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| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| 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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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/ |
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | To be able to examine, interpret data and assess ideas with the scientific methods in the area of EU studies. | 2 |
| 2) | To be able to inform authorities and institutions in the area of EU studies, to be able to transfer ideas and proposals supported by quantitative and qualitative data about the problems. | 2 |
| 3) | To be introduced to and to get involved in other disciplines that EU studies are strongly related with (political science, international relations, law, economics, sociology, etc.) and to be able to conduct multi-disciplinary research and analysis on European politics. | 3 |
| 4) | To be able to evaluate current news on European Union and Turkey-EU relations and identify, analyze current issues relating to the EU’s politics and policies. | 2 |
| 5) | To be able to use English in written and oral communication in general and in the field of EU studies in particular. | 1 |
| 6) | To have ethical, social and scientific values throughout the processes of collecting, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data related to EU studies. | 1 |
| 7) | To be able to assess the historical development, functioning of the institutions and decision-making system and common policies of the European Union throughout its economic and political integration in a supranational framework. | 2 |
| 8) | To be able to evaluate the current legal, financial and institutional changes that the EU is going through. | 2 |
| 9) | To explain the dynamics of enlargement processes of the EU by identifying the main actors and institutions involved and compare previous enlargement processes and accession process of Turkey. | 2 |
| 10) | To be able to analyze the influence of the EU on political, social and economic system of Turkey. | 2 |
| 11) | To acquire insight in EU project culture and to build up project preparation skills in line with EU format and develop the ability to work in groups and cooperate with peers. | 2 |
| 12) | To be able to recognize theories and concepts used by the discipline of international relations and relate them to the historical development of the EU as a unique post-War political project. | 3 |