COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRITICAL TEXTS I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
RSA 6031 CRITICAL TEXTS I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 8

Offered By

Painting

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ABDULLAH MÜMTAZ SAĞLAM

Offered to

Painting
Ceramics and Glass

Course Objective

This class intends to analyze the events and facts that make up the agenda in the field of culture and art with a critical approach, evaluate them in the context of sociological developments and contemporary thought movements, and position them with the help of publications and documents that have been made.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   comprehend the process of analysis with regard to cultural and art events as a problem of consciousness and awareness.
2   embrace the consistency of approach of analyzing cultural and art events through signs as a fact of visual culture.
3   witness that analysis and critism of cultural and art events can be analysed by connected processes within the boundaries of a sequenced logic.
4   know that the historical, cultural and political data about the development of societies and art will help us reach a clearer identification of a work of art.
5   see that a better context for production of meaning will be provided through the appropriate use of information about the work of art, the artist and the viewer.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Jameson on David Salle and Rauschenberg
2 Jameson on video and installation
3 Jameson on architecture, Gehry's House
4 Jean Baudrillard, Simulation Theory and Hyperaesthetics
5 Julia Kristeva and the concept of abjection
6 Reneka Dijistra and Cindy Sherman on the problem of the representation of identity
7 Zeynep Sayin and the representation of the body
8 Kocak and Sayin on Mithat Sen's body paintings
9 Jacques Derrida / Deconstruction and Art

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Verbal and written practices of production of meaning, by the help of visual presentations and based on discussion sessions, will be utilized as the method of teaching.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PAR PARTICIPATION
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.20 + ASG * 0.10 + PAR * 0.10 + FCG * 0.60
6 RST RESIT
7 RST RESIT

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 8 112
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.1351
LO.2531
LO.3315
LO.4135
LO.5513