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Course Name	Turkish	Edebiyat ve Toplum
	English	Topics in Literature&Society
Course Code	ITB 213E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	-	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Barry Davıd Stocker
Course Objectives		Introduce students to the interactions of literary texts with ideas in ethical, political and social thoughts, through study of writings in these fields.
Course Description		The course covers topics in literature and society through the ways in which important ideas about truth, reality, knowledge, justice, law, the state, social thought, political thought, ethics, ethics, moral psychology, consciousness, the nature and purpose of art and literature can be found across works of literature, works of philosophy, and works of aesthetic theory. Course readings include works in the form of tragedy, the novel, philosophical dialogue, letters, philosophical discourse and overlaps between these forms. The course will consider how ideas can be expressed in different forms of writing and what we learn from looking at the interactions between forms of writing.
Course Outcomes		Students will learn how to read and study classics of literature and social thought. They will learn how to compare these texts. They will learn analytical, evaluative and critical skills in their work on these texts. They will demonstrate these skills though short form and long form written work, in addiition to class participation
Pre-requisite(s)		STUDENTS MUST GO TO THE COURSE WEBSITE AT https://barrystockerac.wordpress.com FOR THE LATEST AND MOST RELIABLE INFIORMATION ON THE COURSE
Required Facilities		STUDENTS MUST GO TO THE COURSE WEBSITE AT https://barrystockerac.wordpress.com FOR THE LATEST AND MOST RELIABLE INFIORMATION ON THE COURSE
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Textbook
Other References		The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Literature edited by Richard Eldridge. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy by Martha C. Nussbaum. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986 & 2001 Love’s Knowledge: Essays on Philosophy and Literature by Martha C. Nussbaum. New York NY: Oxford University Press, 1990 The Philosophy of Tragedy by Julian Young. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Philosophy of the Novel by Barry Stocker. London: Palgrave Macmillan/Springer Nature, 2018

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