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Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
VCD1112 | Art, Culture and Society | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Must Course |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Assist. Prof. TOLGA HEPDİNÇLER Assist. Prof. DENİZ GÜRGEN Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY Assist. Prof. GÖNÜL EDA ÖZGÜL |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This class aims to introduce students to visual culture as an interdisciplinary field of study that deals with arts, media, culture, and society. After introducing art history and its concepts and analytic methods, we will have a historical overview of visuality through painting, photography, and cinema. Finally, we will conclude this class by looking at how virtuality started to frame our everyday life through the contemporary instances of visual forms including virtual reality and the Internet. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; I. are introduced to art history II. are introduced to the basic concepts of art III. Gain the ability to analyze works of art formally IV. Gain the ability to analyze the content and context of the works of art V. are introduced to visual culture VI. gain a basic notion of the social history of art VII. can compare different conceptions of time in different cultures (Western and non-Western) VIII. can survey the basic art historical periods and movements IX. gain knowledge about art museums |
Art, Culture and Society class introduces basic skills of understanding and analyzing works of art. To this end, this class aims to give analytical skills to understand images, historical and social skills to understand their context and the artistic practices. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to the Class, What Is Art and What Is Art History? | |
2) | Judging by Appearances | |
3) | Looking Beyond Picture Frame | |
4) | Art Today: Contemporary Ways of Looking | |
5) | Art in Museums and Galleries: Spectacle and Display | |
6) | Categorizing the History of Art | |
7) | Midterm | |
8) | Introduction: What is Visual Culture? | |
9) | Museum visit | |
10) | Picture Definition: Line, Color, Vision | |
11) | The Age of Photography | |
12) | Virtuality: From Virtual Antiquity to the Pixel Zone | |
13) | Transculture: From Kongo to Congo | |
14) | First Contact: From Independence Day to 1492 and Millennium | |
15) | Conclusion and Review for the Final Exam | |
16) | Final Exam |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Pooke, Grant and Graham Whitham. Teach Yourself: Art History. London: Hodder Education, 2004. 2nd ed. Mirzoeff, Nicholas. An Introduction to Visual Culture. London and New York: Routledge, 2009. 2nd ed. |
References: | Mirzoeff, Nicholas (Ed.). Visual Culture Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 2012. 3rd ed. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 10 |
Presentation | 1 | % 10 |
Midterms | 1 | % 40 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 70 |
Presentations / Seminar | 1 | 3 |
Midterms | 1 | 3 |
Final | 1 | 3 |
Total Workload | 121 |
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 | 5 |
2) | Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art | 5 |
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 | 3 |
4) | Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey | 4 |
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 | 1 |
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 | 4 |
12) | Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility | 5 |