This course discusses the essence of plastic arts and its contribution to cinema which contains in itself other arts, within the context of of form-meaning. Although different disciplines, cinema and plastic arts
have a huge number of common characteristics that are similar and combine on the same basis. Thus, course deals with the mutual aesthetic elements that makes cinema approximate to plastic arts, as well
as the contributions of the variables regarded as basic principles of plastic arts such as composition which is constituted of light, color, texture, rhythm,balance to cinematographic structure. Evaluating the effects of plastic elements to the narrative of cinema aesthetically, course gives the opportunity to evaluate films with regard to aesthetics by providing guidance for those who want to criticize films in terms of aesthetics and film makers who would like to bring an aesthetic dimension to their films.

This course examines socio-economic formations from the outset by studying their basic dynamics and considering modern society and its aftermath as arts and ideologies.

Communication History is an interdisciplinary which welcomes contributions adressing Press and society from the fifteenth century to the present . Its perspective is both historical and international,exploring all forms of serial puplications, covering a wide area of Press History during Ottomans and after.

The aim of this course is to enable students to discuss developments, applications, theories and theorists in the field of editing within the historical development process with sample works.

This courses traces the historical development of the media studies and paradigms. With a specific attention to critical and cultural studies approach, the course discusses various theoretical approaches to the relationship between media, society and culture.

The aim of this course is to enable students to discuss the basis of the language of cinema that are the developments, applications, theories and theorists in the field of editing within the historical development process with sample works and within editing methods and techniques.

This course aims to discuss the social transformations within the framework of the concepts of communication and technology.

Main periods, waves, directors and film production phases of Turkish Cinema will be handled from historical, economical, ideological and aesthetical perspectives. Contemporary directors of Turkish Cinema and the new tendencies in film production will be handled.

In this course, opinion leaders who can change the status quo by their own efforts and experiences are taken as models, oppositions to these leaders in society are examined.

This course initially focuses on a subject matter that could create a theme to work on. After determining the subject matter; the synopsis, the script in progress and the process of script writing techniques will be evaluated and the course will be completed with the final script.

This course focuses on the creative practice of cinema language and its grammar. In this context, the content (script) and the form (cinematographic techniques) will be evaluated and applied.

This course traces back the birth of Yeşilçam Cinema, its development, its periods, the trends it took part in, the attempts of creating the language of Turkish Cinema, national cinema, white cinema, social realist cinema and the contributions of the directors Muhsin Ertuğrul, Lütfü Akad, Metin Erksan, Halit Refiğ, Memduh Ün, Atıf Yılmaz, Yılmaz Güney, Yücel Çakmaklı and Yavuz Turgul to the Turkish Cinema.

This course traces the formation of Contemporary Turkish Cinema, its development, its periods, the trends it took part in, the attempts of creating the language of Contemporary Turkish Cinema, dogma-minimalist tendencies and the contributions of independent productions of the directors Derviş Zaim, Zeki Demirkubuz, Reha Erdem, Semih Kaplanoğlu, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu and Özcan Alper to the Contemporary Turkish Cinema.

This course starts from the fact that cinema is an art of narration while tracing the dramaturgical structure of narration in classical techniques and practices.

This course aims for a director to have technical information, aesthetic concerns and the realization of these skills within turning a detailed script into the sign system of cinematography.

In this course, starting from the subject matter of a film all the table discussions are evaluated.
The process is finalized with a production file to apply for financial support.

The students get prepared for teh Proficiency Exam that includes all the courses taken.

After completing the course period and succeed the Proficiency Exam, the students present their thesis proposals to the Thesis Jury and argue and defend a genuine art work supervised by their Counsellor and Thesis Jury.