Course Information

Semester	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	T+P+L	Credit	Number of ECTS Credits
1	HUM 101	The World Through Art and Literature I	2+2+0	3	5

Course Details

Language of Instruction	English
Level of Course Unit	Bachelor's Degree
Department / Program	BA Program in New Media and Communication
Type of Program	Formal Education
Type of Course Unit	Compulsory
Course Delivery Method	Face To Face
Objectives of the Course	This course (a) familiarizes students, both conceptually and visually, with the development and varieties of art and literature in the pre-modern world. (b) It tries to enable students to relate text to context – to relate products of human creativity to the conditions and circumstances surrounding them. (c) In the process, it also aims to improve students’ critical reading and writing skills through various papers and essay-type exams designed to that end.
Course Content	After a few weeks devoted to defining art history, and conceptualizing the birth of art as a jump in human cognition and abstraction (capable of symbolic thinking, and creating alternative realities), HUM 101 proceeds by familiarizing students with samples of art and literature in Prehistory, Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, and other early land empires, as well as Mediterranean Antiquity (Greece and Rome), Medieval Europe and the lands of Islam.
Course Methods and Techniques
Prerequisites and co-requisities	None
Course Coordinator	None
Name of Lecturers	Prof.Dr. Halil Berktay
Assistants	Research Assist. Zeynep Çavuşoğlu
Work Placement(s)	No

Recommended or Required Reading

Resources
	Students are expected to take and keep their own notes of the lectures and discussions. The instructor will regularly upload his own lecture powerpoints as a special folder under "Files" in the Canvas web site.

Course Category

Social Sciences

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Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Activities are given in detail in the section of "Assessment Methods and Criteria" and "Workload Calculation"

Assessment Methods and Criteria

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration	Total Work Load
Course Duration	14	4	56
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud	14	5	70
Mid-terms	2	8	16
Final examination	1	8	8
Total Work Load			Number of ECTS Credits 5 150

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

No	Learning Outcomes
1	The student assesses how from different periods and geographies speak to each other and synthesizes them
2	Students are able to relate their previous academic knowledge with the new texts they have been exposed to in class
3	Equips the students with the ability to see resonances between texts, identifying threads that run through narratives trying to explain the human condition
4	Gives the students an understanding of genre, and the possibility each genre has in engaging with the questions of the age
5	İnsanlığın yeni deneyimlerini tasvir eden yeni sanat ve edebiyat türlerini derste öğrenilen yöntemlerle analiz eder
6	Identify for themselves the best reading methods for a given narrative
7	Produce written work that combines the readings in this class in conjunction with other courses

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Topics	Materials
1	Methods of Seeing and Reading	Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Werner Herzog (film)
2	Visual and Narrative Beginnings	On Poetry, Glyn Maxwell Ways of Seeing, John Berger
3	Creation Narratives	Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book the First: pp. 1-30
4	Journey of the Hero	Gilgamesh (2100 BC) (Tablet I and III)
5	Hero Continued	Odyssey, Homer
6	Greek and Roman World	Thucydides, Pericles’ Funeral Oration Satires, Juvenal
7	Migrating Stories	Kalila wa Dimna
8	Literary Criticism	Ibn Khaldun on poetry
9	Sufi Paths	Attar, Conference of the Birds (1100), pp. 11 – 18, 29 – 32
10	Pilgrims	Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, “General Prologue”
11	Journeys to Other Worlds	Dante, Divine Comedy (1300), “Inferno:” Canto One + Four
12	Persian Poetry	Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat, I-VII, X, XIII, XXXII, XLVI Hafez, Divan (1315), I-III pp. 67-69, XXXVI pp. 110-111
13	The Modern Subject	Hamlet
14	Modern Psyche	Hamlet

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

Contribution: 1: Very Slight 2:Slight 3:Moderate 4:Significant 5:Very Significant

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