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| ELL2038 | American Culture and Literature | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of WESTERN LANGUAGES and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Arş. Gör. Özlem ÇAKMAKOĞLU | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | The main objective of the course is to apply students' understanding of American culture to contemporary American poetry, video, fiction, and music. Students will have the opportunity to evaluate the works of different contemporary writers from artistic, cultural and sociopolitical perspectives, to understand the significance of various American writers concerning different genres of literary works, to make presentations on American Literature, to relate different literary genres and periods, to make a comprehensive reflection on British and American Literature. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | gain a familiarity with various works of short fiction, novel and film. | 19 | 1,2,3,5, | | LO - 2 : | develop a general understanding of American fiction's use of structure, plot and metaphor. | | | | LO - 3 : | utilize in depth critical thinking to apply conclusions of text analysis to their broader understanding of American culture. | | | | LO - 4 : | practice constructing their own creative critique of American culture. | | | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course provides students with a comprehensive knowledge of American history, literature and culture. Students who voluntarily choose the course have the chance to learn the location of America on the map and its states through an online game. Until the midterm exam, each student analyzes America through the topic of their choices, analyzing the sociocultural influences of historical, social, psychological, environmental, cultural and political areas. Students will analyze Native Culture, the Colonial Period, Puritanism, the Salem Witch Trials, Great Awakening, the Boston Massacre, the War of Independence, the Constitution, Renaissance, Transcendentalism, the California Gold Rush, Slavery, Realism, the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln's Assassination, Ku Klux Klan, World Wars I and II, Modernism, the Great Depression, the Great War, World War I and II. World Wars I and II, Modernism, the Great Migration, Harlem Renaissance, the Lost Generation, the Roaring Twenties/Golden Age, Great Depression, the American Dream, Pearl Harbor, Civil Rights Movement, Cold War, Beat Generation, Existentialism, Postmodernism, Vietnam War, Hippie Movement, John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Assassinations, Apollo Space Races, 9/11 Attacks and Black Lives Matter. They try to convey the source of the events and phenomena that deeply affected the history of the country and their effects on society to their friends with their presentation skills. In addition to the historical background, the course covers the chronological order of American literature from Poe to Miller and Whitman to Steinbeck. Within the scope of the works selected for the course, genres such as poetry, novel, film, theater, prose, painting, music, short stories, and fairy tales are discussed in terms of form and content. In light of the analyses, students rediscover literary terms and figures of speech while enriching their field knowledge. Their analysis is not based on a mere reading, but on assimilating the theoretical background of the main literary movements in American literature. As a result, throughout the course, students examine the interaction and development of American culture and literature across periods through a thematic and chronological structure. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | -Meet and Greet
-Where is America and the Capital City?
-The Chronological Order of American History and Literature
-Distribution of the Presentations | | | Week 2 | 1. The Native Culture 1490-1700
2. The Discovery 1492 (Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci)
3. The Pilgrims 1500-1670
4. The Colonization/The First Colonies 1607-1733
5. The Mayflower Compact 1620
6. The Puritan Immigration/Puritanism 1620-1640
7. The Chronicle Narratives
8. The Salem Witch Trials 1692 | | | Week 3 | 9. The Great Awakening/Religious Revival 1730s-1740s
10. The Enlightenment 1750-1800
11. The Boston Massacre 1770 and Boston Tea Party 1773
12. The Revolutionary War/American War of Independence 1775-1783
13. The Melting Pot 1780s
14. The Constitution 1787 (1783-1820)
15. The American Renaissance 1800-1855
16. Romanticism 1820-1860 | | | Week 4 | 17. Transcendentalism 1830-1850
18. Gothic 1830s
19. Feminism 1848-1990s
20. The California Gold Rush 1848-1855
21. The Slavery 1850-1869
22. Realism 1850-1914
23. The Civil War 1861-1865
24. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln 1865 | | | Week 5 | 25. Ku Klux Klan 1865
26. Naturalism 1865-1900
27. The First World War 1914-1918
28. Modernism 1914-1945
29. The Great Migration 1916-1970
30. The Harlem Renaissance 1918-1930
31. The Lost Generation 1920s
32. The Roaring/Golden Twenties 1920s | | | Week 6 | 33. The Wall Street Crash and The Great Depression 1920-1929
34. The New Negro 1925
35. The New Deal 1929-1939
36. The American Dream 1930s
37. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
38. The Second World War 1939-1945
39. Pearl Harbor 1941
40. The Civil Rights Movement 1946-1968 | | | Week 7 | 41. The Cold War 1947-1991
42. The Beat Generation/Movement 1950-1965
43. Existentialism 1950s
44. Postmodernism 1950-2012 ? 1950-Present
45. Vietnam War 1955-1975
46. The Hippie Movement 1960s
47. Assassination of John F. Kennedy 1963
48. Assassination of Malcolm X 1965 and Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. 1968
49. Apollo ? Space Race History 1967
50. Expressionism Late 1900s
51. September 11, 2001
52. Black Lives Matter 2013-Present | | | Week 8 | Mid-Term Exam | | | Week 9 | NOVELLA: Analysis of The Pearl (1947) by John STEINBECK | | | Week 10 | PLAY: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma?s Hung You in the Closet and I?m Feelin? So Sad (1961) by Arthur Kopit | | | Week 11 | MOVIE: Analysis of The Great Gatsby (1925) by F. Scott FITZGERALD 2013 | | | Week 12 | FAIRY TALE: Analysis of The Enchanted Types and The Wonderful Pump from American Fairy Tales by L. Frank Baum (1901) | | | Week 13 | PAINTING: Every student must select an artist, then choose at least three (3) of their favourite paintings, and identify the artistic movement that influenced them. They should analyze the paintings concerning the chosen movement. | | | Week 14 | SHORT STORY: Analysis of The Tell-Tale Heart (1843), The Cask of Amontillado (1846), and The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. | | | Week 15 | a. Reflection Paper Covering the Semester
b. Pool on ?I?m a Human After All?, ?What is happiness?? and ?Existence is??.
c. Quotation Tree | | | Week 16 | End-of-Term Exam | | | |
| 1 | Wayne Franklin, Philip F. Gura, and Arnold Krupat, The Norton Anthology of American Literature - Volume A: Beginnings to 1820, W. W. Norton & Company, New York 2007. | | | 2 | Nina Baym (ed.), The Norton Anthology of American Literature - Volume B: 1820-1865, W. W. Norton & Company, New York 2002. | | | 3 | Nina Baym, Arnold Krupat, and Jeanne Campbell Reesman (eds.), The Norton Anthology of American Literature - Volume C: 1865-1914, W. W. Norton & Company, New York 2007. | | | 4 | Nina Baym, Jerome Klinkowitz, Arnold Krupat, and Patricia B. Wallace (eds.), The Norton Anthology of American Literature - Volume E: 1945 to Present, W. W. Norton & Company, New York 2007. | | | 5 | Hans Bertens and Theo D'haen, American Literature: A History, Routledge, London 2013. | | | 6 | Peter B. High, An Outline of American Literature, Longman, New York 1986. | | | 7 | Paul Lauter, Richard Yarborough, John Alberti, and Mary Pat Brady, The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Cengage Learning, Boston 2009. | | | 8 | Carl Bode, Highlights of American Literature, Materials Branch U.S. Information Agency, Washington 1995. | | | 9 | Louis George Alexander, Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students, Longmans, Malta 1969. | | | 10 | Peter Faulkner, Modernism, Routledge, London 1977. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 06/04/2010 | 2 | 30 | | Project | 12 | 26/04/2010 | 4 | 20 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 03/06/2010 | 2 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 8 | 4 | 32 | | Arasınav | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 8 | 4 | 32 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 2 | 1 | 2 | | Total work load | | | 124 |
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