BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
| 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 |
| ACL4007 | Comparative Literature | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 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): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | none |
| Course Objectives: | This course is designed to give the students a thorough appreciation of the 19th and 20th century literary movements in Europe, United States and Turkey; concentrating on specific genres as seen fit. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course; Students will learn • to evaluate social, psychological and political perspectives in the texts, • to discuss major authors and themes related to different periods, • to present their own perspectives and/or to compare and contrast different concepts in well-developed essays. |
Course Content
| A selection of works of the most well-known authors of the Western world |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction to the course | |
| 2) | Madame Bovary | Reading |
| 3) | Madame Bovary | Reading |
| 4) | Madame Bovary | Reading |
| 5) | Anna Karenina and MT I | Reading |
| 6) | Anna Karenina and MT I | Reading |
| 7) | Anna Karenina | Reading |
| 8) | Anna Karenina | Reading |
| 9) | The Awakening | Reading |
| 10) | The Awakening | Reading |
| 11) | Aşk-ı Memnu | Reading |
| 12) | Aşk-ı Memnu | Reading |
| 13) | Review / Comparison | Reading |
| 14) | Review / Comparison | Reading |
| 15) | Final examination | |
| 16) | Final examination |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (trans. Gerard Hopkins. Introduction by Terence Cave and Notes by Mark Overstall. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998). Lev Tolstoy, Anna Karenina (trans. Constance Garnett. Revised, edited and with an Introduction by Leonard J. Kent and Nina Berberova. Indianapolis, IN: Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1978). Kate Chopin, The Awakening (ed. Margaret Culley. New York: Norton, 1976) Halit Ziya Uşaklıgil, Aşk-ı Memnu (yay. Haz. Muharrem Kaya. İstanbul: Özgür Yay., 2008) |
| References: | David Damrosch, “Rebirth of a Discipline:The Global Origins of Comparative Studies.” Comparative Critical Studies 3, 1-2 (2006), pp. 99-112. Passages from Kamil Aydın's Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat – Günümüz Postmodern Bağlamda Algılanışı (İstanbul: Birey Yay., 2008). |
Evaluation System
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | 16 | % 20 |
| Midterms | 2 | % 40 |
| 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 |
| Homework Assignments | 4 | 4 | 16 |
| Midterms | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| Final | 1 | 12 | 12 |
| Total Workload | 90 | ||
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) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
| 2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
| 3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
| 4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
| 5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
| 6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
| 7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
| 8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
| 9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
| 10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |