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Last Updated: 30/09/2026

Code - Course Title Compulsory/Elective Laboratory + Practice ECTS
SOS370 - Ecocriticism: Environment, Culture and Literature VI. SEMESTER 3 +0 4.5
Language of Instruction İngilizce
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Instructor(s) DOÇ. DR. VOLGA YILMAZ GÜMÜŞ
Mode of Delivery In person
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Prerequisites N/A
Courses Recomended N/A
Recommended Resources Bartosch, R. (2019). Literature, pedagogy, and climate change: Text models for a transcultural ecology (1st ed.) [eBook]. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04465-3 Buell, L. (2005). The future of environmental criticism: Environmental crisis and literary imagination. Blackwell Publishing.Garrard, G. (2012). Ecocriticism (2nd ed.). Routledge.Glotfelty, C., & Fromm, H. (Eds.). (1996). The ecocriticism reader: Landmarks in literary ecology. University of Georgia Press.Marland, P. (2013). Ecocriticism. Literature Compass, 10(11), 846–868. https://doi.org/10.1111/lic3.12105Heise, U. K. (2006). The hitchhiker’s guide to ecocriticism. PMLA, 121(2), 503–516. http://www.jstor.org/stable/25486328Iovino, S., & Oppermann, S. (Eds.). (2014). Material ecocriticism. Indiana University Press. https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/cwidaho/detail.action?docID=2120324Morton, T. (2009). Ecology without nature: Rethinking environmental aesthetics. Harvard University Press.Oppermann, S. (2006). Theorizing ecocriticism: Toward a postmodern ecocritical practice. Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, 13(2), 103–128. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44070262Oppermann, S., Özdağ, U., Özkan, N., & Slovic, S. (Eds.). (2011). The future of ecocriticism: New horizons. Cambridge Scholars Publishing.Slovic, S., Rangarajan, S., & Sarveswaran, V. (Eds.). (2019). Routledge handbook of ecocriticism and environmental communication. Routledge.
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Weeks Learning Outcomes Topics Teaching Methods
Week - 1 Course overview: The relationship of the environment and ecology to culture and literature
Week - 2 A discussion on the environment, nature, and ecology: Human-nature interaction, dualism and monism, sustainability, etc.
Week - 3 A historical overview of environmental and literary studies
Week - 4 Ecocriticism: Definitions and waves
Week - 5 Selected ecocritical readings
Week - 6 Climate fiction: Definition, basic concepts, and approaches
Week - 7 Climate fiction: Selected readings
Week - 8 Ecofeminism: Woman, society/identity, environment and literature
Week - 9 Ecofeminism: Selected readings
Week - 10 Urbanization and literature
Week - 11 Urbanization and literature: Selected readings
Week - 12 Posthumanism and ecocriticism
Week - 13 Posthumanism and ecocriticism: Selected readings
Week - 14 The future of ecocriticism

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