AMERICAN CULTURE AND LITERATURE | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
GEP0619 | Using Media for Communication | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
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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 |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | none |
Course Objectives: | This course presents a wide-scale, interdisciplinary analysis and guide to both analog and digital media. Practicing the media platforms, this course explores and analyzes practices of journalism, broadcasting in general and also it provides an effective knowledge to create personal blog and digital space. The students will learn to use networking tools effectively and strategically from analog to digital for both personal communication to public communication. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; The students who succeeded in this course; -will be acquainted with using media platforms -will be ready to create their own digital media and space -will enhance their own practical knowledge about effectivity of their own media -will gain the necessary experience to create the blogs and the other necessary accounts for digital networking -will be able to guide and/or lead social media accounts -will use their abilities effectively during their professional experience |
This course covers the function and principles of media practices through analog in general specificy digital media. It provides students to create their own media in a strategic and effective way. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Presentation of the Aim of the course | |
2) | Delivering the message, the news and the information: How do we reach each other? | |
3) | How to provide personal and public information and news through media | |
4) | Me and my community: Networking through Analog and Digital Media | |
5) | Analog for all, digital for each. | |
6) | Internet and the Digital Communication | |
7) | Having your own blog, Twitter account, and publishing your own news. | |
8) | Project 1 | |
9) | Citing, mentioning, tagging and let others know. | |
10) | Strategic timing and publishing | |
11) | Sending the message, catching the zeitgeist through your own media | |
12) | Practicing communication skills: Effectivity of your own media | |
13) | Presentation: Who are you, what is your media? | |
14) | Last words: From personal communication to public communication | |
15) | General review | |
16) | Final Project |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Ders notları Kitap: Social Media Communication: Concepts, Practices, Data, Law and Ethics by Jeremy Harris Lipschultz |
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No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Upon graduation, students will acquire key skills and attributes to conduct research to use research tools, to solve problems, to communicate effectively and to transfer skills to the workplace. | |
2) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to discuss key issues in fluent English. | |
3) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to compose written documents in English with a mature prose style. | |
4) | Upon graduation, students will have gained broad knowledge of the American and English literary canons. | |
5) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to analyze, synthesize and criticize sophisticated works of American and English literature. | |
6) | Upon graduation, students will have achieved in depth the understanding of contemporary American culture. | |
7) | Upon graduation, students will have developed the ability to draw links among diverse literary texts and documents and establish critical connections and adopt an interdisciplinary attitude. | 2 |
8) | Upon graduation, students will be able to develop new projects individually or in teams. | |
9) | Upon graduation, students will be able to apply their knowledge into their lives for interdisciplinary problem-solving and solutions. | 3 |