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

Ders Genel Tanıtım Bilgileri

Course Code:

FTV2932

Ders İsmi:

Visual Studies and Modernity

Ders Yarıyılı:

Fall
Spring

Ders Kredileri:

Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
3	0	3	5

Language of instruction:

English

Ders Koşulu:

Ders İş Deneyimini Gerektiriyor mu?:

Type of course:

Departmental Elective

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):

Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY

Course Assistants:

Dersin Amaç ve İçeriği

Course Objectives:	This course aims to discuss the modern way of seeing with its socio-economical, cultural and artistic dimensions and to point to different ways of seeing.
Course Content:	This course explores the modern way of seeing that is a product and a producer of modernity and different ways of seeing focusing on artistic and cultural products. Different ways of seeing that determine the ways of thinking and living are examined in the context of concepts such as time, space, reality, power and representation.

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)	What is Modern? The meaning of the concept
2)	Modernity as a Way of Seeing Modernity and Capitalism
3)	Schorske and Fin-de-Siecle Vienna
4)	Benjamin and Paris Simmel and Berlin
5)	Postmodernity/Postmodernism
6)	Exhibition Visit and Discussion
7)	Modernity and Architecture
8)	Cinema and Modernity
9)	Art and Literature Presentations
10)	Music and Modernity
11)	Postmodern art, literature and cinema
12)	Other ways of seeing
13)	Turkey, Modernity and Different Ways of Seeing
14)	General Review

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Simmel – “Metropolis and Mental Life”
Kracauer – “The Hotel Lobby” (Rethinking Architecture)
Rolf Teideman – “The Arcades Project Dialectics at a Standstill”
Harvey – “Paris, The Capital of Modernity Introduction”
Berger – Ways of Seeing
Heidegger – “Building, Dwelling Thinking” (Rethinking Architecture)
Florensky – “Zeynep Sayın’s Introduction”
Florensky – Reverse Perspective
Bauman – “A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity Intimations of Postmodernity”
Bauman- Modernlik ve Müphemlik
Hauser – Sanatın Toplumsal Tarihi
Baudelaire – Modern Hayatın Ressamı

References:

Balzac – Lily of the Valley
Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dollaway
Orhan Pamuk – The White Castle
Galeano – Mirrors
Borges – Ficciones
John Barth – Chimera
Calvino – On a Winter’s Night a Traveller
Don DeLillo – White Noise
Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse 5
Julian Barnes – England England

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	4
2)	Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art	4
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
4)	Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey	3
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	2
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	2
8)	Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations	4
9)	Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages	2
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	4
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	2
12)	Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility	4

Öğrenme Etkinliği ve Öğretme Yöntemleri

Ölçme ve Değerlendirme Yöntemleri ve Kriterleri

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Presentation	2	% 30
Midterms	1	% 30
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	9	45
Presentations / Seminar	2	30
Midterms	1	4
Final	1	4
Total Workload		125