AÄ°T614 - WARTIME ART and LITERATURE

Course Name Code Semester Theory
(hours/week)		 Application
(hours/week)		 Credit ECTS
WARTIME ART and LITERATURE AÄ°T614 2nd Semester 3 0 3 7
PrequisitesNone
Course languageTurkish
Course typeElective 
Mode of DeliveryFace-to-Face 
Learning and teaching strategiesLecture
Preparing and/or Presenting Reports
Other: Essay  
Instructor (s)Prof. Dr. Fatma ACUN 
Course objectiveIdentifying the influence of art and literature on the civillian life of people under war conditions during the period from 1878 to 1922. To show that civillians are effected from the conditions and results of war as much as militarymen. 
Learning outcomes
  1. 1. Knowing all activities of arf and literature during war period of 1877-1922.
  2. 2. Understanding the relationship between war and art and literature and using them as evidence for historical studies.
  3. 3. Reading and evaluating war time literature, i.e. novels, narratives and tragedies etc.
  4. 4. Reading and evaluating war time music, ie. poems, marches, songs, folk songs etc.
  5. 5 Identifying and evaluating war time drawings, i.e. pictures, cartoons, and sculprures etc.
Course ContentProducts of arts produced during the chains of wars from The Krimean War (1856), the Otoman-Russian War (1877-1878) through, I. World War (1914-1918), Balkan Wars (1911-1913) and National Struggle (1919-1922) are introduced: Products if literature i.e. novels, narratives and tragedies etc.; products of music i.e. poems, marches, songs, folk songs etc. an product of drawings i.e. pictures, cartoons, and sculptures. These materials are studied as symbols of reactions of civillians to war and its conditions. In other words, these materials are sudied to reconstruct the war conditions and reactions of civillians to them with the aim of beter understanding the real nature of the wars.  
ReferencesSeda Genç, KurtuluÅŸ Savaşının resim Sanatına ve Sanat EÄŸitimine Etkisi, Yüksek Lisans tezi, Gazi Ãœniversitesi EÄŸitim Bilimleri Enstitüsü, Resim Anabilim Dalı, Ankara, 2006. -SavaÅŸ ve Sanat, P Dünya Sanat Dergisi. -Veysel UÄŸurlu (hazırlayan), SavaÅŸ ve Barış, KurtuluÅŸ Savaşından Cumhuriyet'in Ä°lk Yıllarına Türk Resminden Kesitler, Yapı Kredi Yayınları. -War Literature and Arts : An International Journal of Humanities. Frank Rutter, ''The Influence of War on Art'', Great War, edited by H.W. Wilson, volume 12. -Ömer Çakır, "Tanzimat Sonrası Türk Edebiyatının Kaynaklarından Biri Olarak Harpler I: Kırım Harbi ( 1853-1856 )", Yeni Türk Edebiyatının Kaynakları Özel Sayısı), C.4, Sayı: 1, Kış 2009, s.1823-1874. -"Balkan Harbi'nin Türk Åžiirindeki Akisleri", EKEV Akademi Dergisi, Yıl:11, Sayı: 33, Güz 2007, s. 215-228. -Ömer Çakır, Türk Harp Edebiyatında Çanakkale Mektupları, AkçaÄŸ yayınları: Ankara, 2009. (...) 

Course outline weekly

WeeksTopics
Week 1Wars of the 1877-1922 period: Kirimean War, Ottoman-Russian War, World War I, Balkan Wars and National Struggle.
Week 2Military conditions during war period
Week 3Civil conditions during war period
Week 4Identification of product of art and literature
Week 5Literature and war
Week 6Music and war
Week 7Picture and war
Week 8Mid-term
Week 9Examples of war literature and their evaluation - I
Week 10Examples of war literature and their evaluation - II
Week 11Examples of war music and their evaluation - I
Week 12Examples of war music and their evaluation - II
Week 13Examples of war pictures and sculptures and their evaluation - I
Week 14Examples of war pictures and sculptures and their evaluation - I
Week 15Preparation for the final exam
Week 16Final exam

Assesment methods

Course activitiesNumberPercentage
Attendance1010
Laboratory00
Application00
Field activities00
Specific practical training00
Assignments10
Presentation10
Project00
Seminar00
Midterms140
Final exam150
Total100
Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes050
Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes050
Total100

WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION

Activities Number Duration (hour) Total Work Load
Course Duration (x14) 14 3 42
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application000
Specific practical training000
Field activities000
Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect)1210120
Presentation / Seminar Preparation11515
Project000
Homework assignment11010
Midterms (Study duration)11010
Final Exam (Study duration) 11313
Total Workload3061210

Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes

D.9. Key Learning OutcomesContrubition level*
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1. Analyzes the events of Turkish National Struggle, history of Turkish Republic and the process of Modernisation of Turkey in connection with past and today's events and makes projections for the future.   X  
2. Knows the sources for Turkish Republican History and for Modernisation of Turkey and analyzes their language and features in expert-level. Analyzes historical events with the datas extracted from sources by scientific tecniques and methods.   X  
3. Comprehends and explains the basic concepts and techniques of history, the relation of history with other social sciences, and its similarities and differences in expert-level.  X   
4. Gains knowledge about European and world histography, stages of Turkish histography and its place in world histography, ecoles of history and modern histography. Analyzes content and method of historical knowledge which is produced by general and national history ecoles in a critical way.   X  
5. Observes political, social, economical, academical and technical devolopments on global, regional and local scale, analyzes and explains them in expert level. X   
6. Comments and compares the knowledges of different societies, cultures and civilizations which emerged in the historical process within the scope of individual and society. X   
7. Makes collobotative studies with the other fields of social sciences aiming at the solution of complicated problems.  X  
8. Prepares projects with the purpose of understanding of any political, social and economical problem. Participates in project teams as a leader or team member, and prepares project reports by commenting and anlayzing the findings.   X  
9. Follows the academic studies published in Turkish and in foreign languages concerning history and other humaniterian sciences and prepares articles and papers.  X   
10. Obtains interrogatiove and critical perspective, tries to understand others thoughts and acts of others , makes self-critique, interacts with others for academic purposes ises, presents findings and ideas in scientific and ethical way and makes and commends on them. X   
11. Gains the ability of approaching to the history of modernisation and the progress in democratisation from Ottomans to Republic and other problems concerning Turkish history from multi disciplinary perspective.     
12. Knows the phases of progress in Turkish history, understands the effect of war on art and reconstructs the war scenes by using art material.     X

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