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)	Professor Himmet Umunç
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) will be able to discuss contemporary critical ideas and their applications.
MODE OF DELIVERY	E-Learning
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None
COURSE DEFINITION	An introduction to contemporary literary and cultural theories. Particular attention will be paid to the socio-historical contexts in which these theories were produced, and their applicability to both literary and cultural products.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week General introduction: the concept and theory of culture; late nineteenth and early twentieth-century developments in social sciences and linguistics; Saussure?s linguistic theory. 2nd Week Formalist Criticism. The New Criticism. 3rd Week Structuralism and Structuralist Criticism. 4th Week Post-Structuralism and Post-Structuralist (Deconstructive) Criticism. 5th Week Psychoanalytical Criticism 6th Week Midterm Examination I 7th Week The Reception Theory and Reader-Response Criticism. 8th Week Hermeneutic Criticism. 9th Week Feminist Criticism; Marxist Criticism 10th Week Ecocriticism; Cultural Theory and Criticism. 11th Week Post-Colonialism and Post-Colonial Criticism. 12th Week General revision
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Newton, K.M., ed. Twentieth Century Literary Theory: A Reader. 2nd ed. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Newton, K.M. Theory into Practice: A Reader in Modern Literary Criticism. London: Macmillan, 1992. Harland, Richard. 1999. Literary Theory from Plato to Barthes: An Introductory History. Houndsmill: Macmillan, 1999. Adams, Hazard, ed. Critical Theory since Plato. Rev. ed. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992. Eagleton, Terry. Literary Theory: An Introduction. Oxford: Blackwell, 1995. Webster, Roger. Studying Literary Theory: An Introduction. London: Edward Arnold, 1992. Selden, Raman and Peter Widdowson, ed. A Reader?s Guide to Contemporary Literary Theory. 3rd Ed. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1993. Jefferson, Ann, and David Robey, eds. Modern Literary Theory: A Comparative Introduction. London: B.T. Batsford, 1986. Booker, Keith M. A Practical Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism. New York: Longman, 1996. Machor, James L., and Philip Goldstein, ed. Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies. New York: Routledge, 2000. Armitage, Shelley. Women?s Work: Essays in Cultural Studies. Locust Hill Literary Studies; No. 15. West Cornwall: Locust Hill, 1995. O?Sullivan, Tim. Key Concepts in Communication and Cultural Studies. London: Routledge, 2001. Hartley, John, et al. ed. American Cultural Studies: A Reader. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2000. Grossberg, Lawrence, et al., ed. Cultural Studies. New York: Routledge, 1992. Barker, Chris. Cultural Studies: Theory and Practice. London: Sage, 2000. Storey, John, ed. What is Cultural Studies? A Reader. London: Arnold, 1996. Franklin, Sarah. Off-Centre: Feminism and Cultural Studies. London. Harper Collins Academic, 1991. Childs, Peter. An Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory. London: Prentice Hall, 1997. Williams, Patrick, and Laura Chrisman, ed. Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader. New York: Columbia UP, 1994. Ashcroft, Bill. Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts. London: Routledge, 2002. Branch, Michael P. and Scott Slovic, ed. The ISLE Reader : Ecocriticism, 1993-2003. Athens: U of Georgia P, 2003. Armbruster, Karla, ed. Beyond Nature Writing: Expanding the Boundaries of Ecocriticism. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2001. Coupe, Laurence, and Jonathan Bate, ed. The Green Studies Reader: From Romanticism and Ecocriticism. London: Routledge, 2000. Goodbody, Axel, and Catherine E. Rigby, ed. Ecocritical Theory: New European Approaches. Charlottesville: U of Virginia P, 2011. Rosendale, Steven. The Greening of Literary Scholarship: Literature, Theory, and the Environment. Iowa City, IA: U of Iowa P, 2002. Kauffman, Linda. Gender and Theory: Dialogues on Feminist Criticism. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990. Showalter, Elaine. A Literature of Their Own: From Charlotte Bronte to Doris Lessing. London: Virago, 2005. Hampton, Christopher. The Ideology of the Text. Buckingham: Open UP, 1990. Elliott, Anthony, ed. A Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory. London: Routledge, 2014. Barry, Peter. Beginning Theory: An Introduction to Literary and Cultural Theory. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1995. Rajan, Gita. and Radhika Mohanram. Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts: Theory and Criticism. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1995.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Presentation,Project,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 40 Attendance 1 10 Total(%) 50 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 3 3 Preparation for Quiz Individual or group work 14 5 70 Preparation for Final exam 1 25 25 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 25 25 Laboratory (including preparation) Final exam 1 3 3 Homework Weekly Articles and Resource Research 14 10 140 Total Workload 308 Total Workload / 30 10,26 ECTS Credits of the Course 10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	English
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No