GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
COMMUNICATION, IDEOLOGY AND POWER/5350068
Course Title: COMMUNICATION, IDEOLOGY AND POWER
Credits 3 ECTS 7.5
Semester 2 Compulsory/Elective Elective
COURSE INFO
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
  Assoc.Prof.Selda BULUT
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  -
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
  selda@gazi.edu.tr, seldabulut@gmail.com
 -- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT
In this course, students will gain knowledge about; Theoretical debates of ideology and power,
learn the relationship between communication and ideology,
And the places of power and ideology in communication studies.






 -- 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  Short brief of the course: General discussion on the concept of ideology
2. Week  Ideology as a form of false consciousness I: Karl Marx and F. Engels
3. Week  Ideology as a form of false consciousness II: Karl Marx and F. Engels
4. Week  Critical Theory and Ideology I: Adorno and Horkheimer
5. Week  Critical Theory and Ideology II: Habermas and New Rationale
6. Week  The debates of false consciousness, infrastructure and commodity fetishism in the communication studies
7. Week  Gramsci: Power and hegemony
8. Week  Midterm Exam
9. Week  Structuralism, Poststructuralism and theories of ideology: Althusser, Foucault
10. Week  The critique of Structuralist Marxism: Laclau and Mouffe
11. Week  The communication studies based on ideology, power and hegemony
12. Week  Ideology, semiotics and communication
13. Week  Theories of psychoanalysis and ideology: Freud, Lacan and Žižek
14. Week  Ideology, agent, psychoanalysis and communication studies
15. Week  presentations
16. Week  Final Exam
 -- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
  Althusser L., İdeoloji ve Devletin İdeolojik Aygıtları, İletişim yay. 1978. Barrett, M., Marx'tan Foucault'ya İdeoloji, Mavi Ada, 2000. Barthes, Roland (1993). Göstergebilimsel Serüven. Çev. Mehmet Rifat ve Sema Firat. 2. baskı. İstanbul: Yapı Kredi Yayınları Barthes, Roland (1998). Çağdaş Söylenler. Çev. Tahsin Yücel. İstanbul: Metis Yayınları. Chomsky, Noam ve Edward S. Herman (2006). Rızanın İmalatı: Kitle Medyasının Ekonomi Politiği. Çev. Ender Abadoğlu. İstanbul: Aram Yayıncılık Coward, R. ve J. Ellis, Dil ve Maddecilik, İletişim yay.1985. Çelenk, Sevilay (der.) (2008). İletişim Çalışmalarında Kırılmalar ve Uzlaşmalar içinde. Ankara: De Ki Yayınları Garnham, Nicholas (1990). Capitalism and Communication: Global Culture and the Economics of Information. London, Newbury Park and New Delhi: Sage Publications Gitlin, Todd (2001). Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives. New York: Metropolitan Books Golding, Peter ve Graham Murdock (2002)
 -- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS
  Lecture
 -- WORK PLACEMENT(S)
  -
 -- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Percentage
 Mid-terms
1
0
 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
10
3
30
 Practising Hours of Course Per Week
4
3
12
 Reading
14
5
70
 Searching in Internet and Library
14
4
56
 Designing and Applying Materials
0
 Preparing Reports
2
3
6
 Preparing Presentation
1
3
3
 Presentation
1
1
1
 Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term
0
 Final and Studying for Final
0
 Other
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
178
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.12
 ECTS: 
7.5
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1X
2X
3X
4X
5X
6X
7X
8X
9X
10X
11X
12X