COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT AND CONTEMPORARY DEBATES

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STA 6037 CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT AND CONTEMPORARY DEBATES ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Art and Design

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ABDULLAH MÜMTAZ SAĞLAM

Offered to

Art and Design

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 New actors of the cultural environment, new institutional centers
2 Museums, Culture-Art Centers
3 Privatization of culture, Art companies: galleries and auction houses
4 Art publishing
5 Shifted environment of production in the field of art: art critism and literature
6 Agenda set by museums and culture-art centers: Picasso, Dali, Rembrandt exhibitions
7 Agenda set by museums and culture-art centers: The building of a nation
8 Agenda set by museums and culture-art centers: from traditional to contemporary
9 Agenda set by museums and culture-art centers: 20 modern Turkish artists
10 Agenda set by museums and culture-art centers: Modernism and beyond
11 Agenda set by museums and culture-art centers: "Let's Go Postering" and "Scared of Murals" exhibitions
12 Agenda set by museums and culture-art centers: Kutlug Ataman
13 Agenda set by museums and culture-art centers: "Becoming Istanbul"
14 Agenda set by museums and culture-art centers: Istanbul biennials
15 A collection space: Proje 4L-Elgiz

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Danto, Arthur, Sanatı Sonundan Sonra, Ayrıntı Yayınları.
2. Adorno, Thedor; Kültür endüstrisi, Kültür Yönetimi, Iletişim Yayınları, 2009.
3. Foster, Hal; Gerçeğin Geri Dönüşü, Ayrıntı Yayınları.
4. Stallabrass, Julian; Sanat A.Ş./Sanat ve Bienaller, Iletişim Yayınları, 2004.
5. Debord, Guy, Gösteri Toplumu, Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2010.
6- Urry, John, Mekanları Tüketmek, Ayrıntı Yayınları, 1995.
7- Baudrillard, Sanatın komplosu, Iletişim yayınları, 2011.
8- Buck-Morrs, Susan; Görmenin Diyalektiği, Metis 2008.
9- Wu, Chin-Tao; Kültürün Özelleştirilmesi, Iletişim yayınları, 2005.
10- Jameson, Fredric; Ütopya Denen Arzu, Metis 2009.

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 STA TERM WORK (ANNUAL)
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE STA * 0.70 +ASG* 0.30


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 15 3 45
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 3 45
Preparation for midterm exam 1 20 20
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 20 20
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 154

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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