GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
SLAVIC MYTHOLOGY-I/RDE- 365
Course Title: SLAVIC MYTHOLOGY-I
Credits 2 ECTS 3
Semester 5 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Prof. Emine Zeynep GÜNAL
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/zeynepgunal
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  zeynepgunal@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
1.Students are not only high self-confident about their subjects, but also active and competent at academic spheres.
Students are able to prepare and make visual or written presentations about Russian language and literature.
Students have theoritical and practical knowledge in order to qualify the categories of Russian literature with their characteristical features.
Students have current theoritical and practical knowledge in order to make translations from Russian to Turkish.
Student practically analyses literary and cultural texts related to their theories as part of interdisciplinary approach.
The students gain the ability of researching methods and to make academic publications in the field of literature and linguistics.
The student is able to do researches, solve problems with his/her critical, creative and analytical thinking skills and he can express himself.
The students gain useful skills in a positive sense from intercultural differences and have the ability to compare Turkish and Russian culture.
Besides Russian, students learn Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Bosnian languages and get informations about the cultures of these languages.
The student is able to collect information and data about Russian language, literature and culture.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  What is myth? What is mythology?
2. Week  The place of Russian mythology in the mythological system in the world.
3. Week  The creation of the world.
4. Week  Appearance of celestial body. The legends about the emergence of natural properties.
5. Week  The legends about the creation of first man.- First man : Adam
6. Week  Creation of women. The origins of women, commercial buildings, devices and tools.
7. Week  Old Slav Gods and Pagan Russia.
8. Week  Perun- Veles.
9. Week  Hypotheses about the East Slavic mythology.
10. Week  Mokosh, Svarog, Dazbog, Hors
11. Week  Stribog, Simargl
12. Week  Historical reasons for the emergence of other deities among Russian Gods.
13. Week  Jarilo, Kupala, Kostroma
14. Week  Maslenitsa, Conventions and Celebrations.
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Necatigil Behçet, ’’100 Soruda Mitologya’’,Istanbul, Gercek Yayinevi, 1978 Erhat Azra, ’’Mitoloji Sözlüğü’’, Istanbul, Remzi Kitabevi, 1984 Glinka G.A., Drevnyaya religiya Slavyan, Mifiy drevnikh Slavyan, Saratov, 1993. Ivanov V.V.,Toporov V.N., Issledovaniya v oblasti Slavyanskih drevnostey, Moskova,1974. Kaysokov A.S., Slavyanskaya i Rossiyskaya mifologiya, Mifiy drevnikh Slavyan, Saratov, 1993. Kostomarov N.I., Domashnyaya jizn i nravi velikorusskogo naroda, Moskova, 1993. Propp V.Ya., Istoriçeskiye korni volshebnoy skazki, Moskova, 1969. Ribakov B.A., Yazichestvo drevnoy Rusi, Moskova, 1988. Slavyanskaya Mifologiya, Moskova,1995.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  no
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
40
 Assignment
0
0
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
40
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
60
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
2
28
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
3
3
9
 Searching in Internet and Library
3
4
12
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
5
2
10
 Presentation
2
2
4
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
1
6
6
 Final and Studying for Final
1
10
10
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
79
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
3.16
 ECTS: 
3
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Students are not only high self-confident about their subjects, but also active and competent at academic spheres, so they have practical and theoritical knowledge about Russian language and literature, its history and culture.X
2Students are able to prepare and make visual or written presentations about Russian language and literature.X
3Students have theoritical and practical knowledge in order to qualify the categories of Russian literature with their characteristical features. So, they are able to explain and analyse the texts, which represent these categories, with their historical, social, cultural, economical and political backgrounds.X
4Students have current theoritical and practical knowledge in order to make translations from Russian to Turkish or from Turkish to Russian in different types of texts.X
5Student practically analyses literary and cultural texts related to their theories as part of interdisciplinary approach.X
6The students gain the ability of researching methods and to make academic publications in the field of literature and linguistics.X
7The student is able to do researches, solve problems with his/her critical, creative and analytical thinking skills and he can express himself at each subject.X
8The students gain useful skills in a positive sense from intercultural differences and have the ability to compare Turkish and Russian culture with sufficient knowledge about the Russian culture as having.X
9Besides Russian, students learn Ukrainian, Bulgarian and Bosnian languages and get informations about the cultures of these languages, accordingly they realize the importance of Russian language and culture within Slavic languages and cultures.X
10The student is able to collect information and data individually and/or in groups about Russian language, literature and culture through up-to-date information technologies and research methods and techniques, and shares these in national and international educational and other professional environments.X
11Students have knowledge about Russian language, literature, history and culture to work in public-private sectors.X
12The students organise social, cultural and artistic activities which are necessary to be done in the fields of Russian culture, literature, language and history.X
13The student develops an unbiased, respectful and open attitude towards different languages, races, sexes, religions, and social classes.X