ECONOMICS AND FINANCE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
COP4312 | IDA-KID Kurumsal İletişim Konuları | Spring Fall |
3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SELCAN YEŞİLYURT |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SELCAN YEŞİLYURT |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course aims students to understand the corporate context as it affects the corresponding practice of public relations and the various roles of public relations in supporting the organizations, ranging from employee and investor relations to government, community and customer relations. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; 1) Students will be able to define the differences and similarities between public relations and corporate communication. 2) Students will be able to identify the meaning of reputation, corporate identity and corporate image. 3) Students will be able to examine the corporate social responsibility campaigns of multinational companies and to compare to the campaigns of Turkish companies. 4) Students will be able to recognize the news items which they read in economy section of newspapers whether a public relations news or just a regular news. 5) Students will have the knowledge about new media, social media and PR 2.0. They can comprehend the effects of new technologies on Public Relations. 6) Students will be able to comprehend the importance of media and media relations for corporation in terms of public relations practices. 7) Students will be able to associate the roles of corporate communication professionals in terms of employee relations and internal relations. 8) Students will be able to evaluate the best practices of corporate public relations. 9) Students can connect the relations between corporate public relations and corporate communication. |
This course examines the role of public relations within a corporation and its responsibilities in developing and maintaining external and internal relations. This course will consist of lectures, case analyses and discussion. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction | |
2) | Culture-Art Communication | |
3) | International Communication, Leader Communication | |
4) | Issue Management | |
5) | Media Relations | |
6) | Social Media | |
7) | Sports Communication | |
8) | Financial Communication | |
9) | Crisis Management | |
10) | Event Management | |
11) | Internal Communication | |
12) | Social Responsibility, assignment for the final project | |
13) | Research, Measurement | |
14) | Review of the semester |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | |
References: | Paul Argenti (2008) Corporate Communication |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 10 | % 10 |
Project | 1 | % 50 |
Midterms | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 15 | 41 |
Project | 11 | 29 |
Final | 1 | 4 |
Total Workload | 116 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Build up a body of knowledge in mathematics and statistics, to use them, to understand how the mechanism of economy –both at micro and macro levels – works. | 3 |
2) | Understand the common as well as distinctive characters of the markets, industries, market regulations and policies. | 2 |
3) | Develop an awareness of different approaches to the economic events and why and how those approaches have been formed through the Economic History and understand the differences among those approaches by noticing at what extent they could explain the economic events. | 1 |
4) | Analyze the interventions of politics to the economics and vice versa. | 3 |
5) | Apply the economic analysis to everyday economic problems and evaluate the policy proposals for those problems by comparing opposite approaches. | 2 |
6) | Understand current and new economic events and how the new approaches to the economics are formed and evaluating. | 2 |
7) | Develop the communicative skills in order to explain the specific economic issues/events written, spoken and graphical form. | 3 |
8) | Know how to formulate the economics problems and issues and define the solutions in a well-formed written form, which includes the hypothesis, literature, methodology and results / empirical evidence. | 2 |
9) | Demonstrate the quantitative and qualitative capabilities and provide evidence for the hypotheses and economic arguments. | 2 |
10) | Understand the information and changes related to the economy by using a foreign language and communicate with colleagues. | 3 |