CINEMA AND VISUAL SOCIOLOGY STUDIES

SOC612

Course Code: SOC612
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Doctorate Of Science

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Professor Çiçek Coşkun

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Comprehend the relationship between sociology and cinema.
Learn and apply visual research methods.
Analyze visual resources in a sociological context..

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

Course Description

In this course, basic approaches of cinema and visual sociology studies, fields of study and research types are examined. History of cinema, film analysis, the relationship between cinema and society, visuality and society, the contribution of visual sociology studies to the sociology discipline and visual research methods are in the scope of the course

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Introduction to the course, General Introduction and Basic Concepts
2^nd Week	C.Wright Mills and sociological imagination and cinema
3^rd Week	John Berger and ways of seeing
4^th Week	Social impact of cinema, cinema and mass culture
5^th Week	Relation of the Society and visual
6^th Week	Technology and visual culture
7^th Week	Examples from visual studies
8^th Week	Midterm
9^th Week	Visual research methods 1
10^th Week	Visual research methods 2
11^th Week	Visual research methods 3
12^th Week	Student Presentations
13^th Week	Student Presentations
14^th Week	General evaluation of the course
15^th Week

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.

Diken, Bülent; Laustsen, Carsten B. Filmlerle Sosyoloji, Metis Yayınları,2010

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.

Gökçe, Birsen. Toplumsal Bilimlerde Araştırma. Ankara: Savaş Yayınevi, 2012

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

Jarvie, Ian Charles. Towards a Sociology of the Cinema, London and New York: Routledge,2013

Mills, C. Wright. The Sociological Imagination. Oxford university press,2000

Mills, C. Wright . Sosyolojik Tahayyül, İstanbul: Hil Yayınları, 2016

Schneider, Steven Jay; Palmer, R. Barton (eds). Dünya Sinemasında Akımlar, Doruk Yayınları,2016

Simmel Georg; Frisby Mike, David (1997) Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings, London, Thousand Oaks, New Delhi: Sage Publications

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Discussion
Questions/Answers
Presentation

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	40
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	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	X	X
K2		X	X
K3
K4	X	X	X
K5
K6	X		X
K7		X
K8
K9		X
K10	X	X	X