TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	Second Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	5
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to apply the techniques used in literary studies to the analysis of short stories.
MODE OF DELIVERY	E-Learning
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This course is designed to enhance students' appreciation of the short story as a literary form and to trace its development from its beginnings to the present.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Elements of the short story 2nd Week Edgar Allan Poe, ?The Tell-Tale Heart? (1843) 3rd Week Guy de Maupassant, ?The Necklace? (1884) 4th Week Anton Chekhov ?The Schoolmistress? (1897) 5th Week Kate Chopin, ?The Storm? (1898) 6th Week MIDTERM EXAM (25 March 2021) 7th Week Jack London, ?To Build a Fire? (1902) 8th Week James Joyce, ?Araby? (1914) 9th Week Katherine Ann Porter, ?The Jilting of Granny Weatherall? (1930) 10th Week Doris Lessing, ?How I Finally Lost My Heart? (1958) 11th Week John Updike, ?A&P? (1961) 12th Week Revision
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Cassill, R.V., ed. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. 5th ed. Norton, 1995. Charters, Ann, ed. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003. Ford, John, and Marjorie Ford. A Web of Stories: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Prentice, 1998. Kennedy, X. J., and Dana Gioia. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Harper, 1995. Lauter, Paul, et al., eds. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Heath, 1997.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Other,Questions/Answers,Project
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Assignment 10 20 Attendance 1 10 Total(%) 60 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No