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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: UNI214
Course Name: Reading Images
Semester: Fall
Course Credits:
ECTS
5
Language of instruction: English
Course Condition:
Does the Course Require Work Experience?: No
Type of course: University Elective
Course Level:
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree QF-EHEA:First Cycle EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree
Mode of Delivery: E-Learning
Course Coordinator: Prof. Dr. AYBİKE SERTTAŞ
Course Lecturer(s): Aybike Serttaş
Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives: To ask questions on principles of creating images, aesthetic perception, creating meaning, power of image.
Course Content: How images in mass media are created, and how our human senses can perceive and evaluate them?

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Can define the theories on the view of the audience.
2) Can tell elements of cinematography.
3) Can explain post-truth
4) Can read body language in images.
5) Can define the power of images as a storytelling tool.

Course Flow Plan

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) General information about the course, book and film suggestions, a general discussion about the image and word and the relationship between these two.
2) Looking as an act of choise
3) An image as a recreated or reproduced appearance
4) The view of the audience
5) The issues of visualization and the viewer experience.
6) Reading beauty
7) Reading Squid Game
8) Reading body language
9) Stuart Hall's coding and encoding theory
10) About Foucault and Magritte
11) Reading Sexism
12) Reading images in technical way
13) Elements of cinematography 1
14) Elements of cinematography II
15) Elements of cinematography III

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Ways of Seeing, John Berger
History of Beauty, Umberto Eco
Setting up Your Shots, Jeremy Vineyard
References: Ways of Seeing, John Berger
History of Beauty, Umberto Eco
Setting up Your Shots, Jeremy Vineyard

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes

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Program Outcomes
1) Has the sufficient knowledge to meet the needs of global, cultural, social, environmental and economic factors as well as community health, security and welfare and has the ability to define, formulate and solve complex engineering problems by applying the principles of engineering, science and mathematics.
2) Able to work individually and within a team.
3) Has the ability to communicate effectively in oral and written form.
4) Gives importance to professional and ethical responsibility.
5) Able to use English as a foreign language at B1 General Level of European Language Portfolio.
6) Has the competence to use information and communication technologies with computer software at advanced level of The European Computer Driving License.
7) Has the ability to design and conduct experimental studies, to analyze and interpret the results and to conduct engineering reasoning.
8) Has a basic chemical and physical knowledge about material science.
9) Has the fundamentals of manufacturing methods, used equipments and field of application.
10) Able to make calculations of stress and strain for basic stress concepts and principles.
11) Has the ability to determine the degree of freedom of mechanisms and to perform kinematic analysis.
12) Has the ability to solve problems with computational fluid dynamics, thermal system design and analysis,
13) Able to design of machine parts and make analysis of the structure through mathematical models.
14) Has the ability to work in fields such as hydraulic and pneumatic systems, turbo machines, internal combustion and electric motor technology, vehicle technology and autonomous vehicles, and renewable and alternative energy systems.
15) Has the fundamentals of biomechanics and knowledge of solid and soft tissues of biomechanic features.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Average 3 Highest
       
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Has the sufficient knowledge to meet the needs of global, cultural, social, environmental and economic factors as well as community health, security and welfare and has the ability to define, formulate and solve complex engineering problems by applying the principles of engineering, science and mathematics.
2) Able to work individually and within a team.
3) Has the ability to communicate effectively in oral and written form.
4) Gives importance to professional and ethical responsibility.
5) Able to use English as a foreign language at B1 General Level of European Language Portfolio.
6) Has the competence to use information and communication technologies with computer software at advanced level of The European Computer Driving License.
7) Has the ability to design and conduct experimental studies, to analyze and interpret the results and to conduct engineering reasoning.
8) Has a basic chemical and physical knowledge about material science.
9) Has the fundamentals of manufacturing methods, used equipments and field of application.
10) Able to make calculations of stress and strain for basic stress concepts and principles.
11) Has the ability to determine the degree of freedom of mechanisms and to perform kinematic analysis.
12) Has the ability to solve problems with computational fluid dynamics, thermal system design and analysis,
13) Able to design of machine parts and make analysis of the structure through mathematical models.
14) Has the ability to work in fields such as hydraulic and pneumatic systems, turbo machines, internal combustion and electric motor technology, vehicle technology and autonomous vehicles, and renewable and alternative energy systems.
15) Has the fundamentals of biomechanics and knowledge of solid and soft tissues of biomechanic features.

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments 2 % 45
Project 5 % 0
Final 1 % 55
total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 45
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 55
total % 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities Number of Activities Preparation for the Activity Spent for the Activity Itself Completing the Activity Requirements Workload
Course Hours 45 0 0
Study Hours Out of Class 27 0 0
Project 24 0 0
Homework Assignments 20 0 0
Total Workload 0