THB757 - TRADITIONAL NARRATIVE and DICOURSE ANALYSIS

Course Name Code Semester Theory
(hours/week)
Application
(hours/week)
Credit ECTS
TRADITIONAL NARRATIVE and DICOURSE ANALYSIS THB757 Fall 3 0 3 7.5
Prequisites
Course languageTurkish
Course typeElective 
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-Face 
Learning and teaching strategiesLecture
Question and Answer
Other  
Instructor (s) 
Course objectiveIn this course, Narratives as the basic medium and expressive forms in which human beings speak, think, grow into selves and identities and understand others are examined. 
Learning outcomes
  1. At the end of the course, students should be able to, ? Have a theoretical and methodological understanding about how Narrative used as an interview method and qualitative data, ? Gain a questioning perspective and knowledge about the methods and approaches used in compiling, transcribing and analyzing of narratives, ? Examine the narrative texts he/she compiled, in the frame of thematic, structural, contextual, semantic and functional characteristics.
Course ContentIn this course, Narratives as the basic medium and expressive forms in which human beings speak, think, grow into selves and identities and understand others are examined. Beginning with a review of the place and importance of Narrative as a qualitative approach and methods used to analyze the individual and society in social sciences; specific approaches suitable for analysis of narratives that conceptualize the narratives as forms in which every kind of personal and collective experiences have been interpreted and reconstructed in the frame of situational and socio-cultural contexts.  
References? BAUMAN, Richard, Story, Performance, and Event: Contextual Studies of Oral Narrative, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
? BROKMEIER, J & D. CARBAUGH, Narrative and Identity, Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2001.
? BRUNER, Jerome, Acts of Meaning, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
? CLANDININ, J. & F. M. CONNELLY, Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Researches, John Wily and Sons Inc., 2000.
? ELLIS, Carolyn & M.G. FLAHERTY (Ed.), Investigating Subjectivity. Research on Lived Experience, Newbury Park, London, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1992.
? LABOV, W & J. WALETZKY, ?Narrative Analysis: Oral Version of Personal Experience?, Essay on the Verbal and Visual Arts, Ed. June Helm, Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1967: 12-44.
? LINDE, Charlotte, Life Stories: The Creation of Coherence, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
? MISHLER, E., Research Interviewing: Context and Narrative, Boston: Harvard University Press, 1986.
 

Course outline weekly

WeeksTopics
Week 1Traditional Narrative and Discourse Analysis
Week 2The genre, context, form, expression charactaristics , vocabulary and idioms in traditional narratives
Week 3The contiunity, mobility, monotypness, repetition issues in expresions.
Week 4The formationa of oral text.
Week 5The transitivity and borrowing between oral narrative texts.
Week 6The character of expression and effects of its in oral text as a communication device.
Week 7Midterm exam
Week 8The Discourse Analysis on Selected Narrative (Myth and legends)
Week 9The Discourse Analysis on Selected Narrative (Folk Tales)
Week 10The Discourse Analysis on Selected Narrative (Folk Stories)
Week 11The Discourse Analysis on Selected Narrative (Turkish minstrel style poems)
Week 12The Discourse Analysis on Selected Narrative (Turkish idioms and proverbs)
Week 13The Discourse Analysis on Selected Narrative (Turkish idioms and proverbs)
Week 14The Discourse Analysis on Selected Narrative (Oral history and memory)
Week 15Overwiev
Week 16Final Exam

Assesment methods

Course activitiesNumberPercentage
Attendance15
Laboratory00
Application00
Field activities00
Specific practical training00
Assignments135
Presentation00
Project00
Seminar00
Midterms00
Final exam160
Total100
Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes140
Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes160
Total100

WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION

Activities Number Duration (hour) Total Work Load
Course Duration (x14) 14 3 42
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application000
Specific practical training000
Field activities21224
Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect)14342
Presentation / Seminar Preparation000
Project000
Homework assignment14848
Midterms (Study duration)12424
Final Exam (Study duration) 13030
Total Workload33120210

Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes

D.9. Key Learning OutcomesContrubition level*
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1. Students produce new and original scientific thought related to folklore field    X
2. Students reach qualified and original results in the problems of method, concept and application which require expertise.    X
3. Students issue a scientific paper about their field and present new ideas and methods.    X
4. Students lead in solution of social problems which require cultural expertise.    X
5. Students take charge in national and international cultural projects as founder, coordinator or researcher    X
6. Students have high level information about cultural heritage management    X
7. Students study about applied cultural science in corporate level    X
8. Students shape the process of lifelong learning in liaison with media organs.    X
9. Students translate a scientific paper or book in a foreign language with terminology of field.    X

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest