GRADUATE SCHOOL
Political Science and International Relations (With Thesis)
PSIR 562 | Course Introduction and Application Information
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Art and Politics in the Modern Era
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
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Local Credits
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ECTS
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PSIR 562
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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7.5
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Elective
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| Course Level |
Second Cycle
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| Course Objectives | This course aims both at addressing the approaches of the political authorities to art in the modern era and at analyzing the relations various artistic groups and/or movements with the political power. This course has the claim that the prevailing political and cultural atmosphere of each era influences art with a historical and sociological perspective. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | By following a chronological line, we are going to examine the interactions between the artistic sphere and politics in the framework of the topics such as modernization, nation-building, nationalism, World Wars, dictatorships, ideologies, Cold War, late-industrialization, identity politics, globalization and transnationalism. |
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Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses |
X
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| Transferable Skill Courses |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction: Course objectives, content, methodology | Presentation and overview of the course. |
| 2 | Art and Politics? Conceptual framework: Modernity, modernism, modernization | Matei Calinescu, “The Idea of Modernity”, Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism, Durham: Duke University Press, 1987, pp.13-94. Suggested Reading: Lev Kreft, “Sanatın Siyaseti ve Siyasetin Sanatı”, içinde Ali Artun (der.), Sanat/Siyaset: Kültür Çağında Sanat ve Kültürel Politika, İletişim Yay. 2008, pp. 9 - 48. |
| 3 | Modernism | Marshall Berman, “Modernity-Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity, New York: Penguin Books, 1988, pp. 15 - 36. |
| 4 | World Wars I & II, and the Avant-garde | Kenneth Silver, Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War: 1914-1925, London: Thames and Hudson, 1989. Romy Golan, Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France Between the Wars, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995. |
| 5 | Populism, Ideology and Art | Eric Hobsbawm, “Foreword”, in, (eds.) Dawn Ades, Tim Benton, David Elliott, Iain Boyd Whyte, Art and Power: Europe Under Dictators 1930-1945, London: Thames and Hudson, 1995, pp. 11-15. Toby Clark, Art and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century, Abrams, New York, 1997, Chapters 2&3, pp.47-102. |
| 6 | Dictatorships I (1930-1945) | Dawn Ades, Tim Benton, David Elliott, Iain Boyd Whyte, “Selectors’ Introduction”, Art and Power: Europe Under Dictators 1930-1945, London: Thames and Hudson, 1995, pp. 16-30. Toby Clark, Art and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century, Abrams, New York, 1997, Chapters 2&3, pp.47-102. |
| 7 | Dictatorships II (1930-1945) | Toby Clark, Art and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century, Abrams, New York, 1997, Chapters 2&3, pp.47-102. |
| 8 | Midterm Exam | |
| 9 | Late-industrialization and modernization | Mary Matossian, “Ideologies of Delayed Development”, in (der.) J. Hutchinson and A. D. Smith, Nationalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 218-225. Sibel Bozdoğan, “Art and Architecture in Modern Turkey: The Republican Period”, in (der.) Reşat Kasaba, The Cambridge History of Turkey: Vol. 4: Turkey in the Modern World, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 419-471. |
| 10 | Nation-building and Modernism | Duygu Köksal, “Domesticating the Avant-Garde in a Nationalist Era: Aesthetic Modernism in 1930s Turkey”, New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol 52, 2015, pp. 29-53. Cemren Altan, “Visual Narration of a Nation: Painting and National Identity in Turkey”, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Vol.4, No.2, 2004, pp. 2-17. |
| 11 | Cold War | Serge Guilbaut, “Introduction”, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art?, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983, pp. 1-16. Frances Stonor Saunders, “Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’”, Independent, 21 October 2005. |
| 12 | Post-Colonialism and Identity politics | Ania Loomba, “Defining the Terms”, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, Routledge, New York, 1998, pp. 1-19. Hannah Elansary, “Revolutionary Street Art: Complicating the Discourse.”, Jadaliyya, 1 September 2014. |
| 13 | Globalization, transnationalism and contemporary art | Dessislava Dimova and Eckhart J. Gillen, “Globalization and Cultural Identity: The perspective of Contemporary Art”, background paper,Salzburg trilogy,Bertelsmann Sitftung, 2017, pp. 60-71. Justin O'Connor, and Gu Xin. "A new modernity? The arrival of ‘creative industries’ in China." International journal of cultural studies 9.3 (2006), pp. 271-283. Brettany Shannon. “The ‘Dubai Effect’: The Gulf, the art world and globalization”, The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms, 2013, pp.254-264. |
| 14 | Review of the semester | |
| 15 | Final Exam | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Ania Loomba, “Defining the Terms”, Colonialism/Postcolonialism, Routledge, New York, 1998, pp. 1-19. Brettany Shannon. “The ‘Dubai Effect’: The Gulf, the art world and globalization”, The Emerging Asian City: Concomitant Urbanities & Urbanisms, 2013, pp.254-264. Cemren Altan, “Visual Narration of a Nation: Painting and National Identity in Turkey”, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Vol.4, No.2, 2004, pp. 2-17. Dawn Ades, Tim Benton, David Elliott, Iain Boyd Whyte, “Selectors’ Introduction”, Art and Power: Europe Under Dictators 1930-1945, London: Thames and Hudson, 1995, pp. 16-30. Dessislava Dimova and Eckhart J. Gillen, “Globalization and Cultural Identity: The perspective of Contemporary Art”, background paper,Salzburg trilogy,Bertelsmann Sitftung, 2017, pp. 60-71. Duygu Köksal, “Domesticating the Avant-Garde in a Nationalist Era: Aesthetic Modernism in 1930s Turkey”, New Perspectives on Turkey, Vol 52, 2015, pp. 29-53. Edward Said, Orientalism, Vintage Books, 1978. Eric Hobsbawm, “Foreword”, in, (eds.) Dawn Ades, Tim Benton, David Elliott, Iain Boyd Whyte, Art and Power: Europe Under Dictators 1930-1945, London: Thames and Hudson, 1995, pp. 11-15. Frances Stonor Saunders, “Modern art was CIA ‘weapon’”, Independent, 21 October 2005. Hannah Elansary, “Revolutionary Street Art: Complicating the Discourse.”, Jadaliyya, 1 September 2014. Justin O'Connor, and Gu Xin. "A new modernity? The arrival of ‘creative industries’ in China." International journal of cultural studies 9.3 (2006), pp. 271-283. Kenneth Silver, Esprit de Corps: The Art of the Parisian Avant-Garde and the First World War: 1914-1925, London: Thames and Hudson, 1989. Marshall Berman, “Modernity-Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow”, All That is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity, New York: Penguin Books, 1988, pp. 15-36.
Mary Matossian, “Ideologies of Delayed Development”, içinde (der.) J. Hutchinson ve A. D. Smith, Nationalism, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994, pp. 218-225.
Matei Calinescu, “The Idea of Modernity”, Five Faces of Modernity: Modernism, Avant-garde, Decadence, Kitsch, Postmodernism, Durham: Duke University Press, 1987, pp.13-94.
Romy Golan, Modernity and Nostalgia: Art and Politics in France Between the Wars, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1995.
Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art?, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983.
Sibel Bozdoğan, “Art and Architecture in Modern Turkey: The Republican Period”, içinde (der.) Reşat Kasaba, The Cambridge History of Turkey: Vol. 4: Turkey in the Modern World, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 419-471.
Toby Clark, Art and Propaganda in the Twentieth Century, Abrams, New York, 1997. |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
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15
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| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments |
2
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10
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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10
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| Project |
1
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20
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| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
1
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15
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| Final Exam |
1
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30
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| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
6
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70
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
1
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30
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| Total |
ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
12
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4
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48
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
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| Portfolio |
0
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| Homework / Assignments |
2
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10
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20
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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14
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14
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| Project |
1
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35
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35
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
1
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20
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20
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| Final Exam |
1
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40
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40
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| Total |
225
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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| 1 | To be able to improve theoretical and conceptual proficiencies on Political Science and International Relations and use them competently. |
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| 2 | To be able to evaluate critically the relationships between various factors in the field of Political Science and International Relations such as structures, actors, institutions and culture. |
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| 3 | To be able to determine and question the theoretical and empirical gaps in Political Science and International Relations literature. |
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| 4 | To be able to identify the political and cultural conditions that generate discrimination mechanisms based on race, ethnicity, gender and religion at national and international levels. |
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| 5 | To be able to gather and analyze data by using scientific research methods. |
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| 6 | To be able to analyze and evaluate the historical continuity and changes observed in the relations between the actors and institutions of national and international politics. |
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| 7 | To be able to present individual research and contemporary developments in Political Science and International Relations in written, oral, and visual forms. |
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| 8 | To be able to take responsibility in generating solutions to the problems that arise in relation to the politics in daily life. |
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| 9 | To be able to determine the institutional and political instruments for conflict resolution in domestic and international politics. |
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| 10 | To be able to prepare a thesis/term project about Political Science and International Relations based on scientific criteria. |
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| 11 | To be able to follow new research and developments in Political Science and International Relations and participate the debates in academic meetings through a foreign language. |
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| 12 | To be able to have ethical, social and scientific values in the stages throughout the processes of gathering, interpreting, disseminating and implementing data relevant to Political Science and International Relations. |
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