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
GSENG3102016146	AMERICAN LITERATURE-II	Elective	3	6	5

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle

Objectives of the Course

To introduce students to nineteenth-century American literature concentrating on American romanticism, transcendentalism, and realism. Writers studied include Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson.

Name of Lecturer(s)

Öğr. Gör. İbrahim Koç

Learning Outcomes

1	To have a general knowledge of nineteenth-century American literature with an emphasis on the historical and cultural background.
2	To analyze major American myths embodied in culture and literature.
3	To be able to see the connections and continuities as well as the differences between American and British literatures.
4	To learn about and understand another culture and its literature.
5	To be motivated to read more works by and about American authors.
6	To understand American romanticism, transcendentalism, and realism.

Mode of Delivery

Evening Education

Prerequisites and co-requisities

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Historical and cultural contexts for literary production in nineteenth-century America; the search for cultural independence; nineteenth-century American authors such as Irving, Cooper, Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson; American myths; Literary movements and trends in nineteenth-century America.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Theoretical	Practice	Laboratory
1	Description of the course, discussion of the general objectives	Introduction and discussion of the course content
2	Washington Irving and “Rip Van Winkle”; the idea of and search for cultural independence	Discussion and analysis of the assigned reading material
3	James Fenimore Cooper and “Preface to The Leather-Stocking Tales” and excerpt from The Pioneers	Discussion and analysis of Cooper’s work as an attempt to articulate the American experience
4	Cooper; William Cullen Bryant’s “Thanatopsis”	Discussion of the assigned reading materials
5	Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Poetic Principle”; “The Philosophy of Composition”; “Annabel Lee”	Discussion and analysis of the assigned reading material
6	Edgar Allan Poe’s “Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne”; “The Masque of the Red Death”	Discussion and analysis of the assigned reading material
7	Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The American Scholar”; “Each and All”	Introduction to transcendentalism and analysis the texts
8	Midterm
9	Emerson and Henry David Thoreau’s “Civil Disobedience”	Discussion of “Civil Disobedience”
10	Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown”	Analysis and discussion of the story
11	Herman Melville’s “Hawthorne and His Mosses”	Discussion of the assigned reading material
12	Frederick Douglass; excerpt from The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass	Analysis and discussion of the excerpt
13	Walt Whitman’s idea of poetry; his poem “The Open Road”	Analysis and discussion of the poem
14	Emily Dickinson and selected poems by her	Analysis and discussion of the selected poems
15	Review of the semester	Review of the readings
16	Final

Recommended or Required Reading

A course package to be obtained from a copy shop Recommended Reading Anthologies of American Literature.

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	1	1
Quiz	10	1	10
Attending Lectures	14	3	42
Self Study	14	3	42
Individual Study for Mid term Examination	9	2	18
Individual Study for Final Examination	12	3	36
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			150

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	2		3		4		2	5			2		3	4			5
LO2		2		3		4			2	5		2			4	4		5
LO3	3		4		5		3	2			3		4	5			2
LO4		3		4		5			3	2		3			5	5		2
LO5	3		5		2		4	3			4		5	2			3
LO6		4		5		2			4	3		4			2	2		3

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