ARCHITECTURE
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	Fall 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)	Using the theoretical/conceptual and practical knowledge acquired for architectural design, design activities and research.
2)	Identifying, defining and effectively discussing aesthetic, functional and structural requirements for solving design problems using critical thinking methods.
3)	Being aware of the diversity of social patterns and user needs, values and behavioral norms, which are important inputs in the formation of the built environment, at local, regional, national and international scales.
4)	Gaining knowledge and skills about architectural design methods that are focused on people and society, sensitive to natural and built environment in the field of architecture.
5)	Gaining skills to understand the relationship between architecture and other disciplines, to be able to cooperate, to develop comprehensive projects; to take responsibility in independent studies and group work.
6)	Giving importance to the protection of natural and cultural values in the design of the built environment by being aware of the responsibilities in terms of human rights and social interests.
7)	Giving importance to sustainability in the solution of design problems and the use of natural and artificial resources by considering the social, cultural and environmental issues of architecture.
8)	Being able to convey and communicate all kinds of conceptual and practical thoughts related to the field of architecture by using written, verbal and visual media and information technologies.
9)	Gaining the ability to understand and use technical information about building technology such as structural systems, building materials, building service systems, construction systems, life safety.
10)	Being aware of legal and ethical responsibilities in design and application processes.