CULT 201 Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 Credits |
This course is an introduction to some of the most important
theoretical trends of 19th and 20th century literary and
cultural studies. A broad survey of this field will
encompass culturalism, structuralism, poststructuralism,
marxism, feminism and postmodernism, among others. In
addition to different theoretical perspectives
on culture, the course will offer a selection of case
studies ranging from soap operas to popular music, from
detective novels to cartoons.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2011-2012 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2008-2009 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2007-2008 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2005-2006 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2004-2005 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2003-2004 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2002-2003 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
Fall 2001-2002 |
Theory and Practice in Cultural Studies |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 222 Popular Culture and Everyday Life |
3 Credits |
This course will trace the emergence of the concept
of popular culture linked to the rise of the mass
media. Problematizing the distinction between
"high" and "low" culture, the course will use
selected case studies of diverse cultural products to
illustrate current issues and debates in the study of
popular culture and everyday life.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Popular Culture and Everyday Life |
3 |
Spring 2003-2004 |
Popular Culture and Everyday Life |
3 |
Spring 2002-2003 |
Popular Culture and Everyday Life |
3 |
Spring 2000-2001 |
Popular Culture and Everyday Life |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 223 Consumption, Food and Culture |
3 Credits |
The purpose of this course is to explore the
complex interrelations between food and
culture, focusing on the questions of how
people in different world socio-historical
contexts learn and accept to eat and cook food
differently, and how the social purpose of food
consumption has changed hierarchically, spatially and
temporally, entailing different social and cultural
meanings. To this end, the course is organized around
two main axes: (i) the diffusion and transformation
of eating and cooking practices parallel to
world-historical changes, and (ii) food consumption patterns
and their relation to social hierarchies. Some
of the themes to be covered in this class are the
cultural and social significance of eating-out,
gendered aspects of food practices, the emergence
and evolution of "national" and "ethnic" cuisines, cultural
and social histories of certain food products such as
sugar, coffee and Coca-Cola, culinary transformations
and interactions across the world in a historical
perspective, homogenization of diets on a global
scale, and the historical development of rituals and
manners associated with food consumption.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Consumption, Food and Culture |
3 |
Fall 2003-2004 |
Consumption, Food and Culture |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 225 Advertising and Culture |
3 Credits |
Culture is a crucial variable in the advertisement business.
Conversely, advertising has shaped contemporary cultures and
economies. This course will explore the history and place
of advertising in today's world, on the one hand, and the
place of "culture" in advertisements, on the other.
Particular emphasis will be placed on representations of
social class, gender, sexuality, religion, ethnicity,
race, and national identity in advertisements. Case
materials will be drawn primarily from contemporary
Turkish advertising, with additional examples
from other time periods and other countries.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2006-2007 |
Advertising and Culture |
3 |
Spring 2005-2006 |
Advertising and Culture |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 230 Introduction to Media Studies |
3 Credits |
This introductory course is designed to explore the
social, cultural and economic dimensions of the
significance of contemporary media in our everyday lives.
Situating media in the broader historical
context of its development, the course will investigate
processes of production and consumption.
Key concepts and debates within media studies will be
discussed by way of topical examples. In addition to
topics such as journalism, advertising and consumer
culture, the course will deal with the question of ownership
structures. The overall aim of the course is to help
students enhance their media literacy skills and to
develop a more critical and informed awareness
of their relation to and use of contemporary media.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2019-2020 |
Introduction to Media Studies |
3 |
Summer 2009-2010 |
Introduction to Media Studies |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 299 Topics in Turkish Cultural Studies |
3 Credits |
This introductory course addresses current issues
in the field of Turkish Cultural Studies.The specific focus
of the course will be announced each semester that it is
offered.Topics and approaches may be drawn from
anthropology, history, literature, sociology or visual
studies.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2019-2020 |
Topics in Turkish Cultural Studies |
3 |
Spring 2018-2019 |
Topics in Turkish Cultural Studies |
3 |
Summer 2006-2007 |
Topics in Turkish Cultural Studies |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 300 Project and Internship |
0 Credit |
This is a non-credit, elective course that aims to foster
field work experience in the student's chosen area of
study. The course offers the students the opportunities
to gain insights into the nuances of business and social
environments; to learn about specific issues facing firms
in the domestic and the global market; to improve their
understanding of other cultures and societies; to foster
research; to outreach to the global community. The course
aims to enable students to learn about the conditions
under which they would launch successful start-ups and
expose them to the breadth of various issues. In order to
realise these goals, the course includes experiential
opportunities for students to put their new skills to work
in real-world settings in line with their program
requirements. A summer project or internship is mandatory
for fulfilling the course requirements.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Summer 2023-2024 |
Project and Internship |
0 |
Summer 2022-2023 |
Project and Internship |
0 |
Summer 2021-2022 |
Project and Internship |
0 |
Summer 2020-2021 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2019-2020 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2018-2019 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2017-2018 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Spring 2017-2018 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2016-2017 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2015-2016 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2014-2015 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2013-2014 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2012-2013 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2011-2012 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2010-2011 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2009-2010 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2008-2009 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2007-2008 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2006-2007 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2005-2006 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2004-2005 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2003-2004 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2002-2003 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
Summer 2001-2002 |
Project and Internship (PROJ300) |
0 |
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Prerequisite: (PROJ 102 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D) |
or (PROJ 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D) |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 5 ECTS (2 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 322 Youth Culture |
3 Credits |
This course will focus on youth culture viewed within the
wider frame of age and generation. It will ask,
how have youth and youth culture been defined and
theorized historically? What challenges does the study of
youth culture pose in a transnational world? The course
will also investigate how youth culture
(and generational identity) have been studied in Turkey. It
It will include a unit in which students undertake a
research project of their own on youth culture
and/or generational identity in Istanbul.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Summer 2022-2023 |
Youth Culture |
3 |
Summer 2020-2021 |
Youth Culture |
3 |
Fall 2016-2017 |
Youth Culture |
3 |
Fall 2015-2016 |
Youth Culture |
3 |
Spring 2012-2013 |
Youth Culture |
3 |
Spring 2009-2010 |
Youth Culture |
3 |
Summer 2004-2005 |
Youth Culture |
3 |
Fall 2004-2005 |
Youth Culture |
3 |
Fall 2002-2003 |
Youth Culture |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 324 Humans and Clones |
3 Credits |
The aim of this course is to investigate into the
'human question' by studying a number of
philosophical and literary texts as well as films
that engage in defining and/or problematizing
humanness. Throughout the term we will try
to see at what moments in history the 'human
question' gains prominence and under what
circumstances human is pronounced dead,
defined as useless, insignificant, or
valorized and sanctified.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Summer 2007-2008 |
Humans and Clones |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 325 Media Worlds |
3 Credits |
The aim of this course is to explore the cultural/political
changes brought about by transnational media expansion.
We will seek answers to such questions as: How do
transnational media participate in the (re) making of
national and local cultures? How do hegemonic
media texts intersect with real lives of people in different
parts of the world? What kinds of cultural
spaces do they create for resistance, subversion and
appropriation, and for whom? The organizing framework
of the course will be based on three broad headings:
a) transnational media and emergent geographies of power
and marginality b) media production and cultural production
c) mediation of hegemonic meanings and cultural politics.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2011-2012 |
Media Worlds |
3 |
Summer 2009-2010 |
Media Worlds |
3 |
Spring 2007-2008 |
Media Worlds |
3 |
Fall 2005-2006 |
Media Worlds |
3 |
Spring 2003-2004 |
Media Worlds |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 327 Postcolonial Theory and Its Discontents |
3 Credits |
Postcolonial theory is the body of scholarship that
tackles the heritage and current impact of multiple
waves and types of colonialism. In this course
students will be introduced to the presumptions of
this scholarship, its central questions and shortcomings.
We will also explore the relationship of post-colonialism
to feminist and post-structuralist theory. The course is
designed to facilitate students' engagement with
these different empirical and theoretical approaches
in the light of their experiences and ideas.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Postcolonial Theory and Its Discontents |
3 |
Fall 2004-2005 |
Postcolonial Theory and Its Discontents |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: CULT 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or SOC 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 342 Gender and Nationalism |
3 Credits |
The 20th century has been a century of nationalisms and
wars (both hot and cold). Scholars, particularly in the
decade, have shown the centrality of gender and sexuality in
the imagining of national communities, the invention
of traditions, and the conduct of wars. Through books,
articles and films, the course will explore the
interconnections between gender, nationalism and
militarism in different parts of the world in the past
century.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Summer 2010-2011 |
Gender and Nationalism |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 355 Urban Spaces and Cultures |
3 Credits |
How do we begin to understand the differences,
commonalities, and interconnections between
'World Cities' - such as Cairo, New York, Istanbul or
Singapore? This course will provide a critical guide to the
diverse ideas, concepts and frameworks used to
study such cities. It will explore how city spaces
and cultures are constituted, divided and contested,
by focusing such topics as: colonial landscapes of power
and exclusion, modernist projects of urban
renewal and dislocation, 'post-modern' spaces of
spectacle and consumption, ghettoes of affluence and
poverty, ethnic divisions of labor and informal
economies behind the facades of the global capital.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Urban Spaces and Cultures |
3 |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Urban Spaces and Cultures |
3 |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Urban Spaces and Cultures |
3 |
Summer 2010-2011 |
Urban Spaces and Cultures |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Urban Spaces and Cultures |
3 |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Urban Spaces and Cultures |
3 |
Fall 2008-2009 |
Urban Spaces and Cultures |
3 |
Fall 2005-2006 |
Exploring the City: Urban Spaces and Cultures |
3 |
Fall 2004-2005 |
Exploring the City: Urban Spaces and Cultures |
3 |
Fall 2003-2004 |
Exploring the City: Urban Spaces and Cultures |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 360 Consumer Society and Cultures |
3 Credits |
This course will discuss key issues of contemporary
consumer society, and the social and
anthropological theories which help us understand
consumer aspirations. What are the origins
of our global consumer society, and its current
inequalities? Key themes will include the
symbolism of goods and material culture in shaping
social relations of status and power. We will
discuss specific fields of consumption, such as
style and fashion in clothing, life-style
shopping; home-making through practices of consumption.
Consumerism is also politics, and we will
discuss how gender, class and ethnic identities
are linked to consumption practices.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2010-2011 |
Consumer Society and Cultures |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 361 Oral History |
3 Credits |
This course will introduce students to the study of oral
history. Oral histories are spoken memories about the past
recorded by oral historians in a dialgue with individuals
providing testimony. The study of oral history allows us to
examine events and experiences not recorded by history
(based on the study of written documents), as well as to
analyze and interpret the meaning of events and experiences
to individuals in the present. In this course, students will
learn the techniques of doing oral history, read selected
case studies, and conduct an oral history project of their
own.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Oral History |
3 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Oral History |
3 |
Fall 2018-2019 |
Oral History |
3 |
Fall 2016-2017 |
Oral History |
3 |
Fall 2015-2016 |
Oral History |
3 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Oral History |
3 |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Oral History |
3 |
Fall 2011-2012 |
Oral History |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Oral History |
3 |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Oral History |
3 |
Spring 2008-2009 |
Oral History |
3 |
Fall 2007-2008 |
Oral History (CULT250) |
3 |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Oral History (CULT250) |
3 |
Fall 2005-2006 |
Oral History (CULT250) |
3 |
Spring 2004-2005 |
Oral History (CULT250) |
3 |
Spring 2003-2004 |
Oral History (CULT250) |
3 |
Fall 2002-2003 |
Oral History (CULT250) |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 7 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 362 Memory Studies |
3 Credits |
In recent years, memory has become one of the most
widely debated issues in the social sciences. While
modernity focused largely on the future, how do we
explain the enormous preoccupation with the past in the
postmodern era? This course will pose some answers
to this question. Beginning with a look at the way memory
operates, the course will review major debates on
memory in diverse fields such as psychology, sociology,
and history. It will then focus on particular themes,
including memory's relationship to place, identity, trauma,
narrative, commemoration, media and the body. The course
will rely on a number of case studies, including
studies of memory in Turkey.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2019-2020 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Spring 2018-2019 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Spring 2016-2017 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Spring 2015-2016 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Spring 2013-2014 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Spring 2011-2012 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Spring 2010-2011 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Spring 2009-2010 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Spring 2007-2008 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Spring 2006-2007 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Spring 2005-2006 |
Memory Studies |
3 |
Fall 2004-2005 |
Memory and National Identity |
3 |
Spring 2002-2003 |
Memory and National Identity |
3 |
Spring 2001-2002 |
Memory and National Identity |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 364 Topics in Memory Studies |
3 Credits |
This course addresses issues in the
growing field of memory studies.
The specific focus of the course will be
announced each semester that it is offered.
Topics and approaches may be drawn from
anthropology, cultural studies, gender studies, history,
literature, memory studies, psychology,
sociology, and visual studies.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Summer 2011-2012 |
Topics in Memory Studies |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 368 Globalization and Health Inequalities |
3 Credits |
This course introduces recent theoretical
perspectives and ethnographic work which
explore how the political and medical authorities
as well as the lay people, discuss the effects of
globalization and global encounters on health
inequalities, and how the global and local health
policies address these inequalities. It covers such
topics as the role of global health institutions in
addressing the health inequalities, tensions
between states’ priorities and global impositions
in defining and applying health policies,
competition between biomedicine and alternative
medical systems, local interpretations of global
medical technologies and local
conceptualizations of global epidemics. The
course also includes nuanced approaches to the
global and local ethical issues around the body,
gender, life, illness, birth, death and
pharmaceutical industry
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2021-2022 |
Globalization and Health Inequalities |
3 |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Globalization and Health Inequalities |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 370 Everyday Life |
3 Credits |
What is everyday life? Is it a routine that we take for
granted and have a difficult time to take an analytical
distance from, or is it critical in informing our identity a
subjectivity? How does what we do in our everyday
life shape who we are and where we belong? How do
different conceptions of time and space, and
philosophical debates on public/private and
nature/nurture play a role in these processes? This
course is designed to broaden and deepen the students’
understanding of everyday life, based on relevant social
sciences and humanities literature across different time
periods and cultural contexts, starting from the capitalist
societies in 19th century Europe. It will also cover how
the major developments in the first two decades of the
2000s, such as digitalization, virtual reality, new social
movements and the COVID-19 pandemic have changed
our everyday life and our conceptualizations of it.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2022-2023 |
Everyday Life |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 384 Political Ecology and Society |
3 Credits |
The broad goal of this course is to cultivate a critical
theoretical understanding of the
relation between the society and nature, and develop
a nuanced perspective of thinking
about environmental problems. More particularly,
the objectives of this course are: 1) To
locate environmental politics within the context of broader
social, political and economic dynamics; 2) To
learn about alternative forms of being and knowing that
challenge common anthropocentric thinking; 3) To
develop familiarity with the political ecological dimension
of the global and local environmental
problems, policies, and social movements.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Political Ecology and Society |
3 |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Political Ecology and Society |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 391 Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 Credits |
What is "Turkish Culture"? Who defines it? Who and what
does it include, and not include? What is the relationship
between culture (or cultures) and national identity?
Asking these questions and others, this course will look
at various anthropological, historical, political and
literary texts in an effort to critically analyze changes
and continuities in the meaning and scope of
"Turkish Culture" since the late Ottoman period.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Summer 2021-2022 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Spring 2021-2022 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Summer 2020-2021 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Summer 2019-2020 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Fall 2019-2020 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Summer 2018-2019 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Spring 2018-2019 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Summer 2017-2018 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Fall 2017-2018 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Spring 2016-2017 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Fall 2015-2016 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Spring 2013-2014 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Spring 2010-2011 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Spring 2009-2010 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Spring 2008-2009 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Fall 2008-2009 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Spring 2007-2008 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Spring 2005-2006 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Fall 2005-2006 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Spring 2004-2005 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives |
3 |
Fall 2004-2005 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives (CULT291) |
3 |
Spring 2003-2004 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives (CULT291) |
3 |
Spring 2002-2003 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives (CULT291) |
3 |
Spring 2001-2002 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives (CULT291) |
3 |
Fall 2001-2002 |
Turkish Culture: Critical Perspectives (CULT291) |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 399 Independent Study |
3 Credits |
This course allows students to explore
an area of academic interest not currently covered in
regular course offerings. Under the supervision of a
faculty member, students are expected to take
responsibility for their own learning, including developing
together a reading list and forms of
evaluation. Students must receive the approval of a
supervisor faculty member prior to enrollment.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2023-2024 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Spring 2021-2022 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Spring 2020-2021 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Fall 2019-2020 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Spring 2016-2017 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Fall 2011-2012 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Spring 2009-2010 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Fall 2009-2010 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Spring 2008-2009 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Spring 2007-2008 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Fall 2007-2008 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Spring 2006-2007 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Fall 2005-2006 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Spring 2003-2004 |
Independent Study |
3 |
Fall 2003-2004 |
Independent Study |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 401 Honors Project |
3 Credits |
In their fourth year of study, each Cultural Studies
major will propose and complete a one-semester
project related to her or his field of concentration. The
form of this project will vary depending on the student's
interests and concentration, ranging from textual,
ethnographic or visual approaches and methodologies.
All stages of the project must be approved
by the student's project advisor.
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Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2019-2020 |
Honors Project |
3 |
Spring 2017-2018 |
Honors Project |
3 |
Spring 2014-2015 |
Honors Project |
3 |
Spring 2011-2012 |
Honors Project |
3 |
Spring 2009-2010 |
Honors Project |
3 |
Spring 2008-2009 |
Honors Project |
3 |
Spring 2007-2008 |
Honors Project |
3 |
Spring 2006-2007 |
Honors Project |
3 |
Spring 2005-2006 |
Honors Project |
3 |
Spring 2003-2004 |
Senior Project |
3 |
Spring 2002-2003 |
Senior Project |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
CULT 401>Pre-requiste |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: 3.000000000 gpa. |
Course or Test:
CULT
201
Minimum Grade of
D
May not be taken concurrently.
and
000
to
9999
Minimum Grade of
D
May not be taken concurrently.
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CULT 420 Science, Technology and Culture |
3 Credits |
This course studies the social, cultural, and
institutional contexts of science and technology,
using the perspectives and methods derived
from the social sciences and the humanities.
It examines the assumptions about the
neutrality and autonomy of science and technology,
the distinction between the natural
and the artificial, the social construction of
knowledge, expertise and authority, and
the relationships between human values, science
and technology. The links among science,
technology and the organization of time
and space, as well as the changing conceptions
of the self are discussed as critical dimensions of
modernity and postmodernity
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Summer 2008-2009 |
Science, Technology and Culture |
3 |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Technology and Culture |
3 |
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Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 432 Modernism/Postmodernism |
3 Credits |
Modernism and postmodernism have been two of the dominant
trends of the 20th century in fields ranging from literature
to visual culture and beyond. This course will explore some
of the debates around modernism and postmodernism
through theoretical texts as well as through works which
have influenced or have been influenced by the course of
these ideas.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Modernism/Postmodernism |
3 |
Fall 2018-2019 |
Modernism/Postmodernism |
3 |
Fall 2016-2017 |
Modernism/Postmodernism |
3 |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Modernism/Postmodernism |
3 |
Spring 2012-2013 |
Modernism/Postmodernism |
3 |
Spring 2010-2011 |
Modernism/Postmodernism |
3 |
Fall 2007-2008 |
Modernism/Postmodernism |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: HUM 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or CULT 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 434 Advanced Cultural Theory |
3 Credits |
This course examines different conceptions of
culture, the debates about cultural studies as a discipline,
and the contemporary modes of cultural analysis
through in-depth readings of the writings of several major
thinkers of the twentieth century. It provides an
introduction to such approaches as Marxism, structuralism,
post-structuralism, feminism, and psychoanalysis as
well as an opportunity for critical engagement with the
thoughts of such influential cultural theorists as W.
Benjamin, T. Adorno, J. Derrida, M. Foucault, L. Irigaray,
J. Butler, and S. Zizek.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Advanced Cultural Theory |
3 |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Advanced Cultural Theory |
3 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Advanced Cultural Theory |
3 |
Fall 2011-2012 |
Advanced Cultural Theory |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Advanced Cultural Theory |
3 |
Spring 2009-2010 |
Advanced Cultural Theory |
3 |
Fall 2008-2009 |
Advanced Cultural Theory |
3 |
Fall 2007-2008 |
Advanced Cultural Theory |
3 |
Fall 2006-2007 |
Advanced Cultural Theory |
3 |
Fall 2005-2006 |
Advanced Cultural Theory |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: CULT 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or SOC 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 7 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 435 Representations of Violence |
3 Credits |
Much attention has been devoted in recent years
to understanding violence. As creative
works have sought to document violence
and understand its causes, accurate description
and representation have often been deemed
necessary to the process of healing and the
prevention of future violence. This emphasis
on describing and representing violence
can, however, end up recreating in text or
image another form of violence. Analyzing and
critiquing hate speech or violent pornography,
for example, may also mean repeating it.
Making someone understand the experiences
of war and other atrocities requires a
certain art in representing the violence; the
more explicit the image or text, the more one
is made to feel the impact of the violence. At
what point do such representations end up
perpetrating violence as they aestheticize it? And
more importantly perhaps, can these
works also suggest solutions to violence? This
course will explore answers to these
questions through theoretical works, as well as
through textual and visual representations
of violence. This is a research seminar and requires
the active participation of students in
presentations and class discussions. Graduate students
are also expected to carry out original
research towards the final paper. For the possibility
of taking this course at the graduate
level see CULT 535.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2007-2008 |
Representations of Violence |
3 |
Spring 2005-2006 |
Representations of Violence |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 446 Gender and Media |
3 Credits |
Media in all its forms – print, Internet, television,
music, etc. – are a major force in creating and inventing
reality for the world. This course addresses how our
ideas about sex and our identities as men, women, and
sexual beings are constructed, contested and subverted in
different sites within media culture. It explores the
complex relationships between media texts, their
production as well as consumption. In addition to engaging
with various theoretical perspectives, it also
aims to acquire students with a working knowledge of
critical viewing and deconstruction methodologies
by participating in small teams which focus on
different media genres (these might include children’s
cartoons, the soap opera, music video, talk shows, etc.)
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 449 Harem Fictions: From Montesquieu to Mernissi |
3 Credits |
Is harem a space? Is it an institution? What notions
of gender and sexuality are affiliated
with and informed by the notion of harem? This course
investigates the cultural work of harem as
represented in several socio-cultural and historical
contexts, through reading some historical essays
on harem; then moving onto a series of European texts,
paintings, photographs, fashion, and films.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Summer 2014-2015 |
Harem Fictions: From Montesquieu to Mernissi |
3 |
Summer 2013-2014 |
Harem Fictions: From Montesquieu to Mernissi |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 451 Nation, History and Culture in Museums |
3 Credits |
This course investigates the relation of the
museum to modernity and its role in negotiating
history, culture and nation. It highlights the role of
certain selected objects in remembering history
and interpreting culture. In light of the readings
and museum visits, students will discuss
how the museum represents the notions of heritage,
and how it contributes to the reconstruction
of collective memory.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2014-2015 |
Nation, History and Culture in Museums |
3 |
Fall 2013-2014 |
Nation, History and Culture in Museums |
3 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Nation, History and Culture in Museums |
3 |
Fall 2011-2012 |
Nation, History and Culture in Museums |
3 |
Fall 2010-2011 |
Nation, History and Culture in Museums |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: CULT 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or CULT 291 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 452 Myth, Art and Politics |
3 Credits |
The notions of "myth" and "mythology" acquired a
new meaning at the end of the 18th century.
This "invention" of myth has given birth to the field
of comparative mythology. As the cradle
for the Romantic dreams of a "new mythology",
it became a constant reference for the
theories and philosophies of art in the 19th
and 20th centuries. Finally, it has
become the vade mecum of Nazi politics.
The course explores this modern concept of myth
through a number of texts where the same
questions are broached from different
perspectives. It also aims to examine how the
philological invention of myth presides over
the self-invention of ''ethnographic'' nations and
nationalisms.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2019-2020 |
Myth, Art and Politics |
3 |
Spring 2009-2010 |
Myth, Art and Politics |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 453 Spaces of Migration |
3 Credits |
This course explores how migratory movements and
attempts at their regulation produce space as well as scale,
and reviews the theoretical constructs (such as
transnationalism and translocalism) that account for the
emergent spatialities of migrant connections.
Topics to be covered include how migrants make place
and negotiate home in their everyday lives, how
experiences of localization vary among cities,
how life in camps may deffer from or resemble
life in the city, how states undertake spatial strategies
to deter migrant flows (including excision of territories,
pushbacks of border- crossers and creation of 'hotspots'),
how migration routes come into being (including through
smuggling networks), are governed and closed off to be
re-channeled elsewhere, and what moral geographies
correspond to processes of migration by assigning social
legitimacy to particular mobilities.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2023-2024 |
Spaces of Migration |
3 |
Fall 2022-2023 |
Spaces of Migration |
3 |
Fall 2021-2022 |
Spaces of Migration |
3 |
Fall 2020-2021 |
Spaces of Migration |
3 |
Spring 2019-2020 |
Spaces of Migration |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 454 Cultures of Migration |
3 Credits |
This course investigates forms of culture that
arise out of migration. In rap music, internet
blogs, puppetry and bilingual theater, as well as
in the more traditional genres of literature and
poetry, the course looks at how migrants and their
descendents use cultural work to explore
questions of identity, citizenship and community.
The course may include work by migrants in and
across Europe, the Americas, Asia or Africa; it will also
look at the transnational connections migrants
make among these different spaces. Students are
encouraged to discover and analyze new cultural
production in any media, using the
theoretical resources developed over the semester.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2014-2015 |
Cultures of Migration |
3 |
Spring 2013-2014 |
Cultures of Migration |
3 |
Spring 2012-2013 |
Cultures of Migration |
3 |
Spring 2010-2011 |
Cultures of Migration |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 460 Cultures and Politics of Law Reform |
3 Credits |
Law reform is often seen as a technical issue that
involves the transplantation of existing 'successful' models
into new social contexts. Our course begins with a
theoretical questioning of this common sense view of
'models' and 'prescriptions'. We will try to rethink the
context of law reform as a field of social relations that
enable multiple actors to construct a variety of cultural
meanings and enter into power struggles with each other.
Our discussions will revolve around case studies - from
Turkey, Middle East, Eastern Europe and Latin America - that
involve particular proposals and actions of law reform. We
will examine the actors, their interests, the cultural idiom
through which they transmit those interests, and what
emerges out of their contestations. In this way we
will try to develop a dynamic, culturally and politically
informed understanding of law reform.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Fall 2005-2006 |
Cultures and Politics of Law Reform |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: CULT 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
or SOC 201 - Undergraduate - Min Grade D |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 462 Postsocialism |
3 Credits |
This course will examine how experiences of communism
in different contexts in Eastern Europe were lived, how
they are remembered, and how they bear on present processes
of "transition" and European integration. Topics include:
collectivisation and privatisation; nationalism,
internationalism and minorities; women and work;
models of development.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Summer 2009-2010 |
Postsocialism |
3 |
Spring 2008-2009 |
Postsocialism |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 491 Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies I |
3 Credits |
This course addresses current issues in the field of
Cultural Studies at a level appropriate for
graduate students and advanced undergraduates. The
specific focus of the course will be announced
each semester that it is offered. Topics and approaches
may be drawn from anthropology,
history, literature, sociology or visual studies.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2012-2013 |
Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies I |
3 |
Fall 2012-2013 |
Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies I |
3 |
Spring 2010-2011 |
Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies I |
3 |
Spring 2008-2009 |
Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies I |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 492 Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies II |
3 Credits |
This course addresses current issues in the field
of Cultural Studies at a level appropriate for
graduate students and advanced undergraduates.
The specific focus of the course will be
announced each semester that it is offered.
Topics and approaches may be drawn from
anthropology, history, literature, sociology
or visual studies.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2010-2011 |
Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies II |
3 |
Summer 2008-2009 |
Advanced Topics in Cultural Studies II |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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CULT 493 Thematic Approaches to Contemporary Turkish Culture |
3 Credits |
Based on readings of urban space as well as analyses
of visual and written texts, this course will trace and map
current cultural dynamics and ambivalences of contemporary
Turkey. Each semester the course will be structured around a
different theme, emphasizing the ways in which politics and
culture are articulated in present-day Turkey.
|
Last Offered Terms |
Course Name |
SU Credit |
Spring 2006-2007 |
Thematic Approaches to Contemporary Turkish Culture |
3 |
Spring 2005-2006 |
Thematic Approaches to Contemporary Turkish Culture |
3 |
|
Prerequisite: __ |
Corequisite: __ |
ECTS Credit: 6 ECTS (6 ECTS for students admitted before 2013-14 Academic Year) |
General Requirements: |
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