Course Information
SemesterCourse Unit CodeCourse Unit TitleT+P+LCreditNumber of ECTS Credits
7LIT 402Postmodern Futures3+0+035

Course Details
Language of Instruction English
Level of Course Unit Bachelor's Degree
Department / Program BA Program in Comparative Literature
Type of Program Formal Education
Type of Course Unit Compulsory
Course Delivery Method Online
Objectives of the Course This course aims to critically engage students with the idea of fictive futures through the postmodern theories that relate to a posthuman era in the fictive futures. It problematizes what being a human in the “modern” and “postmodern” sense means and creates alternate universes of nonhuman and posthuman entities which resonates with the postmodern school of thought deconstruction heavily.
Course Content The course aims to blend literary works of utopian and dystopian future and critically engage them with theories such as poststructuralism, feminism, postcolonialism, ecocriticism etc. In this way philosophical undercurrents of the modern and postmodern literatures will be critically scrutinized in utopian and (mostly) dystopian scenarios.
Course Methods and Techniques In this course, methods such as in-class discussions, work analyses, individual presentations, and techniques such as literary analysis, text examination, and the use of film and visual materials will be included.
Prerequisites and co-requisities None
Course Coordinator None
Name of Lecturers Uzman Hatice Kübra Yegin kubra.yegin@ihu.edu.tr
Assistants None
Work Placement(s) No

Recommended or Required Reading
Resources The Time Machine, H.G. Wells (1895) Nineteenth-Century SF in The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, Arthur B. Evans (2011) Fiction, 1895-1926 in The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction, John Rieder (2009)
On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin (1859) The Evolution of Modern Capitalism, J. A. Hobson (1894) The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses, John Dryzek (1997)
1984, George Orwell (1949) The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848)
It will be shared with the students through Google Drive.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1epDOTNgDyIrNvqroYXwhfNUxT0yJfDa7?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1epDOTNgDyIrNvqroYXwhfNUxT0yJfDa7?usp=drive_link
Yüzyüze

Course Category
Mathematics and Basic Sciences %0
Engineering %0
Engineering Design %0
Social Sciences %100
Education %0
Science %0
Health %0
Field %0

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
In-Term Studies Quantity Percentage
Mid-terms 1 % 30
Assignment 1 % 20
Attendance 1 % 10
Final examination 1 % 40
Total
4
% 100

 
ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload
Activities Quantity Duration Total Work Load
Course Duration 14 3 42
Hours for off-the-c.r.stud 14 6 84
Assignments 1 8 8
Mid-terms 1 2 2
Final examination 1 3 3
Total Work Load   Number of ECTS Credits 5 139

Course Learning Outcomes: Upon the successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
NoLearning Outcomes
1 Introduces students to a selection of futuristic texts from different parts of the world
2 Realigns discussions of futurism with references to historical and geographical context
3 Identifies current approaches to reading seminal texts that have influenced discussions of future studies
4 Identifies how the spirit of the age may find embodiment in literature
5 Raises awareness about different critical reading methods with special attention to class, gender and religion
6 Reviews artistic explorations of the successes and failures of the passage into a future world


Weekly Detailed Course Contents
WeekTopicsStudy MaterialsMaterials
1 1-Intro to postmodern literary theories and SF
2 2-Future in Labour:
3 3-Future in Labour: Environmental, Marxist, Evolutionary Critique
4 4-Labour’s Future
5 5-Labour’s Future
6 6-What Makes a Human?
7 7-What Makes a Man?
8 Midterm
9 9-What Makes a Woman?
10 10-What Makes an Animal?
11 11- Beyond Organic
12 12- An Alien Future
13 13- Future in Other Planetary Systems
14 14- Digital Future


Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 P6 P7 P8 P9 P10 P11 P12 P13
C1 5 5 5 5 1 5 5 5 4 5 5 5 4
C2 5 5 5 5 1 4 5 5 3 5 5 5 4
C3 3 5 5 5 1 5 5 5 3 5 5 5 4
C4 3 5 4 3 1 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3
C5 5 5 5 4 1 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5
C6 4 5 5 4 1 5 5 5 5 5 5 5 5

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


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