POV3214 History of Camera Images IIBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
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
POV3214 History of Camera Images II 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 TOLGA HEPDİNÇLER
Course Lecturer(s): Assoc. Prof. LEWIS KEIR JOHNSON
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi TOLGA HEPDİNÇLER
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: This course is a continuation of POV3213 History of Camera Images I. It will thus continue with the aim of providing you with histories of photography, film and video that can inform and enable your development as critical practitioners.


Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
I. Recognise varieties of explanation of shifts from modernist to postmodernist accounts of the significance of camera-images
II. Recognise and analyse different modes of filmic narrative across factual and fictional modes and in relation to different socio-political and cultural interests
III. Recognise different accounts of the emergence and purposes of video technologies
IV. Recognise different accounts of the significance of digitization in photography, film and video
V. Recognise different accounts of globalization and the roles of visual images in these accounts
VI. Develop a critical account of relations to the history of camera-images and to contemporary visual culture relevant to the student’s practice

Course Content

The course will consider ways in which the technical powers of images have been used by contemporary practitioners. It explores the ways in which different photographic and film practices are involved in different claims to truth and knowledge in the context of our actual socio-cultural topics of interest. It reviews the transformation of photography and video practices, especially in the contemporary era.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction: review of History of Camera-Images I and issues of modernism and postmodernism in relation to camera-images
2) Assignment I Working on the assignments.
3) Post-war realities and fantasies in photographic work Weekly readings will be assigned.
4) Post-war realities and fantasies in filmic work: Hollywood and counter-cinemas Weekly readings will be assigned.
5) The emergence of video Weekly readings will be assigned.
6) Assignment II Working on the assignments.
7) Midterm; screening and discussion of filmic and video work in relation to uses of notion of postmodernism/the postmodern. Weekly readings will be assigned.
8) Camera-images and varieties of the postmodern in photography, film and video Weekly readings will be assigned.
9) Digitization in photography and photographic practices and genre Weekly readings will be assigned.
10) Digitization in film and film and video practices and genres Weekly readings will be assigned.
11) Globalization and transculture in camera-image practices Weekly readings will be assigned.
12) Assignment III Working on the assignments.
13) Current debates in photography, film and video Weekly readings will be assigned.
14) Presentation and discussion of visual essay assignments and 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) 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.