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Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICAN FICTION II	AKE312	6. Semester	3 + 0	3.0	6.0

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None

Language of Instruction	English
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
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Goals	By the end of the course students will have acquired an understanding of the major 19th century American novelists. They will also be able to pursue independent analyses of novels or short stories they will come across.
Course Content	It is devoted to provide the students with a deeper understanding of 19th century American novel, with special emphasis on romanticism, realism, and naturalism. The course also underlines the historical, social, and cultural backgrounds of the works that are studied.
Learning Outcomes	1) To develop students’ English language usage skills: Listening, reading, speaking, and writing 2) To enable students to use in class listening, reading, speaking and writing skills by means of literary texts 3) To enable students to use listening, reading, speaking and writing skills by means of culture classes 4) To give students the skill to study literary texts with a critical eye 5) To give students the skill to analyze literary texts 6) To enhance the comprehension of literary texts by means of history of culture classes 7) To enable students to appreciate the literary texts within their cultural context 8) To bring together the English language and its usage as well as its cultural norms and paradigms 9) Roman, şiir, oyun, öykü, deneme türündeki edebiyat metinleri aracılığıyla edebi türleri örneklemek ve özümsenmesini sağlamak 10) To enable the acquisition of the basic periods of English and American literary history together 11) To enable the acquisition of the basic periods of English and American literary history together 12) To provide students with the means of reading and appreciating the works of any other culture via analytical and critical readings of literary and cultural texts 13) To enable students to transfer cultural traits by translation from English into Turkish and from Turkish into English while improving translation skills