| Course Name | Code | Semester | T+U Hours | Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Key Theories In Cultural Studies | KUL 505 | 0 | 3 + 0 | 3 | 6 |
| Precondition Courses | <p>none</p> |
| Recommended Optional Courses | <p>none</p> |
| Course Language | English |
| 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 | Available Basic Education in the Field |
| Course Objective | To introduce major theories, issues and debates of cultural studies |
| Course Content | This course is designed to introduce major theories, issues and debates of cultural studies. It presents basic theories and methods such as semiology, ethnography, cultural history, critical theory and psychoanalysis and goes through fundamental debates and issues such as speech vs. writing; hegemony vs. resistance; cultural reproduction and cultural change, gender, race, class and subcultures |
| # | Course Learning Outcomes | Teaching Methods | Assessment Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
| Week | Course Topics | Preliminary Preparation |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: What is Cultural Studies? | |
| 2 | Cultural Studies and Critical Theory | |
| 3 | Culture Industry and Popular Culture | |
| 4 | ||
| 5 | Media and Mass Culture | |
| 6 | Public Sphere | |
| 7 | Visual Culture and Technologies | |
| 8 | Culture, Power, Hegemony | |
| 9 | Language and ideology | |
| 10 | Cultural identity and subjectivity | |
| 11 | Colonialism and Postcolonialism | |
| 12 | Orientalism and Cross-Cultural Encounter | |
| 13 | ||
| 14 | Discussion |
| Resources | |
|---|---|
| Course Notes | <p>-</p> |
| Course Resources | Arendt, Hannah. The Human Condition, (1959). Fanon, Franz. Wretched of the Earth, (1961). Fanon, Franz. Black Skin, White Masks, (1968). Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in Illuminations (1969). Benjamin, Walter. Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, (1969). Foucault, Michel. The Archaeology of Knowledge, (1969). Foucault, Michel. The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences, (1970). Gramsci, Antonio. Prison Notebooks, (1971). Barthes, Roland. Mythologies, (1972). Hall, Stuart. “Encoding and Decoding” in Culture Media, Language, ed Hall et al., (1974). Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish, (1977). Said, Edward. Orientalism: Western Conceptions of the Orient, (1979). Foucault, Michel. History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: An Introduction, (1980). Hall, Stuart. “The Rediscovery of Ideology” in Subjectivity and Social Relations, ed Beechey, et al., (1982). Saussure, Ferdinand de. Course in General Linguistics (trans. Roy Harris). ([1916] 1983): Hall, Stuart. “Signification, Representation and Ideology” in Critical Studies in Media Communication, 2, (1985) 91-114. Habermas, Jurgen. Theory of Communicative Action, Volumes 1 and 2, (1985). Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (1988). Fiske, John. Television Culture, (1988). Butler, Judith. Gender Trouble, (1990). Habermas, Jurgen. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere, (1992). Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, (1993). Bhabha, Homi. The Location of Culture, (1994). Cheah, Pheng. Cosmopolitics: Thinking and Feeling beyond the Nation, University of Minnesota Press, (1998). Hardt, Michael and Antonio Negri. Empire, (2000) Althusser, Louis. “Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses” in Lenin and Philosophy, (2001). Adorno, Theodore and Max Horkheimer. The Dialectic of Enlightenment, (2002). |
| Evaluation System | |
|---|---|
| Semester Studies | Contribution Rate |
| 1. Ödev | 30 |
| 1. Performans Görevi (Seminer) | 30 |
| 1. Sözlü Sınav | 10 |
| 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 | 4 | 64 |
| Assignment | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| Quiz | 2 | 6 | 12 |
| Final examination | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Total Workload | 141 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (Hours) | 5.64 | ||
| dersAKTSKredisi | 6 | ||