ECTS - Introduction to Photography

Introduction to Photography (ART201) Course Detail

Course Name Course Code Season Lecture Hours Application Hours Lab Hours Credit ECTS
Introduction to Photography ART201 Fall and Spring 3 0 0 3 4
Pre-requisite Course(s)
None
Course Language Turkish
Course Type Elective Courses
Course Level Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery Face To Face
Learning and Teaching Strategies Lecture, Drill and Practice.
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Course Assistants
Course Objectives - To learn technical and compositional information in photography - To take good photographs on professional and social life - To learn photographers works’ throughout photography history to our day
Course Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Explain the different uses of photography.
  • Knows ethics and copyright in photography
  • Learns different types of cameras
  • Uses aperture and focal length to control depth of field
  • Uses shutter speed to control movement
  • Uses proper lighting to take good photographs
  • Learns to compose a photograph
  • Knows historical and contemporary photographers and their works
Course Content Definition of photography and the photographer, the uses of photography in life, camera and its parts (aperture, iso, shutter, lens), light and its use in photography, composition rules in photography, the works of photographers from the world and Turkey.

Weekly Subjects and Releated Preparation Studies

Week Subjects Preparation
1 Introduction. Essential information about the course context, course outline, references and assesment methods.
2 Definition of photography and photographer. Different types of photography. Basic elements of photography.
3 Ethics and copyright in photography.
4 Watch a photography documentary. Students will write one paragraph about the documentary.
5 Types of cameras and lenses.
6 The relationship between aperture, shutter speed and ISO. Sensors, memory cards, filters.
7 Midterm
8 Understanding light and posing in photography.
9 Composition rules in photography and different approaches. Practicing the previous subjects.
10 Watch a photography documentary. Students will write one paragraph about the documentary.
11 Photographers’ works from the invention of photography to present day. Finishing the writing.
12 Photographers’ works from the invention of photography to present day.
13 Photographers’ works and development of photography from Ottoman Empire and Republic of Turkey.
14 Photographers’ works from the Republic of Turkey. Researching national photographers.
15 Watch a photography documentary. Students will write one paragraph about the documentary or reviewing the term.
16 Final

Sources

Other Sources 1. Akbaş, F., & İkizler, E. (2011). Fotoğraf Teknik Okumaları. İstanbul: Say Yayınları.
2. Carroll, H. (2015). İyi Fotoğraflar Çekmek İçin Bu Kitabı Okuyun. İstanbul: Remzi Kitabevi.
3. İkizler, E. (2007). Filmden Dijitale Fotoğraf. İstanbul: Say Yayınları.

Evaluation System

Requirements Number Percentage of Grade
Attendance/Participation - -
Laboratory - -
Application - -
Field Work - -
Special Course Internship - -
Quizzes/Studio Critics - -
Homework Assignments 3 15
Presentation 1 15
Project - -
Report - -
Seminar - -
Midterms Exams/Midterms Jury 1 30
Final Exam/Final Jury 1 40
Toplam 6 100
Percentage of Semester Work 60
Percentage of Final Work 40
Total 100

Course Category

Core Courses X
Major Area Courses
Supportive Courses
Media and Managment Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

The Relation Between Course Learning Competencies and Program Qualifications

# Program Qualifications / Competencies Level of Contribution
1 2 3 4 5
1 Integrates and utilizes the information, skills, and approaches obtained from basic, clinical, and medical sciences, behavioral sciences, and social sciences when offering healthcare services.
2 Offers healthcare services to patients with a biopsychosocial approach where the sociodemographic and sociocultural backgrounds of these individuals are taken into consideration, focusing on the universal human values, ethical principles, and professional duties; without exercising discrimination on the basis of language, religion, race, or sex.
3 Aims to protect, improve, and develop individual and public health when offering healthcare services.
4 Performs the necessary studies in sustaining and improving health, taking into the individual, public, social, and environmental factors to affect it.
5 Trains healthy individuals/ patients, their relatives, and other healthcare workers in healthcare upon determining the features, requirements, and expectations of their target audience.
6 Exercises a safe, rational, and effective approach in the procedures of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and rehabilitation; while offering healthcare services.
7 Implements interventional and/or non-interventional practices in a way that is safe and effective for patients during the procedures of diagnosis, treatment, follow-up, and rehabilitation.
8 Offers healthcare services taking into account the health and safety of patients and employees.
9 Takes the regional and global changes in physical and socioeconomic settings to affect health, as well as the changes in the individual features and behaviors of patients referring to them into account, while offering healthcare.
10 Takes the good medical practices into account while performing their duties.
11 Undertakes the tasks and duties within the framework of their professional ethical rules, as well as their legal rights and duties.
12 Stands for the improvements in the manner in which healthcare services are offered, taking into account the concepts of social reliability and social duty, in an effort to protect and improve individual and public health.
13 Evaluates the effects of health policies and healthcare practices on public health indicators, and, where required, amends their evaluation on the grounds of scientific and social needs; in an effort to help improve the quality of healthcare services.
14 Leads their healthcare team while offering healthcare services, in a participative, and collaborative manner.
15 Establishes positive relationships within their healthcare team; and where needed, easily adapts to various positions among their team.
16 Exercises effective communication with patients, the relatives of patients, healthcare professionals, and groups from other professions, as well as institutions and organizations.
17 Plans and conducts scientific studies on the society to which they serve, and use the results of these, or those from other studies, to benefit the society.
18 Accesses the current literature on their profession, and evaluates them with a critical approach.
19 Chooses the correct sources of learning to improve the healthcare services that they offer, and regulates their own learning process.
20 Demonstrates the skills of obtaining and evaluating new information, integrating newer pieces of information with their current ones, as well as adapting to changing conditions throughout their professional life.

ECTS/Workload Table

Activities Number Duration (Hours) Total Workload
Course Hours (Including Exam Week: 16 x Total Hours) 16 3 48
Laboratory
Application
Special Course Internship
Field Work
Study Hours Out of Class 3 2 6
Presentation/Seminar Prepration 1 10 10
Project
Report
Homework Assignments 3 5 15
Quizzes/Studio Critics
Prepration of Midterm Exams/Midterm Jury 1 6 6
Prepration of Final Exams/Final Jury 1 15 15
Total Workload 100