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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
KDN 7011	GENDER ,MEDIA AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS	COMPULSORY	2	0	0	5

Offered By

Women's Studies Non-thesis

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Women's Studies Non-thesis

Course Objective

In this course, the reflections of gender in media and analysis about media with a critical point of view in related subject is aimed. To make students aware of the dangers of culturally inherited gender stereotyping and the medias role in perpetuating gender stereotypes.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Be able to get knowledge on how media reflects gender
2	Be able to get knowledge about how women represented in media
3	Be able to get the critical perspective about the gender issues on mainstream media
4	Be able to get knowledge about gender stereotypes
5	The ability to analyze, the Images of Women and men in Media drawing on their knowledge of its historical and cultural context

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	The Basic terms of Gender and media Studies.
2	Sex Roles, Culture and gender identity in the media
3	Feminism and Film Theory
4	Womens Pictures, Feminism and Cinema
5	Gender Diversity and the Media
6	Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality
7	Women and the Media Communication and the Sexes
8	A Psychoanalytic view of the representation of Women in the Cinema
9	Women and the Media
10	Representation of gender identity in press,
11	Representation of gender identity on television
12	Representation of gender identity on movies

Recomended or Required Reading

BLUMSCHEIN, C.,Wie Man(n) Frauen macht... Das Fernsehen als Vermittler und Produzent von Geschlechterideologien, München: Profil, 1986.
BONNER, Frances-GOODMAN, Lizbeth-ALLEN, Richard-JANES, Linda-KIND, Catherine, Imagining Women , London, Polity Press, 1992.
CONNEL, R. W., Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Iktidar, Çev: Cem Soydemir, Istanbul, Ayrıntı Yayınları, 1998.
CORNELISSEN, Waltraud, Die Prasentation der Geschlechter im Fernsehen- K(ein) Beitrag zur Verwirklichung der Gleichstellung von Frauen und Mann, Zeitschrift für Frauenforschung, 1+2/1996.
CRAIG, Steve, Man, Masculinty and the Media, California, Sage Publications, 1992.
DERMAN, Deniz, Jean-Luc Godardın Sinemasında Kadının Yeniden Sunumu, Ankara, Med Campus Proje 126 Yayınları 1, 1989.
GERAGHTY, Christıne, Kadınlar ve Pembe Dizi, Çev: Nur Nirven, Istanbul, Afa Yayıncılık, 1996.
IRVAN, Süleyman, BINARK, Mutlu, Kadın ve Popüler Kültür, Ankara, Ark Yayınevi, 1995.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	STT	TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3	FIN	FINAL EXAM
4	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5	RST	RESIT
6	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40

*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Students are obligated to participate 70% of the lectures
2. All kinds of palagiarism and attept of palagiarism shall be concluded by disciplinary punishment
3. Students supposed to read the materials before lecture and participate the classroom discussions
4. Students are expected to make presentations about the subjects given by the lecturer.

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)
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			0

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7
LO.1			4	4
LO.2	4		4	4	4
LO.3		5	4	4
LO.4			3	4
LO.5			4	4	4

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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