COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CULTURAL MEMORY AND VISUAL ARTS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
GSR 5070 CULTURAL MEMORY AND VISUAL ARTS ELECTIVE 2 0 0 4

Offered By

Painting Crafts Teacher Education

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR CEMILE ARZU AYTEKIN

Offered to

Painting Crafts Teacher Education

Course Objective

To determine the context and functionality of memory-studies as an interdisciplinary scientific area. To describe memory concept and types of memory in visual arts context. To describe the effects of memory phenomena like remembering, oblivion, and nostalgia in creative processes of visual arts.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Determining memory concept and types of memory.
2   Analyzing time-memory relations in visual arts context.
3   Analyzing history-memory relations in visual arts context.
4   Discussing the significance of memory mecanisms in visual arts context.
5   Discussing collective memory concept in visual arts context.
6   Discussing cultural memory concept in visual arts context.
7   Determining classical cultural origins of memory concept.
8   Analyzing a visual artwork as a memory instrument.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the lecture.
2 1. Research Topic: Concepts of Time and Memory in Contemporary Art and Visual Expansions:. Artist and Work Analysis - 1. Research Topic and Sample Artist Selection and Information.
3 1. Research Topic: Concepts of Time and Memory in Contemporary Art and Visual Expansions:. Artist and Work Analysis - 1. Research Topic and Sample Artist Selection and Promotion
4 1. Research Topic: Concepts of Time and Memory in Contemporary Art and Visual Expansions:. Artist and Work Analysis - 1. Research Topic and Sample Artist Selection and Promotion
5 1. Research Topic: Concepts of Time and Memory in Contemporary Art and Visual Expansions:. Artist and Work Analysis - 1. Research Topic and Sample Artist Selection and Promotion
6 The functionality of memory studies as an interdisciplinary area in visual arts context.
7 The functionality of memory studies as an interdisciplinary area in visual arts context.
8 assignment-midterm+lecture
9 . "Memory in Mind and Culture" literature review
10 . "Memory in Mind and Culture" literature review
11 . "Memory in Mind and Culture" literature review
12 "Autobiographical Memory Applications in Visual Arts Education" review.
13 "Autobiographical Memory Applications in Visual Arts Education" review.
14 "Autobiographical Memory Applications in Visual Arts Education" review.
15 final presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

Zaman Üzerine (Norbert Elias, 2000), Doğuş ve Yeniden Doğuş (Mircea Eliade, 2015), On Collective Memory (Maurice Halbwachs, 1992), Kültürel Bellek (Jan Assmann, 2001), Toplumlar Nasıl Anımsar (Paul Connerton, 2014), Hafıza Mekanları (Pierre Nora, 2006), Potentialities (Giorgio Agamben, 1999), Aby Warburg An Intellectual Biography (Ernest Gombrich, 1970), Kayıp Zamanın Izinde (Marcel Proust, 2006).

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Literature review
2. Archive research
3. Project
4. Research tour

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE ASG * 0.50 + PRS * 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1. Understanding the Subject
2. Quantity
3. Participation

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

arzu.aytekin@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparing assignments 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48
Project Assignment 1 1 1
Project Final Presentation 1 1 1
Project Assignment 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 97

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51
LO.61
LO.71
LO.81

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