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COURSE DESCRIPTION

SOVIET LITERATURE II/5670049

Course Title:	SOVIET LITERATURE II
Credits	3	ECTS	7.5
Semester	2	Compulsory/Elective	Elective

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Assoc. Prof. GAMZE ÖKSÜZ

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/oksuzg

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

oksuzg@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

To learn more about the culture and literature of Soviet period and analyze the works.
To observe formation process of Soviet literature and it’s historical flow.
To interpret the Soviet-era works in the context of history, society and literature

-- 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	The condition of Russia during the interwar period in the Boris Pasternak’s “Doctor Zhivago”.
2. Week	Ilya Ilf and Yevgeny Petrov; social satire in "The Twelve Chairs".
3. Week	The new conception of poetry in Soviet literature .
4. Week	Vladimir Mayakovsky's poetry; selected poems.
5. Week	Sergei Yesenin’s poetry; selected poems.
6. Week	Second World War in Soviet literature and war theme in literature.
7. Week	An author at war: Vasily Grossman; individual and social trauma in the "Everything Flows".
8. Week	Nikolay Ostrovski; glorified hero of the novel "How the Steel Was Tempered".
9. Week	Collectivisation process in Mikhail Sholokhov’s “Virgin Soil Upturned”.
10. Week	Konstantin Simonov; The most popular poem of the Soviet Union "Wait for Me".
11. Week	Alexander Solzhenitsyn; "The Gulag Archipelago". The camp fact during the Soviet Union.
12. Week	Soviet silent cinema as a propaganda tool.
13. Week	Featured names in the Soviet cinema: Dziga Vertov, Sergei Eisenstein.
14. Week	An overview language policy of the Soviet period, new terms and changes in language.
15. Week
16. Week

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

1) Edebiyat ve Sanat Üzerine (V. İ. Lenin) 2) Lenin Destanı (V. Mayakovski) 3) Genç Stalin (Simon Sebag Montefiore) 4) Rusya’nın Kültürel Tarihi / Nataşa’nın Dansı (Orlando Figes) 5) Karanlıkta Fısıldaşanlar (Orlando Figes) 6) Büyülü Koro (Solomon Volkov) 7) Sovyet Edebiyatı (K. Zelinski) 8) Rusya’da Eylemin Sanatla Buluşması (Kolektif) 9) Sovyet Yüzyılı (Moshe Lewin)

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question & Answer.

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

Not Applicable

-- 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	0	0
Reading	5	9	45
Searching in Internet and Library	5	8	40
Designing and Applying Materials	0	0	0
Preparing Reports	0	0	0
Preparing Presentation	12	3	36
Presentation	5	3	15
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	10	10
Final and Studying for Final	1	15	15
Other	0	0	0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			189
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.56
ECTS:			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1						X
2					X
3					X
4				X
5						X
6					X
7					X
8					X
9				X
10				X
11					X
12				X

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