Ä°LT620 - VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES: LOOKING AT THE IMAGE
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VISUAL CULTURE STUDIES: LOOKING AT THE IMAGE | Ä°LT620 | 2nd Semester | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Prequisites | ||||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Lecture Discussion | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Assist. Prof. Dr. Gülsüm Depeli | |||||
| Course objective | The goal of this course is to inform the students about the main literature on Visual Culture Studies. | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | In the course, the student will be introduced with the theoritical basic literature on visual studies. During the course, also various visual sources will be viewed and interpreted in context of artistic, sociocultural and ideological interrogations. | |||||
| References | Barthes, Roland (1996). Göstergeler İmparatorluğu. İstanbul: YKY. Barthes, Roland (2003). Çağdaş Söylenler. İstanbul: Metis. Benjamin, Walter (2001) Moskova Günlüğü. İstanbul: Metis. Boym, Svetlana (2010). Nostaljinin Geleceği. İstanbul: İletişim. Burnett, Ron (2006) İmgeler Nasıl Düşünür. İstanbul: Metis. Crary, Jonathan (2010) Gözlemcinin Teknikleri. İstanbul: Metis Debord, Guy (2010) Gösteri Toplumu. İstanbul: Ayrıntı Hirsch, Marianne (2002). Family Frames: Photography, Narrative and Postmemory. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Hockings, Paul (1995) Principles of Visual Anthropology. New York: Mounten de Gruyter. Modleski, Tania (1998) Eğlence İncelemeleri: Kitle Kültürüne Eleştirel Yaklaşımlar. İstanbul: Metis. Rose, Gillian (2001). Visual Methodologies. London: Sage. Sennett, Richard (1999) Gözün Vicdanı. İstanbul: Ayrıntı. Sennett, Richard (2005 Ornaments of the Metropolis. Cambridge: MIT Press. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction: From Gaze to the Image. |
| Week 2 | Looking Methodically |
| Week 3 | Looking at the Photograph |
| Week 4 | Looking at Him/Herself |
| Week 5 | Looking at the Street/ Looking at the Metropole |
| Week 6 | Midterm exam |
| Week 7 | Looking at the War |
| Week 8 | Looking at the Media: Society and Spectacularity |
| Week 9 | Looking at the Media: Television |
| Week 10 | Looking at the Cinema |
| Week 11 | Midterm exam |
| Week 12 | Looking at the Past |
| Week 13 | Surveillance - Counter-Surveillance: Alternative Media |
| Week 14 | More than a consuming Look: The meaning of being audience. |
| Week 15 | Workshop |
| Week 16 | Presentation and General Overview |
| Week 17 | Preparation for the Final Exam |
| Week 18 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 14 | 20 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 1 | 60 |
| Presentation | 2 | 20 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms | 0 | 0 |
| Final exam | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 0 | 40 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 0 | 60 |
| 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 | 3 | 42 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 2 | 20 | 40 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 1 | 56 | 56 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total Workload | 31 | 82 | 180 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. The students successfully completing HU Communication Sciences Graduate Program will be competent in evaluating basic concepts and the conceptual interrelations as well as their reflections on theoretical and practical levels. | X | ||||
| 2. will have the knowledge of the basic methodological approaches, methods and research technics and their implementations. | X | ||||
| 3. is capable of designing a social research, implementing it, analyzing the findings, reporting them and putting all into an original piece of academic writing. | X | ||||
| 4. will be able to think, question, assess and evaluate in an interdisciplinary mode. | X | ||||
| 5. will follow the contemporary knowledge and approaches in the communication sciences area and evaluates these with a critical and inquisitive manner. | X | ||||
| 6. will be able to present his/her knowledge in the field orally and in written effectively and systematically. | X | ||||
| 7. is aware of the scientific and ethical principles and in every academic production acts in accordance with these principles. | X | ||||
| 8. will be able to get involved in team work for identifying and solving problems related to the area and shares knowledge. | X | ||||
| 9. will be able to use the knowledge and the skills related to the area, find solutions to the problems in communication and media, develop policy propositions and transform these into projects and action. | X | ||||
| 10. has strong social communication in business life. | X | ||||
| 11. will pursue a higher degree in his/her education. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest