PSYCHOLOGY OF ART

GSF357

Course Code: GSF357
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 effectively use the Turkish language.
Gain the ability to act in accordance with current laws and regulations and take ethical responsibility.
Establish, interpret, and analyze the relationship between past, present, and future in the field of design.
Acquire critical thinking skills.
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

The relationship between influential psychological theories and art; artistic concepts developed by behaviorism, structuralism, Gestalt, neurobiological, and psychoanalytic movements; the individual perception of appreciation, pleasure, subjectivity, and aesthetics; the psychology of art, including subjective and objective psychological effects in the process of art production, reception, and distribution.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction to the psychology of art
2^nd Week	Introduction to the psychology of art
3^rd Week	Fundamental concepts in art and psychology
4^th Week	Fundamental concepts
5^th Week	Fundamental concepts
6^th Week	Fundamental concepts
7^th Week	Midterm exam
8^th Week	Fundamental problems in the psychology of art
9^th Week	Fundamental problems
10^th Week	Fundamental problems
11^th Week	Psychoanalysis ? Freud
12^th Week	Fundamental theories in the psychology of art ? Husserl, Merleau-Ponty
13^th Week	Gestalt and cognitive theory
14^th Week	Psychoanalytic art theory

Recommended or Required Reading

1 R.Arnheim, New Essays on the Psychology of Art, University of California Press USA1986
2 Freud S., Sanat ve Sanatçılar Üstüne, çev. Kamuran Şipal, Bozak Yay. İstanbul 1979
3 I. Armstrong, The Radical Aesthetic, Blackwell UK 2000
4 Layton R., The Antropology of Art, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press 1991
5.Schaeffer Jean Marie, Art of the Modern Age, New French Thought 5 6 Princeton University Pres, 2000

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers
Report Preparation
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	20
Assignment	1	20
Project	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
K9					X
K10						X