TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Bachelor's Degree
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	4
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	-
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) know the history and important phases of American missionary work during the Ottoman period; 2) critically understand and analyze, in a broader perspective, the aims and impact of American missionary activities; 3) make critical comments as regards American missionary activities within the context of Turkish-American relations; 4) combine his/her knowledge of American missionary work in Ottoman Turkey with his/her knowledge of American culture and literature and enhance his/her historical, cultural, political and literary knowledge about America.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	No
COURSE DEFINITION	The representations and narratives in literature of political views and movements that have been influential in each period of American history constitute the main focus of this course. Any subject under study in this course may be related either to a certain period or some periods or approached within a broader historical perspective.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction: the subject and its main contents explained. An overall account given, in a historical perspective, of the major phases and aspects of American domestic and foreign policies, and the representation of them in literature; the contribution of the course to the study of American culture and literature. 2nd Week Major political developments and changes during the period from the American Revolution down to the Civil War, and literary representations of these developments and changes (e.g. American identity, American independence, slavery and abolitionist movements, American governments' policies as regards the American natives, and the consequences of such policies, political and economic relations between the North and the South, the political causes and consequences of the Civil War, the American Civil War, and so forth). 3rd Week (The subject or subjects under study continued). 4th Week (The subject or subjects under study continued). 5th Week The literary representations of the political discourses and developments in the aftermath of the Civil War. 6th Week Midterm I 7th Week The literary representations of major developments and changes in American domestic and foreign politics during the period from the late nineteenth century to the end of World War II (e.g. political discourses and developments in the 'Gilded Age,' America's European politics prior to World War I, the American politics as regards World War I, The Wilson principles ('points') and America's peace policy, racist politics and discourses in America, women's rights and political discourses, American domestic and/or foreign politics in the 1920s, the economic, social and political impact the 1929 Great Depression, American politics as regards World War II, American racist politics and the Harlem Renaissance, American social politics, and so forth). 8th Week (The subject or subjects under study continued). 9th Week (The subject or subjects under study continued). 10th Week Midterm II 11th Week Literary representations of major developments and changes in American domestic and/or foreign politics during the period from World War II down to the present (e.g. American Cold War policies, McCarthyism and ideological conflicts, The Civil Rights Movement, liberal social and economic policies during the Kennedy era, The Vietnam War and American politics, American social politics, American imperialism, globalization and American politics, American politics and its consequences during the Reagan era, American politics as regards war on terrorism, American politics today, and so forth). 12th Week (The subject or subjects under study continued). 13th Week (The subject or subjects under study continued). 14th Week General revision; closing questions and answers.
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Bertolini, Joseph C. The Serpent Within: Politics, Literature and American Individualism. Lanham: University Press of America, 1997. Gustafson, Thomas. Representative Words: Politics, Literature, and the American Language, 1776-1865. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Oliver, Lawrence J. Brander Matthews, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Politics of American Literature, 1880-1920. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. Stern, Milton R. Contexts for Hawthorne: The Marble Faun and the Politics of Openness and Closure in American Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Maddox, Lucy. Removals: Nineteenth-century American Literature and the Politics of Indian Affairs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Sorkin, Adam J. Politics and the Muse: Studies in the Politics of Recent American Literature. Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1989. Ambrosch, Gerfried. The Poetry of Punk: The Meaning Behind Punk Rock and Hardcore Lyrics. New York: Routledge, 2018. Fahs, Alice. ?The Feminized Civil War: Gender, Northern Popular Literature, and the Memory of the War, 1861-1900.? The Journal of American History, Vol. 85, No. 4 (Mar.1999):1461-1494. James, Jennifer. ?`Civil? War Wounds: William Wells Brown, Violence, and the Domestic Narrative.? African American Review, Vol. 39, No. 1/2 (Spring - Summer, 2005): 39-54. Archer, Jules. The Incredible Sixties: The Stormy Years that Changed America. San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. Young, Elizabeth. ?A Wound of One's Own: Louisa May Alcott's Civil War Fiction.? American Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Sep., 1996): 439-474.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers,Presentation
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 50 Oral Exam 1 15 Attendance 1 10 Total(%) 75 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 75 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 25 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work Preparation for Final exam Course hours Preparation for Midterm exam Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam Homework Total Workload Total Workload / 30 ECTS Credits of the Course 4
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No