TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	First Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Associate Professor Merve Sarıkaya Şen Assistant Professor Deniz Kırpıklı
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) identify the ideas and themes that underlie major works of English Literature, 2) analyze and discuss literary texts with reference to cultural, political, and historical contexts, 3) survey the major periods and movements in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the present day.
MODE OF DELIVERY
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION	The course aims to give students increased insight into and knowledge of English Culture and Literature. It introduces students to historical, political, literary, and religious contexts ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day by analyzing selected literary texts.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction 2nd Week Old English Period: Old English Literature from Beowulf 3rd Week The Middle English Period from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from Everyman 4th Week The Middle Ages: Chaucer from The Canterbury Tales 5th Week The Sixteenth Century: Edmund Spenser: Sonnets 34, 54; Christopher Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love"; Shakespeare: Sonnets 3, 18, 130 6th Week The Seventeenth Century: John Donne: "The Flea"; Robert Herrick: "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time"; Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress" 7th Week The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: Jonathan Swift: "A Modest Proposal"; John Bunyan: The Pilgrim?s Progress; Alexander Pope from The Rape of the Lock 8th Week Midterm 9th Week The Romantic Period: William Blake: "The Chimney Sweeper"; William Wordsworth: from Preface to Lyrical Ballads "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"; John Keats: "Ode on a Grecian Urn" 10th Week The Victorian Period: Rudyard Kipling: "The White Man?s Burden"; John Stuart Mill: from "On Liberty" 11th Week The Victorian Period: Alfred Tennyson: "Break, Break, Break"; Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess"; Matthew Arnold: "Dover Beach" 12th Week The Twentieth Century: Rupert Brooke: "The Soldier"; Wilfred Owen: "Dulce Et Decorum Est", "Disabled" 13th Week The Twentieth Century: W.H. Auden: "Musee des Beaux Arts"; T. S. Eliot: from "Tradition and the Individual Talent", The Hollow Men 14th Week Revision
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Abrams, et al., editors. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th ed. Norton & Co., 2000.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Assignment 2 20 Quiz 1 10 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 1 2 2 Preparation for Quiz 1 10 10 Individual or group work 14 3 42 Preparation for Final exam 1 21 21 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 20 20 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 3 3 Homework 2 4 8 Quiz 1 2 2 Total Workload 150 Total Workload / 30 5 ECTS Credits of the Course 5
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No