Information Package / Course Catalogue
| Course Code | : İDE307 |
| Course Type | : Area Elective |
| Couse Group | : First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree) |
| Education Language | : English |
| Work Placement | : N/A |
| Theory | : 2 |
| Prt. | : 0 |
| Credit | : 2 |
| Lab | : 0 |
| ECTS | : 5 |
The aim of this course is to enable the student to gain the knowledge, skills and competence required to analyse and discuss literary works from ecocritical perspectives and develop an ecological awareness, and to offer solutions concerning the current environmental problems in order to increase such awareness in social and cultural discourses.
Nature wiritings included in Ecocriticism, which is among the contemporary movements of thought will be read and analyzed with references to literature.
| Lec. Baturay ERDAL |
| 1. | The student summarize the theoretical development of ecocritism as interdisciplinary fields of study |
| 2. | Recite and judge the historical, social, political, cultural, ethical and literary dynamics which have led to anthropocentric literary analysis |
| 3. | Increase his/her ecological awareness through examining literary works particularly focused on nature and natural environment |
| 4. | articulate the relationship between literature and nature drawing upon empirical data |
| 5. | Evaluate selected texts through object-oriented reading in a non-anthropocentric manner |
| 1. | Glotfelty, Cheryll and Harold Fromm (1996). The Ecocriticism Reader: Landmarks in Literary Ecology. Georgia: The University of Georgia Press. |
| 2. | Buell, Lawrence (2001). Writing for an Endangered World: Literature, Culture and Environment in the U.S and Beyond. Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. |
| 3. | Buell, Lawrence (2005). The Future of Environmental Criticism: Environmental Crisis and Literary Imagination. Malden: Blackwell. |
| 4. | Garrard, Greg (2004). Ecocriticism. New York: Routledge. |
| 5. | Sessions, George (1995). Deep Ecology for the Twenty-First Century. Boston: Shambhala Publications. |
| Type of Assessment | Count | Percent |
|---|---|---|
| Midterm Examination | 1 | %40 |
| Final Examination | 1 | %60 |
| Activities | Count | Preparation | Time | Total Work Load (hours) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lecture - Theory | 14 | 3 | 2 | 70 |
| Assignment | 1 | 8 | 5 | 13 |
| Individual Work | 6 | 2 | 2 | 24 |
| Midterm Examination | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 |
| Final Examination | 1 | 6 | 4 | 10 |
| TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) | 125 | |||
PÇ-1 | PÇ-2 | PÇ-3 | PÇ-4 | PÇ-5 | PÇ-6 | PÇ-7 | PÇ-8 | PÇ-9 | PÇ-10 | PÇ-11 | PÇ-12 | |
OÇ-1 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | |
OÇ-2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 |
OÇ-3 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
OÇ-4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 |
OÇ-5 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 4 |