Week |
Subject |
Related Preparation |
1) |
• Introduction to English Language, Literature and the literary periods
• Historical and Linguistic background of the Old English
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• Tacitus: Germania
• Venerable Bede: Church History of English People
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2) |
• Anglo-Saxon literary culture
• Old English heroic poetry
• Old English elegiac poetry and love poems
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• Beowulf
• Battle of Maldon
• The Wanderer
• The Seafarer
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3) |
• Old English religious poetry
• Old English prose
• Anglo-Saxon riddles
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• Caedmon and his school: Gensis; Exodus
• Cynewulf and his school: The Fates of Apostles; The Ascension
• Alfred The Great: Preface to Pastoral Care
• Alfred The Great: Consolation of Philosophy (tr.)
• Alfric
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4) |
• The Norman conquest
• Medieval thought
• Middle English Literature
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• Ormulum
• Sir Gawin and the Green Knight
• Piers Plowman
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5) |
• Middle English Romance
• Middle English prose
• Medieval drama
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• Malory: Morte d’Arthur
• Matter of England
• Matter of Greece and Rome
• Matter of France
• Everyman
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6) |
• Geoffrey Chaucer |
• Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue;
• Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Tale. The Pardoner’s Tale; The Parson’s Tale
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7) |
• Mid-Term Exam |
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8) |
• Renaissance in England
• Reformation in England
• Renaissance sonneteers
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• Classicism
• Humanism
• Translations
• Sir Thomas Wyatt
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9) |
• Elizabethan Heroic Poetry
• Ovidian mythological poetry
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• Chapman: Homer
• Spenser: Fairie Queene
• Christopher Marlowe: Hero and Leander
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10) |
• Renaissance literary criticism and its classical heritage
• English prose in Renaissance period
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• Sydney: A defense of Poesy
• Ben Johnson: Ars Poetica (tr.)
• Francis Bacon: The Advancement of Learning
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11) |
• Elizabethan theater
• William Shakespeare
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• Tragedy: Macbeth
• Comedy: Merchant of Venice
• History: Julius Caesar
• Sonnets
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12) |
• Tuesday New Year Holiday |
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13) |
• John Donne and his school
• Ben Johnson and his school
• Andrew Marvell
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• The Good Morrow
• The Canonization
• A Valediction
• To His Coy Mistress
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14) |
• John Milton |
• Areopagitica
• Paradise Lost
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15) |
Finals |
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Course Notes / Textbooks: |
Greenblatt, Stephen, gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 9th ed. Vol. A. Norton, 2012.
Greenfield, Stanley B. and Daniel G. Galder. A New Critical History of Old English Literature. New York UP, 1986.
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References: |
Greenblatt, Stephen, gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 9th ed. Vol. A. Norton, 2012.
Greenfield, Stanley B. and Daniel G. Galder. A New Critical History of Old English Literature. New York UP, 1986.
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Program Outcomes |
Level of Contribution |
1) |
Uses academic English language skills effectively. |
3 |
2) |
Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail. |
3 |
3) |
Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features. |
3 |
4) |
Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics. |
3 |
5) |
Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples. |
2 |
6) |
Comprehends the modern language and linguistic theories in a comprehensive way. |
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7) |
Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features. |
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8) |
Evaluates the history of world civilization from the cultural and historical perspective. |
2 |
9) |
To be able to translate English to Turkish and Turkish to English in different text types. |
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10) |
Apply contemporary teaching methods and techniques related to teaching English as a foreign language. |
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11) |
Develops course materials related to teaching English as a foreign language. |
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12) |
Uses a second foreign language at B1 General Level at least according to the European Language Portfolio criterion. |
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13) |
Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the basic level of European Computer Driving License. |
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14) |
Applies basic research methods and theories of social sciences. |
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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. |
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