VISUAL SOCIOLOGY AND CINEMA

SOC513

Course Code: SOC513
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Professor Çiçek Coşkun

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Students understand the connection between sociology and visual sources and visuality.
Learn visual research methods and apply visual methods in field research
They analyze visual sources and cinema films within a sociological context.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

Visual sociology includes making documentary films, photographing and analyzing motion pictures within a sociological understanding and examines the studies made in this way. In this age where images are very effective, the importance of visual sociology is increasing rapidly. In this course, it is aimed that students analyze visual data, visual sources and movies in a sociological context and learn about the studies done in this way.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction to the course, introduction to the course and basic concepts
2^nd Week	Visual forms and basic visual sources
3^rd Week	19th Century and visual culture
4^th Week	20th Century and visual culture
5^th Week	Sociology and Photography relations
6^th Week	Sociology and Cinema relations
7^th Week	Examples from visual sociology studies
8^th Week	Midterm Exam
9^th Week	Technological revolution and change in visual sources
10^th Week	Social Memory and Visuality
11^th Week	C. Wright Mills and sociological imagination
12^th Week	John Berger and Ways of Seeing
13^th Week	Bourdieu and Contemporary Ethnographic Vision
14^th Week	Examples from visual sociology studies

Recommended or Required Reading

Berger, John. Görme Biçimleri. İstanbul: Metis Yayıncılık, 2016.

Berger, John, Jean Mohr. Anlatmanın Başka Bir Biçimi. İstanbul: Agora Kitaplığı, 2007.

Bajac, Quentin. Karanlık Odanın Sırları: Fotoğrafın İcadı. İstanbul: YKY, 2005.

Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, Hill and Wang, 2010

Bourdieu, Pierre. Sanatın Kuralları: Yazınsal Alanın Oluşumu ve Yapısı, , İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2006.

Collier, John, and Collier, Malcolm, Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method, University Of New Mexico Press, 1986.

Elkins, James, Visual Studies, London: Routledge, 2003.

Freund, Gisele, Fotoğraf ve Toplum, İstanbul: Sel Yayınları, 2006.

Hamilton, Peter (Ed). Visual Research Methods. London: SAGE Publications, 2006

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	30
Assignment	2	20
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	0	0	0
Individual or group work	14	15	210
Preparation for Final exam	1	12	12
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	8	8
Laboratory (including preparation)	0	0	0
Final exam	1	3	3
Homework	2	12	24
Total Work Load			301
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.03
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3
K1	X
K2		X
K3
K4
K5
K6		X
K7		X
K8	X	X
K9	X	X
K10
K11
K12	X	X
K13	X	X
K14
K15
K16
K17		X	X
K18

	LO1	LO2	LO3
K1	X
K2		X
K3
K4
K5
K6		X
K7		X
K8	X	X
K9	X	X
K10
K11
K12	X	X
K13	X	X
K14
K15
K16
K17		X	X
K18

	LO1	LO2	LO3
K1	X
K2		X
K3
K4
K5
K6		X
K7		X
K8	X	X
K9	X	X
K10
K11
K12	X	X
K13	X	X
K14
K15
K16
K17		X	X
K18

	LO1	LO2	LO3
K1	X
K2		X
K3
K4
K5
K6		X
K7		X
K8	X	X
K9	X	X
K10
K11
K12	X	X
K13	X	X
K14
K15
K16
K17		X	X
K18