FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Department of Physics
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GEAR 307 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Contemporary World Cinema
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
(hour/week) |
Application/Lab
(hour/week) |
Local Credits
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ECTS
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GEAR 307
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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4
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Service Course
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| Course Level |
First Cycle
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| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionQ&ALecture / Presentation | |||||
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| Course Objectives | This course aims to introduce students to contemporary world cinema. It consists of film history, key concepts in film studies and world cinema research, and questions of representation in relation to issues of gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity in a global context. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course combines viewing of films followed by class discussion. Each week, we will summarize key points and arguments made by a film scholar on a particular topic and watch a film that relates closely to the text. This course combines viewing of films followed by class discussion. Each week, we will summarize key points and arguments made by a film scholar on a particular topic and watch a film that relates closely to the text. |
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Core Courses | |
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| Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | Middle Eastern Cinema: Iran Ten, Abbas Kiarostami, 2002 (94 min) | Moore, L. C. (2005) “Women in a Widening Frame: (Cross-) Cultural Projection, Spectatorship and Iranian Cinema” Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies, 20(2), pp. 1-33. |
| 3 | Eastern European Cinema: Romania Occident, Cristian Mungiu, 2002 (102 min) | Adriana Cordali Gradea (2018) “The rhetoric of leaving, or the mirage of the fetishized West in Cristian Mungiu’s Occident” Journal of European Studies. Volume 48, issue 3-4, page(s): 250-264. Marian Țuțui and Raluca Iacob, “New Romanian Cinema: Geography and Identity” in Edited by Christina Stojanov The New Romanian Cinema. Edinburg University Press. 2021. |
| 4 | Western European Cinema I Caché, Michael Haneke (2005) | Nancy E. Virtue “Memory, Trauma, and the French-Algerian War: Michael Haneke's Caché (2005)” Modern & Contemporary France, 19:3. 2011, pp. 281-296. |
| 5 | Western European Cinema II Head-On, Fatih Akın (2004) | Berna Güneli “Chapter Two: Language Use and Dialogue: Multilingualism in Akın’s Head-On” in Güneli (2011) Challenging European Borders: Fatih Akın’s Filmic Visions of Europe, PhD dissertation, The University of Texas at Austin, pp. 96-126. |
| 6 | Subcontinent Cinema: India Slumdog Millionaire (2008) Danny Boyle | Ana Cristina Mendes (2010) “Showcasing India Unshining: Film Tourism in Danny Boyle’s Slumdog Millionaire” Third Text, 24:4, 471-479. |
| 7 | The Global South: Burkina Faso Under the Moonlight (2004) Appoline Traoré | Lizelle Bisschoff (2010) “Visions of female emancipation: three recent films from West Africa” Journal of African Cinemas, Vol. 2:1, 37-48. |
| 8 | Midterm Exam | |
| 9 | Cinema in Australia and New Zealand The Piano (1993) Jane Campion | Barbara Klinger (2006) “The art film, affect and the female viewer: The Piano revisited” Screen, Volume 47, Issue 1, Spring 2006, Pages 19–41. |
| 10 | Korean New Wave Parasite (2017) Bong Joon-Ho | Schulze, Jonathan (2019) “The Sacred Engine and the Rice Paddy: Globalization, Genre, and Local Space in the Films of Bong Joon-ho” Journal of Popular Film and Television, 47:1, 21-29, pp. 21-29. |
| 11 | Japanese Cinema Shoplifters (2018) Hirokazu Kore-eda | Erlich, Linda C., (2011). “Kore-eda’s Ocean View” Film Criticism, Vol. 35, No. 2/3, pp.127–146. |
| 12 | Latin America: Mexico Roma (2018) Alfonso Cuarón | Sergio de la Mora (2019) “Roma: Reparation versus Exploitation” Film Quarterly 72 (4): 46–53. |
| 13 | Latin America: Brazil Aquarius (2016) Kleber Mendonça Filho | Stephanie Dennison (2018) “Intimacy and cordiality in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies. 24:3, 329-340. |
| 14 | Course Review | |
| 15 | Course Review | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
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20
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| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
1
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30
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| Final Exam |
1
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50
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| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
3
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100
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Total |
ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
14
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2
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28
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
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| Portfolio |
0
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| Homework / Assignments |
0
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| Presentation / Jury |
0
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| Project |
0
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
1
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18
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18
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| Final Exam |
1
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26
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26
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| Total |
120
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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| 1 | To be able master and use fundamental phenomenological and applied physical laws and applications, |
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| 2 | To be able to identify the problems, analyze them and produce solutions based on scientific method, |
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| 3 | To be able to collect necessary knowledge, able to model and self-improve in almost any area where physics is applicable and able to criticize and reestablish his/her developed models and solutions, |
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| 4 | To be able to communicate his/her theoretical and technical knowledge both in detail to the experts and in a simple and understandable manner to the non-experts comfortably, |
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| 5 | To be familiar with software used in area of physics extensively and able to actively use at least one of the advanced level programs in European Computer Usage License, |
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| 6 | To be able to develop and apply projects in accordance with sensitivities of society and behave according to societies, scientific and ethical values in every stage of the project that he/she is part in, |
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| 7 | To be able to evaluate every all stages effectively bestowed with universal knowledge and consciousness and has the necessary consciousness in the subject of quality governance, |
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| 8 | To be able to master abstract ideas, to be able to connect with concreate events and carry out solutions, devising experiments and collecting data, to be able to analyze and comment the results, |
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| 9 | To be able to refresh his/her gained knowledge and capabilities lifelong, have the consciousness to learn in his/her whole life, |
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| 10 | To be able to conduct a study both solo and in a group, to be effective actively in every all stages of independent study, join in decision making stage, able to plan and conduct using time effectively. |
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| 11 | To be able to collect data in the areas of Physics and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). |
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| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently |
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| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. |
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