking into account cultural, societal, political, and economic differences that exist across countries and cultures.	2
9)	To be able to approach the dynamics of the field with an integrated perspective, with creative and critical thinking, develop original and creative strategies.	2
10)	To be able to to create strategic advertisements for print, broadcast, online and other media, as well as how to integrate a campaign idea across several media categories in a culturally diverse marketplace.	2
11)	To be able to use computer software required by the discipline and to possess advanced-level computing and IT skills. (“European Computer Driving Licence”, Advanced Level)	2
12)	To be able to identify and meet the demands of learning requirements.	2
13)	To be able to develop an understanding and appreciation of the core ethical principles of the advertising profession.	2