SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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
GEP0305	Communication Practices	Fall	0	6	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:	GE-Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ
Course Lecturer(s):	Prof. Dr. NİLAY ULUSOY Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SELCAN YEŞİLYURT Instructor SİNEM İNCE
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course helps students to be become educated producers and also consumers of media. Students will develop critical thinking skills of the economics and workings of journalism and they will explore how social and political forces affect newswriting. This course will help students learn to better understand the connections between economics, politics and the media. The course also provides students with a basis in media research, newsgathering and newswriting. Finally, students will develop critical thinking skills to understand the challenges of the new media landscape with digital technologies.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
This course will help students to face the real world after university. Since it will be held in Habertürk, students for the first time will find a chance to meet the professional world and explore how journalism works including the production of news. Habertürk will give students the chance to explore news production by overcoming the constraints of the classroom. Therefore students will develop a sense of how communication is practiced in the professional atmosphere.

Course Content

The course is deeply connected to other undergraduate journalism courses in a way that it provides professional experiences of journalism where students can apply what they have learned in their in-class courses. Since this course is a General Elective, it is not necessarily designed for journalism students. The course provides opportunities for every student from all faculties to develop and apply work discipline, communication practices and critical thinking skills in their professional life. They will have the chance to apply what they have explored in their theoretical and practical undergraduate courses.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction
2)	Working in the Professional World I
3)	Working in the Professional World II
4)	Practices in News Gathering in Selected Departments I
5)	Practices in News Gathering in Selected Departments II
6)	Discussion of the Student Project proposal with the Head of the Selected Department
7)	Practices in News Writing in Selected Departments I
8)	Practices in News Writing in Selected Departments II
9)	Interview Journalism
10)	Practices in Photo-Journalism
11)	Practices in Online Journalism
12)	Issues and Practices in News Editing
13)	Presentation of the Student Project in the Newsroom
14)	Review and Discussions

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Journalism: A Career Handbook Anna McKane 2009 ISBN10: 0713667966 ISBN-13: 978-0713667967
References:

Evaluation System

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PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 0
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Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Be able to specify functional and non-functional attributes of software projects, processes and products.
2)	Be able to design software architecture, components, interfaces and subcomponents of a system for complex engineering problems.
3)	Be able to develop a complex software system with in terms of code development, verification, testing and debugging.
4)	Be able to verify software by testing its program behavior through expected results for a complex engineering problem.
5)	Be able to maintain a complex software system due to working environment changes, new user demands and software errors that occur during operation.
6)	Be able to monitor and control changes in the complex software system, to integrate the software with other systems, and to plan and manage new releases systematically.
7)	Be able to identify, evaluate, measure, manage and apply complex software system life cycle processes in software development by working within and interdisciplinary teams.
8)	Be able to use various tools and methods to collect software requirements, design, develop, test and maintain software under realistic constraints and conditions in complex engineering problems.
9)	Be able to define basic quality metrics, apply software life cycle processes, measure software quality, identify quality model characteristics, apply standards and be able to use them to analyze, design, develop, verify and test complex software system.
10)	Be able to gain technical information about other disciplines such as sustainable development that have common boundaries with software engineering such as mathematics, science, computer engineering, industrial engineering, systems engineering, economics, management and be able to create innovative ideas in entrepreneurship activities.
11)	Be able to grasp software engineering culture and concept of ethics and have the basic information of applying them in the software engineering and learn and successfully apply necessary technical skills through professional life.
12)	Be able to write active reports using foreign languages and Turkish, understand written reports, prepare design and production reports, make effective presentations, give clear and understandable instructions.
13)	Be able to have knowledge about the effects of engineering applications on health, environment and security in universal and societal dimensions and the problems of engineering in the era and the legal consequences of engineering solutions.