GEP0301 Innovative Career DevelopmentBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs NEW MEDIAGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
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Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
GEP0301 Innovative Career Development Spring 3 0 3 4
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: GE-Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Assoc. Prof. HATİCE NECLA KELEŞ
Course Lecturer(s): Assoc. Prof. HATİCE NECLA KELEŞ
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: To support students to look at theirselves deeply before their graduation,
examine the concept of entrepreneurship and e-entrepreneurship, determine students’ enterpreneurship tendencies and designate SMART goals.
Examine the effects of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 on human resource practices, examine automated jobs and professions.
Inform students about “VisualCV” and “videorecruit” which are the favorite tools of digital human resources management.
Bring close together the students with both different sector employees and successful entrepreneurs to listen their experiencing about business life.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
- Designs alternative career ways that will suits his/her needs.
- Discovers his/her values, strong and developable attitudes.
- Express and comments topic of arguments.
- Listens and observes the others ( Student, guest speakers and instructor)
- Collaborates and becomes partners with his/her friends on sector researchs ,
job applications etc.
- Develops office skills (establishing effective relation, networking etc.) that are
required in business life.

Course Content

With the effect of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 to human resource practices, career-oriented personal development and communication methods are taught by examine the automated jobs and professions.


Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) From back to future examine the concepts career, job and profession. Course notes
2) Personal career planning process Course notes
3) Definition SMART Goal Course notes
4) Personal SWOT Analysis Course notes
5) Effects of digital transformation and Industry 4.0 to human resource practices Course notes
6) Business life in the future; automated jobs and professions
7) Writing CV and/or VisualCV, examine samples from diferent professions Course notes
8) Videorecruit and practice Course notes
9) Online recruitment, national and global samples Course notes
11) Entrepreneurship and E-Entrepreneurship, national and global samples. Course notes
12) Entrepreneurship tendency and vocational typologies. Course notes
13) Managers views about digital transformation and Industry 4.0 effects on career management and presentations Course notes
14) Managers views about digital transformation and Industry 4.0 effects on career management and presentations Course notes

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Richard Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute? 2017: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers.

Emily Anderson, Job Hunting: The Insider's Guide to Job Hunting and Career Change: Learn How to Beat the Job Market, Write the Perfect Resume and Smash it at Interviews, 2017,
References: MÜSİAD (2010). Girişimcinin Yol Haritası, İstanbul: MÜSİAD Yayını.

Drucker, Peter F. (2002). The Discipline of Innovation, Harvard Business Review.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Presentation 1 % 20
Midterms 1 % 30
Final 1 % 50
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 50
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 50
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 3 42
Presentations / Seminar 1 15 15
Midterms 1 15 15
Final 1 20 20
Total Workload 92

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) To be able to critically interpret and discuss the theories, the concepts, the traditions, and the developments in the history of thought which are fundamental for the field of new media, journalism and communication.
2) To be able to attain written, oral and visual knowledge about technical equipment and software used in the process of news and the content production in new media, and to be able to acquire effective abilities to use them on a professional level.
3) To be able to get information about the institutional agents and generally about the sector operating in the field of new media, journalism and communication, and to be able to critically evaluate them.
4) To be able to comprehend the reactions of the readers, the listeners, the audiences and the users to the changing roles of media environments, and to be able to provide and circulate an original contents for them and to predict future trends.
5) To be able to apprehend the basic theories, the concepts and the thoughts related to neighbouring fields of new media and journalism in a critical manner.
6) To be able to grasp global and technological changes in the field of communication, and the relations due to with their effects on the local agents.
7) To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content.
8) To be able to develop acquired knowledge, skills and competence upon social aims by being legally and ethically responsible for a lifetime, and to be able to use them in order to provide social benefit.
9) To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication.
10) To be able to improve skills on creating works in various formats and which are qualified to be published on the prestigious national and international channels.