COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BELATED MODERNITIES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIM 4524 BELATED MODERNITIES ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Architecture

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR DENIZ GÜNER

Offered to

Architecture

Course Objective

By focusing on the modernization process and its effects onto non-western geographies, students will be prompted to integrate philosophical, economical, social, and historical paradigms/transformations/changes into architecture.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Ability to define the concepts of modern, modernity, modernization and belated modernities.
2   Explaining the effects of modernization process onto the non-western countries.
3   Demonstrating the reactions and the counter-reactions on the modern movement within the Turkish architectural context.
4   Interpreting the effects of modernity which shape our lives, ideas, mentalities and man-made environments.
5   Gaining the qualification of evaluating the historical narratives and historiographies in a critical way.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Explanatory information about the objectives, methods, and the sources of references will be given in the course.
2 Introduction to the similarities and dissimilarities of the concepts and phenomena: An Attribute oscillating between Love and Hate: Modern / A Condition formed by the Identity Crises: Modernity / A Compulsive Process: Modernization / An Aesthetical Pattern had been lost its Reaction: Modernism
3 Intellectual Roots: Orientalism versus Occidentalism
4 Intellectual Roots: The Fear of Feminization
5 Intellectual Roots: Gesellschaft versus Gemeinschaft; Nationalism and Micro-nationalism
6 Models: Model transfer-from Imperial Subject to Citizen
7 Mid-term Exam
8 Models: Materialistic World and Industrial Revolution
9 Models: Hybrid cities: Cairo, Thessaloniki, Izmir, Istanbul
10 Modern Movement in Architecture: Oscillation and Repetition
11 Seminar given by students
12 Seminar given by students
13 Seminar given by students
14 Seminar given by students

Recomended or Required Reading

Bozdoğan, S. (2002). Modernizm ve Ulusun Inşası; Erken Cumhuriyet Türkiyesi'nde Mimari Kültür, Istanbul: Metis Yayınları.
Gürbilek, N. (2004). Kör Ayna, Kayıp Şark; Edebiyat ve Endişe. Istanbul: Metis Yayınları.
Jusdanis, G. (1998). Gecikmiş Modernlik ve Estetik Kültür, Milli Edebiyatın Icat Edilişi. Istanbul: Metis Yayınları.
Shayegan, D. (2001). Yaralı Bilinç; Geleneksel Toplumlarda Kültürel Şizofreni, Istanbul: Metis Yayınları.
Tanju, B. (2007). Tereddüd ve Tekerrür-Mimarlık ve Kent Üzerine Metinler 1873-1960, Istanbul: Akın Nalça Yayınları.
Tanyeli, U. (2005). Istanbul 1900-2000 Konutu ve Modernleşmeyi Metropolden Okumak. Istanbul: Ofset Yapımevi Yayınları.
Tanyeli, U. (2007). Mimarlığın Aktörleri: Türkiye 1900-2000. Istanbul: Garanti Galeri Yayınları.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Addition to the theoretical lectures, the students will be contributed to the lectures by having prepared their personal research assignments and class presentations as well as to the discussions which will be organized after the reading sessions and film screenings.

Assessment Methods

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term exam % 40 (LO1, LO2, LO4)
Final exam % 60 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Attendance is required.
2. To be not participated in the class assignments and the activities will be not regarded as a valid excuse for the late submission.
3. Late submissions will be differently appraised.
4. Any kind of plagiarism attempts will be resulted in a disciplinary penalty.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

deniz.guner@deu.edu.tr 0090 232 301 84 96

Office Hours

Wednesday 10.00-12.00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 9 2 18
Tutorials 4 2 8
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 9 2 18
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 7 7
Preparing assignments 1 5 5
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.155
LO.255
LO.355
LO.45435
LO.55435