COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PRODUCTION OF ART AND GENDER

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KDN 7006 PRODUCTION OF ART AND GENDER COMPULSORY 2 0 0 7

Offered By

Women's Studies Non-thesis

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ÖZLEM BELKIS

Offered to

Women's Studies Non-thesis

Course Objective

To research and discuss the gender judgements produced in social grounds and solidify in social subconscious.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To understand gender definitions and fixed gender judgements.
2   Search for the examples of fixed gender judgements on written pieces - especially in the pieces for performing arts- and examine the findings with respect to historical and social grounds.
3   Examine these finding with todays world and create an idea about the fixed gender judgements in common subconscious of the society.
4   To question the fixed gender judgements via written pieces and make them visible.
5   To express the outcome of these researches using critical writing techniques.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction: The relation between gender, fixed gender judgements and art.
2 Art and gender from perspectives of the objects, the producer and the consumer of art. Fixed gender judgements and art in collective sobconscious of the socitey.
3 Feminist critical writings on art and feminist criticism. Why there is no great, genious woman artist L. Nochlin, P. Mathews, N. Salomons approach.
4 DISCUSSIONS ON THE TOPICS OF HOMEWORKS AND PRESENTATIONS
5 The examples about the duality of woman (godness and badness) in written art works.
6 Woman as an example of the defectiveness of Turkish Modernisation in Turkish Theatre. From Pandora to Ayla, from mythology to Cevat Fehmi Baskurt.
7 The discussion on gender equality by focusing to the relation between woman and work life from the point of modenity and conservatism. The subject play is Kadin Erkeklesince of Huseyin Rahmi Gurpinar.
8 Women and woman writers of Turkish Modernization. Fatma Aliye ve Nezihe Muhittin
9 The relation between woman and sin. Woman, death and sin in Puccinis Operas.
10 Mother as partiarchally approved woman. Motherhood, chieldless woman and working mother examples from Turkish theatre.
11 The necessity of a new alphabet on gender inequality: The examples from woman and man writers.
12 PRESENTATIONS

Recomended or Required Reading

AKSOY, N. (2009). Kurgulanmış Benlikler (Otobiyografi, Kadın, Cumhuriyet), Iletişim, Istanbul.
ANTMEN, A. (ed., 2008). Sanat ve Cinsiyet Sanat Tarihi ve Feminist Eleştiri, Iletişim Yay. Istanbul.
BADINTER, E. (2011). Kadınlık mı Annelik mi (çev. A. Ekmekçi), Iletişim Yay. Istanbul.
BEAUVOIR, S. D. (1991), , Ikinci Cins 3 cilt (çev. B. Onaran), Istanbul, Payel Yayınları.
BELKIS, Ö. (2007). Romandan Operaya Prevosttan Pucciniye Manon Lescaut, Devlet Opera ve Balesi Manon Lescaut Oyun Dergisi, Izmir, 12/2007, ss. 30 40.
BELKIS, Ö. (2010). Kadının Ölmesi Gerekir, Yedi (Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Fakültesi Dergisi), sayı. 4, 7 / 2010, ss. 55 62.
BELKIS, Ö. (2010). Sevim Burakın Oyun Metinlerinde Kadınlar, Istanbul Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Tiyatro Eleştirmenliği ve Dramaturji Bölümü Dergisi, sayı 14, 9 / 2010, ss. 27 44.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, weekly readings, class discussions, student assignments and presentations.

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)

ozlem.belkis@deu.edu.tr
Phone: 0232 412 92 49

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 5 70
Preparing assignments 1 14 14
Preparing presentations 1 14 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 174

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.1333
LO.24543
LO.3555444
LO.45555454
LO.5545455

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