Istanbul Kültür University ECTS Guide 2008/2009 Department of ...

Istanbul Kültür University ECTS Guide 2008/2009 

Department of English Language and Literature 

Address: Ataköy Kampüsü, Bakırköy 34156 ISTANBUL /TURKEY 

Telephone: +90 212 498 41 41 

Fax: +90 212 661 92 74 

Web: http://eng.iku.edu.tr/iku_eng_department.asp?department=englang 

http://fen-edebiyat.iku.edu.tr/eng/TANITIM.htm 

Head of Department: Prof. Dr. Nebile Direkçigil 

Academic Staff 

Prof. Dr. Nebile DIREKÇIGIL n.direkcigil@iku.edu.tr 4330 

Assist. Prof. Dr. Esin AKALIN e.akalin@iku.edu.tr 4332 

Lecturer Dr. Ayşem SEVAL a.seval@iku.edu.tr 4334 

Lecturer Dr. Anthony Francis LAKE a.lake@iku.edu.tr 4339 

Lecturer Derya ALTINMAKAS d.altinmakas@iku.edu.tr 4336 

Lecturer Pınar BESEN pinar.besen@lycos.com ---- 

Research Assist. Eleni ÖZVERAK e.ozverak@iku.edu.tr 4340 

ECTS co-ordinator: Prof. Dr. Latif TOPAKTAŞ 

Phone: +90 212 498 43 50 

Fax: +90 212 661 92 74 

E-mail: 

l.topaktas@iku.edu.tr 

Erasmus co-ordinator: Ayşem Seval 

Phone: +90 212 498 43 34 

Fax: +90 212 661 92 74 

E-mail: 

aseval@iku.edu.tr 

General Description of the Department 

Studying the literature and culture of another society ultimately enhances the individuals' 

perception and understanding of their own world and leads them to adopt a critical attitude 

which might help to change or improve it. In the IKU Department of English Language and 

Literature, founded in the academic year 1999-2000, English Language and Literature is 

studied from its beginnings to the present. The aims of the programme are: to encourage a 

critical engagement with the social, historical and cultural contexts of literature; to improve 

skills in oral and written communication; and to develop an understanding of translation skills 

in rendering from English to Turkish, and Turkish to English. 

The English-medium programme prepares students to pursue further academic study as well 

as careers: in teaching, in secondary and higher education; in the media and communications; 

and in business. 

Teaching and Learning Methods 

Lectures, discussions, written work, and oral presentations. 

Methods of Assessment 

Students are assessed on the basis of written and oral examinations, and class presentations.

General Description of Programmes at the Department 

The English department offers courses at undergraduate and M.A. levels. Undergraduate 

students must successfully complete 132 credits (240 ECTS). Students whose level of English 

is not adequate have to attend the Mandatory Preparatory English Programme for one 

academic year. 

The department of English Language and Literature offers a minor programme with three 

options: English Literature; Translation: English to Turkish; Turkish to English;Written and 

Oral Communication Skills. Students whose GPA, is 2.50 and above can apply for a minor 

programme earliest in their 3 rd latest in their 6 th semester. Those who wish to complete the 

minor programme should fulfil a minimum of 18 credits. Our students wishing to apply for a 

minor programme at another department should fulfil the same requirements. 

The M.A. programme in English Language and Literature focuses on writers and their 

historical contexts and theories of literature and culture. M.A. candidates, in their first year, 

should attend postgraduate seminars (24 credits/ 60 ECTS) and submit a dissertation at the 

end of the following year. 

Course Code ENL 111 

Course Title 

English Poetry Before Chaucer 

Semester(s) offered Fall 

Language of Course English 

Lecturer(s) 

Anthony Lake 

Pre-requisit(ies) 

Co –requisit(ies) 

Credit Value 3 

ECTS Value 3 

Duration of Course One semester 

Total Student StudyTime 45 class hours 

Objectives 

The course offers students an introduction to and detailed 

study of English Poetry from Beowulf to Chaucer, exploring 

themes such as genre and verse form, paganism and 

Christianity, Kingship and War, and translation 

Syllabus 

Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Geoffrey 

Chaucer: The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale 

Intended Learning Outcomes The course provides students with a detailed introduction to 

and study of selected poetry by poets from Whitman to the 

present. Poems will be considered in relation to their 

historical, social and cultural contexts, and the course will 

also provide students with the opportunity to develop further 

their skills of close reading and critical analysis of poetry. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods Lectures and class group discussion 

Assignments 

Examination 

One Mid Term and Final Examination and Class 

Participation 

Assessment Mid Term 40%, Final 40%, Class Participation 20% 

Reading List


Course Title 

History of British Civilisation I 


Medium 

English 

Lecturer(s) 

Dr. Ayşem Seval aseval@iku.edu.tr 


None 


None 



Duration of Course 15 weeks 

Total Student StudyTime 150 hours including lectures 

Objectives 

This course aims to examine the cultural structuring of 

British society from the Old English Period to the 

seventeenth century in the light of social and political 

developments. 

Syllabus The cultural, economic, social and political 

developments of the following periods: 

• Pre-historic England 

• Early Middle Ages 

• High Middle Ages 

• Late Middle Ages 

• Renaissance 

Intended Learning Outcomes --- 

Learning/ Teaching Methods 

Lectures and discussions intend to familiarise the students 

with the cultural, social, economic and political background 

in which the literary works are created. 

Assignments --- 

Examination 

Quizzes, one midterm, one end-of-term written exam 

Assessment Midterm 30 % 

Quizzes 20 % 

Final Exam 50 % 

Reading List --- 


Course Title 

Approaching Literary Texts I 


Medium 

English 

Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 




Total Student Study Time 150 hours including lectures 

Objectives 

The objective of this course is to determine the 

distinguishing characteristics of poetry and to develop the 

critical and scholarly approach to be adopted in the act of 

reading by focusing on the various elements of poetry in 

chosen poems. 

Syllabus 

Each week an element of poetry such as form and structure,




Examination 

tone and diction, imagery, symbol and allusion etc. is 

introduced and analysed in various poems. 

Lectures and discussions aim to familiarise the students 

with various components of poetry and encourage them to 

analyse how each component is significant in terms of the 

overall effect of the work. 

Quizzes and/or assignments, one midterm, one end-of-term 

written exam 


Quizzes and/or assignments 30 % 




Course Title 

Oral Communication Skills I 

Semester(s) offered First 


Lecturer(s) 

Derya Altınmakas d.altinmakas@iku.edu.tr 


None 


None 





Objectives 

This course aims to improve spoken language skills to be 

employed in the academic and daily use of English. 

Syllabus 

• Role-plays 

• Steps of getting prepared for presentations + using 

visual aids 

• Solo and Group Presentations 

• Public speech techniques 

• Classroom discussions 

• Phonetic Alphabet 

• Verbal games 

Intended Learning Outcomes By the end of this course students are expected to be able to 

use their linguistic skills effectively in various contexts. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods Class presentations, workshops and group work 

Assignments 

none 

Examination 

One midterm exam, One Final Exam, Participation 

Assessment 

• 40% Midterm Exam (Solo Presentations) 

• 40% Final Exam (Group Presentations) 

• 20% Attendance + Participation in class activities 

Reading List


Course Title 

Written Communication Skills I 



Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 




Total Student StudyTime 45 class hours + students’ self study 

Objectives 

This course aims to: 

• familiarise students with the basic steps of academic 

writing which will help them learn generating ideas 

and organising these ideas in paragraphs which will 

later enable them to construct well structured essays. 

• introduce various paragraph types that are used in 

writing assignments and essays. 

Syllabus 

• Pre-writing techniques (brainstorming methodstopic 

sentence/controlling idea-unity/coherence) 

• Paragraph Writing 

• Descriptive paragraph 

• Narrative paragraph 

• Expository paragraph 

• Cause/Effect paragraph 

• Compare/Contrast paragraph 

Intended Learning Outcomes By the end of the course, students are expected to write well 

organised and structured paragraphs as a starting point of 

writing essays. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods Providing ‘model’ paragraphs taken from various resources, 

analysing and discussing the writing process of each kind of 

paragraph, and designing a variety of group, pair and 

individual writing tasks. 

Assignments 

Writing tasks on selected topics in relation with the course 

syllabus 

Examination 

One midterm exam, assignments, one final exam 

Assessment 

• 30% Midterm Exam 

• 40% Final Exam 

• 20% Assignments and Writing tasks 

Reading List 

Material Pack


Course Title 

Renaissance Literature 

Semester(s) offered Second 


Lecturer(s) 

Assist. Prof. Dr. Esin Akalın 


None 


None 




Total Student StudyTime 160 hours, including lectures and class discussions. 

Objectives 

• To analyse and evaluate historical, social and literary 

factors that helped shape European Renaissance 

• To study poetry, prose, narrative and drama of the 

early modern period in England: The English 

Renaissance 

Syllabus 

• European Renaissance: Exploration, discovery, 

commerce, colonization; humanism, neoplatonism, 

‘universal man’; Petrarch, Castigliogne, Erasmus, 

Machiavelli 

• English Renaissance: Intellectual, political literary 

contexts 

• Caxton and the printing press; Tyndale’s New 

Testament; Tottel’s Miscellany, Arthur Golding’s 

translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses 

• English Humanists: Sir Thomas More; Sir Thomas 

Hoby; 

• English Court Poets: Sir Thomas Wyatt; Earl of 

Surrey; Sir Philip Sidney 

• Pastoral Poetry: Edmund Spenser; Christopher 

Marlowe 

• Shakespearean Sonnets 

• Elizabethan Drama: Christopher Marlowe 

Intended Learning Outcomes Upon completion of this course, students will have an 

awareness of the historical, intellectual, societal and cultural 

contexts of the early modern England, a period referred to 

as the English Renaissance. Students will analyze, interpret 

and discuss a wide range of texts from the sixteenth and 

early seventeenth centuries across a variety of genres in 

English literature. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods To introduce students to ways in which literary texts must 

be related to history and culture of the period; to develop an 

understanding of key events, issues, themes and concepts of 

language and rhetoric that characterize Renaissance 

Literature. The pattern of teaching will be based on formal 

lectures and class discussions. 

Assignments 

Examination 

1 Mid-Term Exam, Quizzes, Assisgnment and 1 Final Exam 

Assessment • Mid Term: 30% 

• Quizzes : 15% 

• Assignment: 5%

Reading List 

• Final: 50% 

Selected poems/sonnets from Queen Elizabeth I, Sir 

Thomas Wyatt and Earl of Surrey, Sir Philip Sidney, 

Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Christopher 

Marlowe, and Sir Walter Raleigh; Thomas More, from 

Utopia; Sir Thomas Hoby, from The Book of the Courtier; 

Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus 

Text Book: The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 

Volume I 


Course Title 

History of British Civilisation II 

Semester(s) offered Spring 

Medium 

English 

Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

This course aims to examine the cultural structuring of 

British society from the seventeenth century to the end 

of the Victorian Age in the light of social and political 

developments. 

Syllabus 

• The cultural, economic, social and political 

developments of the 17 th and 18 th centuries 

• Scientific Revolution 

• The Enlightenment 

• The French Revolution 

• The Industrial Revolution 

• The cultural, economic, social and political 

developments of the Victorian Period 

• British colonialism in the 19 th Century 


Learning/ Teaching Methods Lectures and discussions intend to familiarise the students 

with the cultural, social, economic and political background 

in which the literary works are created. 


Examination 



Quizzes 20 % 


Reading List ---


Course Title 

Approaching Literary Texts II 


Medium 

English 

Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

The objective of this course is to determine the 

distinguishing characteristics of the fictive text and to 

develop the critical and scholarly approach to be adopted in 

the act of reading by focusing on the elements of fiction in 

chosen short stories. 

Syllabus 

Each week an element of fiction such as plot, character, 

theme, point of view, symbol, irony etc. is introduced and 

analysed in one or two short stories. 


Learning/ Teaching Methods Lectures and discussions aim to familiarise the students 

with various components of fiction and encourage them to 

analyse how each component is significant in terms of the 

overall effect of the work. 


Examination 



Quizzes 25 % 


Reading List 

Selected short stories from writers of the 19 th and 20 th 

century literature of various countries. 


Course Title 

Oral Communication Skills II 



Lecturer(s) 

Derya Altınmakas 

d.altinmakas@iku.edu.tr 


None 


None 





Objectives 

This course aims to improve spoken language skills to be 

employed in the academic and daily use of English. 

Syllabus 

• Role-plays 

• Solo and Group Presentations 

• Classroom discussions 

• Debates

Intended Learning Outcomes 


Assignments 

Examination 

Assessment 

Reading List 

• Phonetic Alphabet 

• Integrating reading and speaking skills 

• Verbal games 

By the end of this course students are expected to be able to 

use their linguistic skills effectively in various contexts. 

Class presentations, workshops and group work 

none 

1 midterm exam, 1 final exam and class participation 

• 40% Midterm Exam (Solo Presentations) 

• 40% Final Exam (Group Presentations) 

• 20% Attendance + Participation in class activities 

Selected reading texts 


Course Title 

Written Communication Skills II 



Lecturer(s) 




None 


None 




Total Student StudyTime 45 class hours + Students’ self study 

Objectives 


• introduce each stage of essay writing process in a 

detailed way 

• provide students with models of writing that are 

based on real assignments and essays 

• provide practice to help students master each stage 

of the writing process and learn generating ideas, 

organising, drafting, reviewing and revising. 

• familiarise students with the writing techniques of 

different types of essays. 

• revise particular grammatical structures which will 

enable students to make up well structured 

sentences, and link their ideas and paragraphs into 

cohesive and coherent essays. 

Syllabus 

• Introduction to Essay Writing 

• Writing introductory paragraph and Thesis 

Statement 

• Writing developmental Paragraphs 

• Writing conclusion paragraph and Making an 

Outline 

• Different types of approaches used in essays: 

Classification 

Compare and Contrast 

Argumentative



Assignments 

Examination 

Assessment 

Reading List 

Narrative 

• Grammar review 

By the end of the course, students will be expected to be 

able to generate ideas on any given topic and organise these 

ideas in well-structured paragraphs and order those 

paragraphs into essays. Students will also be familiar with 

the language of academic writing and requirements of 

writing different types of essays. 

Providing ‘model’ essays, analysing and discussing the 

writing processes of each kind of essays, and designing pair 

or individual writing tasks. 

Pair and individual writing tasks on selected topics in 

relation with the course syllabus. 

One Midterm Exam, Assignments, One Final Exam 


• 40 % Final exam 

• 30 % Assignments and Writing tasks 

∗ Written Communication Skills II Material Pack 

∗ Essays and Short Stories from various resources 


Course Title 

Donne and His Contemporaries 

Semester(s) offered Third 


Lecturer(s) 

Prof. Dr. Nebile Direkçigil 


None 


None 




Total Student StudyTime 160 hours 

Objectives 

• To study the various developments in the poetry, 

prose and drama of the early decades of the 

seventeenth century in the light of literary, cultural, 

and historical contexts. 

Syllabus 



• Metaphysical poetry, secular and religious; classicist 

poetry 

• The essay 

• Jacobean revenge tragedy 

• By the end of the course, students will be expected 

to demonstrate a critical awareness of the authors’ 

use of language and of their reworking of traditional 

literary forms; demonstrate a sound knowledge of 

the historical and cultural contexts in which they 

wrote. 

Lectures

Students are expected to attend each session having read in 

advance the texts under discussion. 

Assignments - 

Examination 

Midterm written examination and final written examination 

Assessment • Midterm 40 % 

• Final 60 % 

Reading List 

• JOHN DONNE: 1. “Song:'Go and catch a falling 

star'”; 2. The Good Morrow”; 3. The Sun Rising”; 

4.“The Extasie”; 5. “A Valediction: forbidding 

mourning”; 6.“The Canonization”; 7. “The 

Funeral”; 8. “The Relic”; 9.“Death, be not proud” 

• BEN JONSON: Epigrams: 1.“To the Reader”; 2.“To 

My Book”; 3.“On Something That Walks 

Somewhere”; 4.”On My First Daughter”; 5. “On My 

First Son” ; 6. “Inviting a Friend to Supper”; The 

Forest : 7. “Song to Celia. Drink to me only with 

thine eyes”; Underwood: 8. “Hymn to Diana” 

“Queen and Huntress”; 9.“Song: Still to be neat, still 

to be drest”. 

• GEORGE HERBERT: The Temple: 1.“The Altar”; 

2.“The Collar”; 3. “Easter Wings” 

• FRANCIS BACON: Essays:“Essay 4 Of Revenge”; 

2. “Essay 10 Of Love”; 3.“Essay 31 Of Suspicion”; 

4. “Essay 36 Of Ambition ; 5. “Essay 43 Of 

Beauty”. (handout) 

• JOHN WEBSTER, The Duchess of Malfi 

• HELEN GARDNER, “Introduction”, The 

Metaphysical Poets, Penguin, (1957), 1985; 

• T.S. ELIOT, “The Metaphysical Poets”, in The 

Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 

2, pp. 2401- 2408, (7 th ed. 2000). 

• The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol.1, 

( 7 th ed. 2000) to be used for all the poems and the 

play. A handout for the Bacon essays. 

• Secondary material, mainly on critical approaches, 

will be assigned or provided by the lecturer.


Course Title 

Milton 

Semester(s) offered Autumn 


Lecturer(s) 

Anthony Lake 





Duration of Course One Semester 


Objectives 

The course offers students detailed study of a major English 

Poet, covering poetry and prose writings on contemporary 

social and political issues 

Syllabus 

Sonnets: On Shakespeare, How Soon Hath Time, When I 

Consider How My Light is Spent, On The Late Massacre in 

Piedmont, Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint, On 

The New Forcers of Conscience Under The Long 

Parliament, To The Lord General Cromwell; On The 

Morning of Christ’s Nativity; L’Allegro; Il Penseroso; 

Lycidas; Paradise Lost 

Intended Learning Outcomes The course provides students with a detailed introduction of 

the works of John Milton, studied in relation to his place in 

the tradition of English Poetry and in the social, political 

and cultural contexts of Seventeenth-Century England The 

course will also provide students with the opportunity to 

develop further their skills of close reading and critical 

analysis of poetry 


Assignments 

Examination 

Assessment 

Reading List 

One Mid Term and One Final Examination, Class 

Participation 


Course Title 

Restoration Drama 



Lecturer(s) 

Asst. Prof. Dr. Esin Akalın 


None 


None 





Objectives 

• To analyse and evaluate historical, political, social,

intellectual and literary factors that helped shape 

British drama during the Restoration era 

• To develop an understanding of the modes and 

manners of theatrical representation in Restoration 

England 

• To develop skills of close textual analysis of selected 

Restoration plays (heroic drama and comedy of 

manners) 

Syllabus 

• Historical Context: Restoration of the monarchy in 

1660; reopening of theatres in England; Charles II’s 

monopoly control of London theatres through 

patents 

• Theatre Companies and Playhouses 

• Restoration Theatre Audiences, Scenery, Machinery, 

Lighting and Stage Costumes 

• Characteristics of Restoration Tragedy (Heroic 

Drama/ Neo-classical tragedy): heroic, scenic and 

thematic features, setting, characterization, classical 

influences and so on. 

• Characteristics of Comedy of Manners: subject 

matter, major themes, social context, characters, 

recurring types and concepts 


awareness of the historical, intellectual, societal, cultural 

and artistic contexts of the Restoration English Theatre 

characterized by heroic plays and comedy of manners. 

Students will analyze, interpret and discuss both genres 

individually and comparatively with an awareness of the 

political and social interplay of dramatic text and context. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods To familiarize students with the modes and manners of 

theatrical representation during the Restoration period; to 

develop their understanding of the historical, and social 

contextual issues which have a bearing on Restoration 

Theatre. The pattern of teaching will be based on formal 

lectures and class discussions. Students will also be given 

opportunities to work in groups to articulate their ideas in 

class on various themes and issues related to the plays. 

Assignments 

Examination 

1 Mid-Term Exam, Quizzes and 1 Final Exam 


• Quizzes: 10% 

• Final Exam 50% 

Reading List 

John Dryden, All for Love 

Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv’d 

William Wycherley, The Country Wife 

William Congreve, The Way of the World


Course Title 

Translation: English to Turkish I 


Language of Course English & Turkish 

Lecturer(s) 

Pınar Besen 


None 


None 





Objectives 

• Being able to make translations from the source 

language into the target language 

Syllabus 

• Texts of increasing complexity chosen according to 

both the interests of the students and the relevance to 

other courses of the semester 

Intended Learning Outcomes • By the end of the course, students will be expected 

to be able to make translations from the source 

language into the target language. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods • Discussion of the process and techniques of 

translation 

• Practice in translation through assignments 

• Editing of the assigned translations 

Assignments 

10 texts to translate, 2 of them chosen by the student 

Examination 

1 Midterm, 1 Final 

Assessment • Midterm % [ 30 ] 

• Final % [ 40 ] 

• Attendance % [ 10 ] 

• Individual works % [ 10 ] 

• Collective works % [ 10 ] 



Course Title 

Written Communication Skills III 



Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 


• revise and practise the stages of writing process in a 

more comprehensive way by analysing literary

Syllabus 



Assignments 

Examination 

Assessment 

Reading List 

works and authentic materials such as newspaper 

and journal articles and reviews. 

• assign writing tasks which will develop students’ 

academic writing skills. 

• provide detailed feedback to students in order to 

make them realise their weak points in essay writing 

and offer ways and techniques to strengthen their 

writing skills. 

• develop students’ critical and analytical thinking 

skills in order to enable them to express their ideas 

on paper in the form of an argumentative essay. 

• Pre-writing stage (purpose and audience/ implied 

reader- generating ideas) 

• Narrative and descriptive paragraphs (analysing 

extracts taken from literary texts) 

• Expository paragraphs (the techniques of supporting 

the topic sentence and the controlling idea) 

• Revising the steps of essay writing. 

• Thesis statement and a detailed study of writing an 

essay in coherence with the thesis statement 

• Classification Essay 

• Compare and Contrast Essay 

By the end of the course, students will be expected to 

improve their critical thinking and reasoning skills, and on a 

given topic students will be able to express their ideas in a 

more rational way and support their ideas with reliable 

evidence and irrefutable reasons. 

Providing ‘model’ essays, analysing and discussing the 

writing processes of each kind of essays, and designing 

individual writing tasks + providing thorough feedback after 

each assigned writing task. 

Individual writing tasks on selected topics in relation with 

the course syllabus. 



• 40% Final exam 

• 30% Assignments and Writing Tasks 

∗ Written Communication Skills III Material Pack 

∗ Essays and Short Stories from various resources


Course Title 

Mythology I 



Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• To introduce students to myths from Mesopotamia 

and Mycenaean Greece 

• To study The Epic of Gilgamesh and The Iliad 

• To examine key themes and subjects through close 

readings of the texts 

Syllabus 

• Significance of mythology 

• Babylonian Epic of Creation 

• Historical background of the Epic of Gilgamesh: 

Sumerian sources of the Old Babylonian Epic 

• History, content, themes, structure, setting and 

central ideas of The Epic of Gilgamesh 

• Hesiod’s Theogony: Creation Myth 

• The Greek Pantheon: Olympian Gods 

• The gods in Homer 

• Homer and the epic tradition 

• History, content, themes, structure, setting, 

characters, central ideas in The Iliad 

Intended Learning Outcomes Upon completion of this course, students will accumulate a 

body of information about the nature of the heroic, the 

relation of gods to humanity in Mesopotamia and the 

Mycenean world which Homer celebrates; will develop 

critical and analytical skills to examine key themes and 

subjects in works through close readings of the texts. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods To familiarize students with the epic tradition and the 

earliest myths from Mesopotamia and the Ancient Greece; 

to encourage students to develop skills of literary 

appreciation and analysis these works. The pattern of 

teaching will be based on formal lectures, class discussions 

and presentations. Students will also be given opportunities 

to work in groups to articulate their ideas in class on various 

themes and subjects related to the texts studied. 

Assignments 

Examination 

1 Mid-Term Exam, Presentation and 1 Final Exam 

Assessment • 1 Mid-Term: 30% 

• 1 Presentation: 10% 


• Final : 50% 

Reading List 

Epic of Gilgamesh and The Iliad


Course Title 

Novel From Defoe To Austen 



Lecturer(s) 


None 


None 




Total Student StudyTime 45 class hours plus student’s private studies 

Objectives 

• To analyse and evaluate how novel (a new genre) 

emerged in England in the 18 th C. and developed in 

the 19 th C. 

• To have a closer look at the social, historical, 

economic and cultural aspects of the time. 

• To evaluate the novels’ style, narration and plot 

structure finding the typicalities shared by most of 

them. 

• To create an awareness of the major texts and 

authors of the time. 

Syllabus 

• Introduction to 18 th C. England: social, historical, 

political background 

• Introduction to the novel and other literary genres of 

the time 

• Daniel Defoe and Moll Flanders 

• Laurence Sterne and Tristram Shandy 

• Jane Austen and Pride& Prejudice 

• Comparison of the styles of the three novels 


to have an awareness of the historical, social, 

cultural and artistic contexts of the 18th C England. 

They will be able to analyse the main characteristics 

of the novel of the time. 


Assignments 

Examination 

Assessment 

Reading List 

* The teaching will be mainly based on lectures and class 

discussions 

• Daniel Defoe, Moll Flanders 

• Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy 

• Jane Austen, Pride & Prejudice 

• Terry Eagleton, Towards A Sign of the Text 


Course Title 

Eighteenth-Century English Literature 

Semester(s) offered Fourth


Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• To analyse and evaluate social, intellectual and 

literary factors that helped shape English literature in 

the eighteenth century 

• To study representative works of the period with 

focus on major writers, genres and literary 

movements associated with the period 

• To encourage students develop skills of critical 

approach and close textual analysis of the selected 

texts from the era 

Syllabus • Intellectual background: Age of Enlightenment 

• Social Development: Public coffee-houses, private 

clubs 

• Literary characteristics: First daily newspaper 

• Neo-classical Movement: John Dryden major 

literary figure 

• Augustan Age: Alexander Pope as central figure 

• Age of Johnson: Dominated by Dr. Samuel Johnson 

• Favourite Literary Forms: the essay, the letter, the 

satire in the form of prose and poetry, the mockepic, 

the parody, the burlesque, the moral fable 


awareness of the historical, intellectual, societal, cultural 

and artistic contexts of English literature in the eighteenth 

century. Students will be expected to analyze, interpret and 

discuss a wide range of texts from the eighteenth century 

across a variety of genres. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods To familiarize students with a wide range of texts from 

eighteenth-century English literature; to develop their 

understanding of the historical, intellectual and social 

contextual issues which have a bearing on the era. The 

pattern of teaching will be based on formal lectures and 

class discussions. Students will also be given opportunities 

to work in groups to articulate their ideas in class on various 

themes, genres and issues related to the texts studied. 

Assignments 

Examination 




• Final: 50% 

Reading List 

Selected poems by John Dryden; 

Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock and Eloisa and 

Abelard

Samuel Johnson, The History of Rasselas, Prince of 

Abissini; 

Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels 

John Gay, The Beggar’s Opera 

Text Book: The Norton Anthology of English Literature. 

Volume I 


Course Title 

The Romantics 

Semester(s) offered Fourth 


Lecturer(s) 

Lecturer Dr. Ayşem Seval 

aseval@iku.edu.tr 


None 


None 





Objectives 

Through a reading of the works of the first and second 

generation Romantics, the Romantic movement is 

examined. 

Syllabus 

William Blake 

William Wordsworth 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge 

John Keats 

Percy Bysshe Shelley 

George Gordon, Lord Byron 


Learning/ Teaching Methods Lectures and discussions aim to familiarise the students with 

various components of Romanticism and encourage them to 

analyse how the same components are received and 

presented differently in the poetic works of various 

Romantic artists. 


Examination 

Quizzes and/or assignments, one midterm, one end-of-term 

written exam 


Quizzes and/or assignments 25 % 


Reading List 

Selected poems from The Norton Anthology of English 

Literature, Vol. 2 eds.Abrams M.H., Greenblatt Stephen, 7 th 

edition (New York: W.W. Norton Publ., 2000). 


Course Title 

Translation: English to Turkish II 

Semester(s) offered Fourth


Lecturer(s) 

Lecturer Pınar Besen 


None 


None 





Objectives 



Syllabus 








translation 



Assignments 


Examination 



• Final % [ 40 ] 






Course Title 

Written Communication Skills IV 



Lecturer(s) 




None 


None 





Objectives 


• improve students’ critical thinking skills on the 

literary and non-literary texts or on any given topic 

• assist students in their writing process in order to

Syllabus 



Assignments 

Examination 

Assessment 

Reading List 

make them express their reflections and ideas about 

the provided reading materials on paper more 

effectively. 

• give necessary knowledge and terminology about 

other fields of academic writing such as the writing 

sections of English proficiency examinations and 

writing application letters. 

• provide essential knowledge about the rules and 

requirements of writing a dissertation or any kind of 

academic essay + assignment. 

• Definition essay (defining terms formally and 

subjectively/ thinking metaphorically/ literary 

reflections) 

• Argumentative essay 

• MLA Citation Style 

• Literary analysis 

• IELTS and TOEFL examinations writing sections 

• Statement of Purpose 

• Writing reviews 

By the end of the course, students will have acquired 

comprehensive knowledge about academic writing. Students 

are expected to have acquired necessary skills in order to 

write effectively and strongly argued essays on any given 

topic. 

Providing ‘model’ essays and literary texts, analysing and 

discussing those essays and texts, and designing individual 

writing tasks + providing thorough feedback after each 

assigned writing task. 

Individual writing tasks on selected topics in relation with 

the course syllabus. 



• 40% Final exam 

• 30% Assignments and writing tasks 

∗ Written Communication Skills IV Material Pack 

∗ Essays and Short Stories from various resources


Course Title 

Mythology II 



Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• To examine and analyze classical and religious 

myths that form the backbone of Western literary 

tradition 

• To focus on Homer’s Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid and 

Ovid’s Metamorphoses through a close reading of 

texts 

• To acquire familiarity with key themes, techniques 

and use of language in these works 

Syllabus 

• Homer and The Odyssey: Text, story, content, 

themes, structure, setting, characters, central ideas, 

imagery and narrative technique 

• Virgil and The Aeneid: History, content, themes, 

structure, narrative technique 

• Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Significant themes, 

characters and narrative 

• Genesis: Creation 

Intended Learning Outcomes Upon completion of this course, students will accumulate a 

body of information about the varieties of classical tales 

from ancient Greek and Roman traditions; will develop 

critical and analytical skills to examine key themes and 

subjects in works considered to be most influential in 

Western literature; 

Learning/ Teaching Methods To familiarize students with the great works of Homer, 

Virgil and Ovid; to encourage students to develop skills of 

literary appreciation and analysis. The pattern of teaching 

will be based on formal lectures, class discussions and 

presentations. Students will also be given opportunities to 

work in groups to articulate their ideas in class on various 

themes and subjects related to the texts studied. 

Assignments 

Examination 





• Final : 50% 

Reading List 

Homer; The Odyssey, Virgil, The Aeneid, Ovid, 

Metamorphoses, The Bible, Genesis, Creation


Course Title 

Shakespeare I 

Semester(s) offered Fifth 


Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• To focus on Shakespeare’s life, works, theatre and 

audiences 

• To study selected Shakespearean comedies 

• To develop students’ critical understanding of the 

texts 

• To focus on language, theme and structure of the 

dramatic texts 

Syllabus 

• Shakespeare’s life and career 

• Political/intellectual/social context 

• Elizabethan playhouses and Acting Companies 

• A brief history of the Globe Theatre 

• Shakespeare’s texts and descriptions of the formats 

• Shakespearean Comedy: Romantic Comedies, 

Festive Comedies, Romances 

• Shakespeare’s sources 

• Literary Elements: Key themes, setting, structure, 

characterization, motifs, devices, dichotomy 

between art and nature, etc. 

• Shakespeare’s use of language: verse, prose, 

imagery, etc. 


understanding of the intellectual, social and dramatic 

contexts of the Shakespearean era; will be familiar with the 

theatrical practices of the Shakespearean stage; will have 

acquired an understanding of a variety of elements in 

Shakespearean comedies such as comic vision, comic 

resolution, structural coherence, thematic unity, court 

versus forest/woods, pastoral world, mistaken identities, 

disguise and so on. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods To encourage students to contextualize and hence to deepen 

their understanding of Shakespeare’s comedies. To develop 

students’ comprehension of Shakespeare’s language (lexical 

range, syntax, imagery, rhetorical devices etc.). Apart from 

lectures and class discussions, students will also be given 

group assignments to enact scenes from each play in order 

to achieve a clearer view of the roles played by the 

characters. 

Assignments 

Students will be assigned to work in groups to enact scenes 

for each play studied in the course. 

Examination 

1 Mid-Term Exam , Presentations and 1 Final Exam



• Scene Preparat: 10% 

• Final : 50% 

Reading List 

A Midsummer Night’s Dream 

Twelfth Nigh, 

The Winter’s Tale 

The Tempest 


Course Title 

Nineteenth Century English Novel I 


Medium 

English 

Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• To study earlier Victorian novels 

Syllabus 

• Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Wuthering 

Heights by Emily Brontë and North and South by 

Elizabeth Gaskell 



various components of novel genre in general and Victorian 

novel in particular and encourage them to analyse how each 

component is significant in terms of the overall effect of the 

specific works. 


Examination 

Class test(s), one midterm, one end-of-term written exam 


Class test(s) 30 % 


Reading List 

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, Wuthering Heights 

by Emily Brontë and North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell


Course Title 

Literary Theory I 

Semester(s) offered 

Fall 

Medium 

English 

Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 



Duration of Course 

14 weeks 

Total Student StudyTime 

160 hours including lectures 

Objectives 

Analysis of the texts selected from Plato to the 

second half of the nineteenth century 

Syllabus - 

Intended Learning Outcomes Lectures and discussions aim to familiarise the 

students with the major issues and concerns of 

literary theory and criticism from classical antiquity 

to the first half of the nineteenth century. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods Formal lectures and class discussions. 

Assignments - 

Examination 

• 1 Midterm 

• Final Exam 


• Final 60 % 

Reading List 

• Plato, The Republic Book III-VII-X 

• Aristotle, From Poetics 

• Horace, Ars Poetica 

• Longinus, On the Sublime 

• Sidney, From Apology for Poetry 

• Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare 

• Wordsworth, “Preface to Lyrical Ballads” 

• Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (Chs. XIII, 

XIV,XVII) 


Course Title 

Translation: English to Turkish III 

Semester(s) offered Fifth 


Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• Being able to make translations of complex texts 

from the source language into the target language 

Syllabus 

• Texts of increasing complexity chosen according to

oth the interests of the students and the relevance to 






translation 

• Advanced practice in translation of complex texts 

through assignments 


Assignments 


Examination 



• Final % [ 40 ] 






Course Title 

Shakespeare II 

Semester(s) offered Sixth 


Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• To analyse the dramatic poet’s use of language and 

stagecraft by a close reading of selected tragedies as 

produced in their original literary, historical and 

cultural contexts as well as in the light of modern 

critical approaches. 

Syllabus 


• Romeo and Juliet 

• Othello 

• Macbeth 

• Hamlet 

• By the end of the course, students will have gained a 

critical awareness of the poet-dramatist’s use of 

language and of his stagecraft, of the literary, 

historical and cultural issues of his time and their 

relevance to our own day.

Learning/ Teaching 

Methods 

Lectures. 

Students are expected to attend each session having read in 

advance the play under discussion. 

Assignments - 

Examination 



• Final 60 % 

Reading List 

• Romeo and Juliet 

• Spurgeon, Catherine, “The Imagery of Romeo and 

Juliet”, Shakespeare’s Imagery, 1936.(handout) 

• Othello 

• Leavis, F.R., “Diabolic Intellect and the Noble 

Hero”, The Common Pursuit, (1952), 1969. 

(handout) 

• Macbeth 

• Hamlet 

• The Arden Edition Introductions to the individual 

plays. 

• Annotated editions, like the Arden Edition, are 

recommended. 

• Secondary material, mainly on critical approaches, 

will be assigned or provided by the lecturer 


Course Title 

Nineteenth Century English Novel II 


Medium 

English 

Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• To study earlier Victorian novels 

Syllabus 

• Silas Marner by George Eliot, Jude the Obscure by 

Thomas Hardy and The Picture of Dorian Gray by 

Oscar Wilde 



various components of novel genre in general and Victorian 

novel in particular and encourage them to analyse how each 

component is significant in terms of the overall effect of the 

specific works. 

Assignments ---

Examination 

Class test(s), one midterm, one end-of-term written exam 


Class test(s) 30 % 


Reading List 

Silas Marner by George Eliot, Jude the Obscure by 

Thomas Hardy and The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar 

Wilde 


Course Title 

Literary Theory II 



Lecturer(s) 

Dr. Ayşem Seval 


None 


None 





Objectives 

• The course aims at presenting a selection of literary 

theories from 19th Century till our time. A 

chronological order will be followed in order to 

enable the student to make connections between the 

changes in the theories and methods of criticism in 

the course of time. At the end of the course the 

students will be able to comment about Marxist, 

formalist, structuralist, psychoanalitic, poststructuralist 

litarary theories. 

Syllabus 

• Marxist Literary Theory 

• Structuralism 

• Formalism/ Russian 

• Psychoanalytical Literary Theory 

• Poststructuralism 

• New Historicism 

• Postmodernism 

Intended Learning Outcomes By the end of the course, students will be expected to 

evaluate the theories listed above. They will be able to 

make criticisms, ask questions leading to fruitful 

discussions, give insight and make relevant connections 

between the theories. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods Formal lectures and class discussions. 

Assignments -- 

Examination 

• 1 Midterm 

• Final Exam 


• Final 60 %

Reading List 

• Marx, from Grundrisse, The German Ideology, 

Capital 

• Saussure, from Course on General Linguistics 

• Shklovsky, from Art As Technique 

• Freud, The Uncanny 

• Lacan, from The Mirror Stage 

• Derrida, Différance 

• Foucault, On Power 

• Montrouse, New Historicism 


Course Title 

Translation: English to Turkish IV 

Semester(s) offered Sixth 


Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• Being able to make translations of complex texts 

from the source language into the target language 

Syllabus 








translation 

• Advanced practice in translation of complex texts 

through assignments 


Assignments 


Examination 



• Final % [ 40 ] 




Reading List ---


Course Title 

Irish Theatre 

Semester(s) offered Seventh 


Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• To question and evaluate the term ‘Irish’ as a 

personal, cultural and literary identity 

• To examine dramatic texts written by Irish authors in 

the last century 

• To foster an understanding of the political, 

historical, cultural and dramatic contexts in which 

these texts have been produced 

Syllabus 

• Historical Context: A brief overview of the historical 

and political condition of Ireland 

• Ideological Concern: Relationship between 

representation of Ireland and nature of cultural 

identity 

• Development of Irish Drama: Irish Literary Revival, 

Irish National Theatre and establishment of the 

Abbey Theatre 

• Dramatic Texts: Representation of Irishness on stage 

through socially and politically conscious plays 

• Anglo-Irish Playwrights: Focus on Irish born 

dramatists Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett 


awareness of the importance of the constitution of a 

category such as Irish Drama. By exploring key issues and 

themes that run through plays with Irish subject and setting, 

they will be able to analyze the relationship between 

dramatic text and context. Students will also have an 

understanding and awareness of the Irish background of 

authors such as Samuel Beckett whose plays have changed 

the course of Western dramatic tradition. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods To provide a historical context for Irish drama and to 

familiarize students with themes, forms and historical 

conditions that characterize Irish Theatre. Apart from 

lectures and class discussions, students will be also be given 

opportunities to work in groups to articulate their ideas in 

class on various topics related to the plays. 

Assignments 

Examination 

1 Mid-Term Exam , Presentation and 1 Final Exam 



• Final : 50%

Reading List 

Bernard Shaw, John Bull’s Other Island 

Lady Gregory, The Rising of the Moon 

W.B. Yeats, Purgatory 

J.M. Synge, Riders to the Sea 

Playboy of the Western World 

Sean O’Casey, Juno and the Paycock 

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot 

Course ENL 712 

Code 

Course Title Modernism and British Poetry 

Semester(s) Seventh 

offered 

Language of English 

Course 

Lecturer(s) Prof. Dr. Nebile Direkçigil 

Prerequisit(ies) 

None 

Co – None 

requisit(ies) 

Credit 3 

Value 


Duration of 14 weeks 

Course 

Total 160 hours including lectures 

Student 

StudyTime 

Objectives • To engage with selected modernist poems in their own literary and 

social/cultural contexts as well as in the light of contemporary critical 

approaches. 

Syllabus 

Intended 

Learning 

Outcomes 

Learning/ 

Teaching 

Methods 

• The course will explore the poetry of Yeats, Lawrence, the World War 

One poets, and finally of Eliot. It will also consider Hardy as a poet to 

exert a vital influence during the new century. 

• By the end of the course, students will be expected to demonstrate a 

critical awareness of the poets’ use of language and their negotiations 

with tradition, language and style as well as their own historical and 

cultural contexts. 

Lectures 

Students are expected to attend each session having read in advance the poems 

under discussion and present their critical questions concerning the texts. 

Assignments - 

Examination Midterm written examination and final written examination 


• Final 60 %


Course Title 

Modernism and the British Novel 



Lecturer(s) 

Anthony Lake 







Objectives 


study of the novel in the Modernist Period, exploring 

themes such as narrative style, symbolism, character and 

subjectivity, and meanings of Modernity 

Syllabus 

E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread, Joseph Conrad: 

The Secret Agent, James Joyce: Dubliners, Virginia Woolf: 

To the Lighthouse 

Intended Learning Outcomes The course provides students with a detailed introduction to 

and study of selected novels by Joseph Conrad, James 

Joyce, Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster. Novels will be 

considered in relation to their historical, social and cultural 

contexts, and the course will also provide students with the 

opportunity to develop further their skills of close reading 

and critical analysis of prose fiction. 


Assignments 

Examination 

Assessment 

Reading List 


Participation 


Course Title 

Translation: Turkish to English I 

Semester(s) offered Seventh 

Language of Course Turkish & English 

Lecturer(s) 

Pınar Besen 


None 


None 





Objectives 



Syllabus 

• Texts of increasing complexity chosen 

according to both the interests of the students

Intended Learning 

Outcomes 

Learning/ Teaching 

Methods 

and the relevance to other courses of the 

semester 

• By the end of the course, students will be 

expected to be able to make translations from 

the source language into the target language. 

• Discussion of the process and techniques of 

translation 





Assignments 

Examination 


• Final % [ 40 ] 






Course Title 

Research Methodology 



Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 




Total Student StudyTime 45 hours plus required research hours 

Objectives 

To develop the student awareness on how to make 

an academic research and put it in the paper according to the 

required formats. 

Syllabus 

Why do we write about literature? 

Identifying the Research Topic 

Library research and note-taking 

Elements of a Research Paper 

How and what to write about different literary genres 

MLA and APA Citation Styles 

Discourse analysis 

Question and Answer Sessions 

Writing the “Literature Review” part 

Writing the “Discussion” part 

Resarch Paper 

Intended Learning Outcomes By the end of the course, students will be expected 

to be able to write academic research papers


Assignments 

Examination 

Assessment 

Reading List 

Formal lectures, guidance of the lecturer, office hours and 

supervising. 

A Research Paper 

None 

30% Research Process 

30% First Draft 

40% Final Assignment 

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers 

Barnet,S. and W.E. Cain, 2006, A Short Guide To 

Writing About Literature, US: Pearson/ Longman 

Griffith, K., 2002, Writing Essays about Literature, UK: 

Thomson/Wadsworth 


Course Title 

Contemporary British Theatre 

Semester(s) offered Eighth 


Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• To examine British theatre from the middle of the 

twentieth century to the present through readings of 

a wide range of dramatic genres 

• To foster an understanding of the relationship 

between drama and the political, social and cultural 

contexts from which these texts have emerged 

Syllabus 

• Defining Contemporary British Drama: New realism 

in Britain in the late 1950’s 

• Roots of New Realism: Existentialist and workingclass 

philosophies 

• Stylistic approach: Social/Socialist Realism and 

Naturalism 

• Thematic focus: socially and politically conscious 

plays 

• Dramatic genres: Kitchen Sink Drama, Angry 

Theatre, Theatre of the Absurd Theatre, etc. 

Intended Learning Outcomes At the end of the course, students should have had an 

awareness of the impact of drama in Britain in the 1960’s 

i.e. theatre’s potential for influencing audiences, function of 

drama in raising social and political consciousness, nature 

of reception by the audiences, relationship between dramatic 

form and content. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods To familiarize students with themes, forms and historical 

conditions that characterize British Contemporary Theatre 

from 1956 to the present. Apart from lectures and class

discussions, students will also be given opportunities to 

work in groups to articulate their ideas in class on various 

topics related to the plays. 

Assignments 

Examination 

1 Mid-Term Exam , Presentation and 1 Final Exam 



• Final : 50% 

Reading List 

John Osborne, Look Back in Anger 

Harold Pinter, Dumb Waiter 

Arnold Wesker, Roots 

Edward Bond, Bingo 

Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead 

Caryl Churchill, Top Girls 


Course Title 

Contemporary British Poetry 

Semester(s) offered Eighth 


Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 

• To acquaint students with the range and diversity of 

various developments in British poetry from about 

the middle of the twentieth century to the present in 

the light of literary, cultural, and political contexts. 

Syllabus 



• Auden 

• DylanThomas 

• Larkin 

• Hughes 

• Harrison 

• Heaney 

• Dunn 

• Duffy 


to demonstrate a critical awareness of the poets’ use 

of language and of their reworking of traditional 

literary forms; demonstrate a sound knowledge of 

the historical and cultural contexts in which they 

wrote. 

Lectures 

Students are expected to attend each session having read in

advance the poems under discussion and present their 

critical questions concerning the texts. 

Assignments - 

Examination 



• Final 60 % 

Reading List 

• HUGH MACDIARMID: 1892-1978: from A Drunk 

Man Looks at the Thistle: 1.“Farewell to 

Dostoevski”; 2.“Yet Ha’e I Silence Left”, 1926; 

from In Memoriam James Joyce: 3. “We Must Look 

at the Harebell” 

• W. H. AUDEN: 1907-1973: 1. “Musée des Beaux 

Arts”; 2. “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”; 3. “The 

Public v. the Late Mr. William Butler Yeats”, 

Partisan Review, Spring 1939. (handout) 

• DYLAN THOMAS: 1914-1953: 1. “The Force that 

Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower”; 2. 

“Fern Hill”; 3. “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good 

Night” 

• PHILIP LARKIN: 1922- 85: 1. “Church Going”; 2. 

“CMXIV”; 3. “Talking in Bed”; 4. “Ambulances”; 

5. “High Windows”; 6. “Sad Steps”; 7. “The 

Whitsun Weddings” (handout) 

• TED HUGHES: 1930-1998: 1.“Wind”; 2. “Relic”; 

3. “Pike”;4. “Examination at the Womb-Door”; 5. 

“Theology”; 6. “The Seven Sorrows”; 7. “Daffodils” 

• TONY HARRISON: 1937- : 1 “Heredity”; 2. 

“National Trust”; 3. “Book Ends I”; 4. “Book Ends 

II”; 5. “Long Distance I”; 6. “ Long Distance II”; 7. 

“Turns”; 8. “Marked with D” 

• SEAMUS HEANEY: 1939- : 1. “Digging”; 2.“The 

Forge”;3. Punishment”;4. The Skunk”; 5. “12 Like a 

Convalescent”,from Station Island; 6.“The Sharping 

Stone” 

• DOUGLAS DUNN: 1942- : fr. Terry Street, 1969:1. 

“A Removal From Terry Street”; 2. “Men Of Terry 

Street”; 3. “The New Girls”; from Elegies, 1985: 4. 

“The Kaleidoscope”; from Barbarians, 1979: 5. 

“The Musician”; 6.“The Come-on; 7. “Gardeners”; 

8. “Here be Dragons”(handout) 

• The Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol.2, 

( 7 th ed. 2000) to be used for all the poems, unless 

indicated otherwise above. 

• Other secondary material, mainly on critical 

approaches, will be assigned or provided by the 

lecturer.


Course Title 

Contemporary British Novel 



Lecturer(s) 


None 


None 




Total Student StudyTime 45 class hours and students’ home-studies 

Objectives 

This course explores a selection of British novels to 

analyse the devices that are frequently employed in 

contemporary fiction: these include the narrative, 

structural, stylistic and thematic variations resulting 

from the changing conditions of society especially with 

the emergence of the postmodern condition. 

Syllabus 


• General characteristics of post-war conditions 

• Introduction to contemporary novel 

• George Orwell and his satire, Malcolm Bradbury 

and his post-war idealisms 

• Postmodern Fiction: Jeanette Winterson and Peter 

Ackroyd 


to evaluate the general aspects of contemporary 

fiction and compare it with the other periods. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods Formal lectures and class discussions 


Examination 

Assessment 

Reading List • George Orwell, 1984 

• Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit 

• Peter Ackroyd, Chatterton 

• Doris Lessing, “To Room Nineteen”


Course Title 

Translation: Turkish to English II 

Semester(s) offered Eight 

Language of Course Turkish & English 

Lecturer(s) 



None 


None 





Objectives 



Syllabus 








translation 

• Advanced practice in translation through 

assignments 


Assignments 


Examination 



• Final % [ 40 ] 






Course Title 

Dissertation 



Lecturer(s) 


None 


None 





Objectives • The course serves as a seminar for students to 

develop their research skills and to help them in the

preparation of a scholarly writing. The course aims 

at teaching the students how to use libraries and 

internet as a research tool and resource; to think 

critically; to examine models of scholarly research 

and to develop writing and formatting skills. The 

students will be guided by the lecturer during the 

course of their studies in the office hours. The topics 

of research will be given to the students. 

Syllabus 



Assignments 

Examination 

Assessment 

Reading List 

• 


to write a scholarly dissertation on an academic 

hypothesis. 

supervision 

none 

none 

• none 


Course Title 

Classical Tragedy 



Lecturer(s) 

Anthony Lake 







Objectives 


study of the tragic drama of the Classical World, exploring 

themes such as dramaturgy, the relationship between 

Classical Drama and Classical societies and the origins of 

tragedy 

Syllabus 

Aeschylus: The Oresteia; Sophocles: Antigone; Euripides: 

Medea 

Intended Learning Outcomes The course provides students with a detailed introduction of 

the works of Classical tragedians such as Aeschylus, 

Sophocles, Euripides and Seneca, studied in relation to their 

positions as founders of the Western Dramatic Tradition and 

in the social, political and cultural contexts of Classical 

Greece and Rome. The course will also provide students 

with the opportunity to develop further their skills of close 

reading and critical analysis of tragic drama. 

Learning/ Teaching Methods Lectures and class group discussion

Assignments 

Examination 

Assessment 

Reading List 


Participation 


Course Title 

Introduction to American Poetry 



Lecturer(s) 

Anthony Lake 







Objectives 

Syllabus 



Assignments 

Examination 


study of American Poetry from Whitman to the present, 

exploring themes such as genre and verse form, tradition 

and modernity, the search for an American language, and 

meanings of Modernism and Post-Modernism in American 

Poetry 

The course provides students with a detailed introduction to 

and study of selected poetry by poets from Whitman to the 

present. Poems will be considered in relation to their 

historical, social and cultural contexts, and the course will 

also provide students with the opportunity to develop further 

their skills of close reading and critical analysis of poetry. 

Lectures and class group discussion 

One Mid Term and Final Examination and Class 

Participation 

Assessment Mid Term 40%, Final 40%, Class Participation 20% 

Reading List

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