Course Title : Introduction to Literature
Code		Course Type	Regular Semester	Lecture (hours/week)	Seminar (hours/week)	Lab (hours/week)	Credits	ECTS
ELL 101-1		A	1	3	0	0	3.00	5
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Language				English
Course Level
Description		An introduction to short story from British and American Literature and Novels. Analysis of use of setting, character and theme and voice in literature, with author and cultural studies background.
Objectives		To improve English written and reading skills. To improve analysis of literature. To become acquainted with various forms of British and American literature. To analyze literature structure, style and genre. To critically write on exams analysis of vocabulary, metaphor, style, meaning and prose.
Course Outline
Week	Topics
1	Responding to literature and reading drama. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex considered
2	Sophocles Oedipus Rex continued
3	“Reading Poetry”; Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”; Thomas Hardy, “The Ruined Maid”
4	William Blake, “The Chimney Sweeper”; John Keats, “On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer”; Gerard Manley Hopkins, “Spring and Fall”; A.E. Housman, “When I Was One-and-Twenty”; Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning”
5	“Reading Fiction” and Hemingway, “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place”
6	“Reading Essays” and Langston Hughes, “Salvation”
7	Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”
8	Midterm Exam.First Essay Due
9	Wordsworth, “The World Is Too Much with Us”; Claude McKay, “If We Must Die” Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ulysses”
10	Henrik Ibsen, “A Doll’s House”
11	Looking Deeper, From History to Literature/ Martin Luther King, Jr., “Letter from Birmingham Jail”
12	William Faulkner, “A Rose for Emily”; Alice Walker, “Everyday Use”
13	Second Essay Due/ Kate Chopin, “The Storm” /Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper"
14	John Donne, “Death Be Not Proud”; Emily Dickinson, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes”
15	Ambrose Bierce An occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge/ Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
16	Final Exam
Prerequisites
Textbook
Other References
Laboratory Work			-
Computer Usage			-
Other			-
Learning Outcomes and Competences
1	Introduction to the genres and the writings of British and American Literature
2	Improvement of the spoken and written skills in English
3	Enhancement of the analytical skills , and promotion of the knowledge on the authors, characters and cultural backgrounds
Course Evaluation Methods
In-term studies						Quantity	Percentage
Midterms						1	20
Quizzes						0	0
Projects						1	10
Term Projects						1	15
Laboratory						0	0
Attendance						1	10
Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade							55
Contribution of final examination to overall grade							45
Total							100
ECTS (Allocated Based on Student) Workload
Activities					Quantity	Duration (hours)	Total Workload (hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week : 16 x Total course hours)					16	3	48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)					14	3	42
Assignments					2	5	10
Midterms					1	5	5
Final examination					1	13	13
Other					2	4	8
Total Work Load							126
Total Work Load / 25 (hours)							5.04
ECTS							5

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