| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+U Hours | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Special Topics In Cultural Studies: Knowledge, Power and Politics | CUL 527 | 0 | 3 + 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Precondition Courses | |
| Recommended Optional Courses | |
| Course Language | Turkish |
| Course Level | yuksek_lisans |
| Course Type | Optional |
| Course Coordinator | Dr.Öğr.Üyesi TUĞBA AYAS ÖNOL |
| Course Lecturers | Dr.Öğr.Üyesi TUĞBA AYAS ÖNOL, |
| Course Assistants | |
| Course Category | Field Proper Education |
| Course Objective | This course aims to provide students with the abilities of close reading and in-depth study on a special topic in Cultural Studies. |
| Course Content | This course addresses the relationship between knowledge, power and the practice of politics. It seeks to perform a close reading and an in depth-study of works of thinkers such as Hannah Arendt, Jürgen Habermas, Michel Foucault, Richard Rorty, Jacques Rancière and Slavoj Zizek. |
| # | Course Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Knows the theories of knowledge and related political theories | Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion, | Testing, Oral Exam, Homework, |
| 2 | Discusses the relationship between aesthetics and politics | Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion, | Testing, Oral Exam, Homework, |
| 3 | Discusses the effects of knowledge technologies on daily life | Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion, | Testing, Oral Exam, Homework, |
| 4 | Knows and discusses the theories of public sphere and biopolitics | Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion, | Testing, Oral Exam, Homework, |
| 5 | Learns and discusses the discipline mechanisms of power | Lecture, Question-Answer, Discussion, | Testing, Oral Exam, Homework, |
| Week | Course Topics | Preliminary Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: On Knowledge, Power and Politics | |
| 2 | Humanity, Politics and Aesthetic Judgment: Hannah Arendt | |
| 3 | The Theory of Communicative Action: Jurgen Habermas | |
| 4 | Communicative Action Theory: Jurgen Habermas | |
| 5 | Public Sphere: Jurgen Habermas | |
| 6 | Archeology of Knowledge: Michel Foucault | |
| 7 | Madness, Civilization and Biopolitics | |
| 8 | Discipline, Body and Power | |
| 9 | Madness, civilization and biopolitics | |
| 10 | Power and Mass Culture | |
| 11 | Information Technologies, Surveillance and the Eye of the Power | |
| 12 | Politics, Aesthetics and Consensus | |
| 13 | Aesthetics and Ideology | |
| 14 | Discussion |
| Resources | |
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| Course Notes | |
| Course Resources | Rorty, Richard. Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979). Rorty, Richard. Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989). Rorty, Richard. Objectivity, Relativism and Truth: Philosophical Papers I. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.) Rorty, Richard. Essays on Heidegger and Others: Philosophical Papers II. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.) Rorty, Richard. Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers III. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.) Rorty, Richard. Philosophy as Cultural Politics: Philosophical Papers IV. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Arendt, Hannah. The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). (Revised ed.; New York: Schocken, 2004). Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958). Arendt, Hannah. Between Past and Future: Six exercises in political thought (New York: Viking, 1961). Arendt, Hannah. On Revolution (New York: Viking, 1963). Arendt, Hannah. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil (1963). (Rev. ed. New York: Viking, 1968.) Arendt, Hannah. Men in Dark Times (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968). Arendt, Hannah. On Violence. Harvest Books (New York: 1970). Arendt, Hannah. Lectures on Kant's Political Philosophy. Edited and with an Interpretive Essay by Ronald Beiner (The University of Chicago Press, 1992). Habermas, Jürgen (1962 trans 1989) The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An Inquiry into a category of Bourgeois Society, Polity, Cambridge. Habermas, Jürgen (1984) [1981]. Theory of Communicative Action, Vol I: Reason and the Rationalization of Society (Book). Trans. Thomas A. McCarthy. Boston, Mass.: Beacon Press. Foucault, Michel. The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction. Trans. Robert Hurley. New York: Vintage Books, 1990. Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. 2nd edition. Trans. by Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1995. Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge: and the Discourse on Language. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1982. Foucault, Michel. The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception. Trans. Alan Sheridan. New York: Vintage Books, 1994 Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason. Trans.by Richard Howard. New York: Vintage, 1988. Ranciere, Jacques. Disagreement: Politics and Philosophy.(Minnesota Press, 1998) Ranciere, Jacques. Dissensus: On Politics and Aesthetics. (Continuum, 2010) Zizek, Slovaj. Sublime Object of Ideology. Verso, 1989. |
| Order | Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |||
| 1 | To gain ability to make data collection, consulting literature and analyzing which form scientific knowledge in the discipline of Cultural Studies. | X | |||||
| 2 | To have ability to study interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary and to adopt theory, method and practices used in the other areas to discipline of Cultural Studies. | X | |||||
| 3 | To gain ability to make data collection, consulting literature and analyzing which form scientific knowledge in the relevant discipline. | X | |||||
| 4 | To gain adequacy to make critical evaluation and synthesis; | X | |||||
| 5 | To have behavior and ethical sensitivity in conformity with academic life. | X | |||||
| 6 | To be open minded for renewal and new ideas and to obtain ability to suggest new ideas. | X | |||||
| 7 | To be experienced to contribute to Cultural Studies in the institutional and methodological context by scientific studies. | X | |||||
| 8 | To share his/her academic studies with academia via national and international conferences. | X | |||||
| 9 | To make a scientific research in the area of Cultural Studies based on an asserted thesis with gaining the habit of acquisition of research and project. | X | |||||
| Evaluation System | |
|---|---|
| Semester Studies | Contribution Rate |
| 1. Sözlü Sınav | 10 |
| 1. Ödev | 30 |
| 1. Performans Görevi (Seminer) | 30 |
| 2. Ödev | 30 |
| Total | 100 |
| 1. Yıl İçinin Başarıya | 60 |
| 1. Final | 40 |
| Total | 100 |
| ECTS - Workload Activity | Quantity | Time (Hours) | Total Workload (Hours) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Mid-terms | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Assignment | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| Oral Examination | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Final examination | 1 | 10 | 10 |
| Total Workload | 141 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (Hours) | 5.64 | ||
| dersAKTSKredisi | 6 | ||