GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
COMMUNICATION SPACES/1370004
Course Title: COMMUNICATION SPACES
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Semester 1 Compulsory/Elective Compulsory
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Assoc. Prof. Gülcan SEÇKİN
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/g.seckin
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  gcansn@gmail.com, g.seckin@gazi.edu.tr, gulcanseckin@hotmail.com, gcansn@yahoo.com
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
The students will be conceived different media studies, theoretical traditions emerged in diffferent countries.
Theoretical tendency, transformations in different frameworks.
Humanities and social sciences effected all the media stuedies.
Media research and gathering and analysing data
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 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is face to face
 -- PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES
  There is no prerequisite or co-requisite for this course.
 -- RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENTS
  There is no recommended optional programme component for this course
 --COURSE CONTENT
1. Week   constructing social sciences,and humanities science disciplines.
2. Week  Theoretical tendency in media studies, differnt disciplines's effects in the field of communication.
3. Week   mainstream media studies in USA.
4. Week   Structural Marxist theories, strutural, post-structural linguistics theoires effects on cultural stuedies
5. Week   language, ideology,and discourse concepts in media and communication stuedies
6. Week  Researching audiences (uses and gratification, literary and historical analyses, reader-response stuedies, cultural studies an reception studies.
7. Week  Quantitative, qualitative analysis and interpratation
8. Week  Researching media ınstitutions. Institutional research.
9. Week  Researching texts
10. Week   Research on textual content and textual structure and discourse.
11. Week   Interpretation of textual data: representation. realism, ideology
12. Week   Theories of the relationship between the reader an text: Phenomenology and hermeneutics, Psychoanalysis and analitical psychologyi, post-modernism.
13. Week   presentations of students
14. Week  presentations of students
15. Week  presentations of students
16. Week  presentations of students
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  İna Bertrand, Peter Hughes (2005). Media Research Methods. Audieences, Institutions, texts. Palgrave Macmillan, London.M.Ayşe İnal (1996). Reading News, Temuçin Pub., Ankara. İ.Erdoğan& K.Alemdar (2010). Other Theory, Erk Pub.: Ankara. İ.Erdoğan (2012) Pozitivist Methodology and Beyond. Gulbenkian Commision, Open Social Sciences (2009). Metis Pub., İstanbul. Terry Eagleton (2006). After Theory, Literatur Pub.: İstanbul. Gamze Yücesan Özdemir (2008). Communication, Labour and development,economy politic approach. Gazi Ün. faculty of communication.Ankara.
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
   Lecture, reading books, analysis of master and ph.d.thesis, case studies, presentations, preparing a thesis project, paper presentations.
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
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 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
50
 Assignment
3
0
 Exercises
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade  
50
 Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade  
50
 -- WORKLOAD
 Efficiency  Total Week Count  Weekly Duration (in hour)  Total Workload in Semester
 Theoretical Study Hours of Course Per Week
14
3
42
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
0
0
 Reading
7
3
21
 Searching in Internet and Library
7
4
28
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
0
 Preparing Reports
5
5
25
 Preparing Presentation
5
5
25
 Presentation
7
4
28
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
3
5
15
 Final and Studying for Final
3
5
15
 Other
0
0
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
199
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.96
 ECTS: 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Realises the interdisciplinary nature of communication science.X
2Defines fundamental issues related to the field of radio television and cinema and their cause-effect relationships.X
3Evaluates the expertise level theoretical, methodological and practical knowledge in the field of radio television and cinema.X
4Uses theory in the field of radio television and cinema, combining with quantitative and qualitative research methods, in advanced level.X
5Forms information about the field of radio television and cinema analytically and systematically.X
6Conducts a scientific study in the field of radio television and cinema, by taking responsibility individually and in-group.X
7Determines a problem in the field of radio television and cinema.X
8Collects data about the research problem.X
9Draw conclusions from the data obtained.X
10Distinguishs basic approaches and methods in the field of radio television and cinema.X
11Evaluates all available resources, by doing literature research in order to access informationX
12Evaluates current theoretical and methodological developments in the field of radio television and cinema, and transfers them to academic studies.X
13Collects data related to the field of radio television and cinema and integrates them with social, scientific, cultural and ethical values.X
14Uses knowledge and skills which is acquired in the field of radio television and cinema to contribute academic and social knowledge.X