BAHÇEŞEHİR UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN | |||||
| 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 |
| ACL4001 | Introduction to Womens Studies | 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 HATİCE ÖVGÜ TÜZÜN |
| Course Lecturer(s): |
Prof. Dr. GÖNÜL BAKAY |
| Recommended Optional Program Components: | none |
| Course Objectives: | The objective of this course * to introduce the students to Women’s Studies where they will explore gender as a variable that explains socio-economic status of women in the world that we live in. * to give them a clear understanding of the major movements of feminist thought and related areas of the body of knowledge making up the field of Women's Studies. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course; Students who complete this course will: * integrate and compare knowledge from this course with other literature courses * learn the terminology related to feminist studies • learn about key feminist theorist and critics • learn about feminist literary criticism and other related schools of criticism • learn to analyse literary texts from a feminist point of view |
Course Content
| Second Wave Feminism: Beauvoir, Millet, Friedan, Greer Myth Criticism: Nancy Chodorow,Virginia Woolf, Mary Dally, Annis Pratt, Bettina L. Knapp Marxist, Socialist , Feminist criticism: Tillie Olsen, Juliette Michele, Michael Barret Psychoanalytic Criticism :Freud and Lacan , Juliette Michele, Ellen Moers and Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar,Zora Neale Hurston. Poststructuralism, Deconstruction, Post modernism : Saussure, Foucault, Roland Barth, Hortense Spillers, Alice Jardine, Meaghan Morris, Duplessis Black Feminism: The African Diaspora and Caribbean Feminist Criticizm: Alice Walker, Audre Lorde, Barbara Christian Lesbian feminist criticism: Adrienne Rich, Bonnie Zimmerman,Toni Morrison , Jane Rule , Mary Dally Third World Feminist Criticism: Rosario Castellanos, Chandra Mohanty, Gloria Andalzua, Rey Chow, Diane Bell |
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Beauvoir-------The Second Sex pages 351- 392 ,445-500 The Feminine Mystique, pages 1-70 Germaine Greer ------The Female Eunuch Kate Millett--------Sexual Politics 60-108,157-176. | Reading |
| 2) | Beauvoir-------The Second Sex pages 351- 392 ,445-500 The Feminine Mystique, pages 1-70 Germaine Greer ------The Female Eunuch Kate Millett--------Sexual Politics 60-108,157-176. | Reading |
| 3) | Beauvoir-------The Second Sex pages 351- 392 ,445-500 The Feminine Mystique, pages 1-70 Germaine Greer ------The Female Eunuch Kate Millett--------Sexual Politics 60-108,157-176. | Reading |
| 4) | Virginia Woolf--------To The Lighthouse D.V.D Nancy Chodorow-------The Reproduction of Mothering 11-39,72-92,191-219. Annis Pratt ---------Archtypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction. 3-12,73-94 | Reading |
| 5) | Tillie Olsen-------Silences 6-21,122-152, Juliette Michele------Psychoanalysis and Feminism ,170-222. 253-273 | Reading |
| 6) | Wittig-----The Straight Mind and other Essays 9-20 Helene Cixous -------Writing The Feminine 3-50 Luce Irigaray------The Speculum of The other Woman Julia Kristeva ----- Women’s Time. 187-211 | Reading |
| 7) | Review | Reading |
| 8) | Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar-----The Madwoman in The Attic 45-70 Zora Neale Hurston ------Their Eyes Were Watching God 9-80 | Reading |
| 9) | Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar-----The Madwoman in The Attic 45-70 Zora Neale Hurston ------Their Eyes Were Watching God 9-80 | Reading |
| 10) | Foucoult: The Order of Things 30-50 Spivak : In Other Worlds 95-133 | Reading |
| 11) | Alice Walker ----- The Meridian Audre Lorde------ Sister Outsider 13-64,81-109 | Reading |
| 12) | Alice Walker ----- The Meridian Audre Lorde------ Sister Outsider 13-64,81-109 | Reading |
| 13) | Adrienne Rich-----Of Woman Born 21-83 Toni Morrison----- Beloved | Reading |
| 14) | Andalzua---- Borderlands, Making Face, Making Soul 75-114. Diane Bell-----Daughters of The Dreaming | Reading |
| 15) | Final | Reading |
| 16) | Final | Reading |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | The Second Sex , The Feminine Mystique, The Female Eunuch, Sexual Politics, To The Lighthouse, The Reproduction of Mothering , Archtypal Patterns in Women’s Fiction, Silences ,Psychoanalysis and Feminism , The Straight Mind and other Essays , Writing The Feminine , The Speculum of The other Woman, Women’s Time, The Madwoman in The Attic Their Eyes Were Watching God, The Order of Things , The Meridian , Sister Outsider, In Other Worlds, Of Woman Born, Beloved , Borderlands, Making Face, Making Soul , Daughters of The Dreaming |
| References: | none |
Evaluation System
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Quizzes | 3 | % 20 |
| Project | 1 | % 10 |
| Midterms | 1 | % 20 |
| Final | 1 | % 50 |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
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) | Setting up various spaces in national and international contexts, carrying out designs, planning and applications that could satisfy various user groups and respond various requirements in the field of Interior Architecture, | |
| 2) | Analyzing the information gathered from the framework of actual physical, social and economical constraints and user requirements, and synthesizing these with diverse knowledge and considerations in order to create innovative spatial solutions, | |
| 3) | Generating creative, innovative, aesthetic and unique spatial solutions by using tangible and abstract concepts, | |
| 4) | Using at least one of the illustration and presentation technologies competently, that the field of interior architecture requires, | |
| 5) | Reporting, presenting and transferring the design, practice and research studies to the specialists or laymen by using visual, textual or oral communication methods, efficiently and accurately, | |
| 6) | Embracing and prioritizing man-environment relationships, user health, safety and security, and universal design principles in the field of interior architecture, | |
| 7) | Design understanding and decision making that respects social and cultural rights of the society, cultural heritage and nature, | |
| 8) | Being aware of national and international values, following developments and being equipped about ethical and aesthetical subjects in the fields of interior architecture, design and art, | |
| 9) | Having absolute conscious about legal regulations, standards and principles; and realizing professional ethics, duties and responsibilities in the field of Interior Architecture, |