GEP0619 Using Media for CommunicationBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICSGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
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
GEP0619 Using Media for Communication Spring 3 0 3 5
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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
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.

Learning Outcomes

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

Course Content

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.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

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

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Ders notları Kitap: Social Media Communication: Concepts, Practices, Data, Law and Ethics by Jeremy Harris Lipschultz
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Evaluation System

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Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Utilize the wealth of information stored in computer databases to answer basic biological questions and solve problems such as diagnosis and treatment of diseases. 3
2) Acquire an ability to compile and analyze biological information, clearly present and discuss the conclusions, the inferred knowledge and the arguments behind them both in oral and written format. 5
3) Develop critical, creative and analytical thinking skills. 5
4) Develop effective communication skills and have competence in scientific speaking, reading and writing abilities in English and Turkish. 3
5) Gain knowledge of different techniques and methods used in genetics and acquire the relevant laboratory skills. 4
6) Detect biological problems, learn to make hypothesis and solve the hypothesis by using variety of experimental and observational methods. 5
7) Gain knowledge of methods for collecting quantitative and qualitative data and obtain the related skills. 3
8) Conduct research through paying attention to ethics, human values and rights. Pay special attention to confidentiality of information while working with human subjects. 5
9) Obtain basic concepts used in theory and practices of molecular biology and genetics and establish associations between them. 5
10) Search and use literature to improve himself/herself and follow recent developments in science and technology. 5
11) Be aware of the national and international problems in the field and search for solutions. 4