INDE SENIOR (4. SINIF) 2014-2015 / Spring INDE4032 CHAUCER AND HIS AGE (CHAUCER VE DNEM)

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Have a nice term.

Buket Akgn

Office: 442

Telephone: 0212 440 0000 15891

Email: akgun@istanbul.edu.tr

Office Hours: Mondays 11:00-12:00

This course analyzes the works of Geoffrey Chaucer against the social and cultural developments in

the fourteenth century.

Class Policy There will be a midterm and a final exam. The midterm (40%) and the final (60%) will make up

the grade for the course.

You are expected to read regularly and take an active part in the class discussions. The lectures

will relate to the readings assigned for each week; however, they will also cover outside sources.

Students will be responsible for the assigned readings as well as the lectures. All the prologues

to the stories listed below are also to be read and studied. "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" is given

separately because it is a tale in its own right.

If you are taking this course, please kindly make sure you send a request including your full name

and student number to join http://groups.yahoo.com/group/inde4032chaucer. Course material can be downloaded from the Files and Links tabs at the e-group and/or purchased at antay

Fotokopi, Pandora Beyolu or any place of your own choice.

Course Syllabus

24 Feb Introduction to the age of Chaucer

3 March Introduction to The Canterbury Tales and The Prologue

10 March "The Knight's Tale"

17 March "The Miller's Tale" and "The Reeve's Tale"

24 March "The Man of Law's Tale" and "The Prioress's Tale"

31 March "The Wife of Bath's Prologue" and "The Wife of Bath's Tale"

6-17 April Midterms

21 April Discussion of midterm exams

28 April "The Clerk's Tale"

5 May "The Merchant's Tale" and "The Franklin's Tale"

12 May Troilus and Criseyde

19 May Bank holiday

26 May Q&A

1-12 June Finals

22 June-3 July Final Make-ups