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| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
| FTV2932 | Visual Studies and Modernity | Fall Spring |
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: | Bachelor |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Course Coordinator : | Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY |
| 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. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course; 1) Have general knowledge about the historical development of modernity 2) Identify the way of seeing that is the producer and a product of modernity 3) Have general knowledge about modernism and postmodernism and create critical texts 4)Gain the ability to criticise the cultural products of different cultures 5) See that the modern way of seeing is not the absolute one. |
| This course explores the modern way of seeing that is a product and a producer of modernity and different ways of seeing focusing on artistic and cultural products. Different ways of seeing that determine the ways of thinking and living are examined in the context of concepts such as time, space, reality, power and representation. |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation | |
| 1) | What is Modern? The meaning of the concept | ||
| 2) | Modernity as a Way of Seeing Modernity and Capitalism | ||
| 3) | Schorske and Fin-de-Siecle Vienna | ||
| 4) | Benjamin and Paris Simmel and Berlin | ||
| 5) | Postmodernity/Postmodernism | ||
| 6) | Exhibition Visit and Discussion | ||
| 7) | Modernity and Architecture | ||
| 8) | Cinema and Modernity | ||
| 9) | Art and Literature Presentations | ||
| 10) | Music and Modernity | ||
| 11) | Postmodern art, literature and cinema | ||
| 12) | Other ways of seeing | ||
| 13) | Turkey, Modernity and Different Ways of Seeing | ||
| 14) | General Review | ||
| Course Notes: | Simmel – “Metropolis and Mental Life” Kracauer – “The Hotel Lobby” (Rethinking Architecture) Rolf Teideman – “The Arcades Project Dialectics at a Standstill” Harvey – “Paris, The Capital of Modernity Introduction” Berger – Ways of Seeing Heidegger – “Building, Dwelling Thinking” (Rethinking Architecture) Florensky – “Zeynep Sayın’s Introduction” Florensky – Reverse Perspective Bauman – “A Sociological Theory of Postmodernity Intimations of Postmodernity” Bauman- Modernlik ve Müphemlik Hauser – Sanatın Toplumsal Tarihi Baudelaire – Modern Hayatın Ressamı |
| References: | Balzac – Lily of the Valley Virginia Woolf – Mrs. Dollaway Orhan Pamuk – The White Castle Galeano – Mirrors Borges – Ficciones John Barth – Chimera Calvino – On a Winter’s Night a Traveller Don DeLillo – White Noise Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse 5 Julian Barnes – England England |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Attendance | % 0 | |
| Laboratory | % 0 | |
| Application | % 0 | |
| Field Work | % 0 | |
| Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | % 0 | |
| Quizzes | % 0 | |
| Homework Assignments | % 0 | |
| Presentation | 2 | % 30 |
| Project | % 0 | |
| Seminar | % 0 | |
| Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
| 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 | Workload | |
| Course Hours | 14 | 42 | |
| Laboratory | |||
| Application | |||
| Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | |||
| Field Work | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 9 | 45 | |
| Presentations / Seminar | 2 | 30 | |
| Project | |||
| Homework Assignments | |||
| Quizzes | |||
| Preliminary Jury | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 4 | |
| Paper Submission | |||
| Jury | |||
| Final | 1 | 4 | |
| Total Workload | 125 | ||
| 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 |