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Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II DİNG104 2. Semester 3 + 0 3.0 5.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction English
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors Gülten SİLİNDİR KERETLİ
Assistants
Goals This introductory course to English literature aims to acquaint students with the main literary genres and conventions within the frame of a variety of literary works produced in different literary periods.
Course Content The course gives the students a general idea of the social, cultural and literary developments that took place in England from the 18th century to the end of the 20th century whilst acquainting them with the main literary genres and conventions through the study of extracts from the original texts produced within these periods.
Learning Outcomes 1) To develop students’ English language skills: Listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
2) To enable students to make use of listening, reading, speaking and writing skills by means of literary texts.
3) To enable students to make use of 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 the English language and its usage together with its cultural norms and paradigms.
9) To enable the acquisition of the basic periods of English and American literary history together.
10) 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.

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
1. Week Introduction: 18th century English Literature - Historical, Social and Literary Context Lecture
Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
2. Week The 18th Century – The Age of Reason Daniel Defoe- Robinson Crusoe Lecture
Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
3. Week Richardson- Clarrissa Harlowe Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week Pope- The Rape of the Lock Question Answer
Brainstorming
Scenario Based Learning
Practice (Teaching Practice, Music/Musical Instrument Practice, Statistics, Laboratory, Field Work, Clinic and Polyclinic Practice)
5. Week The Age of Romantics: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Scenario Based Learning
Homework
6. Week Shelley, Byron, Keats Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Practice (Teaching Practice, Music/Musical Instrument Practice, Statistics, Laboratory, Field Work, Clinic and Polyclinic Practice)
7. Week 19th Century Fiction: Austen- Pride and Prejudice Lecture
Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Homework
8. Week The Victorian Age: Charlotte Brontë- Jane Eyre Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
9. Week Dickens- Oliver Twist Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Practice (Teaching Practice, Music/Musical Instrument Practice, Statistics, Laboratory, Field Work, Clinic and Polyclinic Practice)
10. Week Carol- Alice in Wonderland Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Practice (Teaching Practice, Music/Musical Instrument Practice, Statistics, Laboratory, Field Work, Clinic and Polyclinic Practice)
11. Week The Twentieth Century English Literature (1901-1945): The Edwardian Age- 1st WW Yeats,  Discussion
Brainstorming
Brain Based Learning
Homework
12. Week T.S. Eliot: West Land Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week Conrad- Heart of Darkness Lecture; Question Answer
Opinion Pool
Brain Based Learning
Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time)
14. Week Modernism: Woolf- To the Lighthouse Discussion
Brainstorming
Brain Based Learning
Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Bate, Jonathan. English Literature: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2010.
Brodey, Kenneth, and Fabio Malgaretti, editors. Focus on English and American Literature. Modern Languages, 2002.
Burgess, Anthony. English Literature: A Survey for Students. Longman, 1974.
Greenblatt, Stephen, editor. Norton Anthology of English Literature. 8th ed., vol. 1, W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
McCormick, Paul. Adventures in English Literature. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1968.
Miller, James E., et al. England in Literature. Scott, Foresman, and Company, 1973.
Thornley, G. C., G. Roberts. An Outline of English Literature. Pearson, 1985.

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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 1
Homework 5 5
Presentation (Including Preparation Time) 3 3
Report (Including Preparation and presentation Time) 2 1
Practice (Teaching Practice, Music/Musical Instrument Practice , Statistics, Laboratory, Field Work, Clinic and Polyclinic Practice) 4 4
Midterm Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 3
Final Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 4
1 1
3 3
1 2
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course
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