Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES / SOS 540 - SOCIOLOGY (MASTER'S DEGREE)

Code: SOS 540 Course Title: SOCIOLOGY WITH FILMS Theoretical+Practice: 3+0 ECTS: 6
Year/Semester of Study 1 / Spring Semester
Level of Course 2nd Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department SOCIOLOGY (MASTER'S DEGREE)
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer NİHAN OZANSOY TUNÇDEMİR (nihanozansoy@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Learns to evaluate movies sociologically as examples of social events. PO-1 1-Have an advanced level of knowledge about the recent and best practices in Sociology, deepen and expand their knowledge on the expert level, conduct and assess the analyses by employing statistical methods.
PO-3 3-Make use of the knowledge they have in order to find a solution to problems by analyzing, comparing and questioning them and can carry out original research in the related field on their own.
 		Examination
LO-2 Learns to apply social theories to daily life. PO-1 1-Have an advanced level of knowledge about the recent and best practices in Sociology, deepen and expand their knowledge on the expert level, conduct and assess the analyses by employing statistical methods.
PO-9 9-Transfer in a systematical way the latest developments in Sociology and their field of study reinforcing with qualitative and quantitative data to the groups either concerned with the field or not by verbal, visual and written means.
 		Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
Basic concepts of sociology, historical development of sociology of art, cinema and social structure, cinema and economic relations, cinema and social institutions, cinema and popular culture, cinema and modernism, cinema and social phenomena and events constitute the content of this course.
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction of the course, General Introduction to the Course and Basic Concepts Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
2 Historical development of cinema Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
3 C. Wright Mills and the sociological imagination and cinema Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
4 Social impact of cinema, cinema and mass culture Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
5 Cinema theories Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
6 Basic Mass Communication Theories Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
7 Historical development of cinema in Turkey Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
8 mid-term exam
9 Social change and movies in Turkey Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
10 National identity and cinema Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
11 Cultural imperialism and cinema Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
12 Gender and Cinema Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
13 Globalization and Cinema Lecture, Question and Answer and Discussion
14 Presentation and movie analysis presentation discussion
15 Presentation and movie analysis presentation discussion
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
Required Course instruments and materials

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 7 1 %40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 15 1 %60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 3 14 42
Outside Class
       a) Reading 3 14 42
       b) Search in internet/Library 2 14 28
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 2 6 12
mid-term exam 1 1 1
Own study for final exam 3 14 42
final exam 1 1 1
0
0
Total work load; 168