GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

JOURNALISM GENRES AND NEW EXPANSION/4350059

Course Title:	JOURNALISM GENRES AND NEW EXPANSION
Credits	3	ECTS	7.5
Semester	1	Compulsory/Elective	Elective

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ruhdan UZUN

-- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)

http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/ruhdanuzun

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

ruhdanuzun@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

Learning traditional journalism genres
Assessing the changes on the journalism genres
Learning journalism genre in the new media

-- 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	Orientation
2. Week	The concept of genres in journalism
3. Week	New journalism
4. Week	Investigative journalism
5. Week	Tabloid Journalism
6. Week	Public Journalism
7. Week	Citizen Journalism
8. Week	Midterm Exam
9. Week	New Media's journalism genres
10. Week	New Media's journalism genres
11. Week	Student Presentation and Discussion
12. Week	Student Presentation and Discussion
13. Week	Student Presentation and Discussion
14. Week	Student Presentation and Discussion
15. Week	General Discussion
16. Week	Final Exam

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

Curran, James (2012). “Why has the Internet changed so little?”, www.opendemocracy.net, 4 March 2012. Gillmor, Dan (2008). We the Media: Grassroots Journalism by the People for the People, San Francisco: O'Reilly Media. Lambeth, E. B., Meyer, P. E., & Thorson, E. (1998). Assessing public journalism. University of Missouri. Mythen, Gabe (2010): Reframing risk? Citizen journalism and the transformation of news, Journal of Risk Research, 13:1, 45-58 Bardoel, Jo, Deuze, Mark, (2001). Network Journalism: Converging Competences of Media Professionals and Professionalism. In: Australian Journalism Review 23 (2), pp.91-103. De Burgh, H., & Bradshaw, P. (2008). Investigative journalism. Taylor & Francis. Tunç, Aslı ve Zeynep Atikkan (2011). Blogdan Al Haberi, İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları. Turhan, Seyfettin (1997). Araştırmacı Gazetecilik, Ankara: um:ag Yayınları. Chen, N. (2011). Wikileaks and its Spinoffs: new models of journalism or the new media gatekeepers?. Digital Publishing:

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question & Answer

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	40
Assignment	0	0
Exercises	0	0
Projects	0	0
Practice	0	0
Quiz	0	0
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade		60

-- 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
Reading	14	4	56
Searching in Internet and Library	14	4	56
Designing and Applying Materials	7	2	14
Preparing Reports	1	3	3
Preparing Presentation	1	2	2
Presentation	1	1	1
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	4	4
Final and Studying for Final	1	4	4
Other			0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			182
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			7.28
ECTS:			7.5

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1						X
2						X
3						X
4						X
5						X
6						X
7					X
8						X
9						X
10						X
11						X
12					X

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