Information Of Programmes

FACULTY OF LETTERS & SCIENCE / İNG 302 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Code: İNG 302

Course Title: ENGLISH POETRY AND PROSE IV

Theoretical+Practice: 3+0

ECTS: 6

Year/Semester of Study

3 / Spring 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

İSMAİL SERDAR ALTAÇ (serdaraltac@nevsehir.edu.tr)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

None

Objectives of the Course

The aim of this course is to equip students with the knowledge, skills, and competence to examine the historical, cultural, and literary developments of English poetry and prose from the 1920s to the present through selected works of relevant poets and writers.

Learning Outcomes		PO	MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1	can analyze the relationship between 20th-century and contemporary British history, culture, and literature.	PO-	Examination
LO-2	can identify thematic and technical innovations in twentieth-century and contemporary British poetry through selected works.	PO-	Examination
LO-3	can compare the political works of the 1930s with the Neo-Romantic movement of the 1940s in terms of style and technique.	PO-	Examination
LO-4	can evaluate the works of the 1950s Movement poets, such as Philip Larkin, in terms of thematic and technical features.	PO-	Examination
LO-5	can analyze the poetry of the 1980s and 1990s in terms of historical, social, political, and literary characteristics through the works of poets such as D. Bush, P. Durcan, S. Armitage, and L.K. Johnson.	PO-	Examination
LO-6	can interpret the works of female poets such as C. A. Duffy, J. Kay, G. Nichols, N. Ni Dhomhnaill, and L. Greenlaw.	PO-	Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
In this course, twentieth-century and contemporary English poetry and prose are examined and interpreted within the framework of historical and cultural events, beginning with English Modernist poetry. Twentieth-century and contemporary English poetry are analyzed in their historical, cultural, and literary contexts. The course explores movements, themes, and developments in modern and postmodern English poetry in terms of form, content, and the philosophical ideas of the period.
Weekly Course Content
Week	Subject	Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1	Introduction to Modernism	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
2	Analysis and discussion of Modernist Movement in British poetry with reference to poets such as E. Pound and T. S. Eliot and their poetry	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
3	Analysis and discussion of Imagism and selected Imagist poets	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
4	Analysis and discussion of Modernism and selected Modernist poets	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
5	Analysis and discussion of the Thirties, The Oxford School and Political Poetry	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
6	Analysis and discussion of the poetry of the Forties, Neo-Romanticism	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
7	Analysis and discussion of the poetry of the Fifties, the Movement poets such as P. Larkin	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
8	mid-term exam
9	Poetry of the 1960s and 70s, Postmodernism	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
10	T. Hughes and S. Heaney	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
11	Woman poets	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
12	S. Armitage C. A. Duffy, J. Kay, L. K. Johnson	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
13	Contemporary Irish Poetry	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
14	Contemporary Scottish poetry	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
15	Overall Evaluation	Lecture, Discussion, Question and Answer
16	final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1	The Norton Anthology of English Literature.
2	James Acheson ve Romana Huk. Contemporary British Poetry.
Required Course instruments and materials
The texts selected by the teaching staff.

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment	Week	Hours	Weight(%)
mid-term exam		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		2	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	3	6	18
mid-term exam	1	1	1
Own study for final exam	4	5	20
final exam	2	1	2
			0
			0
Total work load;			167