FILM AND TELEVISION
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
FTV3978 Modernity and Other Ways of Seeing Fall 3 0 3 5
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester

Basic information

Language of instruction: En
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÖNÜL EDA ÖZGÜL
Course Lecturer(s): Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÖNÜL EDA ÖZGÜL
Course Objectives: This course aims to discuss the modern way of seeing with its socio-economical, cultural and artistic dimensions and to point to different ways of seeing.

Learning Outputs

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Develop a critical perspective regarding the historical development of modern societies;
2. Identify the way of seeing that is both the producer and a product of modernity
3. Identify modernist and postmodernist works and create critical texts ;
4. Develop a sophisticated criticism of cultural products;
5. Explore different forms of narration and understand the way of seeing that they produce;
6. Develop ideas/concepts/artworks in relation to other works of art and culture.

Course Content

In this course, modern way of seeing that is a product and a producer of modernity and other ways of seeing will be discussed through art, cinema, music, architecture and literature. Modernity and its reflections in the city and its culture will also be examined.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1)
1) Introduction
2) On Seeing
3) Modernity as a Way of Seeing
4) Schorske's Vienna
5) Benjamin's Paris Simmel's Berlin
6) Exhibition Visit and Discussion
7) Online Exhibition Visit
8) Exhibition Project Presentations
9) Modernism and Postmodernism
10) Modernism and Postmodernism
11) Homework Presentations Discussion on Artworks
12) Art and Literature
13) Music
14) Final Project Presentations

Sources

Course Notes: Books: * Schorske, Carl E. (1981). Fin-de-siècle Vienna : politics and culture. New York: Vintage Books [DB 851 .S34 1981] * Benjamin, Walter (1999). Illuminations. London: Pimlico [PN 37 .B4413 1999]
References: Books: * Schorske, Carl E. (1981). Fin-de-siècle Vienna : politics and culture. New York: Vintage Books [DB 851 .S34 1981] * Benjamin, Walter (1999). Illuminations. London: Pimlico [PN 37 .B4413 1999]

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Laboratory 0 % 0
Application 0 % 0
Field Work 0 % 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) 0 % 0
Quizzes 0 % 0
Homework Assignments 1 % 10
Presentation 3 % 20
Project 1 % 20
Seminar 0 % 0
Midterms % 0
Preliminary Jury 0 % 0
Final 1 % 40
Paper Submission 0 % 0
Jury 0 % 0
Bütünleme % 0
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 60
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application 0 0 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) 0 0 0
Field Work 0 0 0
Study Hours Out of Class 14 5 70
Presentations / Seminar 3 3 9
Project 1 4 4
Homework Assignments 1 2 2
Quizzes 0 0 0
Preliminary Jury 0 0 0
Midterms 0 0 0
Paper Submission 0 0 0
Jury 0 0 0
Final 1 4 4
Total Workload 131

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) Being familiar to the main concepts and methods of the social sciences and the fine arts devoted to understanding the world and the society
2) Having comprehensive knowledge regarding different media and branches of art
3) Knowing the historical background of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey and keeping pace with the new developments in the area
4) Having a good command of the language and the aesthetics of audio-visual moving images in the world and in Turkey
5) Being able to create a narrative that could be used in a fiction or a non-fiction audio-visual moving image product
6) Being able to write a script ready to be shot
7) Having the skills to produce the photoboard of a script in hand and to shoot the film using the camera, the lights and other necessary equipment
8) Being able to transfer the footage of a film to the digital medium, to edit and do other post-production operations
9) Being able to create a documentary audio visual moving image from the preliminary sketch stage to shooting, editing and post-production stages
10) Being able to produce an audio visual moving image for television and audio products for radio from preliminary stages through shooting and editing to the post-production stage
11) Being culturally and theoretically equipped to make sense of an audio-visual moving image, to approach it critically with regard to its language and narration and being able to express his/her approach in black and white
12) Having ethical values and a sense of social responsibility