Information Package / Course Catalogue
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
The General Information and rules for the courses.
Week 2 - Theoretical
Song of Myself by Walt Whitman (1-52) I felt a Funeral, in my Brain by Emily Dickinson
Week 3 - Theoretical
Annabel Lee By Edgar Allan Poe Mending Wall by Robert Frost
Week 4 - Theoretical
The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
Week 5 - Theoretical
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
Week 6 - Theoretical
Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irwing The Minister’s Black Veil by Nathaniel Hawthorne
Week 7 - Theoretical
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce Desiree’s Baby by Kate Chopin
Week 8 - Theoretical
ark Twain's A Horse's Tale (Midterm Exam)
Week 9 - Theoretical
The Killers by Ernest Hemingway Sweat by Zora Neale Hurston
Week 10 - Theoretical
Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor The Lottery by Shirley Jackson
Week 11 - Theoretical
Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville
Week 12 - Theoretical
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Week 13 - Theoretical
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Week 14 - Theoretical
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Week 15 - Theoretical
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Assignment1%40
Term Assignment1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory92236
Lecture - Practice50210
Reading80216
Midterm Examination120020
Final Examination120020
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)102
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
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OÇ-1
4
2
1
2
OÇ-2
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1
1
OÇ-3
3
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2
2
2
1
OÇ-5
3
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2
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026