This course aims to explore one or more works of literature that have influenced their own times and continue to have an impact on our understanding of the world and its cultures. The course is designed to include critical reading and comparative analyses of selected works. The concepts of myth and archetypes in their various appearances are at the center of the discussions of this course. The emphasis is on imagination, feeling and expression in literature, with attention to cultural, social and political issues. Course work involves not only reading but also writing analytically and critically.
Major Works of Literature: The World Before Modernity (HUM 311)
2022 Fall
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Humanities(HUM)
3
6/5 ECTS (for students admitted in the 2013-14 Academic Year or following years)
Kelly Todd Brewer brewer@sabanciuniv.edu,
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English
Undergraduate
HUM201 HUM202 HUM207 SPS101 SPS102
Interactive lecture
Discussion based learning
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| Programs\Type | Required | Core Elective | Area Elective |
| Cultural Studies | |||
| Cultural Studies | |||
| Economics | |||
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| International Studies | |||
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| Management | |||
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| Political Science and International Relations | |||
| Political Science and International Relations | |||
| Political Science (Previous Name: Social and Political Sciences) | |||
| Psychology | |||
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| Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design | |||
| Visual Arts and Visual Communications Design |
CONTENT
OBJECTIVE
This course is an in-depth reading of Homer's Odyssey. We aim to do a close reading on this long-enduring traditional story that has influenced their times and continues to have an impact on our understanding of the world and its cultures. We explore and discuss the nature and function of myth, how to read, receive and interpret myth, how they affected life within their times, and how they are related to our current time. We also dig out subtle codes, universal symbols, or patterns that speak about the creation of the universe, the
relationship between mortals and immortals, human nature, religion, family, death, and the like.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others through selected literary works.
- Develop knowledge of theories, concepts, and research methods in humanities and social sciences through selected literary works.
- Assess how global, national and regional developments affect society through selected literary works.
- Know how to access and evaluate data from various sources of information through selected literary works.
PROGRAMME OUTCOMES
1. Understand the world, their country, their society, as well as themselves and have awareness of ethical problems, social rights, values and responsibility to the self and to others. 4
2. Understand different disciplines from natural and social sciences to mathematics and art, and develop interdisciplinary approaches in thinking and practice. 5
3. Think critically, follow innovations and developments in science and technology, demonstrate personal and organizational entrepreneurship and engage in life-long learning in various subjects; have the ability to continue to educate him/herself. 3
4. Communicate effectively in Turkish and English by oral, written, graphical and technological means. 3
5. Take individual and team responsibility, function effectively and respectively as an individual and a member or a leader of a team; and have the skills to work effectively in multi-disciplinary teams. 2
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ASSESSMENT METHODS and CRITERIA
| Percentage (%) | |
| Final | 35 |
| Midterm | 25 |
| Participation | 20 |
| Written Report | 20 |
RECOMENDED or REQUIRED READINGS
| Readings |
The Odyssey, Homer; translated by Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics. Deluxe Edition 1997. Reading List: |