AH548 AESTHETICS AND PSYCHE
| Course Code: | 8010548 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | History of Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. AYŞE BELGİN ÖZKAYA |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The main objective of the course is to familiarize students with the literature on vision, visuality and architectural history. Students are expected to develop analytical skills to interpret architecture from a visuality perspective.
Course Content
Creativity, memory, and the aesthetic have long been discussed by different disciplines from sundry perspectives. in this seminar, we will engage in the daunting task of probing these elusive terms which intermittently pervade architectural discourse. We will try to come to grips with them by locating aesthetic and architectural production at the interstice between the social and the psychicthe two realms between which, in Kaja Silverman s words, `[there is a complex] interaction involving a series of `relays`.` What does `to create` amount to? What are the ways in which `the aesthetic` works? Where to draw the lines between memory, myth and nostalgia? These are some of the questions we will tackle vis-â-vis different architectural and visual products.
Course Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students are expected to acquire:
*Familiarity with seminal and current scholarship on vision, visuality and architectural history.
*A layered understanding of the entanglement of architecture with vision and image.
* Knowledge and skills to critically interpret architecture from a visuality perspective.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | acquire basic and up-to-date information in the field of architectural history, both in local and global levels (knowledge) | ✔ | |||
| 2 | have profound knowledge of research methods and literature in the field (knowledge) | ✔ | |||
| 3 | conduct independent research and study (skills) | ✔ | |||
| 4 | collect and use information from diverse and reliable sources and archival research (skills ) | ✔ | |||
| 5 | relate architectural history to other fields and benefit from the knowledge obtained from them (skills ) | ✔ | |||
| 6 | transmit architectural history knowledge textually and verbally by various communication and presentation tools in an effective way (in Turkish and English) (skills) | ✔ | |||
| 7 | create architectural history products such as publications, exhibitions, restitution reports, and others in using knowledge acquired in the field and its subjects (in Turkish and English) (skills) | ✔ | |||
| 8 | use the knowledge and experience gained to contribute to the discipline of architectural history and cultural environments (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
| 9 | observe up-to-date knowledge and research in the field and be open to lifelong learning (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
| 10 | be open to imparting knowledge in different milieus (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
| 11 | work within the framework of disciplinary procedures and code of ethics (attitudes) | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution