COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MANGA: COUNTER CULTURE AND CULTURAL RESSISTANCE

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
STA 6045 MANGA: COUNTER CULTURE AND CULTURAL RESSISTANCE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Art and Design

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MEHMET KORKUT ÖZTEKIN

Offered to

Art and Design

Course Objective

Cultural bodies stand on four fundamental pillars. The first pillar is the values; the second one is the norms, which protect them. The third pillar is the faculties, where the values and the norms are founded, explored and thought. The forth one is the artifacts, which are created and designed according to the needs of the living and surviving practices through the guidance of the recent three. Artifact consist two Latin words: Ars means art and Facere means the fact. Artifacts give priceless clues on the beliefs, practices and intellectual properties of the culture that originated from. Cultures facilitate these pillars to resist against each other and the greatest enemy of all, the mothernature.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To gain expertise on artistic creativity and experimental sensitivity
2   To understand design and illustration sensitivities foreign civilizations and to gain expertise on illustration techniques and mixing medias of Global cultures
3   To gain expertise on idea development and Imagineering
4   To become a self imposing and self-reliant designer and artist
5   To become an expert on applying most of production techniques
6   To become an expert on graphic storytelling techniques
7   To reach virtuosity on a specific illustration medium
8   To reach and help on a specific illustration branch

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Cultural Resistance and Manga
2 Short history of Manga
3 Puppet master; Fighter Pilots, Warrior bots and Cyborgs
4 Puppet master; Fighter Pilots, Warrior bots and Cyborgs
5 Robotech; Changing bodies
6 Nausicaa and The Valley of Wind; picture of a postapocolyptic society and warnings for future
7 Nature and technology in Miyazaki's fiction
8 Evangelion; the kid trapped inside an armoured body
9 Ghost in the machine; holly unification of man with technology
10 Escape from city -Return to the village; Reawakened fairy tales with Spirited Away and My Neighbour Totoro
11 Duels of the Samurai; Blade of the Immortal and remembering the past
12 Judgement day of the children; World War 2 and little children in Isao Takahata's Grave of the fireflies and Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen
13 Man of the future; Comics, Manga and the changing world
14 Seminar

Recomended or Required Reading

Patten, Fred. Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews . Berkeley, CA: Stone Bridge Press. 2004, ISBN 978-1880656921.
NAPIER, Suzan, Anime; Akira'dan Howl'un Hareketli Şatosuna , Ingilizce aslından Türkçe'ye çeviri; Murat Başekim, Es Yayınları, Kadıköy, Istanbul, 2008,
MURAKAMI, Takashi(editör), Little Boy The Arts of Japans Exploding Subculture , Japan Society, Yale University Press, New York A.B.D., s.70
SCHODT, Frederik L., Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga . Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, 2002., s.34
SCHODT, Frederik L. Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics. New York: Kodansha International, 1983.
ÖZTEKIN, Mehmet Korkut, Bir Kültürel Direniş Aracı Olarak Japon Çizgi Romanı Manga
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Güzel Sanatlar Enstitüsü Yayınları / ISNB no: 978-9944-172-33-2

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Multifaceted projects and theoretical seminars for gaining expertise for exploring and criticizing unique cultural expressions, mainstream themes with local and global effects of the industry developed under the impression of the foremost samples of graphic storytelling

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 + FCG * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 RST RESIT ASG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

In this one term course, participants shall prepare several seminars and research papers.

Assessment Criteria

In this one term course, participants shall prepare several seminars and research papers.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The course shall be executed with the respect towards universal academic ethics and code of laws. Originality and flawless participation shall be awarded highly. Trickery, cheating and plagiarism are absolutely forbidden and shall be heavily punishable by any academic means.

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)
Lecturing 60 1 60
Course Preparation (Reading and gathering of the course materials etc.) 15 1 15
Paper Preparation 4 20 80
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 155

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