The aim of this course is to introduce students to the topics of Karl Marx, Louis Althusser, Antonio Gramsci, Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer in critical thinking, and to teach the methods that enable students to evaluate the visual culture products from a socio-economic and cultural point of view.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
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Instructor(s)
Assoc. Prof. Zeynep Koçer
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule
Friday, 11:00 - 12:45, ZB-2
Office Hour(s)
Monday 15:00-16:00 / 1G06
Teaching Methods and Techniques
Lecture and analysis of particular texts
Principle Sources
Excerps from Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Theodor Adorno ve Louis Althusser
Other Sources
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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction to cultural studies
Lecture
2. Week
Culture, popular culture, high culture
Lecture
3. Week
Culture, popular culture, high culture
Lecture
4. Week
Karl Marx; the idea of progress, materialisml, thesis, antithesis, synthesis, dialectic
Lecture
5. Week
Karl Marx; idea of progress, materialism, productive forces, relations of production, means of production, property relations, labor force, mode of production, superstructure, infrastructure, social formation
Lecture
6. Week
Karl Marx; class, class struggle, commodity, surplus value, value of use, value of change, abstract labor
Lecture
7. Week
Screening - C. Chaplin - Modern Times
Lecture
8. Week
Karl Marx; alienation, alienation of labor, material labor, mental labor, evaluation of the film Modern Times (Charles Chaplin) from the concept of alienation
Lecture
9. Week
Midterm
Exam
10. Week
Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer
Lecture
11. Week
Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer
Lecture
12. Week
Antonio Gramsci, hegemony, counter-hegemony consent, historical block, hegemonic block, common sense
Lecture
13. Week
Antonio Gramsci, hegemony, counter-hegemony consent, historical block, hegemonic block, common sense
Lecture
14. Week
Antonio Gramsci, organic intellectual, integral state
Presentation
15. Week
Presentations
Presentation
16. Week
Presentations
Presentation
17. Week
Final Exam
Exam
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
40
Attendance
1
20
Final Exam
1
40
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Students will be able to define all sorts of concepts predominantly related with communication, arts and culture alongside other differint disciplines.
PO-2
Students will be able to interprete technological developments and other related artistic and cultural perceptions.
PO-3
Students will be able to understand contemporary/actual practises.
PO-4
Students will be able to analyse the organic relationships between art, communication
and society.
PO-5
Students will be able to experience the process neccesarry, producing creative designs.
PO-6
Students will be able to study independently of their own accord in a creative
environment
PO-7
Students will be able to use technical equipments properly, and be also accomplish their projects within the given period.
PO-8
Students will be able to transform their creative ideas into multidisciplinary applications.
PO-9
Students will be able to produce original works in different areas ranging from graphic arts, photography, cinema, performing arts to plastic arts.
PO-10
Students will be able to have experiences on film directory, script writing, photography directory and editing.
PO-11
Students will be able to gain proficiency on computer based design, character design for both two and three dimensional animation movie. They also will be able to have experience on stage design.
PO-12
Students will be able to have experiences on various disciplines of performing arts, such as acting, mimic, modern dance, singing, dramatic improvisation.
PO-13
Students will be able to create original art works in painting, sculpture and ceramic disciplines.
PO-14
Students will be able to gain an ability in producing projects together with experienced academics invited.
PO-15
Students will be able to participate in competetive projects both at home and abroad such as exhibitions, workshops and seminars.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Perceive the idea about the cultural construction and art.
LO-2
Learn about cultural analysis.
LO-3
Relate the cultural structure and the "artistic style"
LO-4
Name the cultural practices discussed with their own general knowledge.
LO-5
Learn the transfer and use of language of "Cultural psychology" in the concept of art.
LO-6
Interpret about the concerns of origin of artworks.
