MATHEMATICS (TURKISH, PHD)
PhD TR-NQF-HE: Level 8 QF-EHEA: Third Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 8

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
FTV2932 Visual Studies and Modernity 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:
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.

Learning Outputs

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.

Course Content

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.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

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

Sources

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

Evaluation System

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

ECTS / Workload Table

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

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution