| MATHEMATICS (TURKISH, PHD) | |||||
| PhD | TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 | QF-EHEA: Third Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 8 | ||
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| FTV5006 | Science-Fiction, Technology and Society | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester |
| Language of instruction: | En |
| Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
| Course Level: | |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Prof. Dr. OSMAN KAYA ÖZKARACALAR |
| Course Lecturer(s): |
Prof. Dr. OSMAN KAYA ÖZKARACALAR |
| Course Objectives: | This course aims to study the cinema of science-fiction as a genre reflecting the social development with all its political and economic aspects, and contradictions. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; I. Become familiar with the history and sub-genres of science-fiction cinema II. Understand the dynamics at work in the correlation between shifting trends in genre cinema and macro socio-cultural change III. Gain the capability to analyse a genre film with the conceptual tools of film theory IV. Understand the concept of auteur in cinema V. Understand how the issue of the relation between technology and humanity/society is dealt in recent avantguard cinema VI. Become familiar with the basic current approaches to new communication technologies in post-modernist theory VII. Gain the capability to critically evaluate post-modernist approaches to technology. |
| The main motifs, directions and twists of the mainstream science-fiction cinema will be one of the two main axis of this course. The cinema of David Cronenberg as an auteur will constitute the other main axis. In this axis, the discourse(s) on body-technology-existence in Cronenberg films will be discussed. |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation | |
| 1) | Introduction to the clourse | - | |
| 2) | Brief history of science-fiction | reading | |
| 3) | Overview of Sub-genres of science-fiction | reading | |
| 4) | Fantastic voyages | reading and watching films | |
| 5) | Mad scientists | reading and watching films | |
| 6) | Anti-utopias | reading and watching films | |
| 7) | Alien encounters | reading and watching films | |
| 8) | Soviet sci-fi cinema | reading and watching films | |
| 9) | Cinema of Cronenberg-1 | reading and watching films | |
| 10) | Cinema of Cronenberg | reading and watching films | |
| 11) | Cinema of Cronenberg-3 | reading and watching films | |
| 12) | Cinema of Cronenberg-4 | reading and watching films | |
| 13) | Popular narratives and pop theories | reading | |
| 14) | Presentations | preparing presentation | |
| Course Notes: | Cronenberg on Cronenberg, D. Cronenberg & C. Rodley. |
| References: | Haunted Media, J. Sconce. |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | 15 | % 10 |
| Laboratory | % 0 | |
| Application | % 0 | |
| Field Work | % 0 | |
| Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | % 0 | |
| Quizzes | % 0 | |
| Homework Assignments | % 0 | |
| Presentation | 1 | % 45 |
| Project | % 0 | |
| Seminar | % 0 | |
| Midterms | % 0 | |
| Preliminary Jury | % 0 | |
| Final | 1 | % 45 |
| Paper Submission | % 0 | |
| Jury | % 0 | |
| Bütünleme | % 0 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 55 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 45 | |
| Total | % 100 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
| Course Hours | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| 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 | 16 | 8 | 128 |
| Presentations / Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework Assignments | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Quizzes | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Preliminary Jury | 0 | ||
| Midterms | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Paper Submission | 0 | ||
| Jury | 0 | ||
| Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Total Workload | 175 | ||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution |