TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree With Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Hidayet Hale Künüçen
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) improves his/her analysing skills and gets abilities to write academic texts with relating their fields of interests. 2) learns how to relate films and other disciplines. 3) comprehends the differences between academic criticism and popular reading.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	None.
COURSE DEFINITION	Film Critics is designed for the students who are interested in cinema and willing to improve their analysing skills at competent level. Inthe course, film critics approaches will be studied by watching and establishing a mutual relations with suitable films.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction of the course 2nd Week Examining the relations of film critics and philosophy / introduction to the sociological approach 3rd Week Film screening about the sociological approach (12 Angry Men, Sidney Lumet, 1957) 4th Week Examining the ideological approach 5th Week Film screening about the ideological approach (They Live, John Carpenter, 1988) 6th Week Examining the historical approach in the film critics / examining the cognitive approach in the film critics 7th Week Discussing the semantics and semiology / examining the semiological approach in the film critics 8th Week Mid-term exam 9th Week Film screening about the semiological approach (Barton Fink, Ethan & Joel Coen, 1991) 10th Week Discussing about the auteurs in the film history / examining the auteur approach in the film critics 11th Week Film screening about the auteur approach (La Notte, Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961) 12th Week Reading, discussing and interpreting of the homeworks 13th Week Discussing the director choices for evaluating film, examining mis en scene criticism 14th Week Final exam
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Kabadayı, Lale (2013) Film Eleştirisi, Ayrıntı Yayınları, İstanbul. Ryan, Michael; Kellner Douglas, (1997) Politik Kamera Çağdaş Hollywood Teksoy, Rekin. (2005) Rekin Teksoy'un Sinema Tarihi, İstanbul, Oğlak Yayıncılık. Adanır, Oğuz. (2003) Sinemada Anlam ve Anlatım, İstanbul, Alfa Yayınları. Büker, Seçil. (2010) Sinemada Anlam Yaratma, İstanbul, Hayalbaz Kitap. Monaco, James. (2007) Bir Film Nasıl Okunur?, çev. Ertan Yılmaz, İstanbul, Oğlak Yayıncılık. Read, Rupert; Goodenough, Jerry. (2005) Film as Philosophy, Great Britain, Palgrave Macmillan.
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Case Study
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Assignment 1 10 Total(%) 40 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 40 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 60 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No