TED University Basic Sciences Unit World Literature Course (LIT 100) Fahri Dikkaya, PhD (Bilkent) Instructor: Fahri Dikkaya Class Times: Tuesday 15:00 17:00; and Thursday 11:00 12:00 Classroom: K084 Course Description: This course is a survey of World Literature emphasizing the ancient, medieval, early modern and modern societies of the World. The class will break down into five units. The first unit will consist of literature of ancient civilizations including Ancient Mesopotamian, Anatolian, Greek and Roman civilizations. The second unit will cover the Medieval European literature. The third unit will focus on the Early Modern European literature. Finally the forth unit will focus on Modern European literature from England to Turkey and USA. 1
The Academic Assessment: The academic assessment of this course will be divided into five parts: Written Paper Each student will be required to submit one written paper during the course of the semester. This paper should be about min. 5 pages and max. 10 pages in length. Mid-Term Exam On 27 th October 2015, there will be in class exam. The Mid-Term Exam will cover the topics that been taught until 27 th October 2015. Final Exam At the end of the semester, there will be a final examination. This will be a 2-hour in class exam. Attendance: Students must attend at least 75% of the course, that is, you will be permitted up to 10 absences our of 40 total teaching hours for this semester. Anyone who has over 10 absences without presenting a medical note will automatically be awarded an F as the final grade. Statement on Academic Integrity: TED University is committed to the maintenance of the highest standards of integrity and ethical conduct. This level of ethical behavior and integrity will be maintained in this course. Participating in a behavior that violates academic integrity, e.g. unauthorized collaboration on homework assignments, plagiarism, multiple submissions of the same assignment and paper, cheating on examinations, fabricating information, helping another person to cheat, having unauthorized advance access to examinations, altering or destroying the work of others, or any other action deemed as giving an unfair academic advantage, will result in disciplinary action. In this course, each student will be required to not discriminate of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national or ethnic origin, age and disability on the course assessments. 2
Grading: Final Exam: % 45 Written Paper: % 30 Mid-Term Exam: %20 Attendance and participation: %5 Class Schedule: Week 1 Week 2 Introduction to world literature Ancient Mesopotamian Literature The Epic of Gilgamish Week 3 Ancient Anatolian Literature Homer s Illiad and Odyssey, Hesiodios Theogenia, Works and Days Week 4 Ancient Greek Literature Plato s Republic, Aristotheles Poetica, Euripides The Trojan Women, Sappho s Poems Week 5 Roman Literature Virgilius Aeneid, Horace Odes, Ovidius Metamorphosis, Cicero s De Fato, Laelius de Amicitis Week 6 European Medieval Literature Boethius The Consolidation of Philosophy, Chaucer s Canterbury Tales, Dante s Inferno Week 7 Anatolian Medieval Literature Niketas Eugenianos Drosilla and Charikles, Yunus Emre s Poems 3
Week 8 Week 9 Mid-Term Exam Early Modern European Literature Miguel de Cervantes Don Quixote de la Mancha, Thomas More s Utopia, Boccacio s Decameron, Moliére s Tartuffe, Shakespeare s Hamlet, Merchant of Venice, Marlowe s Faust Week 10 Early Modern Ottoman Literature Nedim s Poems, Evliya Çelebi s The Book of Travels, Fuzuli s Leyla ile Mecnun Week 11 18 th century Daniel Dafoe s Robinson Crusoe, Jonathan Swift s Gullivers Travels, Johann Georg Hamann s Sturm und Drang, Goethe s The Sorrows of Young Werther, Schiller s William Tell, Voltaire s Candide, Rousseau s Emile Week 12 19 th century William Blake Milton, Lord Byron s Poems, Victorian Literature, Hölderlin s Poems, German Romanticism, Poe s Short Stories, Stowe s Uncle Sam s Cabin, 19 th century American Literature, Week 13 19 th century Lamartine s Poems, Flaubert s Madame Bovary, 19 th century French Literature, Tolstoy s Anna Karenina, Golden Age of Russian Literature, Western Literature in the Ottoman Empire. Week 14 20 th century before WWII Kipling s Kim, Woolf s Orlando, Hemingway s A Farewell of Arms, Early 20 th century English Literature, Thomas Mann s Buddenbrooks, Weimar Literature, Silver Age of Russian Literature, Proust s In Search of Lost Time, French Literature, National Movement and Republican Literature in Turkey Week 15 20 th century after WWII 4
George Orwell s 1984, Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye, Late Modernist English Literature, Günter Grass The Tin Drum, Post-war German literature, Solzhenitsyn s The Gulag Archipelago, Soviet Literature, Camus The Plague, French Literature after WWII, Tanpınar s The Time Regulation Institute, Pamuk s The Black Book, Nazım Hikmet s Poems, Turkish Literature after 1945 5