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Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code:

ELL002

Course Name:

American Poetry

Semester:

Spring

Course Credits:

ECTS

Language of instruction:

English

Course Condition:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Type of course:

Departmental Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

Face to face

Course Coordinator:

Araş. Gör. BURAK ASLAN

Course Lecturer(s):

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives:	To recognize the features of the main movements of American poetry, to analyze the poetry of these movements, to compare the movements with each other.
Course Content:	Examination of the main poets and poetry movements of American poetry from Anne Bradstreet to the present with selected examples

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Defines features of American poetry
2) Examines the poems in depth according to the characteristics of the movements they are influenced by
3) Express the similarities and differences of the currents

Course Flow Plan

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	The development of American poetry, movements and periods
2)	The development of American poetry, movements and periods
3)	colonial period
4)	Analysis of AnneBradstreet's poem On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet
5)	Analysis of Edward Taylor's poem Upon What Base?
6)	romantic period
7)	Analysis of William Cullen Bryant's To a Waterfowl
8)	Midterm
9)	Post-Civil War poets: Examining Walt Whitman's Song of Myself and Emily Dickinson's Like a Look of Agony
10)	modernism, imageism
11)	Analysis of Edwin Arlington Robinson's poem Richard Cory and Robert Frost's The Road Not Taken
12)	Analysis of Ezra Pound's A Pact and William Carlos Williams' The Red Wheelbarrow
13)	Harlem Renaissance, post 1950
14)	Final

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Peter Smith. Early American Poetry: A Compilation of the Titles of Volumes of Verse. Gloucester,Mass, 1965.
American Poetry: The Nineteenth Century. New York, N.Y., 1993
Baker, Peter. Onward : Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. N.Y.: Peter Lang, 1996
Beach, Christopher. ABC of Influence : Ezra Pound and the Remaking of American Poetic Tradition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992
Breslin, Paul. The Psycho-Political Muse : American Poetry since the Fifties. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987

References:

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes	1	2	3
Program Outcomes
1) Uses academic English language skills effectively.
2) Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail.
3) Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features.
4) Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics.
5) Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples.
6) Comprehends the modern language and linguistic theories in a comprehensive way.
7) Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features.	3	3	3
8) Evaluates the history of world civilization from the cultural and historical perspective.
9) To be able to translate English to Turkish and Turkish to English in different text types.
10) Apply contemporary teaching methods and techniques related to teaching English as a foreign language.
11) Develops course materials related to teaching English as a foreign language.
12) Uses a second foreign language at B1 General Level at least according to the European Language Portfolio criterion.
13) Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the basic level of European Computer Driving License.
14) Applies basic research methods and theories of social sciences.
15) Takes responsibilities by adopting fundamental universal values and developing a prudent, respectful, open to communication and learning attitude towards different language, race, gender, religion and social class groups.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Average	3 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Uses academic English language skills effectively.
2)	Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail.
3)	Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features.
4)	Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics.
5)	Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples.
6)	Comprehends the modern language and linguistic theories in a comprehensive way.
7)	Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features.	3
8)	Evaluates the history of world civilization from the cultural and historical perspective.
9)	To be able to translate English to Turkish and Turkish to English in different text types.
10)	Apply contemporary teaching methods and techniques related to teaching English as a foreign language.
11)	Develops course materials related to teaching English as a foreign language.
12)	Uses a second foreign language at B1 General Level at least according to the European Language Portfolio criterion.
13)	Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the basic level of European Computer Driving License.
14)	Applies basic research methods and theories of social sciences.
15)	Takes responsibilities by adopting fundamental universal values and developing a prudent, respectful, open to communication and learning attitude towards different language, race, gender, religion and social class groups.

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Midterms	1	% 50
Final	1	% 50
total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
total		% 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities	Number of Activities	Preparation for the Activity	Spent for the Activity Itself	Completing the Activity Requirements	Workload
Course Hours	14	0	3		42
Study Hours Out of Class	16	0	5		80
Midterms	1	0	2		2
Final	1	0	2		2
Total Workload					126