HISTORY OF ART AND CULTURE
- Course
- GADS108 - HISTORY OF ART AND CULTURE
- Department
- Digital Game Design - English - Undergraduate
- Course Type
- Course
- Status
- Required
- Language
- English
- Credit
- 3
- ECTS
- 5
- T+P+L
- 3 + 0 + 0
- Course Coordinator(s)
- -
- Prerequisite
- -
Course Description
The course focuses on the history of art and culture. In this scope History of Art and Culture introduces the developments and concepts related to development of art and culture. Variety of fields such as painting, sculpture, drama, music, literature and architecture are discussed within a socioeconomic and political context; to give the student a total understanding of a particular time and place in history. Students are expected to have an awareness about the development and chronology of the art-historical periods and of distinctive styles. Within this perspective this course starts with first human being efforts in terms of art and continues towards to the current times where art and culture interactions become more complicated and less immediate.
HISTORY OF ART AND CULTURE
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Course Syllabus
| Week | Topic |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction to Art and Culture |
| Week 2 | Prehistoric Art: The Stone Age and Neolithic Period |
| Week 3 | Ancient Mesopotamia |
| Week 4 | Ancient Egypt: Art, Architecture, and Religion |
| Week 5 | Ancient Greece: Classical Art, Philosophy, and Architecture |
| Week 6 | Ancient Rome: Art, Engineering, and Empire |
| Week 7 | Art and Culture in Ancient India |
| Week 8 | Ancient China: Art, Philosophy, and the Role of the Emperor |
| Week 9 | Ancient Iran: Achaemenid, Parthian, and Sassanian Art |
| Week 10 | The Development of Writing and Visual Expression in Ancient Civilizations |
| Week 11 | Classical and Hellenistic Art: The Greek Influence |
| Week 12 | Medieval Art and Culture: The Rise of Christianity |
| Week 13 | The Renaissance: Rebirth of Classical Art and Humanism |
| Week 14 | Baroque and Rococo Art |
| Week 15 | Romanticism and Realism in the 19th Century |
Reference Books & Course Materials
- 01 Janson, H. W., & Janson, A. F. (2004). History of Art (7th ed.). Prentice Hall.
- 02 Gombrich, E. H. (2006). The Story of Art (16th ed.). Phaidon Press.
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Program Outcomes
- P01 1. Having the ability to understand and discuss international relations discipline by using an interdisciplinary methodology to merge the knowledge coming from sociology, economics, psychology, political sciences well as diplomatic history.
- P02 2. Having an adequate knowledge of the history and the epochs of international system and being able to identify historical evolution of the contemporary world politics.
- P03 3. Recognizing local, regional and international actors functioning within the international system.
- P04 4. Understanding the legal framework of the current international system
- P05 5. Ability to identify the relations between the key actors of the international system – the states – from a theoretical as well as multi-dimensional scientific and academic methods.
- P06 6. Ability to analyse the roles and positions of the non-state actors – international organizations in particular – within the current world system.
- P07 7. Ability to recognize political, socio-economic and cultural structures embedded in international relations.
- P08 8. Exploring the roots of conflicts among the actors and produce solutions at local, regional and international levels with an analytical focus.
- P09 9. Being able to understand the politics and the functioning of political institutions in theory and practice.
- P10 10. Understanding the historical emergence of various political cultures and gaining ability to assess them comparatively.
- P11 11. Prepare international relations graduates; having a vast knowledge, academic formation and skills to work in public offices, civil society organizations, international institutions and companies at local and global levels.
- P12 12. To have moral and ethical understanding in the field of work.
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