Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
VISUAL CULTURE	URTS1202	4. Semester	2 + 0	2.0	6.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction	English
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors	Tuğba TAŞ
Assistants
Goals	The aim of this course is to develop the skills of students necessary to conduct research, discussion and writing on visual culture. The course has thus been designed to introduce critical approaches that can be used in relation with various images, objects and spheres.
Course Content	Visual culture studies is an interdisciplinary field of study that deals with visual anthropology, art history, art theory and cultural studies. In this course we will have a historical overview of visuality through painting, photography, and cinema to explore the role of images in society ocross place and time. The course presents fundamental concepts for analysis of all kinds of images and demonstrating centrality of visual experience in everyday life.
Learning Outcomes	1) Describe the Visual Culture Studies as a research erea. 2) Describe the relationship between Visual Culture Studies, art history and cultural studies. 3) Identify a range of conceptual approaches to visual culture

Week	Topics	Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques	Study Materials
1. Week	Introduction to the Class, What is visual culture and Visual Culture Studies
2. Week	Image and Power
3. Week	Viewers and meaning
4. Week	Gaze and power
5. Week	From Cartesian perpectivism to digital media
6. Week	the myth of reality and location perspectives in the digital age
7. Week	Midterm Exams
8. Week	Onthology of digital images
9. Week	Reproduction, visual technologies and work of art
10. Week	Visual culture and everyday life
11. Week	Consumer culture
12. Week	Postmodernism and visual culture
13. Week	Scientific looking
14. Week	Globalism and visual culture

Recommended Sources

Aslan, Umut Tümay (2003) "Görsel Olanı Okumak: Eleştirel Görsel Okur-Yazarlık." İletişim Araştırmaları. 1(1): 39-64.

Barthes, Roland (2011) Camera Lucida: Fotoğraf Üzerine Düşünceler. İstanbul: Altıkırkbeş.

Berger, John (2011) O Ana Adanmış: John Berger’den Seçme Yazılar. İstanbul: Metis.

*DK = Course's Contrubution.

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Level of contribution	None	Very Low	Low	Fair	High	Very High

Event	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week)	14	2	28
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening)	14	1	14
Homework	1	20	20
Midterm Exam	1	1	1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam	1	14	14
Final Exam	1	1	1
Time to prepare for Final Exam	1	20	20
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course			30