COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RADICAL PROTESTS AND UNDERGROUND PRESS IN AMERICA AND EUROPE IN THE 1960S AND 1970S

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STA 6039 RADICAL PROTESTS AND UNDERGROUND PRESS IN AMERICA AND EUROPE IN THE 1960S AND 1970S ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Art and Design

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR HACI YAKUP ÖZTUNA

Offered to

Art and Design

Course Objective

This course aims to give seminars about these problematics ,to write research papers, to make literature reviews, discussions, readings and to offer suggestions related to chosen subjects in advanced level , to examine the political, social and cultural changes that took place in America and Europe during the 1960s and 1970s in the context of art and design. In addition to these aims, this course aims to evaluate and analyze about the sub-cultural and counter- cultural visual productions in advanced level.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to have an analytical, conceptual and critical point of view by analyzing the effects of socio cultural, technological and ideological changes on art and design and designers-artists in the 1960s and 1970s in advanced level.
2   To be able to examine popular culture and its style in advanced level.
3   : Student will be able to develop his/her presentation skills, to write research papers and to think critically about related subjects and theories of art and design in advanced level.
4   To be able both to grasp the culture of art and design and to discuss their visual productions, the interaction between sub-culture and counter-cultures in the context of art and design in advanced level.
5   To be able to examine and transfer the field of study the works of art and design created by the awareness of social responsibility during the 1960s and 1970s

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 Course
2 The 1960s Civil Rights Movement General Discussion
3 General Discussion
4 Anti- Vietnam War Protests General Discussion
5 General Discussion
6 College Student Activism General Discussion
7 General Discussion
8 Oral SEMINAR related to chosen subject
9 Women`s struggles for the right to birth control and abortion as well as for equal job opportunity and equal pay General Discussion
10 General Discussion
11 General Discussion
12 Hippie culture, subculture and countercultures publications General Discussion
13 General Discussion
14 Oral SEMINAR related to chosen subject
15 Final Examination

Recomended or Required Reading

McDarrah, Gloria S. and McDarrah, Timothy S. (2003). Anarchy, Protest, and Rebellion: And the Counterculture That Changed America. Da Capo Press.
Klanten, R. (2011). Art & Agenda: Political Art and Activism. Die Gestalten Verlag.
Reed, T. V. (2005). The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the Streets of Seattle. Univ Of Minnesota Press.
Hebdige, D. (1979). Subculture: The Meaning of Style (New Accents). Oxford: Routledge.
Cagle, Van M. (1995). Reconstructing Pop/Subculture: Art, Rock, and Andy Warhol. California: Sage Publications, Inc.
Cushing, Lincoln ve Drescher, Timoth W. (2009). Agitate! Educate! Organize!: American Labor Posters. New York: Cornell University Press.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.70 + FCG * 0.30
4 RST RESIT
5 RST RESIT ASG * 0.70 + RST * 0.30


*** 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

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. H. Yakup Öztuna, PhD.
Dokuz Eylül University, Faculty of Fine Arts. Head of the Graphic Department
E-mail: yakup.oztuna@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Theory 14 3 42
Report Presentation 2 2 4
Literature Reviews 7 2 14
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for Homework 7 3 21
Preparation for Presentations 2 10 20
Preparation for Report 2 10 20
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 151

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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