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Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
NMD3202 | Media Critics | Spring |
3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
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 TİRŞE ERBAYSAL FİLİBELİ |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None. |
Course Objectives: | This course aims to raise awareness of bias and ideology in the media that surround us daily. The course does not promote a particular political viewpoint, but challenges you to engage media critically, thereby becoming better informed citizens. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; - gain the ability to analyze news on different media platforms, - gain the ability to evaluate all components of the news; sentence structures, word selection, titles, photos, - are able to evaluate the effects of the media with a critical perspective. |
This course develops critical thinking on journalism and news media. Within the scope of the course, topics that will help students to critically approach the media will be examined in the light of colonialism, postcolonialism, ideology, gender, ways of seeing and many other theories. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to the course | |
2) | Approaching media criticism: Reflections on motives, materials and methods | |
3) | Manufacturing Consent: How free is our freedom of speech and press? | |
4) | Being critical consumers of the news | |
5) | Way of seeing | |
6) | Discussion: Black Mirror | |
7) | Discourse analysis as ideology analysis | |
8) | Midterm | |
9) | Gender, race and media representation | |
10) | Post-colonial critic: Post-colonial theory | |
11) | Douglas Kellner: Reflections on Modernity and Postmodernity in McLuhan and Baudrillard | |
12) | Approaches to visual communication media criticism and their application to TV genres | |
13) | 2 examples of media bias | |
14) | Evaluation of the term before final exam |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | 1) Gender, Race, and Class in Media : A Critical Reader / editors, Gail Dines, Wheelock College, Jean M. Humez, University of Massachusetts, Boston. 2) Stokes, Jane (2003) How to do Media and Cultural Studies. London: Sage. |
References: |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Midterms | 1 | % 50 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 13 | 3 | 39 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 6 | 84 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 127 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | As a world citizen, she is aware of global economic, political, social and ecological developments and trends. | |
2) | He/she is equipped to closely follow the technological progress required by global and local dynamics and to continue learning. | |
3) | Absorbs basic economic principles and analysis methods and uses them to evaluate daily events. | |
4) | Uses quantitative and statistical tools to identify economic problems, analyze them, and share their findings with relevant stakeholders. | |
5) | Understands the decision-making stages of economic units under existing constraints and incentives, examines the interactions and possible future effects of these decisions. | |
6) | Comprehends new ways of doing business using digital technologies. and new market structures. | |
7) | Takes critical approach to economic and social problems and develops analytical solutions. | |
8) | Has the necessary mathematical equipment to produce analytical solutions and use quantitative research methods. | |
9) | In the works he/she contributes, observes individual and social welfare together and with an ethical perspective. | |
10) | Deals with economic problems with an interdisciplinary approach and seeks solutions by making use of different disciplines. | |
11) | Generates original and innovative ideas in the works she/he contributes as part of a team. |