Akademik Dersler - İçerik

Weeks	Topics
Week - 1	History of populer culture, definitions of popular culture, Popular culture and other popular culture, mass culture and consumer culture
Week - 2	Marxisms: Classical Marxism, Frankfurt School, Althusserianism, Hegemony, Post-Marxism and Cultural Studies, Utopian Marxism, From Culturalism to Cultural Studies
Week - 3	Class and class struggle, Class and popular culture, Class in cultural studies, Class struggle, Consumption as class distinction, Class and popular culture
Week - 4	Structuralism and Post-structuralism: Ferdinand de Saussure, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Roland Barthes: Mythologies, Post-structuralism, Jacques Derrida, Discourse and Power: Michel Foucault, Panopticon
Week - 5	Postmodernism: The postmodern condition, postmodernism in the 1960s, Jean-François Lyotard, Jean Baudrillard, Fredric Jameson, Global postmodern.
Week - 6	Semiology and theoretical structure of semiology
Week - 7	Semiotic Theorists: Ferdinand de Saussure and Linguistics, Charles Sanders Peirce Semiotic Theory, Roland Barthes Connotation, Denotation, Umberto Eco and Semiotics,
Week - 8	Culture and Meaning: The Importance of Context in the Construction of Meaning
Week - 9	Meaning Formation in Text: Codes and Analysis
Week - 10	Linguistic and visual analyses based on semiotics in the fields of advertising, cinema and photography.
Week - 11	Semiotic Decoding and Analysis Examples with Contemporary Cases.
Week - 12	Semiotic Decoding and Analysis Examples with Contemporary Cases.
Week - 13	Semiotic Decoding and Analysis Examples with Contemporary Cases.
Week - 14	General Evaluation