TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	4
SEMESTER	Seventh Term (Fall)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	8
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to discuss how different critical approaches produce different meanings already inherent in texts.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This is a course in which a variety of "readings" of the same text will be studied to emphasize the richness and inexhaustibility of literary texts. Discussions will be organized around only a few "primary" texts. Different "readings" will include re-writings and/or re-productions of texts using non-verbal means as well as critical interpretations.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction and Course Overview 2nd Week Eudora Welty: Petrified Man, Thomas. Pynchon: Entropy. Norton Vol. E 3rd Week Allen Ginsberg: Howl, Footnote to Howl, A Supermarket in California; Sunflower Sutra, To Aunt Rose, Norton Vol. E 4th Week Michael S. Harper: Dear John, Dear Coltrane, American History, Martin's Blues, Bird Lives: Charles Parker in St. Louis Nightmare Begins Responsibility. Norton, Vol. E 5th Week Joy Harjo: Call It Fear, White Bear, Summer Night, The Flood, When the World As We Knew It Ended. Norton, Vol. E 6th Week Fanny Fern: Aunt Hettie on Matrimony, Hungry Husbands, Fresh Leaves, by Fanny Fern, A Law More Nice Than Just. Norton Vol. B 7th Week Midterm paper 1 Harriet Jacobs: excerpts from Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Norton Vol. B 8th Week Sherwood Anderson: Hands, Mother, Adventure. Norton, Vol. D 9th Week Katherine Ann Porter: Flowering Judas, Wm Faulkner: Barn Burning, Norton, Vol. D 10th Week Langston Hughes: poetry selections Norton, Vol. D 11th Week Midterm 2, Richard Wright: The Man Who Was Almost a Man. Norton, Vol. D 12th Week Jeffrey Howlett: Red Rover, and I'll be Wooten for You
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Norton Anthology of American Literature, Volumes B, D and E 8th or 9th edition
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 2 60 Attendance 1 10 Total(%) 70 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 70 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 30 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No