Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Associate Prof. Dr. Dilek ÖZHAN KOÇAK

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Understands the ways of remembering in oral culture.
2) Understands the changing experience of time and space in the transition from oral to written culture.
3) Understands the modes of transmission of memory both in traditional and modern societies.
4) Analyzes the role of the media in the transmission of social memory.
5) Discusses about the role of media in constructing and conveying the past and historiography.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

		Program Competencies
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Learning Outcomes
	1	High	High	Middle	High	No relation	Middle	Middle	No relation
	2	High	High	Middle	High	No relation	Middle	Middle	No relation
	3	High	High	Middle	High	No relation	High	Middle	No relation
	4	High	High	Middle	High	No relation	Middle	Middle	No relation
	5	High	High	Middle	High	No relation	Middle	High	No relation

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None.

Course Contents

The transition from oral culture to written and then to electronic culture brings about great changes in the experience of time and space and reorganizes the relationship of human with time and space. In modern societies, unlike traditional societies, the transfer of memory does not take place through rituals or oral traditions, but through schools, museums, and most often through mass media. Considering that we learn the past from what the mass media offers us, and the importance of remembering in the construction of both individual and collective identity, this course will examine the role of media in building and transmitting the past through cinema, serials and digital media, and in particular the role of films and serials in historiography.

Weekly Schedule

1) Social and cultural memory
2) Forms of remembering in traditional societies
3) Transition from oral to written culture
4) Changing forms of remembering in written culture
5) Transference of social memory and radio, television and cinema
6) Historiography and media
7) Midterm Examination
8) Electronic culture and changing perception of time and space
9) Social memory and digital practices of remembering
10) Digital memory
11) Discussions on the role of media in constructing and transferring the past through cinema, TV serias and digital media
12) Student Presentations I
13) Student Presentations II
14) Student Presentations III
15) Final Examination

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Self Study

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Quiz to Course Grade	40%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	60%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required

Course Unit Title	Course Unit Code	Type of Course Unit	Level of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	ECTS Credits
Media, Memory, History	ILB144	Elective	Master's degree	1	Spring	7