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Program Type: 
Thesis
Course Code: 
ART537
Course Type: 
Elective
P: 
3
Lab: 
0
Credits: 
3
ECTS: 
15
Course Language: 
English
Course Content: 

The course includes the investigation of various definitions and forms of culture, the understanding of what a theory is, and the study of outstanding theorists and their teachings in a chronological order.

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Course Flow

COURSE CONTENT
WEEK TOPICS Study Materials
1 Introduction: Terms and Concepts.  
2 Conceptions of Modernity  
3 The Enlightenment and its Concepts – Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Enlightenment  
4 The Enlightenment and its Concepts: Jean Jacques Rousseau  
5 Responses to the Process of Modernization: Karl Marx, Max Weber, George Simmel and Ekspresyonism  
6 Responses to the Process of Modernization: Constructivism, Futurism  
7 Responses to the Process of Modernization: Frankfurt School  
8 Mid-term  
9 from ‘Classic’ Marxist account of base and superstructure to Gramsci's concept of hegemony  
10 Althusser's account of the Ideological State Apparatuses, Roland Barthes Semiotics  
11 Walter Benjamin: The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction  
12 Michel Foucault (Normality/Deviance, Discourse, Discipline, Power/Knowledge)  
13 Student Presentations  
14 Student Presentations  

Recommended Sources

RECOMMENDED SOURCES
Textbook  
Additional Resources
  1. Belfiore E, Bennett  O. (2008) Social Impacts of the Arts
  2. Ritzer G. (2013) Sosyoloji Kuramları
  3. Hitchcock L. A. (2008) Kuramlar ve Kuramcılar
  4. Timuçin Ali, Timuçin Afşar (2013) 50 Soruda Aydınlanma
  5. Wood, E. M. (2012) Özgürlük ve Mülkiyet
  6. Dellaloğlu, B. (2007) Frankfurt Okulu’nda Sanat ve Toplum
  7. Kışlalı, A.T. (2006) Siyasal Sistemler, Siyasal Çatışma ve Uzlaşma

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