TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	2
SEMESTER	Third Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	6
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Assistant Professor Seda Şen
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) recognize the major periods and movements in American literature from the colonial times until the American Civil War, 2) illustrate the characteristics of the literary movements by providing examples from American literature from the colonial times until the American Civil War, 3) connect the major works of American literature from the colonial times until the American Civil War to global and contemporary issues including discussions on race, gender, politics, and human rights.
MODE OF DELIVERY
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
COURSE DEFINITION	This course offers a historical survey of American literature through a selection of texts from the colonial times to the end of the American Civil War. The students will learn the major periods, schools of thought, and aesthetic principles that have contributed to the development of American literature.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction to the course, overview of the syllabus, lecture on the American continent and voyages of exploration and the multicultural continent before 1492 2nd Week Native American Orature, "Iroquois Creation Story," From The Winnebago Trickster Cycle, "Powhatan's Discourse of Peace and War" 3rd Week Colonial Writings about the New World, William Bradford Of Plymouth Plantation Chapter IV , John Smith selections from The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles, John Wintrop A Model of Christian Charity 4th Week Religion and Society in Early Colonial America, Anne Bradstreet "To My Dear Children," Cotton Mather "The Trial of Martha Carrier," Rebecca Samuel "Letters to Her Parents" 5th Week Issues of Race and Ethnicity in America, Phillis Wheatley "On Being Brought from Africa to America" Letter "To Rev Samson Occom," Samson Occom "A Short Narrative of My Life" 6th Week The Age of Enlightenment and the Great Awakening, Benjamin Franklin selections from The Autobiography, Jonathan Edwards "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" 7th Week Midterm Examination 8th Week Thomas Paine from Common Sense "Thoughts on the Present State of American Affairs," J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur Letters from an American Farmer, Letter III, "What is an American?" 9th Week Transcendentalism, Ralph Waldo Emerson "The American Scholar," Selections from Nature, Henry David Thoreau "Resistance to Civil Government," Selections from Walden, or Life in the Woods 10th Week Romanticism and Gothic Fiction, Edgar Allan Poe "The Fall of the House of Usher" "The Philosophy of Composition" "The Raven" 11th Week Nathaniel Hawthorne "My Kinsman, Major Molineux," Herman Melville "Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street," Washington Irving "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 12th Week Late Romantic poetry, Walt Whitman, "I Hear America Singing," Emily Dickinson "The Brain - is wider than the Sky" "My life had stood - a Loaded Gun," "Letters to Thomas Wentworth Higginson" 13th Week Race, Ethnicity, and Gender in the Nineteenth Century, William Apess "An Indian's Looking-Glass for the White Man," Sojourner Truth "Speech to the Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio," Elizabeth Cady Stanton "Declaration of Sentiments," Lydia Maria Child "Women's Rights" 14th Week Civil War Literature, Abraham Lincoln "Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg," Frederick Douglass "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?" Angeline E. Grimke From Appeal to the Christian Women of the South
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Levine, Robert S., et al., editors. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 9th edition, Volumes A and B, Norton, 2017. Ruland, Richard, and Malcolm Bradbury. From Puritanism to Postmodernism: A History of American Literature, Routledge, 1991.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Assignment 2 10 Quiz 2 10 Presentation of Article 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 2 4 8 Individual or group work 14 4 56 Preparation for Final exam 1 20 20 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 20 20 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 2 2 Homework 2 8 16 Quiz 2 2 4 Article Presentation 1 8 8 Total Workload 178 Total Workload / 30 5,93 ECTS Credits of the Course 6
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No