COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION
| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+A+L (hour/week) | Type (C / O) | Local Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| History, Politics and Culture of Turkey through Cinema | KHAS 1304 | Fall-Spring | 03+00+00 | Elective | 3 | 5 |
| Academic Unit: | Core Program |
| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
| Prerequisites: | None |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Course Unit: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | - - |
| Course Lecturer(s): | GÜLDENİZ KIBRIS |
| Course Objectives: | This course aims to discuss issues in Turkish history and society through the perspective of movies. The goal is to familiarize the students with several central themes such as modernization, secularism, westernization, and migration through visual popular culture materials. Thanks to this, the students will not only learn about major codes of Turkish political culture subjects but will also see how different Turkish directors and scriptwriters utilized these codes in both arthouse and commercial films. In fact, even though there are many differences between these films in terms of style and production, there is a critical thematic connection “characterized by an obsession with the tropes of ‘home’ and ‘belonging’” (Suner, 2004: 307). This point, as it will be shown in the films, may have emerged as a response to anxiety around ethnic/national/class-based/gender-based identities and the Turkish modernization’s way of dealing with a multitude of voices. |
| Course Contents: | The course explores politics, history and culture of Turkey by relying on specific themes about nationalism, internal and external migration, the formation of social classes, gender, political Islam and globalization. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: | Lectures Group Presentation Discussion Term Project Final Essay |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Course expectations and rules Theoretical Tools: Representations of Identities, Cinema, Politics and History |
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| 2 | Idealization and Otherization of the West, Turkish Cinema How to Analyze Movies? |
assigned readings |
| 3 | Homogenizing Populations | assigned readings & films |
| 4 | Non-Muslim Others | assigned readings & films |
| 5 | Muslim Others | assigned readings & films |
| 6 | Modernization, Migration and Social Change | assigned readings & films |
| 7 | Urban Poor | assigned readings & films |
| 8 | Turkish Migration to Europe, Third Identities | assigned readings & films |
| 9 | ‘The Bourgeoisie’ | assigned readings & films |
| 10 | Political Islam, Islamic Identity | assigned readings & films |
| 11 | Masculinity and the Codes of Turkishness | assigned readings & films |
| 12 | Femininity and the Codes of Turkishness | assigned readings & films |
| 13 | ‘Fatherlessness,’ the Quest for an Identity, adoption of history in contemporary times | assigned readings & films |
| 14 | Wrapping up and discussion of projects |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING
| Each week there are assigned readings and films. There is also a pool of films from which the students will select under the supervision of the instructor. |
OTHER COURSE RESOURCES
| There is a list of recommended sources that include academic articles, and book chapters. |
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
| Semester Requirements | Number | Percentage of Grade (%) |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance / Participation | 15 | 10 |
| Homework Assignments | 2 | 50 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 25 |
| Other Practices (seminar, studio critics, workshop etc.) | 1 | 15 |
| Total: | 19 | 100 |
WORKLOAD
| Events | Count | Duration (Hours) | Total Workload (hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours | 15 | 3 | 45 |
| Homework Assigments | 2 | 15 | 30 |
| Preparation for Presentation / Jury | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Other Practices (seminar,studio critics,workshop, etc.) | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Extra-Class Activities (reading,individiual work, etc.) | 20 | 1.5 | 30 |
| Total Workload (hour): | 125 | ||
1 ECTS = 25 Hours Workload
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # | PQ1 | PQ2 | PQ3 | PQ4 | PQ5 | PQ6 | PQ7 | PQ8 | PQ9 |
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Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High