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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):

Dr. Öğr. Üy. HATİCE YURTTAŞ

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives:

This course is designed as a general introduction to the English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to Restoration. It encompasses the review of major historico-cultural developments in this long era as well the introduction of canonical literary works both in prose and verse. The course is offered in the form of introductory lectures for each literary and historical period followed by the reading and discussion of individual texts.

Course Content:

General information about the cultural, historical, literary periods of England, major works, periods, writers, genres, ideas and movements. from Anglo-Saxon Period to Restoration

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) To be able to sort the periods of English Literature from the beginning to the Restoration.
2) To be able to express general knowledge about English history and culture.
3) To be able to compare English literary periods according to their characteristics.
4) To be able to recognize important writers and their works in English Literary Periods.
5) To be able to list and identify important literary concepts and types.

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	• Tacitus: Germania • Venerable Bede: Church History of English People
2)	• Anglo-Saxon literary culture • Old English heroic poetry • Old English elegiac poetry and love poems	• Beowulf • Battle of Maldon • The Wanderer • The Seafarer
3)	• Old English religious poetry • Old English prose • Anglo-Saxon riddles	• 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
4)	• The Norman conquest • Medieval thought • Middle English Literature	• Ormulum • Sir Gawin and the Green Knight • Piers Plowman
5)	• Middle English Romance • Middle English prose • Medieval drama	• Malory: Morte d’Arthur • Matter of England • Matter of Greece and Rome • Matter of France • Everyman
6)	• Geoffrey Chaucer	• Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue; • Canterbury Tales: The Knight’s Tale. The Pardoner’s Tale; The Parson’s Tale
7)	• Mid-Term Exam
8)	• Renaissance in England • Reformation in England • Renaissance sonneteers	• Classicism • Humanism • Translations • Sir Thomas Wyatt
9)	• Elizabethan Heroic Poetry • Ovidian mythological poetry	• Chapman: Homer • Spenser: Fairie Queene • Christopher Marlowe: Hero and Leander
10)	• Renaissance literary criticism and its classical heritage • English prose in Renaissance period	• Sydney: A defense of Poesy • Ben Johnson: Ars Poetica (tr.) • Francis Bacon: The Advancement of Learning
11)	• Elizabethan theater • William Shakespeare	• Tragedy: Macbeth • Comedy: Merchant of Venice • History: Julius Caesar • Sonnets
12)	• Tuesday New Year Holiday
13)	• John Donne and his school • Ben Johnson and his school • Andrew Marvell	• The Good Morrow • The Canonization • A Valediction • To His Coy Mistress
14)	• John Milton	• Areopagitica • Paradise Lost
15)	Finals

Sources

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.
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.

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
Program Outcomes
1) Uses academic English language skills effectively.	1	1	1	1	1
2) Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail.	3	3	3	2	1
3) Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features.	3	3	3	2	1
4) Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics.	2	2	2	3	3
5) Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples.				1	1
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.
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.	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.
7)	Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features.
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.
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
Attendance	1	% 25
Quizzes	1	% 25
Midterms	1	% 20
Final	1	% 30
total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 70
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 30
total		% 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	56
Study Hours Out of Class	16	74
Presentations / Seminar	13	13
Homework Assignments	3	3
Final	2	4
Total Workload		150