SOCIOLOGY OF ART

GSF355

Course Code: GSF355
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 4

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Bachelor's Degree

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Professor Emir Hasan Ülger

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Develop communication skills and the ability to use the Turkish language effectively.
Gain the ability to establish, interpret, and analyze the relationship between past, present, and future in the field of design.
Acquire critical thinking skills.
Develop the ability to think within a context.
Learn to relate historical, social, and economic conditions to artistic and design processes.
Gain the ability to critique and compare art theories at an analytical level.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Description

Changes in various fields of art depending on sociological development and the social dimension of art; the social value of artistic production, economic-political, and social influences on production and distribution relations.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction to the sociology of art
2^nd Week	Basic concepts
3^rd Week	Fundamental problems in the sociology of art
4^th Week	Fundamental problems
5^th Week	Fundamental problems
6^th Week	Society and culture
7^th Week	Midterm exam
8^th Week	The relationship between art and society
9^th Week	Principles in society and art
10^th Week	Theories ? Principles in society and art
11^th Week	Theories
12^th Week	Theories
13^th Week	Theories
14^th Week	Theories

Recommended or Required Reading

1. Adorno T.W., The Culture Industry, London Routladge 1991
2. Alexander, Samuel, 1998, Beauty and other forms of value, Ann Arbor.
3 Burke S., The Death and Return of the Author, Criticism and Subjectivity in Barthes Foucault and Derrida, Edinburg 1998
4Bürger P., ,Avangarde Kuram, çev Erol Özbek İletişim Yay. İstanbul 2007
5. Fredrich Jameson, Postmodernism, Duke University Press USA 1995
6.E,Lunn, Marxism and Modernism an Historical Study of Lukacs Brecht, Benjamin and Adorno, Berkley University of California Press 1982
7 Read H., Art and Society, London 1970
8 I. Armstrong, The Radical Aesthetic, Blackwell UK 2000
9.Schaeffer Jean Marie, Art of the Modern Age, New French Thought Princeton University Pres, 2000
10 Whitford F., Bauhaus, London 2000

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers
Report Preparation
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	40
Attendance	1	10
Total(%)		50
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		50
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		50
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	2	2
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	3	42
Preparation for Final exam	1	5	5
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	5	5
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	2	2
Homework	2	4	8
Weekly Articles and Resource Research	14	1	14
Total Work Load			120
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			4
ECTS Credit of the Course			4

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3	LO4	LO5	LO6
K1
K2	X
K3
K4		X
K5
K6			X
K7				X
K8					X
K9						X
K10