Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Nigar PÖSTEKİ

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

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Evaluate memory in terms of social structure, history, sociology, cultural life, and especially in terms of cinema
2) Distinguish cultural industries and artistic production
3) Write a memory text
4) Make a memory text analysis
5) Select movies, novels, poetry and painting examples
6) Analyze memory and forgetting over the texts

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

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

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

This course makes students familiar with the text analysis of movies, novels, poetry and painting examples and their relations with the social changes.

Weekly Schedule

1) Students will be informed about the objectives and the content of the course.
2) Halbwachs and Assman's memory theories are discussed.
3) Information about the relationship between space and memory.
4) Memory and it's connection with history, sosyology and cultural life.
5) Certain principles of remembering and forgetting. Different approachs to the subject of various disciplines from antiquity to the present day.
6) Shared memory and cinema: Cinematic image as a shared memory product.
7) Cinema and memory relationship. Examples about the subject.
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Analyzing a movie-I
10) Analyzing a movie-II
11) Analyzing a movie-III
12) Student presentation (Group 1).
13) Student presentation (Group 2).
14) Student presentation (Group 3).
15) General Review.
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

1- ASSMAN, Jan, Kültürel Bellek: Eski Yüksek Kültürlerde Yazı, Hatırlama Ve Politik Kimlik. İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınları, 2001.
2- BENJAMIN, Walter, Pasajlar, İstanbul: YKY, 2012.
3- BERMAN, Marshall, Katı Olan Her Şey Buharlaşıyor: Modernite Deneyimi, Çev. Ümit Altuğ ve Bülent Peker, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2009.
4- DEPELİ, Gülsüm, Görsellik ve Kültürel Bellek İlişkisi: Göçmenin Evi, Kültür ve İletişim, 201013(2) yaz/summer: 9-39.
5- HANÇERLİOĞLU, Orhan Hançerlioğlu, Toplumbilim Sözlüğü, Remzi Kitabevi, İstanbul, 2001.
6- ÖYMEN ÖZAK, Nilüfer, POLAT GÖKMEN, Gülçin , Bellek ve Mekan İlişkisi Üzerine Bir Model Önerisi, İTÜ Dergisi/a, Sayı: 8, Cilt: 2, Eylül 2009, s.145-155.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Discussion
4) Demonstration
5) Group Study

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	50%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	50%
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
Society and Memory In Film	IBD138	Elective	Doctorate degree	1	Spring	7