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| TDE3041 | Environmental Literary Criticism | 2+0+0 | ECTS:4 | | Year / Semester | Fall Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Elective | | Department | DEPARTMENT of TURKISH LANGUAGE and LITERATURE | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 2 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Doç. Dr. Elif ÖKSÜZ GÜNEŞ | | Co-Lecturer | PROF. DR. ÜLKÜ ELİUZ | | Language of instruction | Turkish | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Seeking answers to questions such as "What is nature?" "What is the environment?" "What is our attitude toward nature?" "What are the theories developed regarding environmental problems?" through literature and literary texts. |
| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | They will be able to understand the relationship between environmental criticism and literature.
| 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | They will be able to move from the culture-nature dichotomy to a nature-culture awareness.
| 5 - 8 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | They will be able to reinterpret the ethical framework between nature and humans.
| 5 - 8 | 1, | | LO - 4 : | They will be conscious of the sustainable use of resources. | 5 - 8 | 1, | | 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 | | |
| Environmental ethics and environmental literary criticism |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | The Concept of Ethics
| | | Week 2 | Ethical Relationships Between Nature and Humanity | | | Week 3 | Aldo Leopold and the Land Ethic, the Origin of the Land Ethic | | | Week 4 | New Approaches to the Land Ethic | | | Week 5 | Ecological Crises
| | | Week 6 | Sample Text Analysis | | | Week 7 | The Relationship between the Land Ethic and Literature | | | Week 8 | Nature Literature, Romantic Ecology, Sample Text Analysis | | | Week 9 | EXAM | | | Week 10 | Deep and social ecology, sample text analyses
| | | Week 11 | Ecofeminism, sample text analyses | | | Week 12 | Urban ecology and environmental justice, sample text analyses | | | Week 13 | Postcolonial ecocriticism, sample text analyses | | | Week 14 | Posthumanist ecocriticism, sample text analyses | | | Week 15 | Posthumanist ecocriticism, sample text analyses | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Özdağ, U. 2017. Çevreci Eleştiriye Giriş, Ankara: Ürün Yayınları. | | | 2 |
Özdağ, U. 2017. Edebiyat ve Toprak Etiği. Ankara: Ürün yayınları. | | | 3 |
Toska, S. 2017. Ekokurgu. İstanbul: Yeni İnsan Yayınevi. | | | 4 | Serpil, O. (Editör) 2012. Ekoeleştiri Çevre Edebiyat, Ankara: Phoenix Yayınevi. | | | |
| 1 | Leopold, A. 2013. Bir Kum Yöresi Almanağı, (Çev: Ufuk Özdağ), Ankara: Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayınları.
| | | 2 | Shiva, V. (2010). Yeryüzü demokrasisi. (Çev. A. K. Saysel ve O. Günay). İstanbul: Bgst Yayınları. | | | 3 | Garrard, G. 2017, Ekoeleştiri, (Çev: Ertuğrul Genç), İstanbul: Kolektif Yayınları. | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 9 | 18/11/2025 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 12/01/2026 | 1 | 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 | 1 | 14 | 14 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 4 | 14 | 56 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 3 | 2 | 6 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 3 | 4 | 12 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Total work load | | | 90 |
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