Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı Lisans Programı

Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı Lisans Programı

Ders Planı

Ders Kodu	Ders Adi	( Teorik - Pratik ) Kredi
1.Yıl - Güz Dönemi
ACL1007	Essay Writing &Textual Analysis I	( 2 - 2 ) 3
GEP1005	History of Civilization I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL1107	American History I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL1001	Introduction to English Literature I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL1013	Literary Terms	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL1009	Developing Speaking Skills I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
1.Yıl - Bahar Dönemi
GEP1006	History of Civilization II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL1108	American History II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL1010	Developing Speaking Skills II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL1012	Intro. to Popular Culture	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL1008	Essay Writing & Textual AnalysisII	( 2 - 2 ) 3
ACL1002	Introduction to English Literature II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
2.Yıl - Güz Dönemi
TLL2021	Turkish Language & Literature I	( 2 - 0 ) 2
ACL2001	Survey of American Literature	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL2005	Introduction to Short Story	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL2009	Introduction to Novel	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL2109	Research Techniques	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Departmental Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	GE Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
2.Yıl Bahar Dönemi
ACL2006	Intro. To Drama	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL2010	Major Writers of World Literature	( 3 - 0 ) 3
TLL2022	Turkish Language & Literature II	( 2 - 0 ) 2
	GE Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL2002	Introduction to Poetry	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Departmental Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL2112	Mythology	( 3 - 0 ) 3
3.Yıl - Güz Dönemi
	GE Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL3007	Translation I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL3005	American Poetry I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL3003	American Novel I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL3001	American Drama I	( 3 - 0 ) 3
HIST3051	Atatürk's Principles and History of Turkish Republic I	( 2 - 0 ) 2
	Departmental Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
3.Yıl Bahar Dönemi
ACL3010	Literary Criticism	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL3006	American Poetry II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL3002	American Drama II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL3004	American Novel II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Departmental Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL3008	Translation II	( 3 - 0 ) 3
HIST3052	Atatürk's Principles and History of Turkish Republic II	( 2 - 0 ) 2
4.Yıl - Güz Dönemi
ACL4007	Comparative Literature	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL4001	Intro. to Women’s Studies	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL4005	Literature and Film	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Departmental Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL4003	Postmodern Literature	( 3 - 0 ) 3
4.Yıl Bahar Dönemi
ACL4002	Ethnic Literature	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL4006	Topics in Popular Culture	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL4008	Science Fiction and Fantasy	( 3 - 0 ) 3
	Departmental Elective	( 3 - 0 ) 3
ACL4004	Women in Literature	( 3 - 0 ) 3

Ders Listesi

Ders Tanımları

ACL1001

Introduction to English Literature I

Introduction to English Lit. I: A survey course designed to give the students overall/general information about the beginnings of Eng. Literature till the 17th century. Students will study selected passages from important literary genres and figures that helped make the earlier periods of .Eng. Lit. such as the epic-Beowulf-Old English-, Medieval and Elizabethan periods-poetry/prose-Chaucer, Shakespeare, Marlowe and early 17th century-Bacon, Andrew Marvell or John Donne.

ACL1002

Introduction to English Literature II

A survey of English Literature covering the 2nd part of the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century, aiming to give the students a general idea about major writers and literary movements by focusing on selected short passages from poetry plays and prose, e.g. Dryden, Pope, Swift, The Romantics,the Victorians, etc.

ACL1007

Essay Writing &Textual Analysis I

Essay Writing & Textual Analysis I: It aims at enabling the student to analyze and effectively use complex patterns of English grammar. One of the aims of the course will be to equip the students with skills of summary –building through sample texts from diverse cultural studies, history, political science, film studies, literature etc.

ACL1008

Essay Writing & Textual AnalysisII

The methods treated in ACL 1003 Essay Writing I shall be further developed to give the basics for creative writing. The course will equip the students with skills of summary – building through sample texts from diverse cultural studies, history, political science, film studies, literature etc

ACL1009

Developing Speaking Skills I

The major objective of this course is to enhance the communication ability of students and to familiarize them with major communication skills. In this course students will learn to express themselves before a group by talking about timely topics, participating in discussions and activities and preparing oral presentations.

ACL1010

Developing Speaking Skills II

This course will entail the reading, analysis and discussion of passages from various sources to enrich vocabulary and terminology and also encourage public speaking by teaching technical skills for oral presentation. Methods of research including the chief bibliographical tools, form and documentation shall also be introduced.

ACL1012

Intro. to Popular Culture

The students will examine artifacts of daily life and images around them together with the global influence of American popular culture. This course will concentrate on the influence of popular culture and analyze how popular culture artifacts fit into the fabric of American life. Such topics as advertisements, TV news and sit-coms, printed media, movies, music, professional sports constitute the subject matter of this course.

ACL1013

Literary Terms

Literary terms refers to the words themselves with which we identify and designate literary elements and techniques. This course aims to familiarize the students with these terms which are important tools for literary analysis. Literary terms will be briefly defined and the terminology will be applied to selected works of literature. The students will be required to undertake projects, applying these terms to specific genres.

ACL1107

American History I

The aim of the course is to familiarize the students with the issues taking place in the history of the USA until 1870s; starting from the age of Meso-American civilizations to the Civil War. Apart from the course book, the course will be held in the “discussion following the lecture” format. Various audio-visual material and network sources and presentations will be parts of the course content.

ACL1108

American History II

A survey of American history from the colonial era to the present, focusing on the historical roots of contemporary problems. Topics include: colonization and settlement; the emergence of democracy; slavery and race relations; sectional conflict and the Civil War; industrialization and its political, social and cultural consequences; and the rise of the U.S. as a world power.

ACL2001

Survey of American Literature

This course aims at an extensive survey of American literature beginning from the colonial period to the second half of the 20th century. The course will be presented in a way to stress the effect of the basic historical philosophical and political movements.

ACL2002

Introduction to Poetry

This course will introduce students to a variety of poetic forms and movements with emphasis on 16th century English sonnet, 17th century metaphysical poetry, 19th century Romantic poetry; all of which contributed to the formation of modern western poetry.

ACL2005

Introduction to Short Story

The course traces the development of the short story through history and depicts through examples the present directions. The course will include short stories from authors of Western (English, American, European) cultures and nationalities in an attempt to create a comparative approach in understanding the structure of the short story.

ACL2006

Intro. To Drama

This course is designed to give the students a variety of dramatic genres and theories of dramatic representation starting with Aristotle’s “Poetics” and teaching them how to distinguish between various dramatic genres such as tragedy & comedy, naturalistic, expressionistic drama thorough textual analysis of specific texts. Works by Sophocles, Shakespeare/Marlowe, Ibsen, Chekov and Strindberg will be studied.

ACL2009

Introduction to Novel

This course is designed to give the students a basic background of the major literary movements in the English novel, which later has an impact on the development of the American Novel. Works by writers such as J. Austin, G. Eliot, W. Golding and V. Woolf will be analyzed with emphasis on various literary currents and dynamics developed by different disciplines.

ACL2010

Major Writers of World Literature

This course aims to familiarize the students with a selection of works of the most well-known authors of the western world with emphasis on Cervantes, Voltaire, Flaubert, Dostoyevsky, and Kafka. Students will be directed in short formative assignments which develop skills and which will form the basis for discussion on their practice.

ACL2011

Introduction to Film Studies

The course examines a wide variety of Hollywood and independent American films in their artistic, technical, social and economic context. The focus will be on the range of filmmaking styles that have emerged in the United States over the past century.

ACL2012

Native American Cult. and Lit.

The aim of this course is to study Native Americans, who are the only U.S. citizens that can claim native roots in America even though most tribes have been dispossessed of and even removed from their original homeland; to examine their resistance to assimilation as it is reflected in contemporary literature in addition to their quest to assert an Indian identity. The parallel history of Indian-white relations and Native American literary development will be traced.

ACL2013

Popular Fiction

This course will introduce students to a range of what is considered to be popular writing. Examples of this could include: detective fiction, thrillers, historical fiction, etc. Discussion and analysis of these texts will be directed towards subject matter and stylistic features as well as debate on what constitutes their popularity. Students will be directed in short formative assignments which develop skills and which will form the basis for discussion on their practice.

ACL2014

American West

The aim of this course is to increase students' knowledge of the American West and the role it has played in shaping America's geography, politics, and history, view of itself as a nation and its myths of origin. While studying the critical role the West–both as an idea and as a geographical entity–has played in the development of America, basic concepts such as the frontier, Manifest Destiny, issues of race, the gold rush and its significance will be examined.

ACL2109

Research Techniques

Students will be acquainted with the diverse methods of research ranging from literary criticism to MLA formatting. Students will learn to devise research proposals, temporary drafts and will also be familiarized with MLA style documentation and composition of rough outlines.

ACL2112

Mythology

Readings in the major mythologies of the world, such as Egyptian, Greek, Scandinavian, Latin, etc. The objective of this course is to help students develop a lively appreciation for the special language of "Myth," which refers to the human tendency to shape our experience of reality through stories and symbols. An understanding of myth will help students to deepen their feelings for literature as well as pursue their own creative directions.

ACL3001

American Drama I

A study of 20th century plays highlighting the role of the playwright as a social critic. The period from 1920’s to the 1960’s shall be studied within a social, psychological and political context. Works by O’Neill, Hellman, Miller and Williams will be analyzed.

ACL3002

American Drama II

This course is designed to give the students a thorough appreciation of the American drama from the 1960’s to the present with special emphasis on the diverse/ controversial dramatic movements and theater groups that are part of the dramatic revolution of 60s.

ACL3003

American Novel I

Introducing the novel as a literary form, the course will trace the development of the novel in America from 1860 to 1900. Readings may include works by Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, H. James, E. Wharton, and others.

ACL3004

American Novel II

This course will cover the period from 1900 to 1945; works to be studied shall be selected from writers such as S. Crane, H. Garland, E. Hemingway, F.S. Fitzgerald, W. Faulkner, J, Steinbeck, J. London and ‘popular’ novels.

ACL3005

American Poetry I

This course will cover the early romantics such as William Cullen Bryant with emphasis on the romantic and realistic movements, which would include works by E.A. Poe, R.W. Emerson, W. Whitman and E. Dickinson.

ACL3006

American Poetry II

This course aims at giving the students a background to modernism with T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and move to more experimental movements with W.C. Williams, R. Frost, W. Stevens, Susan Howe and W. Bronk with a selected variety of texts by some of the above-mentioned poets.

ACL3007

Translation I

The course will entail the basic techniques and methods in translation stressing the differences in the structure of English and Turkish sentence makeup. It will include translation in both direction, English-Turkish and Turkish-English. Sample texts will be chosen from various literary forms including plays, prose and poetry as well as other areas.

ACL3008

Translation II

It will build up on the basics developed in ACL 2003 and the student will be required to be able to translate complete texts from various subjects.

ACL3009

The American South

This course will provide social and historical information concerning South American experience Trends in nineteenth and twentieth century literature will be discussed and applied to the South and also a historical and critical examination of representative texts from a variety of genres can be made. Selections may vary according to the choice of the instructor. A tentative reading list may include: Kate Chopin, Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Tennessee Williams.

ACL3010

Literary Criticism

The economic, cultural and rhetorical structure of the U.S news media in relation to essays, fiction, histories, film and other materials shall be studied. Alternative news reportage and the arts shall be presented as both promising and problematic counter forces to mainstream event making.

ACL3011

African Amer. Cult. And Lit.

The aim of the course is to investigate the complexities of the African American experience in the American culture. The fundamental structures of African American existence will be examined through cultural history and literary texts. The course will consist of discussions on the selected texts and their position within America's legal, social and cultural history. The readings may include slave narratives, political rhetoric, short stories, novel(s), drama and poetry.

ACL3012

Gothic Novel

This course offers the students a different genre which emerged in the 18th century reflecting the dark and mysterious sides of life. The most famous example is Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein’. Since this genre is still prevalent in Western Literatures, students will also be exposed to modern versions of 'Gothic’ such as 'Dracula' along with the classical examples.

ACL3013

Literature of Harlem Renaissance

Examines racial pride, racial origins, and urban blacks through an exploration of essays, poems, short stories, and novels by writers of the period (1915-1930). Authors include Langston Hughes, Arna Bontemps, Countee Cullen, Nella Larsen, Jean Toomer, and Zora Neale Hurston. Emphasis is on students’ written analysis of in-class and outside readings.

ACL3014

Topics in Classical Cinema

This course will trace the development of the classical Hollywood cinema, as well as significant alternatives to this dominant mode of representation, by relating analyses of the formal elements of film texts to discussions of film industries and audiences as well as the larger social, historical context. A key element of the classical Hollywood tradition (e.g., classical form, the auteur, the star system, or studio practices) is considered in detail.

ACL3015

America and War

The course intends to provide the students with a general view of how America's involvement in various wars at home and abroad have influenced the politics, arts and American society. This course aims also at issues such as how past wars have shaped American politics and society, and/or in what ways wars have influenced the arts and literature of the US. The students will discuss America's involvement in wars in relation to their political and cultural and/or literary and artistic context

ACL3016

The Asian Amer. Cult. And Lit.

This class will focus on the rich and diverse ways in which Asian Americans (Chinese, the Japanese, the Korean, the Filipino, the South/Southeast Asian and the South Pacific islanders) have contributed to American history. Through an examination of the history, sociology and literature, the identity and experiences of Asian Americans will be reviewed. Literary analysis will focus on themes, form, style, language, and structure of a variety of works.

ACL3017

Detective Fiction

This course traces the origins and development of the detective story from the nineteenth century to the present in terms of its conventions and motifs, with an emphasis on outstanding representative authors, including Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, and Patricia Highsmith. Upon successful completion of this course, the students should be able to discuss the history, structure, major authors, and contributions of detective fiction. The course considers the detective story as a literary form and includes the major categories of the sophisticated English formula mysteries and the hard-boiled American formula mysteries. This course will also offer students the opportunity to develop and improve critical reading and writing skills.

ACL3018

Major American Writers

The aim of this course is to acquaint students with a major writer/ group of writers, single movement/movements, specific period/periods, theme/themes, specific genre/genres that have had an impact on American literature and culture. A tentative list may include authors such as William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Alice Walker etc.

ACL3019

Multiculturalism

The objective of this course is to study multiculturalism both as a concept and as a field of study in cultural theory in the twentieth and twenty first century through selected articles, examples from fiction, poetry and drama, and through visual materials. In doing that, different theories of multiculturalism dealing with the issues of race, class, ethnicity, religion, and continental and analytical feminism will be examined. Upon successful completion of this course, students will expand their understanding of certain cultural terms such as indigenous culture, subculture, nationality, race, ethnicity, religion, identity, hybridity, hyphenated identity, difference, diversity, assimilation, integration, acculturation, transculturation, melting pot, cultural mosaics, plurality, and multiculturalism.

ACL3020

Transatlantic Literature

This course studies the role that the written word played in building a transatlantic literary culture that linked the British Isles to the North American colonies. Beginning with travel accounts and letters from America, the ways in which these reports shaped English readers? understandings of the world beyond their small island will be explored. Topics include the impact of travel on cultural identity, justifications for empire and rebellion, changing roles of women in society, literary negotiations of national identity, depictions of Native Americans and Africans, and responses to industrialization.

ACL3022

Utopias and Dystopias

This class will examine books and films, representing various time periods that present imaginary ideals (utopias) and horrible future societies (dystopias). Through an examination of selected material, students will explore a wide variety of ideas and values that have profoundly influenced human history and continue to influence lives and decisions in the contemporary world. They will use utopias and dystopias to think through how thinkers have criticized their own cultures and what ideal forms of government, family life, education, gender norms, and architecture that thinkers have presented.

ACL4001

Intro. to Women’s Studies

This course traces the position of women in society as the American culture transforms into an industrial/technological culture. The role of women as economical power in the period 1920-1940 and the women’s movement in 1960’s shall be studied through various sources literary texts, films, historical studies and feminist writings.

ACL4002

Ethnic Literature

The course presents a comparative study of the culture and writings of Native Americans, along with Italian, Jewish, Irish Americans or other 19th and 20th century early immigrants. Themes to be explored are ethnocide, assimilation, integration,and‘melting pot’theories.Students will be exposed to the representations of Chicana/oi Latin/o,Puerto Rican,Cuban,Asian-American and Native-American cultural identities.Writers may include Islas, Viramontes,Anzaldua,Cisneros, and Yamashita.

ACL4003

Postmodern Literature

The ‘postmodern’ American culture shall be explored through visual and literary representations: novels, visual arts, film and poetry. Several core themes shall be analyzed; including folklore, popular culture and multiculturalism. Some of the readings may be works of J. Kerouac, J.D. Salinger, R. Ellison, S. Bellow, B. Mallamud, N. Mailer, J. Baldwin, T. Pynchon.

ACL4004

Women in Literature

In this course students will explore various texts produced by women in the United States. Each work will be considered in its cultural context, discussing how such issues as race, gender, class, and popular culture influence the production of the text. Works by N. Larsen, Z.N. Hurston, T. Morrison, T. McMillan, A. Walker and G. Naylor shall be studied.

ACL4005

Literature and Film

This course will examine how works of literature (fiction and drama) have provided the textual foundations for cinematic productions. Students will learn how to interpret a film and comment/discuss its treatment of a literary or dramatic text. Steinbeck's 'Grapes of Wrath' and James Fennimore Cooper's 'Last of the Mohicans' and their film versions would be good examples for such evaluations.

ACL4006

Topics in Popular Culture

In this course we how popular culture is becoming increasingly central to social life in the United States and around the world will be examined. Popular culture will be defined as an interdisciplinary study that investigates American mass culture in its various forms including popular fiction and art, best sellers, Hollywood, advertising and popular music.

ACL4007

Comparative Literature

This course is designed to give the students a thorough appreciation of the 19th and 20th century literary movements in Europe, United States and Turkey; concentrating on specific genres as seen fit.

ACL4008

Science Fiction and Fantasy

This course is designed to give the students the opportunity to study some of themost important writers who initiated and developed this genre such as JulesVerne, H.G.Wells, Ursula le Guin, I.Asimov, Tolkien and Anne Rice-just to name a few.Emphasis will be on the different approaches of various authors from different backgrounds and different periods.

ACL4009

Music and America

This course provides an insight to American music by familiarizing students with its different genres and styles and a selection of key artists and their works. The study of American music may focus on a single musical genre or a variety of genres such as Native-American music, folk, country, jazz, rock'n roll, grunge, pop and hip-hop. The course will be enriched with lyrics, related articles and audio-visual materials.

ACL4011

American Art

The course is designed to provide a comprehensive study of the heritage of American Art from the colonial times to the present in painting, sculpture and architecture. Upon completion of this course, students will have acquired an aesthetic awareness of a wide range of artistic productions of the past, and will be able to reflect on the evolving nature of American society and culture through the lens of its art.

ACL4012

American Art II

This course introduces twentieth century American Art through the study of selected artists and their works. After an overview of the early twentieth century European art movements and acquiring the knowledge of the basic concepts and terms, a program is followed that is centered on twentieth century American art such as early American modernism, Regionalism, Social Realism, Abstract Expressionism, Neo-Dada, Pop Art, Minimalism, Feminist Art, Video Art and New Media Art etc.

ACL4013

Literature and Environment

The course is designed to introduce students to the vital relationship between the natural environment and human beings as portrayed in American nature writing. Representative texts by H.D. Thoreau, J. Muir, M. Austin, A. Dillard, A. Leopold, E. Abbey, B. Lopez, W. Berry, T. T. Williams and other nature writers will be studied, and the authors' ecological consciousness and wisdom based on different geographies will be discussed.

ACL4014

Contemporary American Authors

The course aims to recall the students' knowledge on previous American literature courses to build an understanding of the contemporary narratives. This course may focus on certain writer(s) or certain themes and may include short stories, novels or plays in the time frame of 1960s to the present. Emphasis may be placed on the “postmodern” narrative form. Selections are chosen accordingly.

ACL4015

American Renaissance

This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the literature produced in the United States during the pre-Civil War era through representative texts. It also aims to enhance students' critical awareness of the twentieth century responses to the great body of work produced during the era as well as the twenty first century reverberations. This course investigates various forms of literary expression before the Civil War with emphasis on the social and cultural changes during the era. Narrative strategies, major themes, and the philosophical issues addressed will be analyzed in a number of works by the major authors of the era.

ACL4016

The American Musical

The musical is part of the American heritage and culture and it is an indispensable factor. The aim of this course is to focus on the origins with emphasis on both music and texts (i.e. the minstrel shows) and follow a chronological path to present with reference to Broadway hits such as the West Side Story, Carousel and such which reflect various issues and aspects of American life and culture.

ACL4017

The Romantic Tradition

The aim of this course is to introduce students to Romantic literature and the historical and cultural background of the period. The course will first provide a picture of the social and cultural changes in Europe from the late eighteenth through mid nineteenth centuries. Literary works to be read include selections from Rousseau, Goethe, Schiller, Novalis, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, Blake.

ACL4018

Travel Writing

This course provides a foundation for students? inquiries into nonfiction travel literature and memoir, addressing recurrent themes in travel writing such as self-fashioning, the body, Orientalism, imaginative geography, Othering, the rhetoric of anticonquest, and the tourist gaze. Students will examine several contemporary travel narratives and take on the criticism that accuses travel writers of assuming a privileged, patriarchal gaze of cultural superiority when describing the exotic ?others? of Africa, Asia, Central and South America.

ACL4019

Non-Fiction (Documentary) Novel

Literary adaptations of groundbreaking events of American history comprise a distict literary genre, namely the category of "non-fiction novel." This course aims to introduce students to this genre through in-depth analyses of works such as William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner, Gore Vidal's Burr, Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Night, Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Doctorow's The Book of Daniel.

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