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FACULTY OF LETTERS & SCIENCE / İNG 205 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Code: İNG 205 Course Title: AMERICAN CULTURE AND HISTORY I Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 ECTS: 5
Year/Semester of Study 2 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Compulsory
Department ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer ERCAN KAÇMAZ (ercan@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction English
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
This course aims to teach early American Literature, starting from the colonial period until the end of the 19th century. The basic concepts, movements and teachings put forward by writers, poets and other intellectuals who reflect the literary and intellectual life of the period in which they lived, under main headings such as the colonial period, nationalization, the enlightenment period and the romantic period, are examined in the light of the social and historical process of the period.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 can explain basic things in American Culture. PO-
Examination
LO-2 PO-
Examination
LO-3 PO-
Examination
LO-4 PO-
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Purificationists, Immigration, Settlement, Frontier Movement, Slavery, Civil War, Industrialization, Great Bottleneck, I. and II. This course, which deals with American myths through a chronological analysis of cultural and historical phenomena such as World War II and Vietnam, will discuss the formation of American national character and American ideals such as democracy, freedom, equality and individualism in different geographical conditions than other nations.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 National Beginnings and the Colonial Era: Captain John Smith, A Description of New England Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
2 National Beginnings: Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
3 National Beginnings: Washington Irving, Rip Van Winkle Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
4 National Beginnings: James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
5 National Beginnings: Edgar Allan Poe, Tell Tale Heart ve Raven Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
6 National Beginnings: Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
7 Romanticism and Reason: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self Reliance Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
8 mid-term exam
9 Romanticism and Reason: Henry David Thoreau, Civil Disobedience Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
10 Romanticism and Reason: Herman Melville, Moby-Dick Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
11 Romanticism and Reason: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
12 Romanticism and Reason: Emily Dickinson, I'm nobody! Who are you? Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
13 Romanticism and Reason: Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
14 An overview Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
15 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Gray, R. (2011). A History of American Literature. 2nd Edition. Wiley-Blackwell.
2 Bode, Carl (1995). Highlights of American Literature
3 Rozakis, Laurie (1995). Instant American Literature
Required Course instruments and materials
Books

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 8 1 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 16 1 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 3 14 42
       b) Search in internet/Library 3 14 42
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 7 1 7
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 7 1 7
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 142