PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING AND GUIDANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
GEP0702 | Critical Thinking and Literary Criticism | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
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? |
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. |
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) |
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 |
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 |
References: |
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 |
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 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | School counselors know and utilize appropriate assessment and evaluation methods in order to support the development of students and clients, to reveal their potential and provide services according the needs of the schools, differentiate different types of the assessment and know basic concepts of standardized and non-standardized measure. | 2 |
2) | School counselors have a principle of lifelong learning and development by supporting the well-being of an individual, and reflect this principles to all kinds of professional applications, personal life, philosophy of life, and the point of view of people. | 4 |
3) | School counselors develop new skills by using technology and IT skills, and use technology to development and prepare a comprehensive school counseling programs,to review literature, to keep records, to do a research, and data analysis. | 2 |
4) | School counselors know developmental theories (cognitive, emotional, physical, moral and spiritual) and concepts in life cycle and deeply aware of the impact of psychosocial and cultural factors on human development, propose solutions about developmental crises. | 2 |
5) | School counselors know the concept of multiculturality and realize the cultural needs of special groups (religion, ethnicity, political position, socioeconomic status, language, sexual preference, age group, individuals with special needs), make for all individuals to access easily to the school counseling program, and respond with interventions that are appropriate to cultural needs. | 4 |
6) | School counselors know the stages of change process withing the framework of counseling theories, exhibit effective counseling skills in determining proper purpose to the client and increasing their capacity to cope with life situations. | 1 |
7) | School counselors committed to the rules of professional ethics and legal obligations, and acts accordingly, inform people about ethical dilemmas, and continue professional development and competence according the ethics. | 2 |
8) | School counselors design, implement and direct a comprehensive and developmental school counseling programs, and present group guidance and group counseling activities and individual counseling services. | 1 |
9) | School counselors know strengths, limitations and personal characteristics of themselves in personal and professional fields, has the knowledge, skills and personal characteristic to be an effective professional staff, refresh professional knowledge continuously, take a supervision if it is necessary, provides support for the development of profession and advocate profession. | 2 |
10) | School counselors develops, implements, and evaluates crisis intervention programs in schools in crisis situations such as natural disasters and suicide, takes place in the interdisciplinary disaster works and provide psychological first aid services. | 1 |
11) | School counselors prepare consultation activities about guidance, developmental needs, problems, programs and school activities to individuals, parents, teachers, administrators, develop programs for groups and reach information resources. | 1 |
12) | School counselors know and apply research methods and statistical analysis; share research results with stakeholders and interpret them, benefit from the results of research while evaluating the program | 1 |
13) | School counselors keep records related to their implementations, introduces reference institutions to the parents and school staffs and helps the stakeholders to get support from these institutions. | 1 |
14) | School counselors recognize the current legal issues about special education, identify and directs individuals who need special education. | 1 |
15) | School counselors know education systems, learning approaches, factors that affect learning, develop critical thinking approach to the problems associated with education, include problem-oriented solutions in counseling program in order to improve students' development. | 1 |