| Course Name | Contemporary Debates and Practise in Photography |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| GEAR 308 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Service Course | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
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| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | This module aims for students to gain both theoretical and practical experiences on different uses of photography by creating awareness about the contemporary approaches to it. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This unit introduces various genres and fields of use of photography in which the themes and genres of practice units will be based on. |
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| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction to the course | |
| 2 | Brief History and Origins of Photography | History by David Bate and screening of The Genius of Photography - I (59 mins) |
| 3 | Basics - I | |
| 4 | Mini Assignment | No Need; will not be graded |
| 5 | Lightroom Workshop | Bring your computers with Lightroom installed |
| 6 | Photojournalism and Documentary Photography - I | Screening of War Photographer by Christian Frei (97 mins) |
| 7 | Photojournalism and Documentary Photography - II | Photojournalism and Tabloid Press by Karin E. Becker |
| 8 | Project I (20%) | Bring your cameras, make sure they’re fully charged |
| 9 | Reviews of the first project/Lecture | Global Photography by David Bate and Mass Media and Mass Markets by Mary Warner Marien |
| 10 | Project II (20%) | Bring your cameras, make sure they’re fully charged |
| 11 | Still Life | Screening of William Eggleston in the Real World by Michael Almereyda (84 mins) |
| 12 | Project III (20%) | Bring your cameras, make sure they’re fully charged |
| 13 | Reviews/Lecture | |
| 14 | Project IV (20%) | Bring your cameras, make sure they’re fully charged |
| 15 | Project presentation of a photographer(s) | Full attendance is mandatory. |
| 16 | Class presentation and discussion of the projects | Full attendance is mandatory. An external examiner(s) might evaluate your works as well. |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | • Art and Photography – David Campany • Photography – David Bate • The Photography Reader – Liz Wells • Photography: A Cultural History – M. W. Marien • Education of a Photographer –Traub, Heller & Beller * • Another Way of Telling – John Berger & Jean Mohr * • Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography – Roland Barthes * *** Related articles and/or materials will be supplied, if necessary. *** * Turkish translations are available. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Documentary films will be screened, when necessary. |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weighting |
| Participation | 1 | 20 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | 4 | 80 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 5 | 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 | 12 | 3 | 36 |
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | |||
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | 1 | 14 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | |||
| Total | 98 |
| # | 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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