TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Master's Degree Without Thesis
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	10
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Associate Professor Çiçek Coşkun
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) Students understand the connection between sociology and visual sources and visuality. 2) Learn visual research methods and apply visual methods in field research 3) They analyze visual sources and cinema films within a sociological context.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	-
COURSE DEFINITION	Visual sociology includes making documentary films, photographing and analyzing motion pictures within a sociological understanding and examines the studies made in this way. In this age where images are very effective, the importance of visual sociology is increasing rapidly. In this course, it is aimed that students analyze visual data, visual sources and movies in a sociological context and learn about the studies done in this way.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Introduction to the course, introduction to the course and basic concepts 2nd Week Visual forms and basic visual sources 3rd Week 19th Century and visual culture 4th Week 20th Century and visual culture 5th Week Sociology and Photography relations 6th Week Sociology and Cinema relations 7th Week Examples from visual sociology studies 8th Week Midterm Exam 9th Week Technological revolution and change in visual sources 10th Week Social Memory and Visuality 11th Week C. Wright Mills and sociological imagination 12th Week John Berger and Ways of Seeing 13th Week Bourdieu and Contemporary Ethnographic Vision 14th Week Examples from visual sociology studies
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	Berger, John. Görme Biçimleri. İstanbul: Metis Yayıncılık, 2016. Berger, John, Jean Mohr. Anlatmanın Başka Bir Biçimi. İstanbul: Agora Kitaplığı, 2007. Bajac, Quentin. Karanlık Odanın Sırları: Fotoğrafın İcadı. İstanbul: YKY, 2005. Barthes, Roland. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography, Hill and Wang, 2010 Bourdieu, Pierre. Sanatın Kuralları: Yazınsal Alanın Oluşumu ve Yapısı, , İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları, 2006. Collier, John, and Collier, Malcolm, Visual Anthropology: Photography as a Research Method, University Of New Mexico Press, 1986. Elkins, James, Visual Studies, London: Routledge, 2003. Freund, Gisele, Fotoğraf ve Toplum, İstanbul: Sel Yayınları, 2006. Hamilton, Peter (Ed). Visual Research Methods. London: SAGE Publications, 2006
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 30 Assignment 2 20 Total(%) 50 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 50 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 50 Total(%) 100
ECTS WORKLOAD	Activities Number Hours Workload Midterm exam 1 2 2 Preparation for Quiz 0 0 0 Individual or group work 14 15 210 Preparation for Final exam 1 12 12 Course hours 14 3 42 Preparation for Midterm exam 1 8 8 Laboratory (including preparation) 0 0 0 Final exam 1 3 3 Homework 2 12 24 Total Workload 301 Total Workload / 30 10,03 ECTS Credits of the Course 10
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No