TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Compulsory Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree With Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	1
SEMESTER	Second Term (Spring)
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Assistant Professor Tarık Tansu Yiğit Assistant Professor Defne Tutan
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to discuss a variety of texts written in the past 150 years on American life and culture, 2) will be able to discuss how authors' views of America are shaped by their own socio-cultural backgrounds, 3) will be able to discuss how their own socio-cultural backgrounds shape their understanding of other cultures, particularly that of America, 4) will be able to attain a critical perspective on cross-cultural communication through the analysis of various texts that concentrate on American history, society, and culture.
MODE OF DELIVERY	E-Learning
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	This course focuses on how American cultures have been represented in a variety of texts, written by Americans themselves and non-Americans. The aim of the course is to enable students to acquire a critical perspective on cross-cultural communication through a comparative analysis of these texts.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction 2nd Week Alexis De Tocqueville, Chapters 8-14 in Democracy in America, Volume II, Book 2 (1835); James Wood, ?Tocqueville in America? in The New Yorker (2010) 3rd Week Knut Hamsun, ?The Cultural Harvest? and ?Conclusion? from The Cultural Life of Modern America (1883); Harald Naess, ?Knut Hamsun and America? in Scandinavian Studies (1967) 4th Week Henry James, ?New York Revisited? and ?New York: Social Notes? from The American Scene (1907); Colm Toibin, ?Introduction: Henry James?s New York? from The New York Stories of Henry James (2005) 5th Week Richard Skues, ?Clark Revisited: Reappraising Freud in America? in After Freud Left (2012); Adam Curtis, The Century of the Self?Part 1: ?Happiness Machines? (documentary series, 2002) 6th Week Presentations + Assignment 1 Due 7th Week James Baldwin, ?Encounter on the Seine,? ?Equal in Paris,? and ?Stranger in the Village? from Notes of a Native Son (1955); Elizabeth Esris, ?Scrutinizing America from Paris? in France Revisited (2020); Suggested: Raoul Peck, I Am Not Your Negro (documentary film, 2016) 8th Week Jean Paul-Sartre, ?Americans and Their Myths? in The Nation (1947); Simone de Beauvoir, ?January 25th, 26th, 27th? and ?February 1st - 4th, 11th, 12th? from America Day by Day (1954) 9th Week Enis Batur: Amerika Büyük Bir Şaka, Sevgili Frank, Ama Ona Ne Kadar Gülebiliriz? (1998) 10th Week Jean Baudrillard, ?Vanishing Point? from America (1986); Slavoj Zizek, ?Welcome to the Desert of the Real? from The Universal Exception (2006) 11th Week Presentations + Assignment 2 Due 12th Week Revision
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Course reading materials will be made available through MOODLE. Batur, Enis. Amerika Büyük Bir Şaka, Sevgili Frank, Ama Ona Ne Kadar Gülebiliriz. İstanbul: Remzi, 2014.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Presentation,Project,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Assignment 2 30 Attendance 1 10 Presentation of Article 2 20 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 Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 5 70 Preparation for Final exam 1 10 10 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 3 3 Homework 2 30 60 Article Presentation 2 25 50 Weekly Articles and Resource Research 14 5 70 Total Workload 305 Total Workload / 30 10,16 ECTS Credits of the Course 10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No