Course Name | Analysis of Visual Culture |
Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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VCD 302 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
Course Language | English | |||||
Course Type | Elective | |||||
Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | ||||||
Course Coordinator | - | |||||
Course Lecturer(s) | ||||||
Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | The overall aims of this course are: • to analyse and interpret the increasing visualisation of contemporary culture • to develop specific visual and verbal skills for observing, analysing, describing and critiquing (audio)visual imagery from a range of diverse theoretical perspectives. • to interrogate the ways visual images contribute to the formation of identities and social environments. |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description | This is a theoretical course that explores the meanings and effects of images, and ways of looking across a wide spectrum of visual culture: from painting and sculpture to print, packaging, photography, film, advertising, video games and fashion. It encourages students to develop a range of critical approaches to visual language and its importance both historically and contemporary. The course will thus touch upon a number of significant issues, such as globalization, postmodernism, sexuality and the construction of gender, commodification and mass consumption/production, and the production and reception of images of ethnicity and national identity. |
Related Sustainable Development Goals | |
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Supportive Courses | X | |
Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Syllabus Introduction | None |
2 | What is Visual Culture? Visual Methodologies (I) | Rose, G. Visual Methodologies. London: Sage, 2007 (Chapter 3: ‘the good eye‘) |
3 | What is Visual Culture? Visual Methodologies (I) | Rose, G. Visual Methodologies. London: Sage, 2007 (Chapter 4: ‘Content analysis’) |
4 | What is a Sign? Visual Methodologies (II) | Williamson, J. De-coding Advertise-ments: Ideology and Meaning in Advertising. Lon-don: Boyars, 1978, pp. 1114, 1727, 99105. Rose, G. Visual Methodologies. London: Sage, 2007 (Chapter 5, ‘Semiology’) |
5 | Mythology and Second-order semiological system. | Rose, G. Visual Methodologies. London: Sage, 2007 (Chapter 5, ‘Semiology’) |
6 | Visual Methodologies (III) | Psychoanalysis’ in Rose G. Visual Methodologies. London: Sage, 2007 |
7 | Visualising Gender: Constructions of Femininity and Masculinity | ’Psychoanalysis’ in Rose G. Visual Methodologies. London: Sage, 2007, |
8 | Critique, discussion,writing the in-class essay | None |
9 | Postmodernism: Pastiche and Parody | Postmodernism and Popular Culture’. Practices of Looking. M. Sturken, et. al, Oxford: OUP |
10 | In-class presentations by students | None |
11 | Introduction to Discourse Analysis | Discourse Analysis I in Rose G. Visual Methodologies. London: Sage, 2007 |
12 | Visual Power: The Panopticon | ‘Over and Under Surveillance’ online article by Judy Chen |
13 | Introduction to Contemporary Art Theory | The Conspiracy of Art: Manifestos, Interviews,Essays’ by Jean Baudrillard, NY,2005 |
14 | Fashion and Identity | Barthes, R. The Fashion System. Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press, 1990 |
15 | Review of the Semester | |
16 | Review of the Semester |
Course Notes/Textbooks | Gillian Rose ''Visual Methodologies'' ISBN: 978-1-4739-4890-7 |
Suggested Readings/Materials |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | ||
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 1 | 40 |
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 40 |
Presentation / Jury | ||
Project | 1 | 20 |
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | ||
Final Exam | ||
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 60 | |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 40 | |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
---|---|---|---|
Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
Study Hours Out of Class | 0 | ||
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | 1 | 20 | |
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 | |
Presentation / Jury | |||
Project | 1 | 20 | |
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | |||
Final Exams | |||
Total | 108 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To be able to apply the fundamental principles of design in creating visual narratives and messages, using physical and digital media, | X | ||||
2 | To attain complex problem-solving skills, using various design methods, | X | ||||
3 | To have a clear understanding of creative/art direction, | X | ||||
4 | To be able to use the advanced theoretical and applied knowledge attained in the areas of Visual Communication Design, | X | ||||
5 | To act with social and ethical awareness and to take responsibility, both individually and collectively, for developing aesthetic and effective design solutions, | X | ||||
6 | To be able to investigate, interpret and evaluate the developments on Visual Communication Design in the world and in Turkey, | X | ||||
7 | To have an advanced level of knowledge and experience in producing/editing still and moving images, | |||||
8 | To attain proficiency in using related software, media, and communication technologies, | |||||
9 | To gain reflexive and critical thinking abilities, | X | ||||
10 | To undertake self-directed and continuous education in the discipline, to develop a lifelong learning attitude, | X | ||||
11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Visual Communication Design and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1), | X | ||||
12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently, | |||||
13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | X |
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