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NEW MEDIA
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
NMD3208 Advanced Media Performances Fall 3 0 3 5
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: Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. Öğr. Üyesi TİRŞE ERBAYSAL FİLİBELİ
Course Lecturer(s): Instructor BANU ŞAHİN
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: The aim of the course is to provide students with competence in all areas of broadcasting, especially video broadcasting, and to make them gain experience in preparing and presenting a program. Strengthening students' on-camera performances is one of the main outcomes of the course.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
- They will learn how to speak in an accurate and impressive way
- They will perceive the differences between speaking and writing language and pronunciation attributions
- Students would learn how to write a news on media organs like radio and television and practice readily.
- Students would learn how to present the news on media organs like radio and television and practice readily.
- Students would learn the skills of creating and presenting program content.

Course Content

Within the scope of this course; detailed information will be given about diction, news writing and presenting. Within this context; students would receive necessary education on diction, voiceover, writing and presenting of television and radio news, presenting of newscast and news, creating a newscast context. Necessary information about creating and presenting a program context, writing and presenting the news on radio and television will be provided in both theoretical and practical ways.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to the course. Definition and practicing areas of being a correspondent, announcer and presenter.
2) The importance of breathing correctly
3) What is body awareness? How to use voice correctly?
4) Drama workout
5) Written language and spoken language
6) What does a correspondent do?
7) Alternative newspapers
8) What is rhetoric?
9) Midterm
10) How to prepare a program and its content for radio and TV
11) Non-verbal communications: The usage of gesture and mimic
12) Dos & Don'ts: Hosting a guest on TV and radio
13) Speaking in front of a camera in an advanced way
14) Evaluation before final

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: In accordance with course processing; internet and newspaper news, poems, various reading materials, documents of radio and television news will be handed for practice.
References:

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 1 % 10
Midterms 1 % 40
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 13 3 39
Study Hours Out of Class 14 5 70
Midterms 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
Total Workload 113

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. 4
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. 3
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
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. 2
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. 2
7) To be able to develop skills on gathering necessary data by using scientific methods, analyzing and circulating them in order to produce content. 3
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. 3
9) To be able to operate collaborative projects with national/international colleagues in the field of new media, journalism and communication. 4
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. 5