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Program of American Culture and Literature (English)

ACL115

ENGLISH CULTURE AND LITERATURE

Course Code
ACL115
Semester
First Term (Fall)
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
5
Course TypeCompulsory Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study1
SemesterFirst Term (Fall)
ECTS5
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Identify the ideas and themes that underlie major works of English Literature,
  2. Analyze and discuss literary texts with reference to cultural, political, and historical contexts.
  3. Survey the major periods and movements in English Literature from the Middle Ages to the present day.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course DescriptionThe course aims to give students increased insight into and knowledge of English Culture and Literature. It introduces students to historical, political, literary, and religious contexts ranging from the Middle Ages to the present day by analyzing selected literary texts.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Introduction
2nd Week Old English Period: Beowulf
3rd Week Middle English Period: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Everyman
4th Week The Middle Ages: Chaucer - The Canterbury Tales
5th Week The Sixteenth Century: Edmund Spenser: Sonnets 34, 54 - Christopher Marlowe: "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" - Shakespeare: Sonnets 3, 18, 130
6th Week The Seventeenth Century: John Donne: "The Flea" - Robert Herrick: "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" - Andrew Marvell: "To His Coy Mistress"
7th Week The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century: Jonathan Swift: "A Modest Proposal" - John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress - Alexander Pope: from The Rape of the Lock
8th Week Midterm
9th Week The Romantic Period: William Blake: "The Chimney Sweeper" - William Wordsworth: from Preface to Lyrical Ballads - "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" - John Keats: "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
10th Week The Romantic Period: Rudyard Kipling: "The White Man's Burden" - John Stuart Mill: from "On Liberty" - Alfred Tennyson: "Break, Break, Break" - Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess" - Matthew Arnold: "Dover Beach"
11th Week Quiz
12th Week The Twentieth Century: Rupert Brooke: "The Soldier" - Wilfred Owen: "Dulce Et Decorum Est" - "Disabled"
13th Week The Twentieth Century: W.H. Auden: "Musee des Beaux Arts" - T. S. Eliot: from "Tradition and the Individual Talent" - The Hollow Men
14th Week General Review
Recommended or Required ReadingAbrams, et al., editors. The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 7th ed. Norton & Co., 2000.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
  • Questions/Answers
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 40
Quiz 1 20
Total(%) 60
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40
Total(%) 100
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for Quiz 1 10 10
Individual or group work 14 3 42
Preparation for Final exam 1 21 21
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 20 20
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 3 3
Homework 2 4 8
Quiz 1 2 2
Total Work Load150
Total Work Load / 30 (h)5
ECTS Credit of the Course5
Language of InstructionEnglish
Work Placement(s)No

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