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COURSE UNIT TITLECOURSE UNIT CODESEMESTERTHEORY + PRACTICE (Hour)ECTS
20TH CENTURY AMERICAN POETRY AMER572 - 3 + 0 10

TYPE OF COURSE UNITElective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNITMaster's Degree Without Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY-
SEMESTER-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT At the end of this course, the students;
1) will be able to analyze individual poems in the light of modernist literary movements and postmodern literary theory,
2) will be able to discuss the correlation between the theory and practice of writing poetry.
MODE OF DELIVERYFace to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSENo
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTNone
COURSE DEFINITIONThis course focuses on the development of modern and post-modern movements in American poetry by paying particular attention to the connections between the theory and practice of the poets themselves.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEKTOPICS
1st Week Introduction to Modernist Poetry
2nd Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
3rd Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
4th Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
5th Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
6th Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
7th Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Modernist Poems
8th Week Introduction to Postmodernist Poetry
9th Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems
10th Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems
11th Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems
12th Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems
13th Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems
14th Week Discussion and Student Presentations on Postmodernist Poems
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READINGAllen, Donald, and Warren Tallman, eds. The Poetics of the New American Poetry. New York: Grove, 1973.

Altieri, Charles. Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State UP, 1995.

Hoover, Paul, ed. Postmodern American Poetry. New York: Norton, 1994.

Myers, Jack, and David Mojahn, eds. A Profile of Twentieth Century American Poetry. Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois UP, 1991.

Nemerov, Howard, ed. Poets on Poetry. New York: Basic Books, 1966.

Perkins, David. A History of Modern Poetry: From the 1890s to the High Modernist Mode. Cambridge, MA: Belknap-Harvard UP, 1976.

Shucard, Alan, Fred S. Moramarco, and William J. Sullivan. Modern American Poetry: 1865-1950. Boston: Twayne, 1989.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODSLecture,Discussion,Presentation
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 QuantityPercentage(%)
Project230
Attendance110
Presentation of Article220
Total(%)60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)40
Total(%)100
ECTS WORKLOAD
Activities Number Hours Workload
Midterm exam
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work14570
Preparation for Final exam11010
Course hours14342
Preparation for Midterm exam
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam133
Homework
Project23060
Article Presentation22550
Weekly Articles and Resource Research14570
Total Workload305
Total Workload / 3010,16
ECTS Credits of the Course10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTIONEnglish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)No
  

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