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FILM AND TELEVISION
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Ders Genel Tanıtım Bilgileri

Course Code: VCD1112
Ders İsmi: Art, Culture and Society
Ders Yarıyılı: Spring
Ders Kredileri:
Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
3 0 3 5
Language of instruction: English
Ders Koşulu:
Ders İş Deneyimini Gerektiriyor mu?: No
Type of course: Must Course
Course Level:
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree QF-EHEA:First Cycle EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY
Course Lecturer(s): Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÖNÜL EDA ÖZGÜL
Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi TOLGA HEPDİNÇLER
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi DENİZ GÜRGEN
Course Assistants:

Dersin Amaç ve İçeriği

Course Objectives: This class aims to introduce students to visual culture as an interdisciplinary field of study that deals with arts, media, culture, and society. After introducing art history and its concepts and analytic methods, we will have a historical overview of visuality through painting, photography, and cinema. Finally, we will conclude this class by looking at how virtuality started to frame our everyday life through the contemporary instances of visual forms including virtual reality and the Internet.
Course Content: Art, Culture and Society class introduces basic skills of understanding and analyzing works of art. To this end, this class aims to give analytical skills to understand images, historical and social skills to understand their context and the artistic practices.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Learning Outcomes
1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
Learning Competence
Field Specific Competence
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility

Ders Akış Planı

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to the Class, What Is Art and What Is Art History?
2) Judging by Appearances
3) Looking Beyond Picture Frame
4) Art Today: Contemporary Ways of Looking
5) Art in Museums and Galleries: Spectacle and Display
6) Categorizing the History of Art
7) Midterm
8) Introduction: What is Visual Culture?
9) Museum visit
10) Picture Definition: Line, Color, Vision
11) The Age of Photography
12) Virtuality: From Virtual Antiquity to the Pixel Zone
13) Transculture: From Kongo to Congo
14) First Contact: From Independence Day to 1492 and Millennium
15) Conclusion and Review for the Final Exam
16) Final Exam

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Pooke, Grant and Graham Whitham. Teach Yourself: Art History. London: Hodder Education, 2004. 2nd ed.
Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 2nd ed.

References: Mirzoeff, Nicholas (Ed.). Visual Culture Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. 3rd ed.

Ders - Program Öğrenme Kazanım İlişkisi

Ders Öğrenme Kazanımları
Program Outcomes
1) Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society
2) Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art
3) Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area
4) Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey
5) Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product
6) Being able to write a script ready to be shot
7) Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment
8) Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations
9) Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages
10) Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage
11) Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white
12) Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility

Ders - Öğrenme Kazanımı İlişkisi

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society 5
2) Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art 5
3) Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area 3
4) Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey 4
5) Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product 3
6) Being able to write a script ready to be shot 1
7) Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment
8) Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations
9) Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages
10) Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage
11) Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white 4
12) Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility 5

Öğrenme Etkinliği ve Öğretme Yöntemleri

Ölçme ve Değerlendirme Yöntemleri ve Kriterleri

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Presentation 1 % 10
Midterms 1 % 40
Final 1 % 40
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 100

İş Yükü ve AKTS Kredisi Hesaplaması

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 14 42
Study Hours Out of Class 14 70
Presentations / Seminar 1 3
Midterms 1 3
Final 1 3
Total Workload 121