International Relations (English) Preview
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

Language of instruction:

English

Course Condition:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

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	1	2	3	4	5
Program Outcomes
1) Has knowledge about basic theoretical debates in the field of International Relations.
2) Defines contemporary developments, approaches and basic concepts in the field of International Relations at national and international level.
3) Relates the interaction of the Department of International Relations with other social sciences (history, political science, law, economy).
4) Gains knowledge and skills to evaluate and discuss the events in an interdisciplinary dimension, and analyze the political, social and economic problems encountered in national and international contexts within a certain conceptual framework.
5) Using social sciences methods, can conduct research and follow the field.
6) Uses leadership characteristics with awareness of teamwork.
7) Can design and prepare scientific projects such as projects, reports, articles and theses with their own or others with uses qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
8) Develops behavior according to ethics and social values and evaluates what they have learned by deciding what he/she needs and critically question the information has acquired.
9) Transmits the opinions, thoughts and solutions in the field of International Relations to the related persons and institutions in written and orally.
10) Follows the developments in the field and communicates with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1.
11) Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Average	3 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Has knowledge about basic theoretical debates in the field of International Relations.
2)	Defines contemporary developments, approaches and basic concepts in the field of International Relations at national and international level.
3)	Relates the interaction of the Department of International Relations with other social sciences (history, political science, law, economy).
4)	Gains knowledge and skills to evaluate and discuss the events in an interdisciplinary dimension, and analyze the political, social and economic problems encountered in national and international contexts within a certain conceptual framework.
5)	Using social sciences methods, can conduct research and follow the field.
6)	Uses leadership characteristics with awareness of teamwork.
7)	Can design and prepare scientific projects such as projects, reports, articles and theses with their own or others with uses qualitative and quantitative research techniques.
8)	Develops behavior according to ethics and social values and evaluates what they have learned by deciding what he/she needs and critically question the information has acquired.
9)	Transmits the opinions, thoughts and solutions in the field of International Relations to the related persons and institutions in written and orally.
10)	Follows the developments in the field and communicates with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1.
11)	Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field.

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