The aim of this course is to enable students to develop research, discussion and writing skills on visual culture. Accordingly, the course is designed to introduce students to critical approaches that they can apply to a wide variety of images, objects and areas. In this course which aims to encourage students to think critically about images; evaluates the social and ideological functioning of images; develop visual literacy skills for all visual objects, including art and design; are expected to synthesize their research and analysis consistently

Critical readings of images reveal power relations in society and enable a critical awareness of them. Therefore, we can talk about the development of a specific field of study called visual culture studies recently. Visual culture studies; It is an interdisciplinary research field located at the intersection of fields such as cultural studies, art history, cinema and media studies. The course will look at how the visual culture that constitutes the data field of these critical studies is defined and this new visual culture; It will be assumed that it requires a research field that includes all kinds of visual technology researches related to all kinds of visual information, their meanings, pleasure and consumption, "from oil paint to television and internet" Discussions based on the view that "seeing" is not only a biological but rather a historical and cultural phenomenon will be examined.