SPATIAL NARRATIVES AND ORIENTALISM

MİM524

Course Code: MİM524
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)

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Understand the alternative perspectives, insights and positions, which discuss the making of the idea and image of the ?East?.
Get acquainted with the tools of changing and varying textual and visual narratives on space and architecture from the period, when circulation of printed material became widespread to the early 20th century.
Be able to discuss textual and visual narratives on space and architecture in relation to orientalism.
Be able to discuss the production of spatial narratives in relation to orientalism from the period, when circulation of printed material became widespread to the early 20th century.
Develop skills on thinking, reading, and writing on architecture.

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

Edward Said?s magisterial work ?Orientalism? brought about alternative perspectives, insights and positions, which discuss the making of the idea and image of the ?East?, particularly in the fields of cultural, literature and visual studies. This course discusses the changing and varying textual and visual narratives on space and architecture in relation to orientalism from the period, when circulation of printed material became widespread to the early 20th century. During the course, the plural and distinctive histories of various ?orientalisms? and production of spatial narratives are evaluated based on the transformation of ideological inclinations in the above mentioned period.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction to the Course
2^nd Week	Orientalism I
3^rd Week	Orientalism II
4^th Week	Orientalism and the Ottomans
5^th Week	Textual Spatial Narratives and Orientalism
6^th Week	Visual Spatial Narratives and Orientalism I
7^th Week	Mid-term
8^th Week	Visual Spatial Narratives and Orientalism II
9^th Week	Orientalism in Architecture I
10^th Week	Orientalism in Architecture II
11^th Week	Orientalisms I
12^th Week	Orientalism II
13^th Week	Student Presentations
14^th Week	Wrap-up

Recommended or Required Reading

Avcıoğlu N., Flood B. F. (2010) ?Introduction: Globalizing Cultures: Art and Mobility in the Eighteenth Century?, Ars Orientalis, Vol. 39, 7-38.
Behdad A.,(2013)?The Orientalist Photograph? in Photography's Orientalism: New Essays on Colonial Representation, (eds.)Behdad A. and Gartlan L., Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 11-32.
Bozdoğan S. (1988) ?Journey to the East: Ways of Looking at the Orient and the Question of Representation?, Journal of Architectural Education, 41/4, 38-45.
Crinson M., (1996) Empire Building, Orientalism and Victorian Architecture, New York and London: Routledge.
Eldem E. (2004) ?Osman Hamdi Bey ve Oryantalizm?, Dipnot, 2, 39-67.
Eldem E. (2015) ?The Ottoman Empire and Orientalism: An Awkward Relationship?, in After Orientalism: Critical Perspectives on Western Agency and Eastern Re-appropriations, eds. Pouillon F., Vatin J.C., Leiden: Brill, 89-102.
Ersoy A. (2013), ?Giriş / Introduction,? in Oryantalizmin 1001 Yüzü / 1001 Faces of Orientalism?, İstanbul: Sakıp Sabancı Müzesi, 11-19.
Lowe L., (1991) Critical Terrains: French and British Orientalisms, Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
Macfie A.L. (der.), (2000) Orientalism: A Reader, New York: New York University Press.
Pratt M. L. (1992) Imperial Eyes Travel Writing and Transculturation, New York and London: Routledge.
Said E., (1978) Orientalism, Londra: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
(Ek okuma listesi her dönem ayrıca bildirilecektir.)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers
Report Preparation
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	25
Assignment	1	25
Other	1	20
Total(%)		70
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		70
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		30
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	9	4	36
Preparation for Final exam
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	60	60
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam
Homework	1	60	60
Term Project Research	1	60	60
Preperation for Presentations	1	50	50
Total Work Load			310
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			10.33
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

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