ANTALYA BİLİM UNIVERSITY
Course Information Package

PSYC 1006 - Art, Language, and Society

Basic Information

Course Code:
PSYC 1006
Course Name:
Art, Language, and Society
Language of Instruction:
English
Course Type:
Class
Course Level:
Bachelor
ECTS:
5.00
Instructor:
Doç. Dr. Ziya TOPRAK

Learning Outcomes

Code Description
LO1 Develop a critical understanding of documentary cinema including its origins, theories, forms and styles
LO2 A comprehension of relationship between the truth and representation and how documentary cinema builds representations
LO3 Apply various theoretical tools to the analyses of documentary cinema
LO4 Evaluate forms of representation build through cinema regarding social and cultural issues like race, class and gender.

Weekly Course Content

Week Content
1 Introduction
2 Introduction to film and its analysis
3 Introduction to documentary cinema
4 Origins and Racism
5 Cinematic Form: Soviet Film
6 Cinéma Vérité
7 Direct Cinema
8 Midterm
9 Reenactment and the Search for Truth
10 Documentary and Social Justice
11 Documentary Filmmaker as Auteur
12 Civil Rights and the Cinematic Fight for Justice
13 Memory, Propaganda, and Trauma
14 Recap
15 Recap

Workload Calculation

Activity Count Duration (Hours) Total
Attendance 1 42.00 42.00
Pre-Class Individual Study 1 30.00 30.00
Homework 1 23.00 23.00
Other 1 30.00 30.00
Total Workload (Hours) 125
ECTS Credit (Workload / 25) 4

Assessment

# Assessment Type Contribution (%)
1 Homework %30
2 Project %30
3 Final Exam %40
TOTAL %100

PO - LO Matrix

PO \ LO
LO1
LO2
LO3
LO4
PO-1
PO-2
PO-3
PO-4
PO-5
PO-6
PO-7
PO-8
PO-9
PO-10
PO-11
PO-12
PO-13
PO-14
PO-15
PO-16
1
Low Contribution
2
Medium Contribution
3
High Contribution

Teaching and Learning Methods

# Method Name Description Tools
1 Lecture (expository teaching), interactive discussion Listening and taking notes. Standard classroom technologies, multimedia tools (projector, computer, digital presentations)
2 Homework Solving and analyzing homework questions using a computer and Excel. Computer
3 Controversial Course Listening and comprehension, critical thinking Standard classroom technologies, multimedia tools, projector, computer, overhead projector