AMERICAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
POV4337 | Picture Theory | Spring | 2 | 2 | 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: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Instructor DENİZ EYÜCE ŞANSAL |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Assoc. Prof. LEWIS KEIR JOHNSON |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | The chief aim of this course is to introduce students to significant and influential theorisations of what different kinds of pictures are, mean, do or can be made to do. The course aims therefore to guide students in making sense of and evaluating a range of visual material that comprises visual culture, but it also aims to enable students to think about what makes a picture or a pictorial work or text stand out as different or exceptional. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1. Recognize different methodological languages of analysis of images and media. 2. Recognize different aims in the conceptualization of the analysis and evaluation of images and media. 3. Demonstrate ability to alter frameworks of analysis of images and media. 4. Demonstrate ability to alter frameworks of explanation of images and media. 5. Demonstrate ability to alter frameworks of evaluation of images and media. 6. Generate ability isolate what resists analysis in images and media. 7. Respond to complexity of sense and meaning of images and media. 8. Produce images that echo, respond to or exceed these problematics of analysis and evaluation. |
This course studies the techniques of analysis that have been developed for reading and understanding visual elements of our culture. It aims at developing the students’ ability to decipher the major mediums that form our visual culture. It also enables the students to present their earlier visual works in class, in order to help them develop their presentation and critical skills. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction: truth, reality and representation | |
2) | Form, iconography and iconology and formalism | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
3) | Art, history, pictures and ideology | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
4) | Assignment 1 | Working on the assignments. |
5) | Semiology and semiotics | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
6) | Hermeneutics and discourse theory | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
7) | Revision for midterm exam and Assignment 2 | Working on the assignments. |
8) | Theorising realism in art and photography | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
9) | Theorising digital photography | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
10) | Assignment 3 | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
11) | Theorising film and television | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
12) | Theorising video | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
13) | Theorising new media, the website, the music video and the image stream | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
14) | Revision | Weekly readings will be assigned. |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Howells, R. (2003). Visual culture. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishers. |
References: | 1. Comer, S. (2009). Film and video art. London: Tate. 2. Manghani, S., Piper, A. & Simons, J. (2006). Images : a reader. London Thousand Oaks: SAGE Publications. 3. Wells, L. (2003). The photography reader. London New York: Routledge. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 10 |
Homework Assignments | 3 | % 30 |
Midterms | 1 | % 20 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 6 | 84 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 130 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Upon graduation, students will acquire key skills and attributes to conduct research to use research tools, to solve problems, to communicate effectively and to transfer skills to the workplace. | |
2) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to discuss key issues in fluent English. | |
3) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to compose written documents in English with a mature prose style. | 4 |
4) | Upon graduation, students will have gained broad knowledge of the American and English literary canons. | 4 |
5) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to analyze, synthesize and criticize sophisticated works of American and English literature. | 4 |
6) | Upon graduation, students will have achieved in depth the understanding of contemporary American culture. | 3 |
7) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to draw links among diverse literary texts and documents and establish critical connections and adopt an interdisciplinary attitude. | 3 |
8) | Upon graduation, students will be able to develop new projects individually or in teams. | 3 |
9) | Upon graduation, students will be able to apply their knowledge into their lives for interdisciplinary problem-solving and solutions. | 4 |