NEW MEDIA
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 be able to critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication.
2)	To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level.
3)	To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them.
4)	To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends.
5)	To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner.
6)	To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents.
7)	To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content.
8)	To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit.
9)	To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication.
10)	To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels.