REQUIRED COURSES

Odd-numbered courses (for example, 109, 115, 205) are generally offered in the Autumn Semester.
Even-numbered courses (for example, 112, 130, 208) are generally offered in the Spring Semester. 

ELIT 109 Translation I (English-Turkish)
(Çeviri I)
Aims to use English passages for translation to help students improve their reading comprehension, enlarge their vocabulary, and deepen their awareness and understanding of different usage and structures. 

ELIT 112 Translation II (Turkish-English) 
(Çeviri II)
Sequel to ELIT 109. Designed to help students practice their written English through translation of various texts in Turkish allowing them to use different grammatical structures. 

ELIT 114 Critical Reading
(Eleştirel Okuma)
The first year course will offer a means of bringing together and further developing the student's reading and comprehension skills. The main aim of the course will be to create and develop students' awareness of centrality of careful critical reading to the study of literature. The course will involve the teaching and development of critical interpretative and reading skills using a variety of short texts and will introduce the students, at a basic level, to the range of critical approaches to the study of literature that are available.

ELIT 115 Oral Expression Discussion and Presentation
(Sözlü İfade, Tartışma ve Sunum) 
This course aims to help students improve their speaking skills in an intellectual context. Through extensive drills and practice, students will be familiarized with ways and methods of oral expression, meaningful, persuasive and coherent speech, and discussion and presentation. Course material will include topics and relatively short or excerpted texts in a wide spectrum of areas such as humanities, social sciences, history, philosophy, psychology, science and technology, the arts, music, and media. .

ELIT 130 Selections from English Literature (to the Restoration)
(İngiliz Edebiyatından Seçmeler) 
Designed to familiarize students with the major works and authors of English literature from its beginnings to the Restoration. The works to be introduced may include Beowulf; Canterbury Tales; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight; Piers Plowman; Medieval lyrics, ballads, and plays; Morte Darthur; Utopia; 16th century sonnets, and lyrics; The Faerie Queene; Dr. Faustus; Metaphysical and Cavalier Poetry; Paradise Lost essays by Bacon; Leviathan. 

ELIT 139 Appreciation of Literature 
(Edebiyata Eleştirel Yaklaşım)
An introduction to the study and appreciation of three major literary genres: drama, short fiction and poetry. 

ELIT 141 British History
(İngiliz Tarihi)
This course aims to cover British history from the times of Beowulf to the present, with particular emphasis on the modern era. The focus will be on the social, economic, and political dimensions of the various historical periods covered.

ELIT 205 Oral Expression Discussion and Presentation I
(Sözlü Anlatım,Tartışma ve Sunum I) 
This course aims to enhance students' interest in using different methods of oral expression in order to improve their speaking skills through extensive drills and practice as well as using topics related to humanities, philosophy, the arts, music and media. 

ELIT 208 Critical Reading 
(Metin İncelemeleri)
This course aims to help students develop their critical, interpretative and reading skills by the study and analysis of selected non-literary texts. 

ELIT 209 Topics in Literary and Culture Studies
(Edebiyat ve Kültür İncelenmesi Dallarında Belirli Konu)
This course offers students the opportunity to study one topic in an in-depth manner. The instructor may organize the course around a specific theme (monsters, falling in love, London), genre (the Gothic, young adult fiction, journalism), critical paradigm (globalization, print culture, performance), or particular aspect of British culture (contemporary film, J. K. Rowling, the Beatles). Through sustained focus on a single topic, students will improve their ability to draw links among diverse literary texts and establish critical connections.

ELIT 217 Research and Writing Techniques for Literary Essays
(Edebi Denemeler için Araştırma ve Yazma Teknikleri)
The course aims at teaching English Literature students the necessary steps of research and writing literary essays on the subjects chosen from English Literature. The process involves such stages of selecting a topic, using library facilities, compiling a working bibliography, taking notes, avoiding plagiarism, preparing an outline and writing a well-organized, adequately supported and accurately documented research essays. At the end of the course the students are expected to develop a notion of academic writing using the necessary tools and become familiar with the steps of writing literary essays.

ELIT 222 Introduction to Theory and Criticism
(Teori ve Eleştiriye Giriş)
The course will analyze texts from at least three major theoretical movements of relevance to contemporary critical practice, including Marxism, psychoanalytical criticism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and theories of gender, sexuality, and culture. These theoretical texts will be studied in conjunction with selected primary texts in order to enable students to see how theory works in practice.

ELIT 224 World Mythology 
(Dünya Mitolojisi)
An introduction to the origins and characteristics of myth and the study of mythic motives and themes found in world mythology with emphasis on classical myths. 

ELIT 225 British Society and Culture
(İngiliz Toplumu ve Kültürü)
This course offers an introduction to life and society in Britain from the Middle Ages to the 19th century. This course will be conducted both by the teaching staff of the department and by guest speakers specializing on various aspects of the subject.

ELIT 242 Introduction to Drama
(Tiyatroya Giriş) 
An introduction to the study of drama based on a selection of works including Greek tragedy and modern classics. 

ELIT 262 The English Novel II (19th Century) 
(İngiliz Romanı II)
A study of the major English novelists of the 19th century. 

ELIT 265 Introduction to the Novel 
(Romana Giriş)
This course introduces students to the study of the novel in English, placing emphasis on formal qualities such as language, structure, plot, character, theme, and setting. The course offers a bridge between earlier courses introducing students to literary study more broadly, and later courses, in which the novel is studied in period and thematic more broadly, and later courses, in which the novel is studied in period and thematic contexts. Texts for study may be taken from any period or sub-genre of the novel. 

ELIT 270 Poetry 
(Şiir)
An introduction to poetry through selected examples written in English. 

ELIT 281 The Short Story
(Öykü İncelemeleri) 
An introduction to the short story through selected examples from British, American, and world writing. 

ELIT 361 Modern British Fiction I (to the 1950s) 
(Modern İngiliz Romanı I)
A survey of developments in British fiction from the beginning of the 20th century to the 1950s. Major authors might include Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, E.M. Forster, Waugh and Orwell. 

ELIT 362 Modern British Fiction II (1950s to present) 
(Modern İngiliz Romanı II)
A study of developments in British fiction in the second half of the 20th century, such as post-modernism, feminist issues, and the campus novel. Authors may include Golding, Fowles, Beckett, Durrell, Lessing, Murdoch, Drabble, Weldon, Roberts, K. Amis, Lodge, Bradbury, Barker, Winterson, etc.

ELIT 351 Shakespeare I (Comedies, Romances, Problem Plays) 
(Shakespeare I)
Devoted to Shakespeare's romantic comedies, romances, and problem plays.

ELIT 352 Shakespeare II (Tragedies, Roman Plays, Histories) 
(Shakespeare II)
A study of Shakespeare's tragedies, Roman plays, and histories.

ELIT 355 Major Writers of the Renaissance 
(Rönesans Edebiyatı)
A study of major works by principal dramatists other than Shakespeare; 16th century lyrics and sonnets; Metaphysical and Cavalier poetry, and Milton.

ELIT 356 Major Writers of the Neoclassical Period 
(Neoklasik Dönem Edebiyatı)
A study of selections from the major works of such writers as Dryden, Addison, Steele, Swift, Pope, Dr. Johnson, and Boswell.

ELIT 423 Theory and Practice of Criticism 
(Eleştiri Kuramları)
A historical survey of literary criticism with emphasis on the 20th century. Methods of critical analysis will be illustrated in the light of selected texts.

ELIT 438 Selected Topics 
(Seçme Konu ve Temalar)
The course will cover any genre, movement, writer or topic not included in the curriculum. The coverage of the course will be determined according to the needs of the students and to the recent developments in literary studies.

ELIT 441 British Drama I (from the Restoration to the 1950s) 
(İngiliz Tiyatrosu I)
A study of British Drama from the Restoration to the 1950s including works by such writers as Dryden, Congreve, Gay, Behn, Pinero, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Wilde, Priestley, Shaw, Eliot, Synge and O'Casey.

ELIT 442 British Drama II (from the 1950s to present) 
(İngiliz Tiyatrosu II)
Sequel to ELIT 441. Dramatists to be studied may include Beckett, Bolt, Osborne, Wesker, Pinter, Shaffer, Arden, Stoppard, Churchill and Bond.

ELIT 456 Major Writers of the Victorian Period 
(Viktorya Dönemi Edebiyatı)
Selections from the principal works of such writers as Tennyson, Browning, Carlyle, Ruskin and Arnold.

ELIT 463 Post-Colonial Fiction 
(Sömürgecilik Sonrası Roman)
A study of recent fiction written in English by authors coming from former colonies of the British Empire. Works by such authors as Chinua Achebe, Buchi Emecheta, V.S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureishi, Kamala Markandaya, R.K. Narayan and Anita Desai may be discussed. Post-colonial theory will also be studied through the texts of Edward Said, Frantz Fanon, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak and Ngugi wa Thiong'o.

ELIT 471 Romantic Poetry 
(Romantik Şiir)
A study of selections from the major works of such poets as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.

ELIT 474 20th Century Poetry 
(20. Yüzyıl Şiiri)
A study of the dominant trends and major poets of the 20th century. Poets to be studied may include Hardy, Owen, Sassoon, Yeats, T.S. Eliot, MacDiarmid, Graves, Auden, Thomas, MacNeice, Larkin, Gunn, Hughes, Harrison and Heaney.



ELECTIVE COURSES

Elective courses are created by the members of the teaching faculty in accord with their current 
areas of interest. Thus, elective offerings will change from year to year, 
and some elective courses will not be offered more than once. The following 
list shows the elective courses that have been offered by the 
Department in recent years.

ELIT 225 British Society and Culture I
(İngiliz Toplumu ve Kültürü I)
An introduction to life and society in Britain from the Middle Ages to the 19th century with emphasis on the distinctive features of British life.

ELIT 226 British Society and Culture II
(İngiliz Toplumu ve Kültürü II)
An introduction to life and society in Britain from the 19th century to the present with emphasis on the distinctive features of modern British life.

ELIT 263 Detective Fiction 
(Polisiye Roman)
A study of the genre and the works of major detective fiction writers.

ELIT 264 Writing London 1800-2000 
(1800-2000 Yılları arasında Londra Üzerine Yazılmış Yazılar)
A study of the writings on London examining the characteristics of the city between 1800-2000.

ELIT 276 Ghost Stories 
(Hayalet Öyküleri)
A study of the selected examples of short stories about ghosts, urban legends and haunted places. 

ELIT 311 Translation II 
(Çeviri II)
A study of the meaning and theory of translation, translation of longer and more complicated texts in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama, and an analysis and critical evaluation of translated texts with a review of major grammatical points in both source and target languages. The aim of the course is to give students an overall idea about the meaning and importance of translation.

ELIT 324 Music and Literature 
(Müzik ve Edebiyat)
A study of how literature is used and transformed by music. It will cover a variety of musical and literary forms: lieder, poetry, opera, libretti, and the novel, the symphonic poem, jazz, pop/rock, and song lyrics. Students are not expected to have specific musical knowledge.

ELIT 327/ ELIT 375 The City and Literature 
(Kent ve Yazın)
A study of literature in which the main theme is the city and the city dwellers.

ELIT 343 Text and Performance 
(Oyun ve Sahneleme)
A study and understanding of aspects of dramatic performance with the study of dramatic texts. Students will be assessed for their written work and for their performance and understanding of stage-craft. Stage experience is not a pre-requisite.

ELIT 365 Literature of the 1890s: Real Colonies and Colonies of the Mind 
(1890larda Edebiyat: Gerçek Sömürgeler ve Belirli bir Zihniyetin Sömürgeleri)
A study of selected examples of British Literature from the 1890s, focusing on three themes: self-division, women's situation in imperialism and colonialism. The aim of the course is to set the works studied in their social, cultural, and political contexts, as well as to study them as examples of the prose, drama, and poetry of the time.

ELIT 367 Popular Fiction and the British Empire 
(Popüler Roman ve Britanya İmparatorluğu)
A study on popular fiction published in the decades just before and after 1900, the course will consider the ways in which British writing responded to and articulated Britain's status as a modern imperial power.

ELIT 371 Selections From World Literature 
(Dünya Yazınından Seçmeler)
A study of selected poems to introduce leading poets to enhance the students' understanding and appreciation of world literature .

ELIT 373 Modern Poetry By Women 
(Modern Kadın Şiiri)
A study of representative examples of poetry by women from the 1950s to the present. The poets studied will include H.D., Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn Hacker, Fleur Adcock, Moyra van Duyn, Sharon Olds, Marge Piercy, Judith Wright, Tzu Pheng Lee, Adelia Prado, and Margaret Atwood. The course will aim to look at the poems in relation to their historical context and consider the development of themes and issues particular to women's poetry. Since most of this poetry is written in free verse the course will also pay attention to the techniques of free verse and will ask which are the best methods of analysis for this type of poetry. Students will be encouraged to write their own poetry (in English), if they wish.

ELIT 374 Metaphysical Poetry 
(Metafizik Şiir)
A study of the important 17th century poetical movement and representative poets such as Donne, Marvell, Vaughan and Herbert.

ELIT 387 Travel Literature 
(Gezi Edebiyatı)
A study of travel writings selected from leading travel writers. 

ELIT 409 Literary Translation 
(Edebi Çeviri)
A study of selected texts in fiction, non-fiction, poetry and drama, and an analysis and critical evaluation of translated texts with a review of major grammatical points in both source and target languages. 

ELIT 412 Creative Writing 
(Yaratıcı Yazım Teknikleri)
A study of practices in writing and rewriting poems, dialogues, stories and reviews combined with in-class exercises with discussions of student work. 

ELIT 413 Writing and Autobiography 
(Yazı ve Otobiyografi)
A study of autobiographical writing through the study of autobiographies, confessions and diaries. Autobiographical elements in literary writings such as lyric and narrative poetry and the novel, and the relationship between autobiography and fiction, the importance of memory in the creation of autobiographical texts and how identities and the self are represented in autobiographical writings will also be considered.

ELIT 415 Environmental Literature 
(Cevre ve Edebiyat)
A study of the history of environmental writing in Britain and the United States with an introduction of several important thematic trends, together with the study of certain texts varying from 18th century to 20th century.

ELIT 430 20th Century Irish Poetry 
(20.Yüzyıl İrlanda Şiiri)
A study of Irish poetry written in the English language in the 20th Century with a special emphasis on the works of both William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney who have been awarded as the recipients of the Nobel Prize for Literature and Patrick Kavanagh whose work forms an essential link between the styles and preoccupations of his predecessor WB Yeats and his successor Seamus Heaney. 

ELIT 431 World Literature 
(Dünya Edebiyatı)
A survey of world literature covering a wide range of examples from representative writers such as Voltaire, Tolstoy, Kafka, Achebe, Marcia Marquez, Rabindranath Tagore and Premchand.

ELIT 435 Doubles and Mirror Images
(Benzer Temalar)
A study of a variety of poems and fictional works from the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the ways in which mirrors and other types of double image are used to dramatize questions of identity but also wider social issues such as women's position, power, class, and so on. Some critical and theoretical perspectives would also be used to elucidate the chosen texts.

ELIT 437 From Page to Screen: Literary Adaptation for Film 
(Metinden Perdeye: Filmlerde Edebiyat Uyarlamaları)
A study of selected works of literature which have been adapted to movies.

ELIT 444 Jacobean Tragedy 
(Jacobean Döneminde Trajediler)
A study of the works of Ford, Massinger, Chapman, Beaumont and Fletcher who are the Jacobean playwrights writing during the reign of James I (1603-1625).

ELIT 446 Recent American Cinema 
(Cağdaş Amerikan Sineması)
A study of contemporary American movies with an analysis of techniques and developments in the 20th century American cinema.

ELIT 447 American Film Classics 
(Klasik Amerikan Filmleri)
A study of American film classics with an emphasis on evolution of American film from origins through film noir and modern classics. The major films of Welles, Huston, Hitchcock, Scorcese, Kubrick will be studied.

ELIT 448 International Film 
(Dünya Sinemasından Seçmeler)
A study of techniques and developments in classic international films . The major films of Eisenstein, Marais Clouzot, Kurosawa, Tarkovsky, De Sica, Fellini, Lean, Wenders, and Kieslowski will be studied.

ELIT 449 Recent British Cinema 
(Cağdaş İngiliz Sinemasi)
A study of recent British films beginning with the 1970s. Its presentation will assume a certain familiarity with mainstream American film but will strive, by comparison and contrast with that more familiar terrain, to discern the specific character of British filmmaking. Some of the more prominent British directors and actors will be considered. The course will also present a varied selection with respect to the films' style and content.

ELIT 450 Introduction to Popular Culture 
(Popüler Kültüre Giriş)
A study of basic theories, approaches and topics within popular culture. The course will examine different methods of popular culture, research and theories on which they are based. There will be in-depth study of international and global aspects of everyday life and popular culture such as consumer culture, mass media, entertainment, migration, and technology.

ELIT 451 Shakespeare Text and Recorded Performance 
(Shakespeare Metinleri ve Temsilleri)
A study of the interrelationship between the written texts of Shakespeare's plays and the interpretations of these texts in recorded performances. Class discussions are planned to cover important aspects of Shakespeare's drama as reflected on the written text and in performance, with special emphasis on play as literature versus play as drama, ways and means of acting and stage direction, setting, character, speech, action, situation and interaction. Students will be asked to read selected passages from Shakespeare's plays and contribute to the comparative discussion of the written text and recorded performance. The course will be based on extensive use of audio-visual material.

ELIT 462 Single Author Study
(Tek bir Yazar üzerine Çalışma)
A study of a writer's writings in relation to themes including his/her concern with personal relationships and his/her representation of them in his/her novels. With its detailed focus on one author, the course will enable students to study the ways in which themes and concerns appear and reappear through the body of a writer's work, within and across different genres.

ELIT 466 Twice-Told Tales 
(Aynı Öykü-Farklı Anlatım)
A study of different narrative techniques within chosen short stories.

ELIT 468 South African Literature 
(Güney Afrika Edebiyatı)
The study of one of the richest and most exciting national literature in the postcolonial field. It presents a selection of works by writers such as Coetzee, Gordimer, Brutus and Fugard. While giving due attention to literary merits, the course will also strive to consider the writings in relation to South Africa's society and history.

ELIT 475 Poetry of the World Wars 
(I. ve II. Dünya Savaşında Şiir)
A study of the work of the principal poets of the World Wars such as Hardy, Thomas, Owen, Sassoon, Rosenberg, Gurney, Jones, Reed, Lewis, Douglas.

ELIT 484 Comedy Carnival and Literature 
(Komedi Karnaval ve Edebiyat)
A study of the themes of comedy, laughter and irony through, the study of a range of literary materials, including excerpts from Rabelais, Shakespeare, Pope, Swift, Dickens and others, as well as novels by Hrabal and Kundera. We will also study critical and theoretical writings by Mikhail Bakhtin, Sigmund Freud and others on humour and jokes. The theoretical basis of the course will be taken from Bakhtin's writings about carnival and folk humour. Bakhtin's view of comedy and laughter will be the primary focus of the course, as the historical, cultural and political meanings of comedy and laughter are explored.

ELIT 487 British Travelers in West Africa 
(Batı Afrika'da İngiliz Seyyahlar)
A study of selected examples of travel writings on West Africa by British writers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Differences between men's and women's perceptions and representations of themselves and others and how they considered their journeys and their writings will also be discussed.

ELIT 492 Australian Literature 
(Avustralya Edebiyatı)
A study of Australian literature which has established itself among the most vigorous and engaging national literatures of the contemporary world - and not simply of the postcolonial'' world. The course will begin by plotting pertinent aspects of Australian history and outlining typical, recognizable concerns and themes that emerge in Australian writing. The readings will begin with Patrick White, Nobel Laureate and thus the Australian "iigiant". The course will proceed with selections of fictional prose and some poetry, moving toward a close focus on David Malouf, who is, like Peter Carey or Thomas Keneally, an internationally acknowledged major voice among Australia's living writers.

ELIT 495 The Fin De Siecle Decadence Degeneration and the New Woman
(19.Yüzyıl Sonunda Yeni Kadın Teması)
A study of the turn of the century writers in the context of the aesthetic movement, scientific theories of degeneration and feminism. Material will include writers of fiction and non-fiction with art and music options as well as an opportunity to compare the late 19th century with the late 20th century.

OTHER COURSES

The Department's teaching faculty have also offered, in the last few years, courses for students in the University's ETE (English Teacher Education) program. Most of these courses have been modeled upon ELIT courses. The courses here listed are exceptions to this general rule.

ELIT 126 Literature for Young Learners

AMER 383 American Novel to 1900

AMER 384 American Novel from 1900