Ä°KA618 - CULTURE and ENVIRONMENT IN BRITAIN
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CULTURE and ENVIRONMENT IN BRITAIN | Ä°KA618 | Any Semester/Year | 4 | 0 | 4 | 7.5 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | English | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion Question and Answer Other: oral presentations | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Department members | |||||
| Course objective | The aim of this course is to help the student gain the knowledge, skills, and competence required to develop an advanced critical outlook on the current ideas about human and nonhuman relationships, nature and culture and how their ecological interactions are articulated and contested and to critically interpret the environmental issues in cultural and literary texts and discourses of the Humanities. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | In this course, ecocritical theories, environmental ethics, globalist and neo-bioregionalist thinking are first introduced; comparatist approaches (cross-cultural, cross-ethnic); social and environmental justice in relation to ecocriticism; ecocritical approaches to visual culture and popular culture are discussed. Also ideas of animality, new approaches to gender and the body, and the relationship between ecocriticism and environmental aesthetics are critically evaluated. | |||||
| References | Joni Adamson, Mei Mei Evans, and Rachel Stein.The Environmental Justice Reader. Stacy Alaimo and Susan Hekman. Material Feminisms. Ursula Heise. Sense of Place and Sense of Planet: The Environmental Imagination of the Global. Timothy Morton. The Ecological Thought. Catriona-Mortimer Sandilands and Bruce Erickson. Queer Ecologies: Sex, Nature, Politcs, Desire. I.G. Simmons. Interpreting Nature: Cultural Constructions of the Environment. Cary Wolfe. Animal Rites: American Culture, the Discourse of Species, and Posthumanist Theory. Other relevant books and/or articles. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to Environmental Cultural Studies. |
| Week 2 | General Introduction to Ecocriticism. |
| Week 3 | Ecocriticism: Ethics, Theory, Practices in the First and Second Waves |
| Week 4 | Discussions of the initial phase developments in ecocritical theories |
| Week 5 | Oral presentations and position papers |
| Week 6 | Discussions of present developments in Environmental Humanities |
| Week 7 | Mid-Term Exam |
| Week 8 | Introduction to Ecofeminism |
| Week 9 | Introduction to Queer Ecology |
| Week 10 | Introduction to Animal Studies |
| Week 11 | Mid-Term Exam |
| Week 12 | Introduction to posthumanism and related ecocritical viewpoints |
| Week 13 | Discussion of the Material Turn in Environmental Humanities and Posthumanism |
| Week 14 | Oral presentations and position papers |
| Week 15 | Overall evaluation |
| Week 16 | Final Exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 1 | 5 |
| Presentation | 1 | 5 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 2 | 40 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 4 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 4 | 56 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 14 | 14 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 2 | 24 | 48 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 35 | 35 |
| Total Workload | 33 | 110 | 225 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. 1. Has expert knowledge in English language and literature, and culture. | X | ||||
| 2. Has expert knowledge in British cultural studies. | X | ||||
| 3. Has the necessary theoretical interdisciplinary knowledge to research and interpret texts of various genres in English literature and culture in historical, social, cultural, economic, political, philosophical, and ecological contexts. | X | ||||
| 4. Develops advanced critical, creative and analytical thinking skills. | X | ||||
| 5. Collects knowledge about English language, literature, and culture by utilizing information technologies and research methods, in both individual and collective work, and shares it in professional national and international educational environments. | X | ||||
| 6. Analyses literary and cultural texts using related theories and an interdisciplinary approach. | X | ||||
| 7. Has the necessary knowledge and skills for teaching English language, literature and culture in national and international environments. | X | ||||
| 8. Conducts interdisciplinary research with critical and creative thinking skills, solves problems, and expresses the results in national and international professional and social contexts. | X | ||||
| 9. Examines English literature, culture, history, and society through both curriculum-based and extracurricular activities, develops an unbiased and open-minded attitude towards their own culture and other cultures. | X | ||||
| 10. Adopts an unbiased, respectful and open-minded attitude concerning different religions, languages, races, sexes and social classes. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest