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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
MBS 4002	MUSIC AND CULTURAL STUDIES	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	3

Offered By

Music Sciences

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR AYHAN EROL

Offered to

Graphic
Cinema and Television
Music Sciences
Musicology
Textile and Fashion Design Department

Course Objective

This course serves as an introduction to cultural studies and covers bacis concepts regarding music studies. Special attention is given to the issues regarding popular culture and popular music.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Students who succesfully complete this course should be able to:
2	recognize the relationship between a scientific discipline and other disciplines, and, grasp the relationship between cultural studies as interdisciplinary research area and music studies
3	describe the bacis concepts and theories of cultural studies
4	determine the difference of musical analyiss with the approach of cultural studies from other disciplines
5	discuss popular culture and popular music as the practical and discursive fields.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	Introduction: Cultural studies as an interdisciplinary research area
2	Folk, mass, popular
3	Popular culture, mass culture
4	Frankfurt school, Birmingham scholl
5	How to define popular music
6	Popular music studies
7	Standardization in popular music
8	Change in popular music
9	Music industry and popular music
10	Mass media and popular music
11	Meaning in popular music
12	Aesthetic, symbolic, and pragmatic meaning in popular music
13	Discussion (Turkish popular music)
14	Mid-term exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Belge, M. (1983) Tarihten Güncelliğe, Istanbul, Alan Yayıncılık.
Erol, Ayhan (2002) Popüler Müziği Anlamak, Istanbul: Bağlam Yayınları.
Erol, Ayhan (2009) Müzik Üzerine Düşünmek, Istanbul: Bağlam Yayınları.
Fiske, John (1999) Popüler Kültürü Anlamak. Ankara:: Ark Yayınları.
Hesmondhalgh, David (ed.) (2002) Popular Music Studies, Bloomsbury Pub.
Özbek, Meral (1991) Popüler Kültür ve Orhan Gencebay Arabeski, Istanbul: Iletişim Yay.
Rowe, David (1996) Popüler Kültürler (çev. Mehmet Küçük) Ayrıntı Yay.
Stokes, M. (2010) The Republic of Love: Cultural Intimacy in Turkish Popular Music, Univ. of Chicago Press.
Stokes, Martin (1998) Türkiye de Arabesk Olayı, Istanbul: Iletişim Yayınları
Storey, John (2000) Popüler Kültür Çalışmaları. (çev. K. Karaşahin) Istanbul: Babil Yay.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The courses are based on important texts such as books, chapters and articles considering the basic concepts of cultural studies regarding popular culture and music studies. Thus, the student will be able to grasp and discuss the relationship between a concept and a musical fact.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	ASG	ASSIGNMENT
3	ATT	ATTENDANCE
4	FIN	FINAL EXAM
5	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + ATT * 0.10 + FIN * 0.30
6	RST	RESIT
7	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + ATT * 0.10 + RST * 0.30

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

%70 attendance is compulsory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Ayhan EROL
aerol@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Monday:13.30-16.30
Thursday: 15.30-16.30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	13	3	39
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	1	12	12
Preparation for midterm exam	1	4	4
Preparation for final exam	1	6	6
Preparing assignments	1	11	11
Preparing presentations	1	4	4
Final	1	1	1
Midterm	1	1	1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			78

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.5	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.10	PO.11	PO.12	PO.13	PO.14	PO.17
LO.1	5			1			5							1
LO.2			2	1	1			2		5			5	1
LO.3				3		3			1		1			3	5
LO.4		1		3										3	3
LO.5				1								5		2

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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