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Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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Fall/Spring |
Prerequisites | None | |||||
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Course Type | Elective | |||||
Course Level | - | |||||
Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | |
Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description |
| Core Courses | |
Major Area Courses | X | |
Supportive Courses | ||
Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
Transferable Skill Courses |
Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
1 | Presentation and an overview of the course, course organization, requirements and methods of evaluation | Video: John Berger, Ways of Seeing |
2 | Introduction: An overview of the Discipline of Cultural Studies | Stuart Hall, Representation, Meaning and Language (pp. 1530)Video: Stuart Hall’s Cultural Studies |
3 | Structural Linguistics: Language, Sign and Representation | Burgoyne, FlittermanLewis & Stam, The Origins of SemioticsAsaBerger, Semiotic Analysis |
4 | Semiology: Codes, Denotation, Connotation and Myth | Stuart Hall, From Language to Culture: Linguistics to Semiotics (pp. 3641)Roland Barthes, Myth Today |
5 | Myth and the Theory of Ideology | Terry Eagleton, ‘Discourse and Ideology’ (from Ideology)Marx & Engels, The Ruling Class and the Ruling IdeasAntonio Gramsci, History of the Subaltern Classes; The Concept of Ideology; Cultural Themes: Ideological MaterialLouis Althusser, Ideology and Ideological State ApparatusesSchirato & Yell, ‘Ideology’, from Communication and Culture |
6 | The Critique of Realism: From Structuralism to Post Structuralism | Terry Eagleton, PoststructuralismChandler, IntertextualitySelected passages from: Roland Barthes, S/Z |
7 | Poststructuralism and Deconstruction | Stuart Hall, The Spectacle of the OtherSelected Passages from:J. Derrida, Writing and Difference Movie: Fight Club |
8 | From Language to Discourse: Truth, Power and Knowledge | Stuart Hall, Discourse, Power and the SubjectS. Best & D. Kellner, Foucault and the Critique of Modernity |
9 | The Postmodern Condition and Cultural Studies | Postmodernism For Beginners by Jim Powell and Joe LeeS. Best & D. Kellner, Baudrillard Movie (screening and analysis): Natural Born Killers |
10 | Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies I: Freud | Eagleton, PsychoanalysisModules on Freud |
11 | Psychoanalysis and Cultural Studies II: Lacan and Kristeva | Burgoyne, FlittermanLewis & Stam, PsychoanalysisBerger, Psychoanalytic CriticismModules on LacanModules on Kristeva |
12 | Sex, Gender and Culture | Stam, et. al., New Vocabularies in Film Semiotics, Ch.4 pp. 174183Screening: Trailers and selected scenes from American Gigolo and Silence of the Lambs.) |
13 | Race and Culture | Stuart Hall, The Spectacle of the Other (pp. 3641)Screening: Trailers and selected scenes from The Birth of a Nation, Mississipi Burning and Malcolm X |
14 | Orientalism and postColonial Critique | Stuart Hall, The West and the Rest: Discourse and PowerMovie (screening and analysis): The Mission |
15 | Revision | |
16 | Review of the Semester |
Course Notes/Textbooks | See below |
Suggested Readings/Materials |
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | 5 | |
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 30 |
Presentation / Jury | ||
Project | ||
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exam | ||
Midterm | 1 | 30 |
Final Exam | 1 | 35 |
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 65 | |
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 35 | |
Total |
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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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 | 16 | 3 | |
Field Work | |||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
Portfolio | |||
Homework / Assignments | 1 | 16 | |
Presentation / Jury | |||
Project | |||
Seminar / Workshop | |||
Oral Exam | |||
Midterms | 1 | 10 | |
Final Exams | 1 | 18 | |
Total | 140 |
# | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
1 | To be able to critically discuss and interpret the theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of media and communication discipline. | X | ||||
2 | To have the fundamental knowledge and ability to use the technical equipment and software programs required by the mediaproduction process. | X | ||||
3 | To be able to use the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice. | X | ||||
4 | To be able to critically interpret theoretical debates concerning the relations between the forms, agents, and factors that play a role in the field of media and communication. | X | ||||
5 | To be able to critically discuss and draw on theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of other disciplines complementing the field of media and communication studies. | X | ||||
6 | To be informed about national, regional, and global issues and problems; to be able to generate problemsolving methods depending on the quality of evidence and research, and to acquire the ability to report those methods to the public. | X | ||||
7 | To be able to gather, scrutinize and use with scientific methods the necessary data to for the processes of production and distribution. | X | ||||
8 | To be able to use and develop the acquired knowledge and skills in a lifelong process towards personal and social goals. | X | ||||
9 | To be able to follow developments in new technologies of media and communication, as well as new methods of production, new media industries, and new theories; and to be able to communicate with international colleagues in a foreign language. (“European Language Portfolio Global Scale,” Level B1) | |||||
10 | To be able to use a second foreign language at the intermediate level. | |||||
11 | To be able to use computer software required by the discipline and to possess advancedlevel computing and IT skills. (“European Computer Driving Licence”, Advanced Level) | X |
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest