ART THEORY AND CRITICISM MINOR UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM (ARTTC-MINOR)

Diploma Area Advisor: Onur Yazıcıgil

The honors minor program in Art Theory and Criticism merges diverse aspects of visual studies into a unique curriculum, providing the students with an understanding of the major intellectual trends and debates in the visual arts, including art history, theory, criticism, and museum studies. This comprises a study of the new philosophies of vision that have emerged over the past decades and affected our ways of seeing and the new technologies and media that have redefined lifestyles and social relations. A significant aspect of the program is its critical approach. New methods and theories drawn from a variety of disciplines provide students with an intellectually challenging and stimulating venue where they can develop analytical skills to explore the visual arts and their intellectual and theoretical underpinnings. The broad scope of this innovative program ranging from art history and theory to criticism and curatorship, includes an interactive study experience in Istanbul's art exhibitions, in particular the Sakıp Sabancı Museum, offering our students a unique opportunity to test their theoretical knowledge.

SUMMARY OF DEGREE REQUIREMENTS Course Category Min. ECTS Credits Min. SU Credits Min. Courses Required Courses - 6 2 Core Electives - 9 3 Area Electives - 3 1 Total - 18 6

Required Courses

All the courses below are required.

Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty      HUM 202 Major Works of Western Art 5 3 FASS      HUM 212 Major Works of Modern Art 5 3 FASS

Core Electives

Minimum 9 credits must be taken from the pool below

Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty      HART 213 History of Photography and Moving Image 6 3 FASS      HART 234 Classical Mythology in Art 6 3 FASS      HART 292 From Modern to Contemporary Art 6 3 FASS      HART 293 Contemporary Art 6 3 FASS      HART 311 Renaissance Art 6 3 FASS      HART 413 Visual Arts in Turkey 6 3 FASS      HART 414 Post 60 Turkish Art 6 3 FASS      HART 450 Caravaggio 6 3 FASS      HART 480 Bauhaus 6 3 FASS      VA 315 Visual Culture 7 3 FASS

Area Electives

The area elective must be taken from HART, VIS or FILM coded undergraduate courses.

Course Name ECTS Credits SU Credits Faculty      FILM 231 Introduction to Film Studies 6 3 FASS      FILM 331 Approaches to Film Studies 6 3 FASS      FILM 335 Critical Perspectives on Turkish Cinema 6 3 FASS      FILM 345 International Cinemas 6 3 FASS      FILM 390 Topics in Film Studies 6 3 FASS      FILM 424 Anthropology and Film 6 3 FASS      FILM 432 Vision, Representation and Cinema 6 3 FASS      FILM 435 Documentary: Context and Practice-I 6 3 FASS      FILM 436 Documentary Context and Practice-II 6 3 FASS      FILM 452 Psychoanalysis and Film 6 3 FASS      HART 312 Renaissance Visuality II (Cinquecento) 6 3 FASS      HART 320 Women Artists 6 3 FASS      HART 323 Art and Power 6 3 FASS      HART 330 The Imaginary of the Middle Ages in Modern Art and Popular Culture 6 3 FASS      HART 333 Heavenly Spires: Introduction to Medieval European Art and Architecture 6 3 FASS      HART 334 Roman Art in Context 6 3 FASS      HART 392 Art in the Age of Transition (from Renaiss. to Early Modern) 6 3 FASS      HART 411 Art in the age of Revolt: Early Modernity 6 3 FASS      HART 424 Art Project at the Museum 6 1 FASS      HART 425 Art & History at the Museum 6 3 FASS      HART 426 Leonardo and Michelangelo: Heroes of the Renaissance 6 3 FASS      HART 431 The Dome of Gold : The Art of the Byzantine Empire 6 3 FASS      HART 432 Post-1945 American Art 6 3 FASS      HART 434 Art and Architecture of the Medieval Mediterranean 6 3 FASS      HART 444 Designing the Nation. Art and Nationalism 6 3 FASS      VIS 308 The Business of Art 6 3 FASS      VIS 310 The New Media 6 3 FASS      VIS 412 Museums and Contemporary Arts 6 3 FASS

* Faculty Courses

**Courses in more than one areas are listed in the area according to order of appearence in Summary of Degree Requirements list. That is, if a course is both area elective and core elective,then it is listed in core elective courses list.

***Graduate courses are not listed in undergraduate area requirements even if they are among them.

****Since graduation requirements may change dependent to the enrollment year to the University, we advise our students who enrolled at SU in previous years and still continue their education, to track their graduation requirements completion via Information System - Degree Evaluation.