ELIT529 PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF LITERATURE
| Course Code: | 8210529 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | English Literature |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. NURTEN BİRLİK |
| Offered Semester: | Fall and Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The students are expected to
1. to develop a greater understanding and appreciation of psychoanalytic and literary writing
2.to develop skills in psychoanalytically-inflected approaches to reading literary texts and engage students in psychoanalyzing a broad variety of texts, literary or non-literary
3.to widen students’ consciousness of varieties of psychological approaches to literature
Course Content
After basic concepts, theories and trends of psychology are introduced, representative literary works are studied in the light of these trends.
Course Learning Outcomes
The students are expected to
1.identify major psychoanalytical approaches and discuss them in relation to their historical context and to other theoretical perspectives, to longstanding literary and intellectual traditions
2.discuss a broad variety of texts covered in the course as demonstrated through written essays which show their awareness of the issues raised by psychoanalytical perspectives
3. write two 3000-word term papers (three for PhD sts) at the end of the semester concentrating on a series of psychoanalytic, critical and literary texts
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | compare and contrast literary texts written in different periods of British literature in terms of form and content. | ✔ | |||
| 2 | appreciate authors who emerge out of non-British contexts. | ✔ | |||
| 3 | approach the notion of the literary canon from a critical perspective. | ✔ | |||
| 4 | read and interpret texts critically from different theoretical vantage points. | ✔ | |||
| 5 | become acquainted with the characteristics of various genres of literature. | ✔ | |||
| 6 | identify major themes and generic features of literary texts. | ✔ | |||
| 7 | analyze the relationships between form and content in literary texts. | ✔ | |||
| 8 | outline the major lines of critical argument around literary and cultural texts. | ✔ | |||
| 9 | write insighful papers on different literary topics. | ✔ | |||
| 10 | articulate their ideas with a critical awareness in literary discussions. | ✔ | |||
| 11 | decipher different literary texts in terms of structure and technical features. | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution