Course Information

Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE	DİNG103	1. Semester	3 + 0	3.0	5.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction	English
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery	Lecture, discussion, visual material
Course Coordinator
Instructors	Emrah ÖZBAY
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 Anglo-Saxon period to the end of the Renaissance whilst acquainting them with the main literary genres and conventions through the study of extracts from the original texts.
Learning Outcomes	1) To develop students’ English language usage 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 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 enhance the comprehension of literary texts by means of history of culture classes. 6) To enable students to appreciate the literary texts within their cultural context. 7) To enable the acquisition of the essentials of the literary genres; namely fiction (novels, short stories), drama, poetry via examples. 8) To enable the acquisition of the basic periods of English and American literary history together. 9) 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. 10) To enable students to examine and interpret literary and cultural texts in English.