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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) Have the knowledge of the scope, history, applications, problems, methods of mathematics and knowledge that will be beneficial to humanity as both scientific and intellectual discipline.
2) Have the ability to establish a relationship between mathematics and other disciplines and develop mathematical models for interdisciplinary problems.
3) Have the ability to define, formulate and analyze real life problems with statistical and mathematical techniques.
4) Have the ability to think analytically and use the time effectively in the process of deduction.
5) Have the ability to search the literature, understand and interpret scientific articles.
6) Have the knowledge of basic software to be able to work in the related fields of computer science and have the ability to use information technologies at an advanced level of the European Computer Driving License.
7) Have the ability to work efficiently in interdisciplinary teams.
8) Have the ability to communicate effectively in oral and written form, write effective reports and comprehend the written reports, make effective presentations.
9) Have the consciousness of professional and ethical responsibility and acting ethically; have the knowledge about academic standards.
10) Have the ability to use a foreign language at least at B1 level in terms of European Language Portfolio criteria.
11) Are aware of the necessity of lifelong learning; have the ability to access information, to follow developments in science and technology and to constantly renew themselves.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Average 3 Highest
       
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Have the knowledge of the scope, history, applications, problems, methods of mathematics and knowledge that will be beneficial to humanity as both scientific and intellectual discipline.
2) Have the ability to establish a relationship between mathematics and other disciplines and develop mathematical models for interdisciplinary problems.
3) Have the ability to define, formulate and analyze real life problems with statistical and mathematical techniques.
4) Have the ability to think analytically and use the time effectively in the process of deduction.
5) Have the ability to search the literature, understand and interpret scientific articles.
6) Have the knowledge of basic software to be able to work in the related fields of computer science and have the ability to use information technologies at an advanced level of the European Computer Driving License.
7) Have the ability to work efficiently in interdisciplinary teams.
8) Have the ability to communicate effectively in oral and written form, write effective reports and comprehend the written reports, make effective presentations.
9) Have the consciousness of professional and ethical responsibility and acting ethically; have the knowledge about academic standards.
10) Have the ability to use a foreign language at least at B1 level in terms of European Language Portfolio criteria.
11) Are aware of the necessity of lifelong learning; have the ability to access information, to follow developments in science and technology and to constantly renew themselves.

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