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
GEP1705	Literature and Society	Spring	3	0	3	5

This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction:	Turkish
Type of course:	GE-Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	E-Learning
Course Coordinator :	Assist. Prof. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	To increase students' interest in literature by showing that literary works, in addition to the pleasure of reading, will provide them with information about social reality and the human condition.The aim of this course is to question the relation between literature and society, to demonstrate the way society is reflected in literary works made up of different types of literature, to determine the aspects these correspond with the real life and to display the way literature leads and changes the society.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. You will learn about the modern world and modern literature.
2. You will gain the knowledge that it is possible to be informed about the world you live in and the society you live in through literature.
3. Thanks to the "human condition" contained in literary works, you will gain the ability to look critically at yourself and your social relations.
4. You will understand the importance of gaining knowledge outside your field of expertise and reading outside the curriculum.

Course Content

Studying texts chosen from Turkish and World literature with their relation to the connection between literature and society and displaying real life correspondences of social reflections in these works and displaying the role of literature in social transformation, form the basis of this course.
Teaching methods and techniques used in the course are: lecture, reading, individual work, sample review, discussion, and observation.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction to the course-General overview of the relation between literature and society
2)	Knowledge of the social What is it and how is it obtained?
3)	Knowledge of the social What is it and how is it obtained? Social data included in and reflected by written literature and methods to evaluate these data.
4)	In pre-modern societies mythical narrative forms
5)	Shakespeare's tragedies in the transition to modern society
6)	Modern narrative form and Shakespeare tragedies
7)	The age of Cervantes and the first novel: Don Quixote
8)	Midterm Week
9)	Modernity on the streets 1: Goethe, Dickens and Balzac
10)	Modernity on the streets 2: Gogol, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy
11)	Alternative modernizations: Marquez, Necip Mahfuz and Forugh Farrokhzad
12)	Turkish modernization and Turkish literature1: From Ahmed Midhat to Nâzım Hikmet
13)	Turkish modernization and Turkish literature2: From Nâzım Hikmet to Orhan Pamuk
14)	General Overview

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

References:

William Shakespeare, Macbeth (ç.Sabahattin Eyuboğlu), T. İş Bankası Yayınları
Hamlet (ç.Sabahattin Eyuboğlu), T. İş Bankası Yayınları
- Nâzım Hikmet, Şeyh Bedreddin Destanı, Yapı Kredi Yayınları
Kuvayı Milliye Destanı, Yapı Kredi Yayınları

-Karşılaştırmalı Edebiyat Bilimi, Gürsel Aytaç,Ank.1997
-Modern Türk Edebiyatının Ana Çizgileri, Kenan Akyüz, Ank.1976
-“Biyografik Romanlardan Hareketle ‘Kişisel Tarih Toplumsal Tarih midir’ Sorunsalı Üzerine Bir İnceleme”, Folklor/Edebiyat, C.18, S.69, 2012-1, s.263-276
-“Göç ve Göçmenlik Edebiyatında Yer Alan Dramatik İnsan Manzaralarından Bir Kesit”, Kültür ve Edebiyatta Göç ve Göçmenlik, KIBATEK Yay., Ank.2009, s.47-51

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 60
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 60
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	13	3	39
Study Hours Out of Class	12	6	72
Midterms	1	2	2
Final	1	2	2
Total Workload			115

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)	Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate theories, concepts and uses of photography and video.
3)	Ability to employ theoretical knowledge in the areas of the use of photography and video.
4)	Familiarity with and ability to review the historical literature in theoretical and practical studies in photography and video.
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.
7)	Understanding and appreciation of the roles and potentials of the image across visual culture
8)	Ability to communicate distinctively by means of photographic and video images.
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.
11)	Ability to understand, analyze and evaluate global, regional and local problematics in visual culture.
12)	Knowledge of and ability to make a significant contribution to the goals of public communication.
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.