COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GENDER, MEDIA AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
KDN 5048 GENDER, MEDIA AND CULTURAL REPRESENTATION ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Women's Studies

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR UFUK GÜNDOĞAN

Offered to

Women's Studies

Course Objective

In this course, the reflections of gender in media and analysis about media with a critical point of view in related subject is aimed. To make students aware of the dangers of culturally inherited gender stereotyping and the medias role in perpetuating gender stereotypes.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to get knowledge on how media reflects gender
2   Be able to get knowledge about how women represented in media
3   Be able to get the critical perspective about the gender issues on mainstream media
4   Be able to get knowledge about gender stereotypes
5   The ability to analyze, the Images of Women and men in Media drawing on their knowledge of its historical and cultural context.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The Basic terms of Gender and media Studies.
2 Sex Roles, Culture and gender identity in the media
3 Feminism and Film Theory
4 Womens Pictures, Feminism and Cinema
5 Gender Diversity and the Media
6 Gender, Race, Class, and Sexuality
7 Women and the Media Communication and the Sexes
8 A Psychoanalytic view of the representation of Women in the Cinema
9 Women and the Media
10 Representation of gender identity in press,
11 Representation of gender identity on television
12 Representation of gender identity on movies
13 Evaluations
14 Final term

Recomended or Required Reading

BLUMSCHEIN, C.,Wie Man(n) Frauen macht... Das Fernsehen als Vermittler und Produzent von Geschlechterideologien, München: Profil, 1986.
BONNER, Frances-GOODMAN, Lizbeth-ALLEN, Richard-JANES, Linda-KIND, Catherine, Imagining Women , London, Polity Press, 1992.
CONNEL, R. W., Toplumsal Cinsiyet ve Iktidar, Çev: Cem Soydemir, Istanbul, Ayrıntı Yayınları, 1998.
CORNELISSEN, Waltraud, Die Prasentation der Geschlechter im Fernsehen- K(ein) Beitrag zur Verwirklichung der Gleichstellung von Frauen und Mann, Zeitschrift für Frauenforschung, 1+2/1996.
CRAIG, Steve, Man, Masculinty and the Media, California, Sage Publications, 1992.
DERMAN, Deniz, Jean-Luc Godardın Sinemasında Kadının Yeniden Sunumu, Ankara, Med Campus Proje 126 Yayınları 1, 1989.
GERAGHTY, Christıne, Kadınlar ve Pembe Dizi, Çev: Nur Nirven, Istanbul, Afa Yayıncılık, 1996.
IRVAN, Süleyman, BINARK, Mutlu, Kadın ve Popüler Kültür, Ankara, Ark Yayınevi, 1995.

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

will be anounced

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)

will be anounced

Office Hours

will be anounced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Preparation for midterm exam 1 14 14
Preparation for final exam 1 14 14
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 131

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8
LO.131322245
LO.213233543
LO.311112244
LO.435325523
LO.515431314

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