Ordu University Lifelong Learning Programme

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	Number of ECTS Credits
ENG3012016136	SHORT STORY EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH	Compulsory	3	5	4

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

The main objective of this course is to inform and at the same time, to instruct the students about the short story as a literary genre and its characteristics while discussing the historical and theoretical background within the conceptual context.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Öğr. Gör. İbrahim Koç

Learning Outcomes

1	At the end of this course, the students will be able to comprehend the main characteristics and key terms concerning the short story.
2	They will be able to distinguish the short story from other narratives.
3	They will be able to analyze the short stories thematically and technically.
4	Using the close reading technique for textual anaysis and interpretation, they will be able to compare and contrast the different narrative styles that the short story writers have conducted.

Mode of Delivery

Formal Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

This course covers the historical and theoretical development of short story as a literary genre through the revision and discussion of its key literary terms and formal structure; the examination of its narrative influence on other literary genres and the analysis of modern short story through the interpretation of leading works of English, American, Russian and French forerunners of the genre.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Introduction - "short story" as a literary genre and its historical development; key terms and concepts about short story.
2	English / American short story
3	The begining of short story
4	American short story writers after Poe
5	Checkov and Maupassant
6	Tolstoy, Wells and Kipling
7	Katherine Mansfield
8	Mid-term Exams
9	Stephen Crane
10	William Faulkner
11	Edgar Allan Poe
12	Ernest Hemingway
13	Graham Greene
14	Joseph Conrad
15	Nathaniel Hawtorne
16	Final Exams

Recommended or Required Reading

1) Bendixen, Alfred, and James Nagel. A Companion to the American Short Story. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 2) Head, Dominic. The Modernist Short Story: A Study in Theory and Practice. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 3) Hunter, Adrian. The Cambridge Introduction to the Short Story in English. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 4) Liggins, Emma, Andrew Maunder, and Ruth Robbins. The British Short Story. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 5) Smith, Angela, ed. Selected Stories Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: OUP, 2008. 6) Taylor, J. W. Peter. Ed. Modern Short Stories for Students of English. Oxford: OUP, 1992. 7) --- . More Modern Short Stories for Students of English. Oxford: OUP, 1993.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
SUM		0
End Of Term (or Year) Learning Activities	Quantity	Weight
SUM		0
Yarıyıl (Yıl) İçi Etkinlikleri		40
Yarıyıl (Yıl) Sonu Etkinlikleri		60
SUM		100

Language of Instruction

İngilizce

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Midterm Examination	1	1	1
Final Examination	1	2	2
Attending Lectures	14	2	28
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	9	4	36
Individual Study for Final Examination	14	4	56
Reading	5	1	5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			128

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

	PO 1	PO 2	PO 3	PO 4	PO 5	PO 6	PO 7	PO 8	PO 9	PO 10	PO 11	PO 12	PO 13	PO 14	PO 15	PO 16	PO 17	PO 18
LO1	4		4		5	5				2					3		4
LO2		5			4	3			4		5				5			4
LO3	4		3		4				4		3		5		3
LO4		4				3		3	5		3				4	4		4

* Contribution Level : 1 Very low 2 Low 3 Medium 4 High 5 Very High