MATHEMATICS
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
POV3213	History of Camera Images I	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 PRÖHL JOCHEN JAKOB
Course Lecturer(s):	Prof. Dr. NAZLI EDA NOYAN CELAYİR Assoc. Prof. LEWIS KEIR JOHNSON Prof. Dr. HASAN KEMAL SUHER
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course aims to provide histories of camera-images that can inform and enable your development as critical practitioners. The course will review key events in the history of photography and film as picture-making activities, from early attempts to fix images of light to the end of the First World War.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Discriminate between different accounts of the invention of photogaphic images.
2. Relate the emergence of photographic images to prior histories of images and visual culture.
3. Assess the relationship between photographic images and truth-claims made for them.
4. Understand variety of early photographic techniques.
5. Understand variety of genres of uses of early photography.
6. Appreciate reasons for shifts in truth claims for photographic images.
7. Understand variety of purposes for the emergence of filmic images and relations with science and with traditions of public entertainment.
8. Develop understanding of shifts in relations between camera-images and the status and identity of objects as art.
9. Develop understanding of shifts in status of camera-images as documents, documentary and reportage.
10. Explore traditions of camera-images inventively.

Course Content

The course will consider ways in which the technical powers of photography have been used by innovative practitioners. It explores the ways in which different photographic and film practices have been involved in different claims to truth and knowledge. It reviews the emergence of different film practices. It explores the differences between genres, assessing the relation between formal innovation in film practice and socio-political, including institutional, changes.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction: Camera-images, history, time, narrative and memory
2)	Assignment I	Working on the assignments.
3)	Photography: inventions and directions	Weekly readings will be assigned.
4)	Early photographic portraiture	Weekly readings will be assigned.
5)	Early photographic landscape	Working on the assignments.
6)	Assignment II	Working on the assignments.
7)	Midterm; screening of early film	Weekly readings will be assigned.
8)	Early film and early cinema I: science and the rationalisms of movement	Weekly readings will be assigned.
9)	Early film and early cinema II: varieties of the staging of film	Weekly readings will be assigned.
10)	Photography and film alter art: responses to camera images in modern art	Weekly readings will be assigned.
11)	Art alters photography and film: modernism and avant-garde photographic and filmic practices	Weekly readings will be assigned.
12)	Assignment III	Working on the assignments.
13)	Genres of reportage, documentary, fiction, fantasy and fashion	Weekly readings will be assigned.
14)	Presentations for and discussion of visual essay assignments; revision	Working on the presentations.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Mary Warner Marien, Photography: A Cultural History, 2nd edition, Laurence King, London, 2006; Ian Jeffrey, Revisions: An Alternative History of Photography, National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford, England, 1999; Geoffrey Batchen, Burning with Desire: The Conception of Photography, The MIT Press, 1999.
References:	Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History (Metropolitan Museum, NY): http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hi/te_index.asp?s=all&t=all&d=photographs&x=21&y=15 Victoria and Albert Museum, Photography: http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/p/photography/

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	1	% 15
Homework Assignments	2	% 20
Midterms	1	% 25
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	5	70
Homework Assignments	2	5	10
Midterms	1	2	2
Final	1	2	2
Total Workload			126

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)	To have a grasp of basic mathematics, applied mathematics and theories and applications in Mathematics
2)	To be able to understand and assess mathematical proofs and construct appropriate proofs of their own and also define and analyze problems and to find solutions based on scientific methods,
3)	To be able to apply mathematics in real life with interdisciplinary approach and to discover their potentials,
4)	To be able to acquire necessary information and to make modeling in any field that mathematics is used and to improve herself/himself,	4
5)	To be able to tell theoretical and technical information easily to both experts in detail and non-experts in basic and comprehensible way,
6)	To be familiar with computer programs used in the fields of mathematics and to be able to use at least one of them effectively at the European Computer Driving Licence Advanced Level,
7)	To be able to behave in accordance with social, scientific and ethical values in each step of the projects involved and to be able to introduce and apply projects in terms of civic engagement,
8)	To be able to evaluate all processes effectively and to have enough awareness about quality management by being conscious and having intellectual background in the universal sense,	4
9)	By having a way of abstract thinking, to be able to connect concrete events and to transfer solutions, to be able to design experiments, collect data, and analyze results by scientific methods and to interfere,
10)	To be able to continue lifelong learning by renewing the knowledge, the abilities and the competencies which have been developed during the program, and being conscious about lifelong learning,
11)	To be able to adapt and transfer the knowledge gained in the areas of mathematics ; such as algebra, analysis, number theory, mathematical logic, geometry and topology to the level of secondary school,
12)	To be able to conduct a research either as an individual or as a team member, and to be effective in each related step of the project, to take role in the decision process, to plan and manage the project by using time effectively.