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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
GEP0803 Contemporary Philosophy Spring 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: GE-Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ
Course Lecturer(s): Assoc. Prof. SONGÜL DEMİR
Instructor TUĞRUL ÖZKARACALAR
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: The aim of this course is to make an introduction to the principles of modern thought from a historical perspective

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
After successfully completing this course the student will be able
•set forth the elements discussed by the philosophers during the last decades
•make a study on one of them
•Defining contemporary thinking
•Determining the various areas of contemporary philosophy
•Contemporary philosophers and its thoughts

Course Content

•Neo-Kantianism, philosophy of life, Dilthey, Historism, Hermeneutic Pragmatism, constructivism-

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction
2) What is the contemporary philosophy? Course Note
3) What is the hermenuetik? Course Note
4) W. Dilthey and Gadamer Course Note
5) Marksism and wsetern marxism Course Note
6) G.Lukacs, A Gramschi Course Note
7) Frankfurt School:Adorno ve Horkheimer Course Note
8) Ü habermas and the Theory of Communicative Action Course Note
9) Structuralism, sauussre Course Note
10) R. Barthes Course Note
11) Lacan, althuser Course Note
12) Post modernism: lytord Course Note
13) Post structuralism,: Faucault Course Note
14) J. derrida Course Note

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References: " Peter Watson, Ideas – A History From Fire to Freud, Phoenix Paperback, 2006.E. Levinas. Sonsuza Tanıklık (Seçme Metinler). Metis Yayınları, Zaman ve Başka-Metis Yayınları. "
"J. Derrida. Toplumbilim 10-Derrida Özel sayısı, Cogito özel sayısı. "

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Homework Assignments 2 % 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 1 14
Midterms 1 15 15
Final 1 20 20
Total Workload 91

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) Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society 4
2) Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art 3
3) Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area 1
4) Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey 1
5) Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product 2
6) Being able to write a script ready to be shot 2
7) Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment
8) Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations
9) Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages
10) Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage
11) Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white 3
12) Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility 5