GEP0702 Critical Thinking and Literary CriticismBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
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
GEP0702 Critical Thinking and Literary Criticism Spring 3 0 3 4
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Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: GE-Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ
Course Lecturer(s): Assoc. Prof. GÖKSEL AYMAZ
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: This course is a survey of major critical approaches, from Aristotle's Poetics to Romanticism. It aims to familiarize students with some of the main themes and currents of literary theory by dealing with the questions as what is literature, how is it produced, how can it be understood, and what is its purpose?

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
• understanding of major critical approaches;
• knowledge of selected prominent critics and their works;
• some of the skills necessary for critical thinking and literary criticism.
• to demonstrate an understanding of the importance of the literature and the role of criticism in deciphering cultural production and social change;
• to demonstrate knowledge of the terminology related to literary criticism;
• to demonstrate oral presentation skills as they relate to literary and cultural studies;
• to demonstrate skills to integrate and compare the knowledge from this course with other culture courses
• to recognize the value of multiple perspectives and develop competence in giving and receiving constructive criticism;
• to identify and decipher the aesthetic, political, and cultural importance of literature.

Course Content

Literary Criticim and Classical Antiquity
Medieval Literary Criticism
Literary Criticism in the Renaissance Period
Literary Criticism in the 17th and 18th centuries
End of the Classical Tradition
Romanticism(s)

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Giriş
2) On critical thinking and literary criticism
3) Literary Criticism and Classical Antiquity Plato (excerpts from Republic Book II, III & X; Ion) Aristotle (Poetics)
4) Literary Criticim and Classical Antiquity Horace (excerpts from Ars Poetica) Longinus (excerpts from “On The Sublime”)
5) Medieval Literary Criticism St. Augustine (excerpts from On Christian Doctrine) Aquinas, (excerpts from The Nature and Domain of Sacred Doctrine)
6) Medieval Literary Criticism Dante (excerpts from “Letter to Can Grande Della Scala”) Boccaccio (excerpts from Life of Dante, Genealogy of the Gentile Gods)
7) Literary Criticism in the Renaissance Period Sir Philip Sidney (excerpts from “An Apology for Poetry”) Francis Bacon (excerpts from The Advancement of Learning)
8) Literary Criticism in the 17th and 18th centuries John Dryden (excerpts from Essay on Dramatic Poesy) Jonathan Swift (excerpts from The Battle of the Books)
9) Literary Criticism in the 17th and 18th centuries Alexander Pope (excerpts from An Essay on Criticism)
10) End of the Classical Tradition Samuel Johnson (excerpts from “Preface to Shakespeare”)
11) Romanticism(s) Criticism:The Major Texts, “Introduction” (Romanticism and After)
12) Romanticism(s) Kant (excerpts from Critique of Judgement) Schelling (excerpts On the Relation of the Plastic Arts to Nature)
13) Romanticism(s) William Wordsworth (excerpts from “Preface to Lyrical Ballads”) Samuel Taylor Coleridge (excerpts from Biographia Literaria)
14) Concluding Remarks & General Review

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: T. S. Dorsch, Classical Literary Criticism, London: Penguin Books, 1969.
M. H. Abrams, The Mirror and the Lamp, New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1953.
Berna Moran, Edebiyat Kuramları ve Eleştiri, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 1999.
The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism, ed.Vincent B. Leitch, New York: Norton, 2001
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Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Midterms 1 % 40
Final 1 % 50
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 50
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Study Hours Out of Class 14 2 28
Midterms 1 10 10
Final 1 20 20
Total Workload 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) Setting up various spaces in national and international contexts, carrying out designs, planning and applications that could satisfy various user groups and respond various requirements in the field of Interior Architecture,
2) Analyzing the information gathered from the framework of actual physical, social and economical constraints and user requirements, and synthesizing these with diverse knowledge and considerations in order to create innovative spatial solutions,
3) Generating creative, innovative, aesthetic and unique spatial solutions by using tangible and abstract concepts,
4) Using at least one of the illustration and presentation technologies competently, that the field of interior architecture requires,
5) Reporting, presenting and transferring the design, practice and research studies to the specialists or laymen by using visual, textual or oral communication methods, efficiently and accurately,
6) Embracing and prioritizing man-environment relationships, user health, safety and security, and universal design principles in the field of interior architecture,
7) Design understanding and decision making that respects social and cultural rights of the society, cultural heritage and nature,
8) Being aware of national and international values, following developments and being equipped about ethical and aesthetical subjects in the fields of interior architecture, design and art,
9) Having absolute conscious about legal regulations, standards and principles; and realizing professional ethics, duties and responsibilities in the field of Interior Architecture,