FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION
Department of New Media and Communication
GEET 312 | Course Introduction and Application Information
| Course Name |
History of the Women’s Rights Movement
|
|
Code
|
Semester
|
Theory
(hour/week) |
Application/Lab
(hour/week) |
Local Credits
|
ECTS
|
|
GEET 312
|
Fall/Spring
|
3
|
0
|
3
|
6
|
| Prerequisites |
None
|
|||||
| Course Language |
English
|
|||||
| Course Type |
Service Course
|
|||||
| Course Level |
First Cycle
|
|||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionQ&ALecture / Presentation | |||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
| Course Lecturer(s) | ||||||
| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | This course examines the history of the women’s rights movement and will analyze the ways that women have mobilized over the 20th and 21st centuries. Historical analysis will be used to trace how the women’s rights movement began, evolved and the divisions among different women’s groups. A special emphasis will be made on the history of the women’s rights movement in Turkey. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
|
| Course Description | This course aims to give students insight into women’s rights movement of the 20th and 21st century by comparing and contrasting the different waves of feminism. The contribution of international organizations, particularly the United Nations will be discussed in greater detail and a special emphasis will be made on the women’s rights movement in Turkey. |
|
|
Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | ||
| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Management Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Review of the Semester | |
| 2 | Introduction | |
| 3 | Basic Concepts and Historical Background I: Rise of the Individual and “Natural Women” | Aivazova, Svetlena (1994). Towards a History of Feminism, Russian Studies in History, pp. 63-69. Okin, Susan Moller (1979). Rousseau’s Natural Women, The Journal of Politics, pp. 393-416. |
| 4 | Historical Background II: Women and Reason 3rd hour: Presentation | Wollstonecraft, M. (1792). A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Gatens, Moira (1986) Rousseau and Wollstonecraft: Nature vs, Reason, Australian Journal of Philosophy, p.p. 1-15 |
| 5 | First and Second Wave Feminism 3rd hour: Presentation | Sharlach, Lisa B. (2009). First Wave Feminism in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, pp. 1-3. Durudoğan, Hülya (2010). İkinci Dalga Fransız Feminizmine Kısa Bir Bakış, Türkiye’de Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmaları, pp. 67-99. |
| 6 | First and Second Wave Feminism Movie Screening: Iron Jawed Angels | Sharlach, Lisa B. (2009). First Wave Feminism in The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, pp. 1-3. Durudoğan, Hülya (2010). İkinci Dalga Fransız Feminizmine Kısa Bir Bakış, Türkiye’de Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmaları, pp. 67-99. |
| 7 | Midterm | |
| 8 | Third and Fourth Wave Feminism II 3rd hour: Presentation | Hokulani K. Aikau, Erickson K.& Pierce, J.L. (2018). Feminism, First-, Second-, and Third-Wave in The International Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Rivers, N. (2017). Postfeminism(s) and the arrival of the Fourth Wave. pp. 107 -131. |
| 9 | Ottoman Women’s Movement 3rd hour: Presentation | Serpil Çakır (2010) . Osmanlı Kadın Hareketi: XX. Yüzyılın Başında Kadınların Hak Mücadelesi. Türkiye’de Toplumsal Cinsiyet Çalışmaları . pp. 99 -115. Demirdirek, Aynur (1998). In pursuit of the Ottoman Women's Movement (Translated by Zehra F. Arat), in Deconstructing images of "the Turkish woman. ” pp.65 -83. |
| 10 | Turkish Feminism I 3rd hour: Presentation | Sirman, Nükhet (1989). Feminism in Turkey: A Short History, New Perspectives on Turkey, 1 -33. C Diner, Ş Toktaş (2010). Waves of feminism in Turkey: Kemalist, Islamist and Kurdish women's movements in an era of globalization, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, pp.41 – 57 |
| 11 | Turkish Feminism II 3rd hour: Presentation | Miller, Ruth A. (2007). Rights, Reproduction, Sexuality, and Citizenship in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 32, no. 2. Coşar, Simten & Kerestecioğlu, İnci -Özkan (2013). Feminizmin Neoliberalizmle İmtihanı, Doğu Batı Toplumsal Cinsiyet II, pp. 21 -37. |
| 12 | Midterm | |
| 13 | Movie Screening and Discussion Geriye Kalan (Çiğdem Vitrinel) Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Kız Kardeşler (Emin Alper) Gece, Melek ve Bizim Çocuklar (Atıf Yılmaz) Toz Bezi (Ahu Öztürk) 3rd hour: Presentation | |
| 14 | Presentations | |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Final Exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks |
|
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
|
15
|
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | ||
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm |
2
|
50
|
| Final Exam |
1
|
35
|
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
3
|
65
|
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
1
|
35
|
| Total |
ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
|
3
|
48
|
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
|
0
|
|
| Study Hours Out of Class |
15
|
3
|
45
|
| Field Work |
0
|
||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
|
||
| Portfolio |
0
|
||
| Homework / Assignments |
0
|
||
| Presentation / Jury |
0
|
||
| Project |
0
|
||
| Seminar / Workshop |
0
|
||
| Oral Exam |
0
|
||
| Midterms |
2
|
24
|
48
|
| Final Exam |
1
|
39
|
39
|
| Total |
180
|
COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
|
#
|
Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
|
||||
|
1
|
2
|
3
|
4
|
5
|
||
| 1 | To be able to critically discuss and interpret the theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of the discipline of new media and communication. |
|||||
| 2 | To be able to critically interpret theoretical debates concerning the relations between the forms, agents, and factors that play a role in the field of new media and communication. |
|||||
| 3 | To have the fundamental knowledge and ability to use the technical equipment and software programs required by the new media production processes. |
|||||
| 4 | To be able to gather, scrutinize and scientifically investigate data in the processes of production and distribution. |
|||||
| 5 | To be able to use the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice. |
|||||
| 6 | To be able to take responsibility both individually and as a member of a group to develop solutions to problems encountered in the field of new media and communication. |
|||||
| 7 | To be informed about national, regional, and global issues and problems; to be able to generate problem-solving methods depending on the quality of evidence and research, and to acquire the ability to report the conclusions of those methods to the public. |
|||||
| 8 | To be able to critically discuss and draw on theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of other disciplines complementing the field of new media and communication studies. |
|||||
| 9 | To be able to develop and use knowledge and skills towards personal and social goals in a lifelong process. |
|||||
| 10 | To be able to apply social, scientific and professional ethical values in the field of new media and communication. |
|||||
| 11 | To be able to collect datain the areas of new media and communication and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). |
|||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign language at a medium level of fluency efficiently. |
|||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. |
|||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest
NEWS |ALL NEWS
‘Media’ Summit at Izmir University of Economics
International Press Institute (IPI) organized a symposium on ‘Economy and Financial Sustainability of Media’ hosted by Izmir University of Economics (IUE).
Received a special invitation from the USA for the Italian director's documentary
Dr. Alper Gedik, Lecturer at Department of New Media and Communication, Izmir University of Economics (IUE), went to the USA to introduce
Laura Aymerich-Franch visited our department
Laura Aymerich-Franch who is currently a senior research fellow at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) was a visiting scholar in the Department of
Women and the Media in the Middle East
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nahed Eltantawy, who will be visiting the Media and Communication Department as a part of the Fulbright Specialist Program,
A Partnership Agreement between the Department of Media and Communication and Izmir Journalists Association
“Local Media in Izmir”, a panel organized by the Department of Media and Communication, Izmir University of Economics, was held on Thursday
YAYINCILIKTA TELİF HAKLARI İEÜ’DE TARTIŞILDI
İzmir Ekonomi Üniversitesi, “Radyo Televizyon Yayıncılığı ve Telif” konferans ve sergisine ev sahipliği yaptı. İEU İletişim Fakültesi Dekanı Prof. Dr. Ebru Uzunoğlu’nun
