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SPEECH AND LANGUAGE THERAPY
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 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: 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 use theoretic and methodological approach, evidence-based principles and scientific literature in Speech and Language Therapy field systematically for practice.
2) To have theoretic and practical knowledge for individual's, family's and the community's health promotion and protection.
3) To use information and health technologies in practice and research in the field of Speech and Language Therapy.
4) To communicate effectively with advisee, colleagues for effective professional relationships.
5) To be able to monitor occupational information using at least one foreign language, to collaborate and communicate with colleagues at international level.
6) To use life-long learning, problem-solving and critical thinking skills.
7) To act in accordance with ethical principles and values in professional practice.
8) To take part in research, projects and activities within sense of social responsibility and interdisciplinary approach.
9) To be able to search for literature in health sciences databases and information sources to access to information and use the information effectively.
10) To take responsibility and participate in the processes actively for training of other therapist, education of health professionals and individuals about speech and languege therapy.
11) To carry out speech and languge therapy practices considering cultural differences and different health needs of different groups in the community.