PERFORMING ARTS
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
POV4337	Picture Theory	Spring Fall	2	2	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 :	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.

Learning Outcomes

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.

Course Content

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.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

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.

Sources

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.

Evaluation System

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

ECTS / Workload Table

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

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)	They acquire theoretical, historical and aesthetic knowledge specific to their field by using methods and techniques related to performing arts (acting, dance, music, etc.).	2
2)	They have knowledge about art culture and aesthetics and they provide the unity of theory and practice in their field.	2
3)	They are aware of national and international values in performing arts.	2
4)	Abstract and concrete concepts of performing arts; can transform it into creative thinking, innovative and original works.	1
5)	They have the sensitivity to run a business successfully in their field.	3
6)	Develops the ability to perceive, think, design and implement multidimensional from local to universal.	3
7)	They have knowledge about the disciplines that the performing arts field is related to and can evaluate the interaction of the sub-disciplines within their field.	2
8)	They develop the ability to perceive, design, and apply multidimensionality by having knowledge about artistic criticism methods.	3
9)	They can share original works related to their field with the society and evaluate their results and question their own work by using critical methods.	1
10)	They follow English language resources related to their field and can communicate with foreign colleagues in their field.	1
11)	By becoming aware of national and international values in the field of performing arts, they can transform abstract and concrete concepts into creative thinking, innovative and original works.	3
12)	They can produce original works within the framework of an interdisciplinary understanding of art.	2
13)	Within the framework of the Performing Arts Program and the units within it, they become individuals who are equipped to take part in the universal platform in their field.	3
14)	Within the Performing Arts Program, according to the field of study; have competent technical knowledge in the field of acting and musical theater.	2
15)	They use information and communication technologies together with computer software that is at least at the Advanced Level of the European Computer Use License as required by the field.	3