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Program of American Culture and Literature (English)

ACL174

THE SHORT STORY

Course Code
ACL174
Semester
-
Theory+Practice
3 + 0
ECTS
4
Course TypeElective Course
Course LevelBachelor's Degree
Year of Study-
Semester-
ECTS4
Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

  1. Discuss short story content, structure, and style in depth.
  2. Apply techniques of literary analysis and interpretation
  3. Produce written work in the form of response portfolio and/or formal paragraphs.
Mode of DeliveryFace to face
PrerequisitesNo
Recommended Optional Programme Components
Course DescriptionThis course is designed to enhance students' appreciation of the short story as a literary form and to trace its development from its beginnings to the present.
Course Contents
WEEK TOPICS
1st Week Course Organization and Introduction, Elements of the Short Story
2nd Week Elements of the short story cont. Romanticism, Washington Irving "Rip Van Winkle"
3rd Week Dark Romanticism, Nathaniel Hawthorne "Young Goodman Brown"
4th Week Realism / Early Feminist Realism, Charlotte Perkins Gilman "The Yellow Wallpaper"
5th Week Naturalism, Jack London "To Build a Fire"
6th Week Modernism, F. Scott Fitzgerald "Bernice Bobs Her Hair"
7th Week Harlem Renaissance, Langston Hughes "The Blues I'm Playing"
8th Week Midterm Examination
9th Week Southern Gothic, William Faulkner "A Rose for Emily"
10th Week Social Realism, Richard Wright "The Man Who Was Almost a Man"
11th Week Civil Rights Era / African American Fiction, James Baldwin "Going to Meet the Man"
12th Week Dystopia and Social Critique, Kurt Vonnegut "Harrison Bergeron", Ray Bradbury "The Pedestrian"
13th Week Native American Fiction, Leslie Marmon Silko "The Man to Send Rain Clouds"
14th Week Multicultural Contemporary Fiction, Jhumpa Lahiri "Mrs. Sen's"
15th Week REVISION
16th Week REVISION
Recommended or Required ReadingCassill, R.V., ed. The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction. 5th ed. Norton, 1995.

Charters, Ann, ed. The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.

Ford, John, and Marjorie Ford. A Web of Stories: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Prentice, 1998.

Gioia, Dana, and R S. Gwynn. The Art of the Short Story. New York: Pearson Longman, 2006.

Kennedy, X. J., and Dana Gioia. Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Harper, 1995.

Lauter, Paul, et al., eds. The Heath Anthology of American Literature. 3rd ed. 2 vols. Heath, 1997.
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
  • Lecture
  • Discussion
  • Questions/Answers
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Quantity Percentage (%)
Mid-term 1 40
Assignment 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
Individual or group work 14 2 28
Preparation for Final exam 1 12 12
Course hours 14 3 42
Preparation for Midterm exam 1 10 10
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam 1 2 2
Homework 1 12 12
Article Presentation
Article 1 10 10
Total Work Load118
Total Work Load / 30 (h)3.93
ECTS Credit of the Course4
Language of InstructionEnglish
Work Placement(s)No

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