SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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
FTV4966	Cinema and Dramaturgy II	Fall	3	0	3	5

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Basic information

Language of instruction:	English
Type of course:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	The main goal of this course is to explore the concept of identification and discuss the aesthetic values produced from different cinematic perspectives.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Will be able to develop dramaturgical perspective
2. Will be able to discuss the concept of identification and spectator
3. İdentify theories about gaze and film aesthetics
4. Will be able to discuss the relationship between the concept of identification and the political

Course Content

Relationship between gaze and identification will be elaborated through the works of Aristotle, Brecht, Lacan and Mulvey.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Identification theories
2)	Exploring identification with selected films	Watching the following films: - Play it again, Sam - Being John Malkovich - Hayallerim Aşkım ve Sen
3)	Identification and Aristotle's theoratical writings, discussing on catharsis concept
4)	the politics of representation and identification in the genre melodrama
5)	The process of identification in melodramas. Analysis of Dougles Sirk's film 'Imıtation of Life'
6)	Exploring of Metz's thought in terms of Lacan's concept of the mirror stage	Readings on Lacan and Metz
7)	Elaborating the concept of identification and analysing a film though the concept.
8)	Yabancılaşma ve Brehtyen Estetik
9)	The impact of Brecht on Godard	Film Screening; Le Mepris by Godard
10)	Impacts of Brechtian structure on cinema	Watching Lars von Trier's Dogville
11)	The masculine gaze and identification in cinema, Laura Mulvey readings	Watching Hitchcock's Rear Window
12)	Identification and queer cinema	Watching Almadovar's Todo Sobre mi Madre
13)	Hybrid identities, identification and accented cinema
14)	General overview and analysis over films

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References:	1. An Accented Cinema, Naficy, 2001 2. Bertolt Brecht, Lellis, 1982Brecht'i Anlamak, Benjamin, 2004 3. Melodram ve Anlam, Klinger, 1994 4. Film theories, A. Dudley, 2000 5. Poetica, Aristoteles, 2011 6. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Mulvey 7. Narration in Fiction Film, Bordwell, 1985

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Homework Assignments	2	% 10
Midterms	1	% 30
Final	1	% 50
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 50
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	8	5	40
Homework Assignments	1	10	10
Midterms	1	15	15
Final	1	20	20
Total Workload			127

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)	Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2)	Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3)	Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4)	Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5)	Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6)	Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7)	Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8)	Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9)	Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10)	Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.
11)	Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.
12)	Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13)	Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.