| Course Name | Communication, Literature and Philosophy |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| GEAR 211 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Service Course | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | ||||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | This module aims to introduce students to analytic thinking and philosophizing via short readings and analysis of literary texts, art works, photography and cinema. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course focuses on the historical trajectory of western philosophy in parallel to its relations particularly with literature and art, and generally with culture and communications. |
| Related Sustainable Development Goals | |
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| Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | ||
| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | What is Reality? How do philosophy and film represent the conflict between appearance and reality? | Reading: The Allegory of the Cave - Media: The Matrix |
| 2 | What Does It Mean to Be Human? Existentialism and the concept of self. What makes us human? How does technology affect this question? | Reading: Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity - Media: Blade Runner |
| 3 | What is Freedom? The tension between freedom and responsibility. What is the cost of freedom in both philosophical and digital realms? | Reading: Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov - Media: The Social Dilemma |
| 4 | What is the Absurd? The absurd and the search for meaning. How do different mediums represent the absurdity of existence? | Reading: Albert Camus, The Plague - Media: Cindy Sherman’s photography |
| 5 | How Should We Live? Ethics and moral philosophy. How do we balance personal freedom with societal norms? | Reading: Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (continued) - Media: The Truman Show |
| 6 | Utopian Visions and Ideal Societies. Utopia and social structures. How are utopian and dystopian ideals explored in literature? | Reading: Thomas More, Utopia - Media: The Matrix (selected scenes) |
| 7 | What is Alienation? Alienation and isolation in modern life. How do literature and film depict alienation? and loss of identity? | Reading: Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis - Media: Blade Runner |
| 8 | Midterm Week | |
| 9 | Death, Desire, and Decadence. Mortality and desire. How do desire and societal expectations shape human existence? | Reading: Thomas Mann, Death in Venice |
| 10 | The Power of Social Norms. Social norms and moral behavior. How do societal expectations influence moral decisions? | Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold |
| 11 | What is Truth? The search for truth in a post-truth world. How does media influence our understanding of truth? | Reading: Selected essays on truth - Media: The Truman Show |
| 12 | Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Communication. Ethics in the digital age. How does modern communication technology challenge ethical responsibilities? | Reading: Selected essays on ethics and communication - Media: The Social Dilemma |
| 13 | Philosophy and Technology: The Role of Digital Media. How digital media influences philosophical inquiry. How has technology reshaped the way we engage with philosophical questions? | Excerpts on philosophy and technology |
| 14 | Student Presentations | |
| 15 | Student Presentations | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | - Plato, The Allegory of the Cave (from The Republic) - Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity - Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis - Albert Camus, The Plague - Orhan Pamuk, Snow - Thomas More, Utopia - Thomas Mann, Death in Venice - Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold - Film: The Matrix - Film: Blade Runner - Documentary: The Social Dilemma - Visual Art: Selected works of Cindy Sherman Additional readings and materials will be provided on the course platform. |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weighting |
| Participation | ||
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | 1 | 50 |
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 100 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| 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 | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 14 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 15 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | 1 | 25 | |
| Final Exams | |||
| Total | 150 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able master and use fundamental phenomenological and applied physical laws and applications, | |||||
| 2 | To be able to identify the problems, analyze them and produce solutions based on scientific method, | |||||
| 3 | To be able to collect necessary knowledge, able to model and self-improve in almost any area where physics is applicable and able to criticize and reestablish his/her developed models and solutions, | |||||
| 4 | To be able to communicate his/her theoretical and technical knowledge both in detail to the experts and in a simple and understandable manner to the non-experts comfortably, | |||||
| 5 | To be familiar with software used in area of physics extensively and able to actively use at least one of the advanced level programs in European Computer Usage License, | |||||
| 6 | To be able to develop and apply projects in accordance with sensitivities of society and behave according to societies, scientific and ethical values in every stage of the project that he/she is part in, | |||||
| 7 | To be able to evaluate every all stages effectively bestowed with universal knowledge and consciousness and has the necessary consciousness in the subject of quality governance, | |||||
| 8 | To be able to master abstract ideas, to be able to connect with concreate events and carry out solutions, devising experiments and collecting data, to be able to analyze and comment the results, | |||||
| 9 | To be able to refresh his/her gained knowledge and capabilities lifelong, have the consciousness to learn in his/her whole life, | |||||
| 10 | To be able to conduct a study both solo and in a group, to be effective actively in every all stages of independent study, join in decision making stage, able to plan and conduct using time effectively. | |||||
| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Physics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | |||||
| 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. | |||||
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