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Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code: ARCH0010
Course Name: Cinematographic Spatial Analysis
Semester: Fall
Course Credits:
ECTS
4
Language of instruction: English
Course Condition:
Does the Course Require Work Experience?: No
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level:
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree QF-EHEA:First Cycle EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator: Dr. Öğr. Üy. ZEHRA TONBUL
Course Lecturer(s): Elif Ebru Yılmaz
Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives: Developing conceptual thinking practices
Developing the ability to decipher thematic structures through visual narratives
Course Content: In this course, basic concepts commonly used in social sciences and architecture literature will be discussed through cinema. The films recommended in the course will constitute the empirical field of theoretical discussions.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Developing critical discussion skills through metaphors and allegories
2) Developing the ability to construct literary and visual content with certain themes by improving conceptual thinking practice

Course Flow Plan

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction: Why Cinema? How does cinema intervene in the social world and politics: The relationship between virtual and reality in the contemporary world; The relationship between space, society and politics.
2) Space, Identity, Subjectivity, Ideology, Alienation.
3) Power and Knowledge, Totalitarianism, Agency, Representation, Otherness
4) Culture, Society, Daily Life Practices, Social Space, Communication
5) Modernism, Capitalism, Privacy, Spectacle, Society of the Spectacle
6) Militarism, Class, Fantasy, Disciplinary Society, Surveillance Society
7) Security, Uncanny, Nostalgia, Symbolic order, Chaos
8) Binary, Ambiguity, Limit, Camp, Dispositive
9) Network, Mobility, Simulacrum, Security Society, Consumer Society
10) Postmodernism, Colonialism, Transhumanism, Control society
11) Presentation Week; Selected themes and narrative language/tools will be discussed.
12) Presentation Week; Selected themes and narrative language/tools will be discussed.
13) Production of Space, Metaverse, Duality, Illusion, Aesthetics
14) Presentation week and final paper submission

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Foucault, M. 1984. Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias. Translated by Jay Miskowiec
Sennet, R. 2008. Ten ve Taş, Batı Uygarlığında Beden ve Şehir. Çeviren: Tuncay Birkan. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları.
Bauman, Z. 2015. Sosyolojik Düşünmek. Çeviren: Abdullah Yılmaz. İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları
Lefebvre, H. 2015. Mekanın Üretimi. Çeviren: Işık Ergüden. İstanbul: Sel Yayınları.
References: *Baker, Ulus. 2015. Beyin Ekran. Derleyen Ege Berensel. İstanbul: Birikim Yayınları.
*Baudrillard, Jean. 2016. Simgesel Değiş Tokuş ve Ölüm. Çeviren: Oğuz Adanır. İstanbul:
Boğaziçi Üniversitesi Yayınevi.
*Bauman, Zygmunt. 2015. Sosyolojik Düşünmek. Çeviren: Abdullah Yılmaz. İstanbul: Ayrıntı
Yayınları.
*Berger, John. 2014. Görme Biçimleri. Çeviren: Yurdanur Salman. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları.
*Debord, Guy. 2014. Gösteri Toplumu. Çeviren Ayşen Ekmekçi ve Okşan Taşkent. İstanbul:
Ayrıntı Yayınları.
*Deleuze, Gilles. 2014. Sinema I, Hareket - İmge. Çeviren: Soner Özdemir. İstanbul: Norgunk
Yayınları.
*Diken Bülent - Laustsen Carsten B. 2014. Filmlerle Sosyoloji. Çeviren: Sona Ertekin. İstanbul:
Ayrıntı Yayınları.
*Eco, Umberto. 1997. Somon Balığıyla Yolculuk: İmparatorluğun 1’e 1 Haritasını Çizmenin
Zorluğu Üzerine. Çeviren: İlknur Özdemir. İstanbul: Can Yayınları.
*Simmel, George. Metropol ve Zihinsel Yaşam. Cogito Dergisi, Sayı 8, Yaz 1996.
*Ungers, Oswald Mathias. 2013. Kent Metaforları. Çeviren Ceren Öztürkcan. İstanbul: Lemis
Yayınları.
*Zizek, S. 2013. Yamuk Bakmak. Çeviren Tuncay Birkan. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları.

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes

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Program Outcomes
1) She/he gains knowledge of and develops values on technical, aesthetic, cultural, historical, social and ethical dimensions of architecture with a scientific and critical approach. 3 3
2) She/he integrates architectural practice with environmental, economic and social sustainability principles.
3) She/he has the knowledge and ability to provide and implement interactions between urban planning, urban design and architectural projects.
4) Gains the ability to identify architectural potentials and problems based on data collection, analysis, interpretation and critical thinking, in order to cultivate concepts and determine strategies for action.
5) She/he is able to interrelate theory, design and construction practices. 3 3
6) She/he will be able to produce architectural design, presentation, implementation, management and supervision stages both independently and collectively for different contexts and scales and through a responsive approach to social, functional, technical and aesthetic requirements.
7) In addition to traditional methods, she/he interactively uses the emerging information technologies required by the field.
8) To analyze and document the historical and conservation characteristics of the built environment; taking into account of the balance between protection and use, she/he has the ability and necessary knowledge in renovation and restoration issues.
9) She / he gains the ability to cooperate with different disciplines on the conception and design of the built environment, as an individual and/or as a team member.
10) Has knowledge on and comprehension of professional ethics and codes of conduct, legal and managerial regulations, standards, rights and responsibilities and processes in the field of architecture.
11) Can produce design, know-how and knowledge for the improvement of different and changing social needs, and for the enhancement of life quality.
12) She/he has the knowledge and responsibility to design solidly built structures and takes into account of the risks of natural disaster.
13) She/he monitors new developments in architectural theory and practice and is open to lifelong learning.
14) She/he takes responsibility for the improvement of social consciousness in the field of architecture, and for the endorsement and defense of ecological and urban rights.
15) Has architectural communication skills in a foreign language. 3 3

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Average 3 Highest
       
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) She/he gains knowledge of and develops values on technical, aesthetic, cultural, historical, social and ethical dimensions of architecture with a scientific and critical approach. 3
2) She/he integrates architectural practice with environmental, economic and social sustainability principles.
3) She/he has the knowledge and ability to provide and implement interactions between urban planning, urban design and architectural projects.
4) Gains the ability to identify architectural potentials and problems based on data collection, analysis, interpretation and critical thinking, in order to cultivate concepts and determine strategies for action.
5) She/he is able to interrelate theory, design and construction practices. 3
6) She/he will be able to produce architectural design, presentation, implementation, management and supervision stages both independently and collectively for different contexts and scales and through a responsive approach to social, functional, technical and aesthetic requirements.
7) In addition to traditional methods, she/he interactively uses the emerging information technologies required by the field.
8) To analyze and document the historical and conservation characteristics of the built environment; taking into account of the balance between protection and use, she/he has the ability and necessary knowledge in renovation and restoration issues.
9) She / he gains the ability to cooperate with different disciplines on the conception and design of the built environment, as an individual and/or as a team member.
10) Has knowledge on and comprehension of professional ethics and codes of conduct, legal and managerial regulations, standards, rights and responsibilities and processes in the field of architecture.
11) Can produce design, know-how and knowledge for the improvement of different and changing social needs, and for the enhancement of life quality.
12) She/he has the knowledge and responsibility to design solidly built structures and takes into account of the risks of natural disaster.
13) She/he monitors new developments in architectural theory and practice and is open to lifelong learning.
14) She/he takes responsibility for the improvement of social consciousness in the field of architecture, and for the endorsement and defense of ecological and urban rights.
15) Has architectural communication skills in a foreign language. 3

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Midterms 1 % 40
Final 1 % 60
total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 60
total % 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 14 28
Study Hours Out of Class 11 22
Presentations / Seminar 3 6
Homework Assignments 14 28
Final 1 4
Total Workload 88