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AMER 207American Texts and Contexts I

Bilkent Amerikan Kültürü ve Edebiyatı dersi. Genelde yalnızca Güz'de açılır, son 5 yılda yaz okulunda açılmadı. Şube başına ortalama 22 öğrenci.

  • kredi4· 6,5 ECTS
  • haftalık3 saat3 ders
  • son 5 yıl ort.2,40B-
  • açılıryalnızca Güzson 5 yıl
  • 2026-2027 Güz2 şube· 13 boş yer
Programına ekle Notunu hesaplaSTARS syllabus

2026-2027 Güz şubeleri41/54 dolu · %76

  • 1Kara Lee McCormackbu derste geçmiş notu yokPSÇPC
    • Pzt 10:30–12:20G-232
    • Çar 15:30–16:20G-232
    • Çar 16:30–17:20G-232 · yedek
    Dolu · 29/29
  • 2Patrick Charles McDonaldbu dersteki ortalaması 2,13PSÇPC
    • Pzt 13:30–15:20MA-Z02
    • Per 08:30–09:20MA-Z02 · yedek
    • Per 09:30–10:20MA-Z02
    13 boş · 12/25

Saat ızgarası Pazartesi–Cuma, 08:30'dan itibaren; mavi lab, mor online, gri yedek (spare) saat. Kontenjan STARS offerings'ten her gün alınır; kesin bilgi SRS'te.

Ön koşullar ve açtığı derslerkatalog: AMER 116 ve AMER 196

Almak için

AMER 1162,78Methods and Texts IIön koşulsuz
ve
AMER 1962,88Introduction to American Studies IIön koşulsuz
AMER 207American Texts and Contexts I
ön koşul
2 şart
doğrudan açtığı
4 ders
dolaylı dahil
14 ders
en erken
2. yıl güz

Geçince açılır

AMER 2082,78American Texts and Contexts IIyalnızca bu yeterAMER 3432,73American Theaterya da AMER 293AMER 3572,49American Intellectual History Iya da AMER 293AMER 3832,84American Novel to 1900ya da AMER 293

Ön koşullar STARS kataloğundaki ifadeden okunur; eş koşul, izin ve not şartları dahil değil. Kartın altındaki not o dersin başka neye ihtiyaç duyduğunu söyler.

Not ortalaması5 yıl 2,40 · 10 yıl 2,53 · 2000'den beri 2,41

2,322025-2026 Güz41 öğrenci · 2 şube · şubeler 2,00–2,85
1,01,52,02,53,03,54,016-17 G17-18 G18-19 G19-20 G20-21 G21-22 G22-23 G23-24 G24-25 G25-26 G
  • Güz / Bahar ortalaması
  • son 5 yıl 2,40
  • dikey gölge: şube aralığı · nokta büyüklüğü: öğrenci sayısı

Şubelere göre dağılım

Bir noktanın üstüne gel ya da dokun: şube ve hocası görünür.

0123425-26 G24-25 G23-24 G22-23 G

Her nokta bir şube. Yatay çizgi en düşük–en yüksek, dikey çizgi ortanca; soluk noktalar 10 öğrenciden az olan şubeler.

Dönem tablosu 10 dönem
DönemŞubeÖğrenciDers ort.Şube aralığı
2025-2026 Güz2412,322,00–2,85
2024-2025 Güz2382,512,46–2,55
2023-2024 Güz2542,732,68–2,77
2022-2023 Güz2511,821,52–2,07
2021-2022 Güz2352,702,44–2,92
2020-2021 Güz2312,542,32–2,94
2019-2020 Güz2362,722,68–2,79
2018-2019 Güz2313,132,69–3,50
2017-2018 Güz2292,302,04–2,60
2016-2017 Güz2372,832,71–2,88

Dönem ortalaması STARS'ın "Course GPA" değeri (o dönemin tüm şubeleri). Çok yıllık ortalama dönem ortalamalarının öğrenci sayısıyla ağırlıklı ortalaması; "son 5 yıl" içinde bulunulan akademik yıldan önceki 5 tam yıl. 10 öğrenciden az olan dönemler (*) dahil ama soluk. Final tekrar dönemleri dahil değil.

Hocalara göre2021–2026 · 5 hoca

  • Patrick Charles McDonaldbu dönem4 dönem · 130 öğrenci · son 2025-2026 Güz2,13
  • Kara Lee McCormackbu dönemilk kez—
  • Thomas Wayne Howard1 dönem · 16 öğrenci · son 2025-2026 Güz · az veri2,85
  • Emine Geçgil1 dönem · 54 öğrenci · son 2023-2024 Güz2,73
  • Joshua Bartlett1 dönem · 19 öğrenci · son 2021-2022 Güz · az veri2,92

Hocanın tek başına verdiği şubelerin öğrenci sayısıyla ağırlıklı STARS şube ortalaması. Soluk satırlar 20 öğrenciden az notlu veriye dayanır.

Değerlendirme ve FZ2026-2027 Güz syllabus'ı · koordinatör Patrick Charles McDonald

  • %20Midterm Exam
  • %20Final Exam
  • %20Attendance/participation
  • %20Research Project
  • %20Weekly Posts
FZ ŞARTI

Completion of all assignments; not missed more than 12 hours of class.

syllabus'taki metin, olduğu gibi

ECTS iş yükü: dönem başına 201 saat.

AMER 207 not hesaplayıcısı hazır

Midterm Exam %20 · Final Exam %20 · Attendance/participation %20 · Research Project %20 · Weekly Posts %20

Notunu hesapla

Ders içeriği

This course provides an interdisciplinary node of connection between the survey in history and the survey in literature. Drawing from exemplary moments and problems in American culture from the beginnings to the Civil War, the course asks students to relate a variety of primary sources to broader contextual issues. This course will be writing intensive, with tutorial support provided.

American Texts and Contexts I. Explores literary and cultural history from Contact to the Civil War, analyzing essays, poems, short stories, and film.

Haftalık konular 14 hafta
  1. Sarah Song, “What does it mean to be an American?” Daedalus, Vol. 138, No. 2 (Spring 2009): 31-40. Excerpts from U.S.President Barack Obama’s “Inaugural Address” (2009) (handout) A Brief Lecture on an overview of the literary periods in American Literature: Literature to 1750 (2-27) Native American Origin and Creation Stories (29-33) “Origin of Folk Stories (Seneca)” (34-36) “A Tale of the Foundation of the Great Island, Now North American—The Two Infants Born, and the Creation of the Universe (Tuscarora)” (37-40) “Wohpe and the Gift of the Pipe (Lakota)” (48-50) “Native American Stories through a Modern Lens” (54) N. Scott Momaday, “The Becoming of the Native: Man in America Before Columbus” (55-59)
  2. Explorations and Early Encounters (61-65) Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) (66-68), “Letter of Columbus, Describing the Results of His First Voyage” (68-73) Benjamin Franklin, “Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America” (821-824) (18th century piece on Native Americans) Readings: Howard Zinn, “Columbus, the Indians, and Human Progress” (1-22) Howard Zinn, “As Long As Grass Grows or Water Runs” (124-146)
  3. Colonial Settlements (93-106) Captain John Smith (1580-1631) (106-109), From The Generall Historie of Virginia (110-119) Anne Bradstreet (1612-1672) (167-169), “An Epitaph on My Dear and Ever-Honoured Mother…” (176-177), “The Flesh and The Spirit” (178-180), “To My Dear and Loving Husband” (182) “Bradstreet through a Modern Lens” (187-188) Mary Rowlandson (1636-1711) (190-192), From The Sovereignty and Goodness of God (192-203) Readings: Puritan settlers--“The Founding of New England”
  4. American Contexts: Colonial Diaries and Journals (252-253) Samuel Sewall (1652-1730) (253-254), From The Diary of Samuel Sewall (253-259) Sarah Kemble Knight (1666-1727) (265), From The Private Journal of a Journey… (266-270)
  5. American Literature 1750-1830 (312-333) Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) (276-278), “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God” (291-303) “Edwards Through a Modern Lens” (306-307) Writing Colonial Lives—Introduction (335-340) Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) (340-343), From The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Part Two (361-371) “Franklin Through a Modern Lens” (372-375) Olaudah Equiano (1745-1797) (414-416), from The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, chapter two (416-426)
  6. American Contexts: ‘To Begin With the World Over Again’: The Emerging Idea of ‘America’ (427-429) J.Hector St. John de Crevecoeur (1735-1813) (429-430), “What is an American?” from Letters from an American Farmer (430-433) Thomas Paine (1737-1809) (437-438), from Common Sense (438-441) Literature for a New Nation (467-475) Recommended reading: “‘Who Reads an American Book?’: Calls for a National Literature” (476-478) James Fenimore Cooper (1789-1851) (493), From Notions of the Americans (493-494) Readings: “The Struggle For Independence, 1763-1783” Howard Zinn, “Tyranny is Tyranny” (59-75) Howard Zinn, “A Kind of Revolution” (76-101)
  7. Holidays—No Classes
  8. American Literature, 1830-1865 (588-605) The Era of Reform (607-616) Philip Freneau (1752-1832) (495-496), “On the Emigration to America” (499-501) Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) (503-504), “On Being Brought from Africa to America” (505-506) “Wheatley through a Modern Lens” (517) Washington Irving (1783-1859) (520-523), “The Author’s Account of Himself” (523-525) & “Rip Van Winkle” (530-542) Midterm Exam--November 5, 2013 (Wednesday) (Based on all the texts assigned during weeks 1-6)
  9. American Contexts: “I Will be Heard”: The Rhetoric of Antebellum Reform (617-618) David Walker (1785-1830), from An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World (619-621) Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), from “Declaration of Sentiments” (629-632) Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) (637), “Speech to a Women’s Rights Convention” (638) Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) (645-646), “Letter from New York” (647-653) Readings: Howard Zinn, “Drawing the Color Line” (23-38) Howard Zinn, “The Intimately Oppressed” (102-123) Recommended Reading: Linda K. Kerber, “Why Diamonds Really are a Girl’s Best Friend: Another American Narrative” Daedalus, the Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 141.1 (Winter 2012): 1-12.
  10. Emerson, Thoreau & Transcendentalism Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) (653-655), “Self-Reliance” (684-701) Margaret Fuller (1810-1850) (725-726), From Woman in the Nineteenth Century (727-733) Henry David Thoreau(1817-1862) (792-793), “Resistance to Civil Government” (794-809) Readings: Howard Zinn, “We Take Nothing By Conquest, Thank God” (147-166)
  11. Slavery & the Struggle for Freedom Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) (855-857), from Narrative of the Life of F.Douglass, an American Slave, chs. 1-4 (865-876), 7 (881-884), 11 (909-917) “Douglass Through a Modern Lens” (923) African American Slave Songs (1800-1865) (925), “Roll, Jordan, Roll” (926-927), “Many Thousand Go” (927-928), “Go Down, Moses” (928) “Slave Songs through a Modern Lens” (931) Readings: Howard Zinn, “Slavery without Submission, Emancipation without Freedom” (167-205)
  12. American Contexts: “Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory”: The Meanings of the Civil War (1354-1356) Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) (1372), “The Gettysburg Address: Address Delivered at the Dedication of the Cemetery at Gettysburg, 1863” (1373) & “Second Inaugural Address” (1374-1375) William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878) (1382), “The Death of Lincoln” (1383) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) (1390), From Memoranda During the War (1390-1391)
  13. American Facts and Fiction (935-943) Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) (966-968), “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” (973-986) Industrialization: “The Age of Industry, 1865-1900” Herman Melville (1819-1891) (1072-1074), “Bartleby, the Scrivener” (1075-1101) Readings: Howard Zinn, “Robber Barons and Rebels” (247-289)
  14. New Poetic Voices (1195-1201) Frances E. W. Harper (1825-1911) (1230-1231), “The Slave Woman” (1231-1232) Walt Whitman (1819-1892) (1236-1239), from “Song of Myself” Stanzas 1-6 (1240-1245), 24 (1257-1259), 50-52 (1284-1285) Walt Whitman, “I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing” (1289) New Poetic Voices continued “Whitman through a Modern Lens” (1311) Langston Hughes (1902-1967), “Old Walt” (1312) Allen Ginsberg (1926-1997), “A Supermarket in California” (1312-1313) Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) (1314-1315), “Success is counted sweetest” (1318), “I felt a Funeral in My Brain” (1323-1324), “Much Madness is divinest sense” (1329), “I heard a Fly buzz—when I died—“ (1331), “Because I could not stop for death—“ (1338-1339) “Dickinson through a Modern Lens” (1350) Readings: Howard Zinn, “The Empire and the People” (290-313) Mourning Abraham Lincoln’s death: Walt Whitman, “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” stanzas 1-3 (1301) & stanzas 15-16 (1306-1307)
Ders kitabı 1
  • Required - Textbook: The Bedford Anthology of American Literature, Beginnings to 1865, Vol. One , Eds. Susan Belasco & Linck Johnson, (2008) , Bedford

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