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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Defining the course: Scope, objectives, importance, rules and requirements
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
2. Week
Mysticism as a concept
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
3. Week
Definition of Mysticism
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
4. Week
Mystic perspective
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
5. Week
Roots of Mysticism
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
6. Week
Development of Mysticism
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
7. Week
Mysticism in Islam
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
8. Week
Midterm
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
9. Week
Mysticism in the Turkish Literature
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
10. Week
Ahmed Yesevi Period
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
11. Week
Introducing Mysticism in Anatolia and its progress here
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
12. Week
Intellectual and literary personality of Yunus Emre
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
13. Week
Samples from 14th /16th mystic poetry
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
14. Week
Samples from 18th century mystic poetry
Lecture, Reading, Discussion.
15. Week
Final
16. Week
Final
17. Week
Final
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
40
Final Exam
1
60
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Students are able to discuss texts of the Turkish Language and Literature from the oldest period until today from literary and philological aspects. Students are able to make textual analysis through comparison with texts of western literature.
PO-2
Students are able to use at expert level course materials, research methods, knowledge and theories that are used in the Turkish Language and Literature Program, and includes up-to-date information.
PO-3
Students are able to use the knowledge and theoretical information they have gained in the Turkish Language and Literature Program in the fields of education, research and public service, and systematically communicate it to groups in unrelated fields.
PO-4
Students are able to come up with solutions through individual effort for problems they encounter in the field, manage advanced level studies independently, and take responsibility as members of a work group.
PO-5
Students are able to analyze problems relating to the Turkish Language and Literature Program, support likely solutions with tangible data, and share the data with experts in the related field.
PO-6
Students are able to collect, analyze and interpret institutional and applied information concerning their fields by using at least one foreign language.
PO-7
Students are able to debate modern and classical literary information and theories within the framework of certain currents and theories, and apply the qualifications they have acquired to inter-disciplinary studies.
PO-8
Students obtain the awareness for the necessity of lifelong learning.
PO-9
Students are able to acquire fundamental knowledge and skills required to do academic research and studies at graduate level in the field of the Turkish Language and Literature.
PO-10
Students are able to observe professional responsibility and ethic values in the field of the Turkish Language and Literature.
PO-11
Students are able to follow historical alphabets of the Turkish language from authentic texts.
PO-12
Students are able to interpret the development of literary genres and forms within the historical process, and broaden their expertise.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
To be able to define mysticism.
LO-2
To understand the roots and progress of mysticism
LO-3
To understand the reasons of emergence of mysticism in Anatolia and Turkistan.
LO-4
The identify literary movements and the other paths that stem from intellectual aspects of mysticism
LO-5
To analyze important figures and literary works of mysticism.
