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 |
VCD4153 | Creative Writing for Screen | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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 : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi İPEK TORUN |
Course Objectives: | This course on creative writing for screen is designed for students interested in reading and writing broadly across a variety of genres and styles in literature and film. Considering the correspondences between writing in general and script-writing, literary and visual languages, students will be encouraged to think critically about creativity and to experiment with various forms and styles. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1) Define discourse, sound, creativity, visual and critical processes 2) Recognize various visual languages 3) Execute writing and criticising on visual and auditory examples 4) Identify writing and visualization in terms of inspiration, content, form and production. 5) Define the purposes and constraints of writing and visualization 6) Evaluate samples of moving image language 7) Execute skills to create text for moving images. |
In addition to reading various writers on topics such as discourse, voice, creativity, imaginative and critical processes, language usage and etc., students will also read, write, and critique original fiction and cinematic works. Class time will consist of discussion of assigned reading, writing assignments and experiments with language. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation | |
1) | Introduction | M. Blanchot: “The Relation of the Third Kind”/ “Interruption”/ “A Plural Speech” | |
2) | What is a discourse? What is a discourse? Formal logic in writing | G. de Maupassant: “Necklace” / A. Chekhov: “About Love” / | |
3) | What is a discourse? Discursive logic in writing | S. Burak: “Everest My Lord” / Deleuze: “Literature and Life” | |
4) | Quantum of Writing: Oppositions Concrete/Abstract; Situations/Theories; Known/Unknown | H. Melville: “Bartleby” / J.L. Borges: “ Of Exactitude in Science” / F. Kafka: “ Troubles of a Householder” | |
5) | "Finding a Voice Monologue /Dialogue / Multilogue | Plato: Republic X, / F. Nietzsche: excerpts from Ecce Homo / J. Joyce: excerpts from Giacomo Joyce | |
6) | Grand Narrative | K. Mansfield: “Bliss” | |
7) | V. Woolf: The Waves / S. Kane: 4.48 Psychosis | ||
8) | Telling, Showing and Pointing to | Zafer Hanım: Aşk-I Vatan / I. Bachman: Malina / M. Blanchot: Thomas l’obscure | |
9) | Objects and Places | J. Conrad: excerpts from “Heart of Darkness” / H.P. Lovecraft: excerpts from At the Mountains of Madness / J.G.Ballard: excerpts from The Atrocity Exhibition | |
10) | Inside | G. Büchner: Lenz | |
11) | Outside | R. Carver: “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” | |
12) | Is it possible to tell a proper story? | S. Beckett: excerpts from The Unnamable / P. Handke: Kaspar | |
13) | Creating Situations in Writing | Artaud: “All Writing is Pig-shit” / H. Müller: The Father | |
14) | Recapitulation |
Course Notes: | Bu dersin kaynakları yukarıdaki haftalık ders programında ayrıntılı olarak belirtilmiştir. Derste temel kitap olarak dersin hocası tarafından derlenecek, okuma parçalarını içeren bir kitap okutulacaktır. |
References: | Film gösterimleri: Haneke / Benny’s Video Tarkovsky / Stalker Godard / Weekend Peter Greenaway / Falls Haneke / Code Unknown Todd Solondz / Palindromes Sarah Kane / Skin Aki Kaurismaki / La Vie de Bohéme Gaspar Noe / Irreversible Werner Herzog / The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 30 |
Laboratory | % 0 | |
Application | % 0 | |
Field Work | % 0 | |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | % 0 | |
Quizzes | % 0 | |
Homework Assignments | 6 | % 30 |
Presentation | % 0 | |
Project | % 0 | |
Seminar | % 0 | |
Midterms | % 0 | |
Preliminary Jury | % 0 | |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Paper Submission | % 0 | |
Jury | % 0 | |
Bütünleme | % 0 | |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
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 | 2 | 28 |
Presentations / Seminar | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Homework Assignments | 6 | 3 | 18 |
Quizzes | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Preliminary Jury | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Midterms | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Paper Submission | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Jury | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Final | 1 | 30 | 30 |
Total Workload | 118 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution |