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 |
| ACL4055 | Travel Writing | Fall | 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 |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | none |
| Course Objectives: | Students who take this course will understand and be able to identify the definition, traditional elements and development of travel narratives. By means of close reading of selected travel narratives, they will identify, compare and contrast travel writing traditions in different parts of the world. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course; Students who complete this course will learn * to identify the literary, cultural, historical, political impact of travel narratives in different parts of the world. * the terminology related to travel writiıng theory • to identify recurrent themes in travel writing such as self-fashioning, the body, Orientalism, imaginative geography and the tourist gaze • to read critically several travel narratives by writers and explorers from different parts of the world • to discuss how this genre has evolved through time and place. |
Course Content
| Examples of travel writing from the 14th-2Oth century |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Introduction to Class | - |
| 2) | The Art of Travel | Reading |
| 3) | The Art of Travel | Reading |
| 4) | The Art of Travel | Reading |
| 5) | The Oxford Book of Exploration | Reading |
| 6) | The Oxford Book of Exploration | Reading |
| 7) | The Oxford Book of Exploration | Reading |
| 8) | Review | - |
| 9) | Amongst the Believers | Reading |
| 10) | Amongst the Believers | Reading |
| 11) | Amongst the Believers | Reading |
| 12) | Ghost Train to the Eastern Star | Reading |
| 13) | Ghost Train to the Eastern Star | Reading |
| 14) | Ghost Train to the Eastern Star | Reading |
| 15) | Final | - |
| 16) | Final | - |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | The Art of Travel by Alain de Botton The Oxford Book of Exploration ed. by Robin Hanbury Tenison Amongst the Believers by V.S.Naipaul Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux |
| References: | none |
Evaluation System
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | 16 | % 10 |
| Quizzes | 2 | % 20 |
| Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
| 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 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 1 | 15 |
| Quizzes | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Midterms | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Final | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Total Workload | 97 | ||
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 |