COMMUNICATION AND THE SOCIAL MEMORY STUDIES

PRP536

Course Code: PRP536
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree With Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Assistant Professor Reyhan Ünal Çınar

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Will analyze the role and effect of communication tools in shaping social memory in different ways in societies.
Will be informed about why social events and traumas are remembered/forgotten in different ways and how to come to terms with past on the axis of these differences.
Will learn about the power of mass media in the democratization of memory.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

The course aims to enable students to associate mass media contents with the emergence of concepts such as social memory, power memory, counter-memory and cultural memory.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Course Introduction
2^nd Week	Social Memory and Social Frameworks of Social Memory
3^rd Week	Historiography
4^th Week	Identity and Social Memory I: Nation State Memory
5^th Week	Contributions of Communication Studies to Oral History Studies 1: Archive and Testimony
6^th Week	Contributions of Communication Studies to Oral History Studies 2: Cultural and Communicative Memory
7^th Week	Identity and Social Memory II: Post-Nation-State Cosmopolitan Memory
8^th Week	Midterm Exam
9^th Week	The Spaces of Memory as a Communication Tool
10^th Week	Performative Bodily Practices as a Communication Tool
11^th Week	Trauma: Coming to terms with the Past
12^th Week	Mourning-Lost
13^th Week	Revenge, Apology and Forgiveness
14^th Week	Social Memory-Democracy as a Retrotopia Between Nostalgia and Utopia

Recommended or Required Reading

Assmann, Jan (2001). Kültürel Hafıza. Çev., Ayşe Tekin. İstanbul: Ayrıntı.
Boym, Svetlana. (2009). Nostaljinin Geleceği, (Çev. Ferit Budak Aydar), İstanbul: Metis Yayınevi.
Connerton, Paul (1999). Toplumlar Nasıl Anımsar. Çev., Alaaddin Şenel. İstanbul: Ayrıntı.
Connerton, Paul. (2012). Modernite Nasıl Unutturur?. (Çev. Kübra Kelebekoğlu), İstanbul: Sel Yayınları.
Halbwachs, Maurice. (2019). Kolektif Bellek, Çev. Banu Barış, İstanbul: Heretik Yayınları.
Nora, Pierre (2006). Hafıza Mekanları. Çev., Mehmet Emin Özcan. Ankara: Dost.
Sancar, Mithat (2007). Geçmişle Hesaplaşma, Unutma Kültüründen Hatırlama Kültürüne. İstanbul: İletişim.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	25
Attendance	1	15
Total(%)		40
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		60
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	3	3
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	1	60	60
Preparation for Final exam	1	50	50
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	50	50
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework
Presentation (including preperation)	7	12	84
Total Work Load			292
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			9.73
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

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