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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:

ELL107

Course Name:

Survey of English Literature 1

Semester:

Fall

Course Credits:

ECTS

Language of instruction:

English

Course Condition:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Type of course:

Compulsory Courses

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:

Dr. Öğr. Üy. HATİCE YURTTAŞ

Course Lecturer(s):

HATİCE YURTTAŞ

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives:

The course aims to acquaint students with major historical and cultural developments of England from ancient times to the Victorian period. Students are expected to understand the defining characteristics of literary works from each period and analyze canonical works in relation to their cultural contexts.

Course Content:

This course is designed as a general introduction to English language and literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Victorian Period. It reviews major historical and cultural developments and introduces canonical literary works in both prose and verse from this era. The course is offered as introductory lectures on the Middle Ages; Medieval literature; the historical, cultural, and literary context of the Renaissance and the long eighteenth century (Restoration, Augustan, and the eighteenth century in general); and the Romantic Period. The course also aims to strengthen students` analytical reading, critical thinking, and discussion skills through contextual approaches to canonical texts. Through close reading, class discussion, and critical analysis, students will investigate the historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts of English literature`s development. The course also develops students` analytical reading, critical thinking, and oral communication.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Demonstrate knowledge of the historical development of the English language and literature
2) Demonstrate knowledge of literary periods and canonical texts in the history of English Literature
3) Explain the Anglo-Saxon period and medieval thought and literature and the transition from medieval thought to the Renaissance movement
4) Demonstrate knowledge of the historical, cultural, and literary context of Renaissance literature
5) Explain the historical, cultural, and literary context of the Restoration and the Augustan Age
6) Explain the historical, cultural, and literary context of the long eighteenth century and the Romantic period

Course Flow Plan

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	• Introduction to English Language, Literature and the literary periods • Historical and Linguistic background of the Old English	Venerable Bede: Church History of English People
2)	• Anglo-Saxon literary culture • Old English heroic poetry: • Beowulf	• The Wanderer The Wife’s Lament
3)	Romance: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue
4)	The sonnet: Sir Thomas Wyatt: “The long love that in my thought doth harbor” Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: “Love, that doth reign and live within my thought”	Sir Thomas Wyatt: “The long love that in my thought doth harbor” Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: “Love, that doth reign and live within my thought”
5)	Sir Phillip Sidney: The Defense of Poesy and Astrophil and Stella	Astrophil and Stella
6)	William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer`s day?" Othello
7)	Midterm
8)	Thomas Hobbes: Leviathan
9)	John Milton: Paradise Lost
10)	Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes
11)	Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Women
12)	“Preface to Lyrical Ballads” (1798) I walked lonely as a Cloud
13)

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	1. Greenblatt, Stephen, gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volume A, Volume B, and Volume C 2. The Routledge History of Literature in English: Chapter 1: THE BEGINNINGS OF ENGLISH: Old and Middle English 600–1485 Chapter 2: THE RENAISSANCE: 1485–1660 Chapter 3: RESTORATION TO ROMANTICISM: 1660–1789 Chapter 4: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD: 1789–1832
References:	Greenblatt, Stephen, gen. ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volume A, Volume B, and Volume C

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5	6
Program Outcomes
1) Uses academic English language skills effectively.	3	3	3	3	3	3
2) Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail.	3	3	3	2	3	3
3) Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features.	3	3	3	3	3	3
4) Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics.	3	3	3	3	3	3
5) Learns about the correct pronunciation of English words
6) Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples.	1	1	1	1	1	1
7) Comprehends the modern language and linguistic theories in a comprehensive way.
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) Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features.
13) Have sufficient knowledge of a second foreign language from other European languages
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.
16) Acquires awareness of lifelong learning, the ability to access information, follow developments in science and technology, and constantly renew oneself.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Average	3 Highest

	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)	Learns about the correct pronunciation of English words
6)	Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples.	3
7)	Comprehends the modern language and linguistic theories in a comprehensive way.
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)	Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features.
13)	Have sufficient knowledge of a second foreign language from other European languages
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.
16)	Acquires awareness of lifelong learning, the ability to access information, follow developments in science and technology, and constantly renew oneself.

Assessment & Grading

Değerlendirme Yöntemleri ve Kriterleri	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Midterms	1	% 40
Final	1	% 60
total		% 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	12	36
Study Hours Out of Class	13	52
Midterms	2	4
Final	1	2
Total Workload		94