FTV3982 Art and MemoryBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
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
FTV3982 Art and Memory Fall 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: English
Type of course: Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÖNÜL EDA ÖZGÜL
Recommended Optional Program Components: none.
Course Objectives: This course aims to introduce students to critical perspectives on the phenomena of memory and collective/cultural memory in contemporary society through the discussion of artistic products. The students will acquire knowledge about different ways of remembering and different approaches to memory in relation with the concepts of identity, modernity and justice.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
i. acquire knowledge about different approaches to the concept of memory
ii. acquire theoretical knowledge about memory
iii. gain the ability to analyse the relationship between different ways of storytelling and memory
iv. acquire knowledge about the modern regime of remembering
v. gain the ability to think about concepts such as time, space, nation and modernity in the context of remembering
vi. Learn to analyse media products, art, architecture, cinema and photography in relation with memory.

Course Content

This course explores issues about memory and remembering with its socio-economical, cultural and artistic dimensions. The questions about remembering and forgetting are discussed through cinema, art, architecture, literature, photography and history.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to Memory Studies
2) Memory and History The Importance of Remembering
3) Collective Memory Halbwachs' Theory of Collective Memory and Discussion of Cultural Products
4) History and Personal Memory Discussion on Trauma Memories Reading on trauma literature
5) Nation and Remembering Reading: Julian Barnes' England England
6) Time and Remembering Find artistic or cultural products related with time and remembering
7) Space and Remembering
8) Modernity and Remembering
9) Exhibition Visit and Discussion on the Exhibition
10) Sites of Memory Reading - Pierre Nora - Lieux de Memoire
11) Sites of Memory: Historic Sites, Museums, Memorials Visit a site of memory
12) Cinema, Photography and Memory watch Alain Resnais' film Last Year at Marienbad
13) Art, Architecture and Memory
14) Media and Remembering

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References: George Bataille - Slaughterhouse Museum
Jonathan Boyarin - Remapping Memory
Crang&Thrift - Thinking Space
Jacques Derrida - On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 10 % 10
Project 1 % 20
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 40
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 14 3 42
Field Work 1 6 6
Study Hours Out of Class 10 3 30
Presentations / Seminar 2 8 16
Project 1 10 10
Midterms 1 6 6
Final 1 9 9
Total Workload 119

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.