Course Information


Course Information
Course Title Code Semester L+U Hour Credits ECTS
TELEVISION CRITIC RTS429 7. Semester 3 + 0 3.0 4.0

Prerequisites None

Language of Instruction Turkish
Course Level Bachelor's Degree
Course Type Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors Burcu SÜMER
Assistants
Goals The aim of this course is to enable students with the knowldge of the social-cultural importance of television and equip students with an efficient media-literacy practice.
Course Content The social-cultural importance of television, media-literacy
Learning Outcomes 1) Describes the unique character of television as a mass communication medium
2) Defines what criticism is
3) Explains the history of the institutionalisation of criticism
4) Interprets the ways in which television studies conceptualises the relation between television broadcasting and the society.
5) Asseses how televiison's industrial and technological developments had an impact on television production from a historical perspective
6) Analyses the narrative strucure of television, its narrative structures and key genre categories
7) Provides justifications for what makes televiison viewing a unique experience
8) Crticises the ideology of "realism" of television
9) Describes television programming in Turkey from the establishment of teh TRT to the introduction of commercial broadcasting
10) Asses the ways in which the spread of new communication technologies had an impact of television programming and the audience
11) Provides assumptions on the future of television broadcasting
12) Discusses the importance of television criticsim and media literacy in general

Weekly Topics (Content)
Week Topics Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques Study Materials
The end of the semester. The cultural importance of television in Turkey. New trends in television production. The importance of television and media-literacy. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
1. Week Introduction of the course. What is criticisim? The roots of the concept and different usages. The nature of criticisim. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
2. Week 18th century and cultural criticisim, the birth of the novel, types of novels, the birth of modern criticism. 19th century and the dominance of “political criticism”. High arts, debates on the relationship between esthetics and politics. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
3. Week 20th century. World wars; broadcasting, film and propaganda, Frankfurt School and th early efforts to understand visiual communication. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
4. Week The second half of the 20.th century, popularisation of television broadcasting, the impact of the mass society theories on media studies, early television studies. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
5. Week Television and representation. Visual communication and social meaning: Languaga, representation and meaning production. Television as a system of representation. The use of audio in the production of meaning. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
6. Week MIDTERM Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
7. Week Narrative structure and televiison. Television flow. Serials and series. The narrative time and place on TV. Multi-meaning, polysemy, conflict, interruption and sequential narration, intertextuality and parody. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
8. Week Genre critcisim, television genres, fiction and non-fiction, TV formats, television as an industry, television as a commodity. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
9. Week Psychoanalysis and television. The gaze of the audience, the family and television; famili(arit)y. “Subconcious desire”; television and the manupilation of the desire, “Lack” and “Fantasy”; the televisual representations of the national fantasy. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
10. Week Television and its viewers. Women and television. Feminist television criticism, feminist genre criticism. Women and soap-operas, situation-comedy. Lecture; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
11. Week TV personalities on commercials, magazine programmes and news. Character building, the stary system of television. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
12. Week TV personalities and TV celebrities Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
13. Week The end of the semester. The cultural importance of television in Turkey. New trends in television production. The importance of television and media-literacy. Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)
14. Week General Evaluation Lecture; Question Answer; Discussion

Project Based Learning 		Presentation (Including Preparation Time)

Sources Used in This Course
Recommended Sources
Arthur Asa Berger “Propp, De Saussure ve Anlatı”. Çev. Ayşe inal. AÜ İLEF Yıllık 2001. 37-45.
Ayşe İnal (2001) “Televizyon, Tür ve Temsil.” Yıllık 1999, Ankara: Ankara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi. 255-286.
Christine Gledhill, “Tür, Temsil ve Pembe Dizi”, çev. Ayşe İnal, (Yayımlanmamış Ders Notları)
Erol Mutlu, "Televizyonu Düşünmek" Yıllık 1999, Ankara: Ankara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi. 2001. 219-226.
John Ellis “Televizyonun Anlatısı.” çev. Ayşe İnal. Yıllık 1997-1998, Ankara: Ankara Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi. 1999. 145-58.
Mahmut Mutman, Televizyonu Nasıl Sorgulamalı, Toplum ve Bilim, Sayı 67, s.26-75.
Sevilay Çelenk, Televizyon, Temsil, Kültür: 90’lı Yıllarda Sosyokültürel İklim ve Televizyon İçerikleri. Ankara: Ütopya Yayınevi, 2005.
Terry Eagleton, Eleştirinin Görevi, Ankara: Bilim ve Sanat yayınları, 1998.
Tezcan Durna (2010) Medyadan Söylemler (der.) İstanbul: Libra Kitapçılık.
Walter Benjamin, “Tekniğin Olanaklarıyla Yeniden Üretilebildiği Çağda Sanat Yapıtı” Pasajlar, (3. baskı), çev. Ahmet Cemal, İstanbul: YKY, 2001.

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ECTS credits and course workload
Event Quantity Duration (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week) 14 3
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening) 14 3
Midterm Exam 1 1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam 1 8
Final Exam 1 2
Time to prepare for Final Exam 1 13
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