PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEO
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code	Course Name	Semester	Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
POV2316	Aesthetics	Spring	3	0	3	6

Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Must Course
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Instructor DENİZ EYÜCE ŞANSAL
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course aims at providing an introduction to the ways of thinking about and working with aesthetics. It also aims at situating aesthetics as a modern discourse of value, associated with the concept of culture and of freedom of expression.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Recognize terms used in discourses of aesthetics.
2. Recognize arguments used in discourses of aesthetics.
3. Understand the history of the emergence and the questioning of the paradigm of aesthetics in its relation to art.
4. Understand the relevance of questioning aesthetics across different cultures.
5. Recognize different ways of interesting spectators in images.

Course Content

The course will explore the meaning of art in relation to cases of pre-modern and modern art, and image-making practices. It will then introduce postmodern revisions of aesthetics, with particular consideration of photography and video practices. Students will be encouraged to test and develop their criteria for assessing images.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction, discussion of the syllabus, working schedule. "Aesthetics" and the word "Estetik" in Turkish.
2)	Definitions of aesthetics; aesthetics as modern discourse: ‘the free play of the imagination’; questions of limits of aesthetics; two types of beauty; aesthetics, technology and camera-produced images	Weekly readings will be assigned.
3)	Pre-modern art and aesthetics I: questions of cultural relativism; the prehistoric and the ancient; art, religion, politics; function and decoration; fear and wonder.	Weekly readings will be assigned.
4)	Pre-modern art and aesthetics II: uses of monocular perspective: narrative; observation; anamorphosis; sfumato and chiaroscuro; Renaissance grotesque; composition and surprise.	Weekly readings will be assigned.
5)	Assessment of the Assignment 1: Uses of chiaroscuro	Assignment 1
6)	Pre-modern art and aesthetics III: descriptive or naturalistic images; maps, landscapes, still-life; texture and sheen; absorption, the hidden and the melancholic	Weekly readings will be assigned.
7)	Revision for midterm exam and discussion on first assignment.	Working on the assignments.
8)	Modern art and aesthetics I: Romanticism, the sublime and the picturesque; the fragmentary and marginal; Romantic grotesque; Impressionism, fashion and the city; pictorialism and formalism	Weekly readings will be assigned.
9)	Assessment of Assignment 2: Pictorialism.	Assignment 2
10)	Futurism, Constructivism and the aesthetics of the machine	Weekly readings will be assigned.
11)	Modern art and aesthetics III: Surrealism, the automatic, the out-of-date, the uncanny.	Weekly readings will be assigned.
12)	Assignment III: The Uncanny.	Assignment 3
13)	Postmodern aesthetics: collage/montage/bricolage; pastiche and appropriation	Weekly readings will be assigned.
14)	Assignment of Final Assignment: pastiche and appropriation.	Final Assignment

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Michael Ann and Keith Moxey, Art History, Aesthetics, Visual Studies, Clark Art Institute/Yale University Press: Williamstown, 2002. Clive Cazeaux, The Continental Aesthetics Reader, Routledge: London, 2000.
References:

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	1	% 15
Homework Assignments	2	% 20
Midterms	1	% 25
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 40
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	6	84
Homework Assignments	2	5	10
Midterms	1	2	2
Final	1	2	2
Total Workload			140

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Knowledge of photographic and video media and ability to use basic, intermediate and advanced techniques of these media.	2
2)	Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate theories, concepts and uses of photography and video.	5
3)	Ability to employ theoretical knowledge in the areas of the use of photography and video.	5
4)	Familiarity with and ability to review the historical literature in theoretical and practical studies in photography and video.	5
5)	Ability in problem solving in relation to projects in photography and video.
6)	Ability to generate innovative responses to particular and novel requirements in photography and video.	4
7)	Understanding and appreciation of the roles and potentials of the image across visual culture	5
8)	Ability to communicate distinctively by means of photographic and video images.	5
9)	Experience of image post-production processes and ability to develop creative outcomes through this knowledge.
10)	Knowledge of and ability to participate in the processes of production, distribution and use of photography and video in the media.	2
11)	Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate global, regional and local problematics in visual culture.	5
12)	Knowledge of and ability to make a significant contribution to the goals of public communication.	4
13)	Enhancing creativity via interdisciplinary methods to develop skills for realizing projects.
14)	Gaining general knowledge about the points of intersection of communication, art and technology.