| INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS DESIGN | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| GEP0623 | Fashion and Media | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
| Language of instruction: | English |
| Type of course: | GE-Elective |
| Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | none |
| Course Objectives: | Fashion is one of the fundamental ways in which humans communicate to each other about themselves. This course examines the intersection between fashion, media, personal identity in today’s society. Drawing on theories of rhetorical and social criticism, we will examine how the fashion industry creates powerful and persuasive messages to sell a given image to consumers. We will also study how those images are reinforced and given authority through media. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. Acquire familiarity with concepts of fashion in relation to media in a Turkish as well as international context. 2. Will be competent to formulate research questions concerning fashion and its relation to media material. 3. Critique the role fashion and style play in visual self-presentation 4. Demonstrate an understanding of the economic, social, and cultural aspects offashion 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship of modernity to style and visuality 6. Demonstrate a critical analysis of celebrity culture and how it functions |
| Through cultural and media studies theory, the courses main topic is to examine how fashion makes meaning, and how it has been valued through history, popular culture and media institutions, focusing on therelationship between fashion, visual self-presentation, and power.. |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | What is Fashion | |
| 2) | Introduction to Fashion and Culture | |
| 3) | Fashioning the Self | |
| 4) | The History of Fashion | |
| 5) | Fashion and the Masses | |
| 6) | Fashion, Communication, and Culture | |
| 7) | Roland Barthes and the Rhetoric of Fashion | |
| 8) | Midterm exam | |
| 9) | Fashion and Society | |
| 10) | Fashion in Popular Culture | |
| 11) | Fashion Icons | |
| 12) | Supermodels and Superstars | |
| 13) | Costume Design | |
| 14) | Fashion at the Edge | |
| 15) | General review | |
| 16) | Final Exam |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Course Notes / Textbooks selected readings from this books below: Fashion in Film: Adrienne Munich, Indiana University Press: 2011 Fashion Theory: A Reader, Malcom Barnard: Routledge, 2007 Barthes, Roland, The Language of Fashion (Oxford: Berg, 2004. Anne Hollander, Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern DressSteele, Valerie (eds). Barnard, Malcom, Fashion as Communication, New York: Routledge; 2 edition (29 Aug 2002) Moseley, Rachel, Fashioning Film Stars: Dress, Culture, Identity (London: BFI, 2005) McDowell, Colin Fashion Today, London, Phaidon Press Limited, 2000. |
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| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
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| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 0 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % | |
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| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Having the theoretical and practical knowledge proficiency in the discipline of industrial product design | |
| 2) | Applying professional knowledge to the fields of product, service and experience design development | |
| 3) | Understanding, using, interpreting and evaluating the design concepts, knowledge and language | |
| 4) | Knowing the research methods in the discipline of industrial product design, collecting information with these methods, interpreting and applying the collected knowledge | |
| 5) | Identifying the problems of industrial product design, evaluating the conditions and requirements of problems, producing proposals of solutions to them | |
| 6) | Developing the solutions with the consideration of social, cultural, environmental, economic and humanistic values; being sensitive to personal differences and ability levels | |
| 7) | Having the ability of communicating the knowledge about design concepts and solutions through written, oral and visual methods | |
| 8) | To identify and apply the relation among material, form giving, detailing, maintenance and manufacturing methods of design solutions | |
| 9) | Using the computer aided information and communication technologies for the expression of industrial product design solutions and applications | |
| 10) | Having the knowledge and methods in disciplines like management, engineering, psychology, ergonomics, visual communication which support the solutions of industrial product design; having the ability of searching, acquiring and using the knowledge that belong these disciplines when necessary. | |
| 11) | Using a foreign language to command the jargon of industrial product design and communicate with the colleagues from different cultures | |
| 12) | Following and evaluating the new topics and trends that industrial product design needs to integrate according to technological and scientific developments |