NUTRITION AND DIETETIC (ENGLISH) | |||||
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 Spring |
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 : | Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | Recommended optional components for the Media and Fashion course include workshops that explore the impact of fashion on media representation and how trends are shaped by cultural narratives. Collaborations with fashion designers, stylists, and media professionals provide hands-on experience in creating fashion stories for film, TV, and digital platforms. Elective courses such as fashion theory, visual communication, and digital media strategy offer additional insights into how fashion intersects with different media channels. |
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. |
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. |
References: | 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. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Total | % | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 0 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % | |
Total | % |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | To use theoretic and methodological approach, evidence-based principles and scientific literature in Nutrition and Dietetics field systematically for practice. | |
2) | To have theoretic and practical knowledge for individual's, family's and the community's health promotion and protection. | |
3) | To assess nutritional status of risky groups in nutrition related problems (pregnant, babies, adolescences, elders, etc.) | |
4) | To use healthcare, information technologies for Nutrition and Dietetic practice and research. | |
5) | To communicate effectively with advisee, colleagues for effective professional relationships. | |
6) | To be able to monitor occupational information using at least one foreign language, to collaborate and communicate with colleagues at international level. | |
7) | To use life-long learning, problem-solving and critical thinking skills. | |
8) | To act in accordance with ethical principles and values in professional practice. | |
9) | To take part in research, projects and activities within sense of social responsibility and interdisciplinary approach. | |
10) | To be able to search for literature in health sciences databases and information sources to access to information and use the information effectively. | |
11) | To take responsibility and participate in the processes actively for training of other dieticians, education of health professionals and individuals about nutrition. | |
12) | To carry out dietetic practices considering cultural differences and different health needs of different groups in the community. |