TYPE OF COURSE UNIT	Elective Course
LEVEL OF COURSE UNIT	Doctorate Of Science
YEAR OF STUDY	-
SEMESTER	-
NUMBER OF ECTS CREDITS ALLOCATED	15
NAME OF LECTURER(S)	Professor Şebnem Pala Güzel
LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT	At the end of this course, the students; 1) develop deep understanding of key concepts and debates about adaptation within the interface of art, media and economy politics. 2) have a comprehensive knowledge on different epistemological and methodological positions towards adaptation 3) ) have an enhance ability to construct a solid grounding of conceptual and theoretical language within various contexts of adaptation and to evaluate them on a case-by-case basis. 4) to analyze and synthesize the interplay of different of adaptation contexts and genres in relation to both reproduction and reception of adaptation.
MODE OF DELIVERY	Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE	No
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT	No
COURSE DEFINITION	At the end of this course, the students develop a profound understanding about the basic concepts and discussions regarding adaptation and the artistic, media and political economic interface of adaptation. They have the opportunity to gain a comprehensive knowledge about the ontological, epistemological and methodological approaches of adaptation. They gain the skill to evaluate the conceptual and theoretical production of language in different adaptation texts.
COURSE CONTENTS	WEEK TOPICS 1st Week Definition of adaptation in various disciplines 2nd Week Adaptation: context and convention 3rd Week Why Adaptation? 4th Week Adaptation: Theory and Practice 5th Week Adaptation and semiotics: form of content, form of expression, substance of content, and substance of expression 6th Week Adaptation and reception 7th Week Adaptation:Economy and Politics 8th Week Adaptation from Literature and History 9th Week Photographic adaptations ; cinematographic adaptations 10th Week Adaptation from theatre to cinema and TV and vice versa 11th Week Adaptation and music Adaptation from plastic arts vice versa 12th Week Adaptation and video games and comic and animation 13th Week Transcultural Adaptation, adaptation as cultural production 14th Week Alternative adaptation strategies and categories and genres
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING	BAKHTIN, Mikhail. 1984. Rabelais and His World (Çev. Helene Iswolsky). USA: Indiana University Press. BAKHTIN M. M. 1981. The Dialogic Imagination, Four Essays (Edited by Michael Holquist, Trans. By Caryl Emerson and Michael Holquist) Austin: University of Texas Press. CONNOR, J. 2007. ?The Persistence of Fidelity: Adaptation Theory Today?, M/C Journal, May 10(2). Retrieved 11 November 2016 from . HUTCHEON, Linda. 2006. A Theory of Adaptation. New York: Routledge. HUTCHEON, L. 2007. ?In Defence of Literary Adaptation as Cultural Production?, M/C Journal, May 10(2). Retrieved 11 November 2016 from . LEITCH, Thomas. 2007. Film Adaptation and Its Discontents: From Gone with the Wind to The Passion of the Christ. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. LEITCH, Thomas. 2008. ?Adaptation Studies at a Crossroads,.?, Adaptation 1(1): 63-77. MURRAY, Simone. 2012. The Adaptation Industry: The Cultural Economy of Contemporary Literary Adaptation. New York: Routledge. SANDERS, Julie. 2006. Adaptation and Appropriation. London: Routledge STAM Robert and Alessandra RAENGO. 2008. Literature and Film: A Guide to the Theory and Practice of Film Adaptation USA: Blackwell Publishing
PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS	Lecture,Discussion,Questions/Answers
ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA	Quantity Percentage(%) Mid-term 1 20 Assignment 1 40 Total(%) 60 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%) 60 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%) 40 Total(%) 100
LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION	Turkish
WORK PLACEMENT(S)	No