GEP0305 Communication PracticesBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
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 Spring 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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Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Setting up various spaces in national and international contexts, carrying out designs, planning and applications that could satisfy various user groups and respond various requirements in the field of Interior Architecture,
2) Analyzing the information gathered from the framework of actual physical, social and economical constraints and user requirements, and synthesizing these with diverse knowledge and considerations in order to create innovative spatial solutions,
3) Generating creative, innovative, aesthetic and unique spatial solutions by using tangible and abstract concepts,
4) Using at least one of the illustration and presentation technologies competently, that the field of interior architecture requires,
5) Reporting, presenting and transferring the design, practice and research studies to the specialists or laymen by using visual, textual or oral communication methods, efficiently and accurately,
6) Embracing and prioritizing man-environment relationships, user health, safety and security, and universal design principles in the field of interior architecture,
7) Design understanding and decision making that respects social and cultural rights of the society, cultural heritage and nature,
8) Being aware of national and international values, following developments and being equipped about ethical and aesthetical subjects in the fields of interior architecture, design and art,
9) Having absolute conscious about legal regulations, standards and principles; and realizing professional ethics, duties and responsibilities in the field of Interior Architecture,