GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
THEORIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART/SBA 422
Course Title: THEORIES OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Credits 2 ECTS 2
Semester 8 Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Lecurer BURÇİN ÜNAL
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  www.gazi.edu.tr/burcinunal
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  burcnunal@gazi.edu.tr
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
Will be able to identify new formations in the sculpture
Will be able to use interdisciplinary approaches to art
Will be able to synthesize traditional materials, techniques with contemporary approaches
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week  Course description and presentation of terminological
2. Week  Cubist and its collage-assemblies Surrealists and their imaginary objects
3. Week  Continuation and on the topic visual presentation / discussion
4. Week  Artistic arrangement of red synthesis"DADA"
5. Week   "Found objects / ready-made objects, art object" definitions
6. Week  Continuation and on the topic visual presentation / discussion
7. Week  Constructivists: re-building New Realism and Pop Art
8. Week  Midterm Exam
9. Week  Minimal Art and Conceptual Art
10. Week  Fluxus and the Situationists
11. Week  "Social Sculpture", "Body-object", "Object Sculpture" Investigation of Concepts
12. Week  Continuation
13. Week  Concept of White Cube, İntertior/ Exterior Applications
14. Week  Land art, Installation, in situ, and a site-specific approaches
15. Week   Continuation
16. Week  Final examination
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Lecturer's Notes
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  -
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
30
 Assignment
1
15
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
50
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
50
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
2
28
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
 Reading
10
1
10
 Searching in Internet and Library
5
1
5
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
0
 Preparing Presentation
0
 Presentation
2
1
2
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
0
 Final and Studying for Final
1
2
2
 Other
1
3
3
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
50
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
2
 ECTS: 
2
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1L.O.1 According to the characteristics of interdisciplinary contemporary art, art with the production of artists of different disciplines, able to train with the knowledge and skills to use.X
2L.O.2 To bring togetherartistic creativity with technical skillsX
3L.O.3 To follow national and international developments,to perform applications these developments in the context of contemporary levelX
4L.O.4 To think three-dimensionalX
5L.O.5 To interpreting the work of theoretical and practical problems and to produce artworkX
6L.O.6 To compose an environment which creative and inquisitory in line with the concept of contemporary artX
7L.O.7 To gain the ability of multi-dimensional thinking and observetionX
8L.O.8 To develop art skills,to gain competence in technical and vocational subjectsX
9L.O.9 To realize itself and to provide access to the consciousness of the environment.X
10L.O.10 Produced in the field of contemporary understanding of knowledge and experience, priority is given to academic research. students need to be participating in the workforce, both practical and theoretical sense to spread this worldwide.X
11L.O.11 To gain the sculpture department students artistic creativity, art culture, knowledge of painting equipment and comprehend by what means the level at which lead to that effect.X