Authors and Texts
aozkan@gsu.edu.tr
Content
Objective
The course aims to analyze major authors and works in the history of French literature.
Course Content
The course examines authors and works from different centuries. Drawing on methods of textual analysis, it studies canonical works in relation to their literary genres and historical periods.
Course Learning Outcomes
Examine selected authors and works from different periods of French literature within their historical, social, and cultural contexts.
Analyze the relationship between individuals and urban spaces in literary works, particularly through representations of Paris and Istanbul, focusing on urban experience, crowds, solitude, and alienation.
Examine literary representations of the Mediterranean region through the concepts of multiculturalism, migration, borders, and belonging.
Discuss how literary works address social issues such as crime, justice, responsibility, power, and institutional violence.
Critically interpret representations of identity, otherness, multiple cultural affiliations, and social exclusion in literary texts.
Examine literary representations of war, occupation, resistance, genocide, and testimony, and analyze the relationships between literature, history, and collective memory.
Teaching and Learning Methods
Lectures, discussions, and question-and-answer sessions.
References
Selected texts from French literature.
Weekly Contents
| Week | Weekly Contents |
|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction |
| 2 | City and the Individual Paris I: The Modern City, Crowds, and Solitude |
| 3 | City and the Individual Paris II: Paris from a Foreigner’s Perspective and the Urban Experience of Turkish Writers |
| 4 | City and the Individual Istanbul: The City Seen from Within and Outside |
| 5 | The Mediterranean: Space, Culture, and Borders The Sea, the Port, Departure, and Belonging |
| 6 | The Mediterranean: Space, Culture, and Borders The Port, Multiculturalism, Migration, and Borders |
| 7 | Exam mid-term |
| 8 | Crime and Society Crime, Judgment, and Responsibility: Understanding and Judging the Criminal |
| 9 | Crime and Society Crime, Society, and Power: Individual Violence, Political Crime, and Institutional Violence |
| 10 | Identity, Alterity, and Exclusion Marginality, Exclusion, and Belonging |
| 11 | Identity, Alterity, and Exclusion Identity, Multiple Forms of Belonging, and the Gaze of the Other |
| 12 | War, Literature, and the Human Condition: Occupation, Testimony, and Memory Occupation and Resistance: Writing During the War |
| 13 | War, Literature, and the Human Condition: Occupation, Testimony, and Memory Camps, Genocide, and Testimony |
| 14 | Review |
Assessment System
| Activities | Number | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Contribution of in-term studies to overall grade | 0 | 0 |
| Contribution of final exam to overall grade | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 0 |
| Activities | Number | Contribution |
|---|---|---|
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 0 | 0 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Other Applications | 0 | 0 |
| Quiz | 0 | 0 |
| Term Paper/ Project | 0 | 0 |
| Portfolio Study | 0 | 0 |
| Reports | 0 | 0 |
| Learning Diary | 0 | 0 |
| Thesis/ Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Other | 1 | 0 |
| Make-up | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 2 | 0 |
Relation of Proficiency
| No | Program Learning Outcomes | Contribution | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | Acquire competence in written French C1 | X | ||||
| 2 | Acquisition of speaking proficiency in French at level C1 | X | ||||
| 3 | Being able to translate from French to Turkish at all levels of language. | X | ||||
| 4 | Being able to translate from Turkish to French at all levels of language. | X | ||||
| 5 | Being able to analyze texts of various kinds and levels. | X | ||||
| 6 | Being able to make cross-cultural studies. | X | ||||
| 7 | To teach French literature. | X | ||||
| 8 | Being able to descriptions of languages starting with the contemporary linguistic theories. | X | ||||
| 9 | Being able to teach French as a foreign language. | X | ||||
| 10 | Having acquired the Spanish language and literature. | |||||
ECTS
| Activities | Number | Period | Total Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Class Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Working Hours out of Class | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Presentation | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Midterm Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Final Examinations (including preparation) | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| Term Paper/ Project | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Other | 0 | 10 | 0 |
| Total Workload | 106 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 | 4.24 | ||
| Credits ECTS | 4 | ||