COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CREATIVITY AND SIMULATION IN CINEMA AND TV I

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTA 5061 CREATIVITY AND SIMULATION IN CINEMA AND TV I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Film Design

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR OĞUZ AHMET ADANIR

Offered to

Film Design

Course Objective

Researching the results that a very important contemporary theory on modern societies -within the fields of culture, art, technology, society, and politics- produced, especially on cinema, art and mass media. Also making a comparative analysis with situation of the same fields in Turkey.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students are able to approachand study Simulation theory as one of the most important contemporary critical theries on modern consumer societies in detail.
2   Students are expected to consider their society and art in different perspective.
3   Students are able to examine whether the simulation theory is applicable to Turkey or not, and the results of a such probable application.
4   Students are able to investigate the ways of analyses within the frame of simulation theory especially on cinema, tv and in a brother sense the all mass media.
5   Students are able to research the possible relations between simulation theory and creativity in art on the large scale and cinema in particular.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Jean Baudrillard and the simulation theory
2 System of the objects
3 System of the objects
4 System of the objects
5 A critic on the political economics of signs
6 A critic on the political economics of signs
7 A critic on the political economics of signs
8 A critic on the political economics of signs
9 Consumer society
10 Consumer society
11 Consumer society
12 Consumer society
13 Simulation theory, illusion and creativity
14 Simulation theory, illusion and creativity

Recomended or Required Reading

Main sources:
Adanır, Oğuz, Baudrillard, Fikir Mimarları/Say Yayınları, 2010
Adanır Oğuz, Simülasyon Kuramı Üstüne Notlar ve Söyleşiler, Hayal-et, 2008, Istanbul.
Baudrillard, Jean, Gösterge ekonomi politiği hakkında bir eleştiri, Boğaziçi Üni. Yay., 2009, Istanbul
Baudrillard, Jean, Nesneler Sistemi, Boğaziçi Üni. Yay., 2010, Istanbul
Baudrillard, Jean, Tüketim toplumu, Ayrıntı Yay.,1997, Istanbul
Baudrillard, Jean, Simülakrlar ve simülasyon, Doğu BatıYay., 2011, Ankara
Baudrillard, Jean, Sessiz yığınların gölgesinde Doğu BatıYay., 2006, Ankara
Baudrillard, Jean, Şeytana satılan ruh yada kötülüğün egemenliği Doğu Batı Yay., 2010, Ankara.




Additional sources:
International Journal of Baudrillard Studies

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1-Classes require a home or library preparation period and discussions in student groups and thus producing notes.
2- As a principle, classes will be carried out in seminar form with the contribution of all students, not only using written material and the lecture. The students are expected to inform each other and work together. In this way they are expected to have more detailed information in a shorter time period.
3-The students are expected to have a certain degree of knowledge and raise the right questions democratically and reach the correct results in this way.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

% 20 of total mark consists of contribution, %40 of it consists of the seminar presentation that the student prepares and presents and the quality of the answers for questions raised by the professor, %20 of it is midterm and % 20 of it is final exam.

Assessment Criteria

It is to determine whether the evaluation of the knowledge, and a free and systematical synthesis of thoughts can be carried out within the frame of the new ones and incourage the student to achieve it.

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 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 4 5 20
Preparation for final exam 5 5 25
Preparing assignments 4 4 16
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 145

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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