ARCH510 ARCHITECTURE AND DISCOURSE
| Course Code: | 1200510 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
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| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
Students are expected to acquire:
- comprehensive understanding of architecture as an interdisciplinary realm where various ‘systems of statements’ establish certain discursive unities,
- critical awareness of discourses as powerful mechanisms through which architectural theory and practice are concentrated and shaped.
Course Content
A critical inquiry of the discipline of architecture as a discursive field; analysis of the relationship between architecture and discourse (referring to the discourse theory of Michel Foucault); power of statements -
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students are equipped with
- knowledge of discourse and discourse analysis as a theoretical framework
- capability of critical evaluation and analysis of the architectural field in terms of the reigning discourses
-insight into making architectural research in various topics and interests by the comprehensive theoretical perspective of discourse
- skill of developing awareness for the identification of the current social and cultural problems related to the interdisciplinary nature of the field
- skill of contributing to the current international scholarship of architectural culture
- skill of communicating their research interests through various media.