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SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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
VCD3144 Art and Concept 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 İPEK TORUN
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: Students who take this course will have a comprehension on the conceptual backgrounds of art pieces appeared in Modern and Postmodern Era through the analysis of the contemporary art works by means of philosophical arguments asserted in 20th Century.
Experiments and new perceptions in art will be studied related to the philosophical assertations in Postmodern Era.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Students will recognize the role and importance of concept in modern art.
II.Students will be informed on art related discussions in ontology and epistemology.
a.Ideas on School of Frankfurt
b.Modern Art Paradigm
c.Avangardism
d.Structuralism
e.Psychoanalysis
III.Students will be familiar with modern movements in art.
IV.Students will explore the well known samples of modern art through discussing the concepts and ideas of the artwork .

Course Content

Examining relations between contemporary art and contemporary philosophy, it is amimed to identify the context of concept in field of art.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) School of Frankfurt, Theories of Theodor Adorno
2) School of Frankfurt, Theories of Walter Benjamin
3) School of Frankfurt, Theories of Ernst Bloch, Georg Lukacs and Horkheimer
4) School of Frankfurt, overall review of school of Frankfurt through discussion
5) Midterm Exam
6) Modern Paradigm and Art: Theories of Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg, Sprituality, Sublimation, Mistisism, Kitsch and Art
7) Modern Paradigm and Art: Sprituality, Sublimation, Mistisism, Kitsch and Art
8) Avangardism ve Neo-avagardism: Avangardism Theory of Peter Bürger
9) Avangardism and Neo-avagardism: Montage, New
10) Structualism/Post-Structualism and Art: Levi Strauss, Roland Barthes/Death of Author
11) Structualism/Post-Structualism and Art: Levi Strauss, Roland Barthes/Death of Author
12) Freud and Lacan’s Physco-analise: Subconscious, Automatism, Surrealistic reflections of Freudien ve Lacanian theories, Art and Subconscious,
13) Freud and Lacan’s Physco-analise:Lacan and Mirror Periodi, Lacan and Schoneprenia, Freud/Theory of Expression, Psysco-analise and Art, Art Brut
14) Foucault: The Power of Politics and the Panopticon

Sources

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Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 20
Homework Assignments 5 % 40
Midterms 1 % 15
Final 1 % 25
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 75
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 25
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 13 39
Study Hours Out of Class 14 36
Homework Assignments 6 40
Final 1 4
Total Workload 119

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) Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2) Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3) Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4) Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5) Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6) Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7) Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8) Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9) Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10) Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.
11) Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.
12) Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13) Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.