Sociology
Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

General course introduction information

Course Code:

SOS339

Course Name:

Visual Culture and Society

Course Semester:

Fall

Course Credits:

Theoretical	Practical	Credit	ECTS
3	0	3	5

Language of instruction:

Course Requisites:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Type of course:

Department Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

Face to face

Course Coordinator :

Prof. Dr. ESRA KÖTEN

Course Lecturer(s):

Dr.Öğr.Üyesi İLKER ÇAYLA

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives:

Visual Culture and Society as a transdisciplinary course is a field of study that generall yincludes some combination of cultural studies, art, sociology, critical theory, philosophy, and ethnography, by focusing on aspects of culturethatrely on visualimages. This coursewill begin tountangleissues of power, subjectivity, cultural ‘othering’, marginalization, situated knowledge and meaning-making embodied in
visual forms of communication. This will be done primarily by examining different ways of looking, seeing, and being seen.

Course Content:

By the end of thecourse, students will be ableto: -Define the visual culture of contemporary society. -Explain how viewers createcultural meaning. -Identify how images circulatethrough different social arenas. -Analyze how visuality and the gazefunction in powerrelations. -Evaluatethe role of style, irony, recoding, and pastiche in image-making

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;

Learning Outcomes

1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
1) Define the visual culture of contemporary society.
2) Explain how viewers create cultural meaning.
3) Identify how images circulate through different social arenas
4) Analyze how visuality and the gazefunction in powerrelations.
5) Evaluate the role of style, irony, recoding, and pastiche in image-making
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
Learning Competence
Field Specific Competence
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility

Lesson Plan

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction	Reading: Practices of Looking, Introduction and Chapter 1
2)	Görsel kültürün tanımı ve görsel kültür çalışmaları	Reading: Practices of Looking, Chapter 2 RolandBarthes, “TheDeath of the Author”
3)	Image and power: the relationship between image and power, feminist theory, art history, queer theory, cultural studies or orientalist discourse etc. will be analyzed with an interdisciplinary approach.	Reading: Practices of Looking, pp. 34-40, 250-60 Robert Harrimanand John Lucaites, No CaptionNeeded (excerpt)
4)	Audience and meaning: Different readings of the viewer for the image will be revealed.	Visuality and Power Reading: NicholasMirzoeff, The Right toLook, Introduction
5)	Perspective and Perception	Reading: Practices of Looking, pp. 151-81 AlexGalloway, Gaming (excerpt)
6)	Mechanical Reproduction	Reading: Practices of Looking, pp. 190-221 Walter Benjamin, “The Age of Art in the Age of MechanicalReproduction”
7)	Collection and Exhibition	Practices of Looking, pp.56-69 James Clifford, “On Collecting Art andCulture”
8)	Visual Culture and Resistance	Douglas Crimp, AIDSDemoGraphics (excerpt) AlisonTropeandLanaSwartz, “The Visual Culture of theOccupation”
9)	Commodity Visual Culture	Reading: Practices of Looking, Chapter 7
10)	Postmodernizm ve İroni	Practices of Looking, pp. 307-28 David Harvey, TheCondition of Postmodernity, excerpt
11)	Memory and Visual Culture	Reading: MarianneHirsch, “TheGeneration of Postmemory” MaritaSturken, “CameraImagesandNationalMeaning” (fromTangledMemories)
12)	The Digital Body	Reading: Practices of Looking, pp. 373-84 Joseph Dumit, “Pharmaceutical Witnessing”
13)	Facebook, Instagram, and Self-Documentation	Susan Murray, “DigitalImages, Photo Sharing, and Our Shifting Notions of Everyday Aesthetics”
14)	Dijital Medya, Dijital Kimlik, Global Görseller.	Reading: Practices of Looking, pp. 389-413 Lisa Nakamura, “Digital Racial Formations and Networked Images of the Body”

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Marita Sturkenand Lisa Cartwright, Practices of Looking: An Introductionto Visual Culture (Second Edition) (Oxford UniversityPress, 2008)
References:	Nicholas Mirzoeff, An Introductionto Visual Culture (Second Edition) (Routledge, 2009)

Course-Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Learning Outcomes	1	2	3	4	5
Program Outcomes
1) Gains the ability to interpret social developments with the theoretical knowledge that is acquired and a critical perspective.
2) Has knowledge about other disciplines and is open to lifelong learning to be able to success interdisciplinary work.
3) Has the ability to observe social, scientific and ethical values in the stages of data collection, interpretation and announcement while conducting research in the field.
4) Graduates with a good knowledge of at least one foreign language and one foreign language at the entry level.
5) Gains a professional perspective with good observation ability and empathy.
6) Gains the ability to collect local, national and international data and conduct research in the field of social science.
7) Can make explanations to expert or non-expert audiences about their field or social issues, inform them and convey their thoughts, problems and solutions clearly in written and oral form.
8) Adopts various internship programs and applied studies.
9) Gains knowledge to work as a researcher, consultant or expert in the public or private sector.
10) Complies with the ethical rules accepted and encouraged by TÜBİTAK, YÖK and TÜBA and universal science within the context of research, and education.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Gains the ability to interpret social developments with the theoretical knowledge that is acquired and a critical perspective.	5
2)	Has knowledge about other disciplines and is open to lifelong learning to be able to success interdisciplinary work.
3)	Has the ability to observe social, scientific and ethical values in the stages of data collection, interpretation and announcement while conducting research in the field.
4)	Graduates with a good knowledge of at least one foreign language and one foreign language at the entry level.
5)	Gains a professional perspective with good observation ability and empathy.	5
6)	Gains the ability to collect local, national and international data and conduct research in the field of social science.
7)	Can make explanations to expert or non-expert audiences about their field or social issues, inform them and convey their thoughts, problems and solutions clearly in written and oral form.
8)	Adopts various internship programs and applied studies.
9)	Gains knowledge to work as a researcher, consultant or expert in the public or private sector.
10)	Complies with the ethical rules accepted and encouraged by TÜBİTAK, YÖK and TÜBA and universal science within the context of research, and education.

Learning Activity and Teaching Methods

Expression
Lesson
Reading

Assessment & Grading Methods and Criteria

Written Exam (Open-ended questions, multiple choice, true-false, matching, fill in the blanks, sequencing)
Homework
Presentation
Bilgisayar Destekli Sunum

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Midterms	1	% 40
Final	1	% 60
total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 60
total		% 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Grading

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	42
Presentations / Seminar	10	10
Homework Assignments	1	40
Midterms	1	3
Final	2	4
Total Workload		141