AÄ°T718 - VISUAL HISTORY
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VISUAL HISTORY | AÄ°T718 | 2nd Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 10 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Preparing and/or Presenting Reports | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Prof. Dr. Fatma ACUN | |||||
| Course objective | Dissemination and teaching of visual material which consists of a large group of data for historical studies. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | Identification of visual material and its types and varieties are made. Nature and qualities of visual material and their use in historical studies are specified. The technics of exploiting viual material, specifically, reading photograph, is thought. | |||||
| References | Fatma ACUN, "Görselden Tarih Yazmak", Türkiye'de Tarihyazımı, ed.Vahdettin Engin Ahmet Şimşek, Yeditepe Yayınevi, İstanbul, 2011, s. 421-434. Fatma ACUN, "Görsel Verilerde Kadın İmajı (1923-1960)", Süleyman Demirel Üniversitesi Fen Edebiyat Fakültesi Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi, Sayı 16 (2007), s. 91-112. Fatma ACUN, "Cumhuriyetin İlk Yıllarında Eğitimde Laiklik Prensibinin Yerleştirilmesi Sürecinin Görsel Veriler Yoluyla İncelenmesi", Kebikeç, Sayı 24(2007), s. 219-246. Fatma ACUN, "Görsellik ve Yakın Dönem Tarihi Araştırmalarında Kullanımı", Kebikeç, 18 (2004), s. 95-118. Fatma ACUN, "Yakın Dönem Tarihi Metodolojisi", Atatürk Araştırma Merkezi Dergisi, 42 (Kasım 1998), s. 717-756. Peter BURKE, Eyewitnessing: The Uses of Images As Historical Evidence, Cornell University Press, 2006 Ulrike MİETZNER, Kevin Myers, Nick Peim, Visual History, Images of Education, Peter Lang, 2005. Steven HELKLER, Seymour CHWAST, Illustration: A Visual History, 2008. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Description of visuality and identification of differences from writing and verbal communicaiton |
| Week 2 | Introduction to visual studies: boks and articles on visuality- I |
| Week 3 | Introduction to visual studies: boks and articles on visuality- II |
| Week 4 | Nature and characteristics of visual material |
| Week 5 | Visuality and visual material as data for history studies |
| Week 6 | Two dimentional visual material |
| Week 7 | Three dimentional visual material |
| Week 8 | Mid term exam |
| Week 9 | Introduction to technics to use visual material, Reading visual material |
| Week 10 | Symbiotic-semiotic analysis of visual material |
| Week 11 | Distance analysis in visual material |
| Week 12 | Case study for two dimentional visual material: photograph analysis |
| Week 13 | Case study for two dimentional visual material: film analysis |
| Week 14 | Case study for three dimentional visual material: materials sculpture eg. analysis, |
| Week 15 | Preparation for the final exam. |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 10 | 10 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 1 | 0 |
| Presentation | 1 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 1 | 40 |
| Final exam | 1 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 0 | 50 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 14 | 10 | 140 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 2 | 20 | 40 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 1 | 20 | 20 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 28 | 28 |
| Total Workload | 33 | 111 | 300 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Develops advanced knowledge on Modern Turkey and Republican history by creative thinking and research in depth. Carries out projects, and invents new and original concepts that provide new ideas to the field. | X | ||||
| 2. Reaches original results by using the expert knowledge and by analyzing and evaluating new and complex ideas, discussions and developments. | X | ||||
| 3. Knows the basic sources of history of modern Turkey and their language and properties in the expert level. Analyses and evaluates data from these sources by scientific and technical methods, develops new models, methods and applications. | X | ||||
| 4. Evaluates historical events as short, medium and long-term processes and makes consistent inferences for the future. | |||||
| 5. Provides information about the world and European historiography and places Turkish historiography in the world historiography. Evaluates the content of historical information produced by various ecoles of history at expert level. | X | ||||
| 6. Designs and implements projects at advanced level to investigate complex historical problems of history of modern Turkey and Republic. For this purpose organises and manages a multidisciplinary team. | X | ||||
| 7. Analyzes and develops the norms and rules that dominate the relations in the field of humanities in general and history in particular. Invents new methods and rules and disseminates them by various ways. | X | ||||
| 8. Makes international and national publications about its field. | X | ||||
| 9. Contributes to the promotion and protection of cultural heritage considering the learned and acquired knowledge and experience in the context of history of modern Turkey and Turkish Republic. | X | ||||
| 10. Possesses the ability of approaching to various issues of modern Turkish history with methods of contemporary history as well as interdisciplinary methods. | X | ||||
| 11. Approaches to the refoms and modernising efforts from Ottoman Empire to Turkish Republic, to the domocratic developments and to various issues of Turkish history from the point of view of history and other multi- disciplinary methods and in a critical way | X | ||||
| 12. Comments on the developing and changing conditions and current issues in the world and produces alternative ideas. | X | ||||
| 13. Has the ability of an interdisciplinary approach to the democratic developments and emerging issues of Turkish history as well as of the discipline of history. | X | ||||
| 14. Explains policies and strategies on the global and regional scale. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest