FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION
Department of Cinema and Digital Media
GEHU 204 | Course Introduction and Application Information
Course Name |
Fundamentals of Philosophy
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Code
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
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Local Credits
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ECTS
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GEHU 204
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Fall/Spring
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3
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0
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3
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6
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Prerequisites |
None
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Course Language |
English
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Course Type |
Service Course
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Course Level |
First Cycle
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Assistant(s) | - |
Course Objectives | To provide an introduction to the fundamental concepts and argumentative strategies of philosophy through an investigation of the question “What is a rational animal?” in relation to logic, epistemology, ethics, and political philosophy. |
Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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Course Description |
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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 | Presentation and overview of the course; discussion of how to begin philosophy by acknowledging that we have already begun. | Overview and discussion of a number of dilemmas and paradoxes. |
2 | Plato | Apology |
3 | What is an argument? The concepts of validity, truth and soundness. Types of justification; types of refutation: by parallel reasoning, counter-examples, reductio ad absurdum. | R. Fogelin, Understanding Arguments, pp 45-53 and pp. 405-433. |
4 | Fallacies of vacuity: circular reasoning, question-begging; fallacies of relevance: ad hominem, straw man, false cause, appeals to authority | Fogelin, pp. 477-405 |
5 | The Chinese Room Argument: Can Computers think? Discussion of artificial intelligence. | Turing, A., 1948, ‘Intelligent Machinery: A Report’, London: National Physical Laboratory; Searle, J., 1980, ‘Minds, Brains and Programs’, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 3: 417–57 |
6 | MIDTERM | |
7 | Introduction to epistemology | Descartes, Meditations on First Philosophy, Meditation 1 and 2 |
8 | Skepticism, sources of knowledge, methodic doubt, certainty as epistemic criterion, the cogito as first principle and model of | Descartes, Meditations 2 (contn’d) and 3 |
9 | Philosophy and science: the thinking subject as embodied being subject to the laws of nature. FIRST PAPER DUE | Janet Richards, Human Nature After Darwin, pp. 4-25 FIRST PAPER DUE |
10 | Evolutionary biology as philosophical challenge and answer to the question “What is a rational animal?” | Richards, pp. 25-51 |
11 | Determinism, freedom of the will, morality as a scientific problem and science as a moral problem | Richards, pp. 126-154 |
12 | Consequentialism (Utilitarianism) and Deontology: arguments and criticisms | Kant, pp. 274-281; Bennett, pp. 294-306; Bentham, pp. 306-312; Williams pp. 339-345; M. L. K. Jr., Letter from Birmingham Jail. |
13 | Moral Psychology and Perspectivism. | Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, essays I and II. |
14 | The responsibilities and the problems of rational thought; the rational animal and the polis. | Aristotle, Politics, Bk. 1 1986-2000; Locke, 249-253; Bentham and Mill, 270-274 Levi, If This is a Man. |
15 | Week 14 cont’d. SECOND PAPER DUE. | Levi, Contn’d. |
16 | Final |
Course Notes/Textbooks | |
Suggested Readings/Materials |
EVALUATION SYSTEM
Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
Participation | ||
Laboratory / Application | ||
Field Work | ||
Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
1
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35
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Portfolio | ||
Homework / Assignments |
1
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30
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Presentation / Jury | ||
Project | ||
Seminar / Workshop | ||
Oral Exams | ||
Midterm |
1
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35
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Final Exam | ||
Total |
Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
3
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100
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Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
Total |
ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE
Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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3
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48
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Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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0
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Study Hours Out of Class |
16
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3
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48
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Field Work |
0
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Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
1
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0
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Portfolio |
0
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Homework / Assignments |
1
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0
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Presentation / Jury |
0
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Project |
0
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Seminar / Workshop |
0
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Oral Exam |
0
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Midterms |
1
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20
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20
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Final Exam |
22
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0
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Total |
116
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COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
* Contribution Level
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1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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1 | To be able to have fundamental knowledge about narrative forms in cinema, digital and interactive media, and the foundational concepts relevant to these forms. |
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2 | To be able to create narratives based on creative and critical thinking skills, by using the forms and tools of expression specific to cinema and digital media arts. |
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3 | To be able to use the technical equipment and software required for becoming a specialist/expert in cinema and digital media. |
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4 | To be able to perform skills such as scriptwriting, production planning, use of the camera, sound recording, lighting and editing, at the basic level necessary for pre-production, production and post-production phases of an audio-visual work; and to perform at least one of them at an advanced level. |
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5 | To be able to discuss how meaning is made in cinema and digital media; how economy, politics and culture affect regimes of representation; and how processes of production, consumption, distribution and meaning-making shape narratives. |
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6 | To be able to perform the special technical and aesthetic skills at the basic level necessary to create digital media narratives in the fields of interactive film, video installation, experimental cinema and virtual reality. |
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7 | To be able to critically analyze a film or digital media artwork from technical, intellectual and artistic perspectives. |
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8 | To be able to participate in the production of a film or digital media artwork as a member or leader of a team, following the principles of work safety and norms of ethical behavior. |
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9 | To be able to stay informed about global scientific, social, economic, cultural, political, institutional and industrial developments. |
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10 | To be able to develop solutions to legal, scientific and professional problems surrounding the field of cinema and digital media. |
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11 | To be able to use a foreign language to communicate with colleagues and collect data in the field of cinema and digital media. ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). |
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12 | To be able to use a second foreign language at the medium level. |
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13 | To be able to connect the knowledge accumulated throughout human history to the field of expertise. |
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