COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CRITICISM AND SIMULATION IN CINEMA AND TV I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTA 6021 CRITICISM AND SIMULATION IN CINEMA AND TV I ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Film Design

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR RAGIP TARANÇ

Offered to

Course Objective

Researching the results that a very important contemporary theory on modern societies -within the fields of culture, art, technology, society, and politics- produced, especially on cinema, art and mass media with a critical approach. Also making a comparative analysis with situation of the same fields in Turkey.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students are able to approachand study Simulation theory as one of the most important contemporary critical theries on modern consumer societies with a profound and philosophical approach .
2   Students are expected to consider their society and art in a critical perspective.
3   Students are able to examine simulation theory within the context of modern societies and Turkey comparatively.
4   Students are able to question the validity of the critiques of simulation theory in the context of Turkey.
5   Students are able to examine the possible relations between the Simulation theory- covering social, cultural, art related and politic fields- and cinema and aesthetics from a critical point of view.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Jean Baudrillard and simulation theory
2 Symbolic Exchange and Death
3 Symbolic Exchange and Death
4 Symbolic Exchange and Death
5 Symbolic Exchange and Death
6 Symbolic Exchange and Death
7 Symbolic Exchange and Death
8 Symbolic Exchange and Death
9 Symbolic Exchange and Death
10 Symbolic Exchange and Death
11 Symbolic Exchange and Death
12 Symbolic Exchange and Death
13 Symbolic Exchange and Death
14 Symbolic Exchange and Death

Recomended or Required Reading


Baudrillard, Jean, Simgesel değiş tokuş ve ölüm, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2011, Istanbul
Baudrillard, Jean, Çaresiz Stratejiler, Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi, 2011, Istanbul

Yardımcı kaynaklar:
Adanır, Oğuz, Baudrillard, Fikir Mimarları/Say Yayınları, 2010
Adanır Oğuz, Simülasyon Kuramı Üstüne Notlar ve Söyleşiler, Hayal-et, 2008, Istanbul.
Baudrillard, Jean, Gösterge ekonomi politiği hakkında bir eleştiri, Boğaziçi Üni. Yay., 2009, Istanbul
Baudrillard, Jean, Nesneler Sistemi, Boğaziçi Üni. Yay., 2010, Istanbul
Baudrillard, Jean, Tüketim toplumu, Ayrıntı Yay.,1997, Istanbul
Baudrillard, Jean, Simülakrlar ve simülasyon, Doğu BatıYay., 2011, Ankara
Baudrillard, Jean, Sessiz yığınların gölgesinde Doğu BatıYay., 2006, Ankara
Baudrillard, Jean, Şeytana satılan ruh yada kötülüğün egemenliği Doğu Batı Yay., 2010, Ankara.
Baudrillard, Jean, Sanat dünyasının kurduğu komplo, Yayınlanmamış metin



International Journal of Baudrillard Studies

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1-Classes require a home or library preparation period and discussions in student groups and thus producing notes.
2- As a principle, classes will be carried out in seminar form with the contribution of all students, not only using written material and the lecture. The students are expected to inform each other and work together. In this way they are expected to have more detailed information in a shorter time period.
3-The students are expected to have a certain degree of knowledge and raise the right questions democratically and reach the correct results in this way.

Assessment Methods

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


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

% 20 of total mark consists of contribution, %40 of it consists of the seminar presentation that the student prepares and presents and the quality of the answers for questions raised by the professor, %20 of it is midterm and % 20 of it is final exam.

Assessment Criteria

It is to determine whether the evaluation of the knowledge, and a free and systematical synthesis of thoughts can be carried out within the frame of the new ones and incourage the student to achieve it.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

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)
Lectures 13 3 39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 3 39
Preparation for midterm exam 4 5 20
Preparation for final exam 5 5 25
Preparing assignments 4 4 16
Midterm 1 3 3
Final 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 145

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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