Information Package / Course Catalogue - Adnan Menderes University

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Person Responsible for Information Package

Prof. Faruk KALAY

Prof. Yıldız TURGUT

Assoc. Prof. Burcu AYDIN

Assoc. Prof. Güliz TURGUT DOST

Language Teaching and American Literature

Course Code	: ENT256
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	: 4

Objectives of the Course

To analyze American literature between 15th (colonial period after the exploration of the continent) and mid 19th centuries, to focus on colonial period, period of independence, age of enlightenment, and romantic period respectively, and to analyze the individual writers/poets/thinkers of their own periods and their works, opinions, the relevant trends, social and historical events of those periods. By doing so, the students are supposed to realize how the texts can be used in teaching English.

Course Content

Puritanism, Transcendentalism, Colonial Period, modernism and contemporary literary term

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof. Faruk KALAY

Learning Outcomes

1.	the student is expected to have general knowledge on American literary history up to 1850s
2.	the student is expected to be able to identify how literature reflected the social life in which it was produced
3.	the student is expected to be able to explain and interpret the written works of fiction and nonfiction from colonial period to industrial revolution
4.	the student is expected to be able to generate ideas on American identity
5.	The student gains ideas on how to use the texts he/she has read in class.

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Malcolm Bradbury, From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature
2.	Collier, Patrick. Teaching Literature in the Real World: A Practical Guide. Bloomsbury

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

An overview of Early American Literature

Week 2 - Theoretical

Washington Irwing's The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.

Week 3 - Theoretical

James Fenimore Cooper's Last Mohican

Week 4 - Theoretical

Edgar Allan Poe's The Murders in the Rue Morgue

Week 5 - Theoretical

Edgar Allan Poe's Annabel Lee and The Raven

Week 6 - Theoretical

Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Week 7 - Theoretical

Herman Melville's Bartleby, the Scrivener

Week 8 - Theoretical

ark Twain's A Horse's Tale (Midterm Exam)

Week 9 - Theoretical

An introduction to the American literature in twentieth century

Week 10 - Practice