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Traditional Expression Patterns in Folk Literature

Course CodeSemester Course Name LE/RC/LA Course Type Language of Instruction ECTS
TDED0029 Traditional Expression Patterns in Folk Literature 3/0/0 DE Turkish 9
Course Goals Course goals: To reveal a traditional type in poetical and prosaic texts of folk literature and the existence of the expression patterns forming this type through the samples.
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Instructor(s) Professor Muharrem Kaya
Course Assistant(s)
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Teaching Methods and Techniques Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
Principle Sources LORD, Albert B.(1960) The Singer of Tales (Cambridge, MA: Harvard Univ. Press)


ERGİN, Muharrem (2011) Dede Korkut Kitabı-I, TDK Yayınları.

ERGİN, Muharrem (2009) Dede Korkut Kitabı-II, TDK Yayınları.
Other Sources YAVUZER, Hayati(1998) "Dede Korkut Kitabında Geleneksel Tarzın Formel ve Formülleri", 4. Türk Dünyası Yazarlar Kurultayı Bildiriler Kitabı.
Course Schedules
Week Contents Learning Methods
1. Week To use certain oral and written expression patterns Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
2. Week Formal Elements of Expression I Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
3. Week Formal Elements of Expression II Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
4. Week Formal element analyses on the Folk narrative samples I (introduction, body, conclusion formals) Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
5. Week Formal element analyses on the Folk narrative samples II (introduction, body, conclusion formals) Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
6. Week Formula researches on folk narrative samples I Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
7. Week Formula researches on folk narrative samples II Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
8. Week Rhythmic, melodic, and acoustic patterns in narrative Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
9. Week Analyses of Legend and Fairy Tale II Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
10. Week Midterm
11. Week General patterns in folk poetry (the patterns except unit, rhythm (vezin), break (pause), rhyme) Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
12. Week Patterns used in religious-didactic anonymous and individual poems Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
13. Week Patterns used in Epic Battle Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
14. Week Patterns used in Epic Battle Preliminary preparation Lecture Discussion
15. Week Final
16. Week Final
17. Week Final
Assessments
Evaluation tools Quantity Weight(%)
Midterm(s) 1 20
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations 1 20
Final Exam 1 60


Program Outcomes
PO-1The doctoral students collect the theoretical, practical information, and texts according to the department’s special method; they interpret them and attain a synthesis by making the interdisciplinary analyses.
PO-2The students are able to grasp the historical and cultural basis of the Turkish world literature in classical period; they recognize the features of the texts’ language of this period and evaluate in terms of literary. In addition, the students recognize the scientific and sufistic works created in the collective cultural geography.
PO-3The students are able to assess the texts of the Turkish Language and Literature from the beginning until today in terms of literary and philology.
PO-4The students are able to follow the historical alphabets of the Turkish language through the original texts; they are able to make textual analysis by comparing with the texts of western and eastern literature.
PO-5The students are able to identify the schools and styles situated in classical Turkish poet. They are able to read and comment on the various texts of these schools and styles.
PO-6The students are equipped with the basic knowledge and ability to do scientific research and study in the Turkish Language and Literature at postgraduate level
PO-7The students are able to recognize the texts of the historical and modern Turkish dialects; they are able to examine these texts in terms of lexicography, etymology, semantics, phonetics, and morphology; they are able to compare these dialects with each other.
PO-8The students are able to attain the written and verbal sources based upon the scientific research methods and conduct a field study.
PO-9The students are able to confirm and classify the elements of folk culture and folkloric materials in the individual and anonymous works created as part of verbal culture.
PO-10The students find a chance to research and examine extensively the language, literature, art, and culture of the Turkish Language and Literature from the history to the present day.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1The students are able to analyze the expression patterns existing in the anonymous and individual products of folk poetry and folk prose
LO-2The students are able to grasp that the power of traditional texts of folk literature is depended on some expression patterns.
LO-3The students are able to decide formals and formulas in folk literary texts and follow their continuity.
LO-4The students are able to comprehend which patterns are used by traditional narrative form in poetry and prose.
LO-5The students are able to investigate the patterns expressed in Stories of public storyteller (Meddah) of Book of Dada Gorgud, in folk stories formed around the name of Lovers and in the short epics explained within the minstrels.
Course Assessment Matrix:
Program Outcomes - Learning Outcomes Matrix
 PO 1PO 2PO 3PO 4PO 5PO 6PO 7PO 8PO 9PO 10
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