GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION

SOCIAL ACTS AND MEDIA/HİT-692

Course Title:	SOCIAL ACTS AND MEDIA
Credits	3	ECTS	3
Semester	6	Compulsory/Elective	Elective

COURSE INFO

-- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION

Turkish

-- NAME OF LECTURER(S)

Assoc. Prof.Gülcan Işık

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

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

-- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)

gulcanisik@gazi.edu.tr

-- LEARNING OUTCOMES OF THE COURSE UNIT

1. Better analyze the social life and new actors.
2. Learn the new world order and its implementers.
3. Analysis the national and international social movement examples, thus learn the last position of the protest movements.
4. Understand and analyze the relations between media and social movements.
5. Get the information about the current media implementations in detail and theoretically.

-- 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

Civil Society and Non Governmental Organization

--COURSE CONTENT
1. Week	Introduce the theories, reason of the social movements, through the question: What is social movement?
2. Week	After the explanation of identification, features, types, etc. Of the social movements, analysis the “Crowd Approach” of Le Bon.
3. Week	Explanation the tenets of the rationalist ecol and mass paradigm.
4. Week	Explain the radical democracy theories and types of social movements.
5. Week	Explain the “Resource Mobilization Theory”, the first of the social movement theories.
6. Week	Explain tha “New Social Movement Theory”, the second of the social movement theories and the explanatory of the contemporary social movements.
7. Week	Explain the reasons, features, types, values, etc., which put forth the “New Social Movements”.
8. Week	Midterm
9. Week	Explain the Connectedness Relation between social movements and media.
10. Week	Explain the relations between internet, one of the new media environments and social movement.
11. Week	Analysis a social movement in internet media.
12. Week	Analysis the relations between different media means and social movement and examples.
13. Week	Having being searched by the students, presentation of the analysis of the examples related with the relations between social movements and media.
14. Week	Having being searched by the students, presentation of the analysis of the examples related with the relations between social movements and media.
15. Week	Having being searched by the students, presentation of the analysis of the examples related with the relations between social movements and media.
16. Week	Final

-- RECOMMENDED OR REQUIRED READING

1. Social Movements from Virtual-Street (Gülcan Işık) 2. Social Movements: Theoretical and practice analysis and reflections from Politics to Literature, art to cinema, media to social perception (Ed.Gülcan Işık) 3. Social Movements (Charles Tilly) 4. Social Movements:Theoretical and practice analysis (Y.Doğan Çetinkaya) 5. Social Movements (Kenan Çayır)

-- PLANNED LEARNING ACTIVITIES AND TEACHING METHODS

Lecture, Question & Answer, Demonstration, Drill - Practise

-- WORK PLACEMENT(S)

Not Applicable

-- ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

	Quantity	Percentage
Mid-terms	1	25
Assignment	1	15
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	9	3	27
Practising Hours of Course Per Week	5	3	15
Reading	8	1	8
Searching in Internet and Library	9	1	9
Designing and Applying Materials	0	1	0
Preparing Reports	0	0	0
Preparing Presentation	10	1	10
Presentation	0	0	0
Mid-Term and Studying for Mid-Term	1	3	3
Final and Studying for Final	1	3	3
Other	0	0	0
TOTAL WORKLOAD:			75
TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25:			3
ECTS:			3

-- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

NO	PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES	1	2	3	4	5
1	Explains theories, methods, concepts and interconceptual relationships in the field of Public Relations and Advertising.					X
2	Diagnoses the processes, methods and techniques about the production of scientific knowledge in Public Relations and Advertising.					X
3	Expresses the theoretical and practice-based knowledge in Public Relations and Advertising.					X
4	Associates the social, historical, cultural, political and economic dimensions of comunication.					X
5	Develops the skills required for an efficient use of modern technique and tools necessary for communicational practices.					X
6	Analyzes media texts from a critical perspective.					X
7	Uses information and communication technologies effectively .				X
8	Rearranges the knowledge in other disciplines of the social sciences in order to use it in the area of expertise.					X
9	Carries out studies in the field of public relations by taking responsibility in both individual and in team works.					X
10	Find ways to access information in the field of Public Relations and Advertising.					X
11	Follows theories, methods and technologies in the field of Public Relations.					X
12	Transfers his/her ideas and suggestions on problems to relevant people or institutions by fostering these ideas and suggestions with qualitative and quantitative data.					X
13	Acts with social responsibility and carries out works which are appropriate with ethical rules, laws, regulations and legislation in the field of Public Relations and ADvertising.					X
14	Uses the theories, methods, tools and technologies in the field of Public Relations and Advertising competently					X

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