MEDICINE
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
FTV3946	Media Studies	Spring	3	0	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:	Non-Departmental Elective
Course Level:	Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery:	Face to face
Course Coordinator :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÖNÜL EDA ÖZGÜL
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi GÖNÜL EDA ÖZGÜL
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	This course aims to provide a critical and an intertextual perspective to the study of media and media products. It also aims to raise students' awareness about the contemporary world system that they live in through the discussion of media.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. Gain the ability to think critically
2. Gain the ability to explore the economy-politics of media;
3. Can explore different ways of storytelling in media and understand the relationship between narration and the user/viewer/reader;
4. Can evaluate media products through diffferent theories;
5. Will be able to create media products in the context of different theories and put into practice theoretical knowledge

Course Content

This course focuses on the relationship between media and society. Media products and different ways of storytelling, the economy politics of media and media users/audiences are discussed in relation with the concepts of self, identity, power, memory and reality. Following the introduction of the main concepts in media studies, media products are both produced and discussed in relation with different theories such as semiotics, structuralism, post-structuralism and reception theory.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction
2)	Media and Modernity
3)	Media, Power, Ideology The Economy-Politics of Media Culture Industry Consumption Society Media as Myth Maker - Structuralism	Film to See Before Class: They Live (John Carpenter, 1988) Readings: Roland Barthes - Mythologies
4)	Medya, Power, Ideology Society of Spectacle One-Dimensional Man Discipline and Biopolitics (Foucault)	Film to See Before Class: Benny'nin Videosu (Michael Haneke, 1992) Readings: Guy Debord - Society of Spectacle
5)	Media and The Other Machine as the Other	Film to See Before Class: Them (Gordon Douglas, 1954)
6)	Media and Reality	Films to See Before Class: Stalker (Tarkovsky, 1979) Readings: Borges - Ficciones
7)	Media and the Subject The Subject and Performance Lacan's Understanding of the Subject Levinas and the Face Cyberculture and Cyborgs	Films to See Before Class: Bladerunner (Ridley Scott, 1982) Zelig (Woody Allen, 1983) Readings: Kafka - Metamorphosis Camus - The Stranger Dostoyevski - The Double
8)	Midterm Project Presentations
9)	Media, Surveillance and Power Stalking and Empathy Film Spectatorship, Psychoanalysis and Feminism	Film to Watch Before Class: Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
10)	Media and Agency Media Activism, Participation and Democracy The Ethics of Seeing	Films: Videodrome (Cronenberg, 1983) Readings: Kafka - The Trial
11)	Media and Crisis
12)	Media and Everyday Life Public Space Media and the Body Virtual Bodies and Spaces Posthumanism and Cyberculture	Film to See Before Class: The Alien (Ridley Scott, 1981)
13)	Media and Spatiality Metropolis Utopia and Dystopia Space and Social Media Space and Identity Non-places	Readings: Calvino - Invisible Cities
14)	Media and Temporality History and Memory Flâneur and the Internet Technoculture	Readings: Milan Kundera - Slowness Eduardo Galeano - Mirrors

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Readings:
Roland Barthes – Mythologies - AC 25/.B37 1972
Guy Debord – Society of Spectacle - HM 291/.D43 2010
Jorge Luis Borges - Ficciones - PQ 7797 .B635/F5319 2017
Franz Kafka – The Metamorphosis and Other Stories - PT 2621 .A26/A225 1996
Albert Camus – The Stranger - https://www.macobo.com/essays/epdf/CAMUS,%20Albert%20-%20The%20Stranger.pdf
Fyodor Dostoyevsky – Notes from Underground and The Double - PG 3326/.N68 2009
Franz Kafka – The Trial - http://www.kkoworld.com/kitablar/Frans_Kafka_Mehkeme-ing.pdf
Italo Calvino – Invisible Cities - PQ 4809 .A45/C35 1974
Milan Kundera – Slowness - PQ 2671 .U47/L5613 1996

Films:
John Carpenter – They Live (1988) - PN 1995.9 .S26/Y28 2005
Michael Haneke – Benny’s Video (1992) - PN 1997/.H364 2006
Gordon Douglas – Them (1954) - https://archive.org/details/Them.theatrical
Andrei Tarkovsky – Stalker (1979) - PN 1997/.S585 2006
Peter Weir – The Truman Show (1998) - PN 1997.2/.T78 2015
Ridley Scott – Blade Runner (1982)- PN 1997/.B634 2007
Woody Allen – Zelig (1983) - https://vimeo.com/518557910
Alfred Hitchcock – Rear Window (1954) - https://vimeo.com/433068100
Ridley Scott – The Alien (1981) - PN 1995.9 .A457Y37 2017

References:

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Attendance	14	% 10
Presentation	1	% 20
Project	1	% 30
Final	1	% 40
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 30
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 70
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	12	6	72
Presentations / Seminar	1	4	4
Project	1	4	4
Final	1	4	4
Total Workload			126

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Low	3 Average	4 High	5 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	Integrates the knowledge, skills and attitudes acquired from basic and clinical medical sciences, behavioral sciences and social sciences, and uses them in health service delivery.
2)	In patient management, shows a biopsychosocial approach that takes into account the socio-demographic and sociocultural background of the individual, regardless of language, religion, race and gender.
3)	In the provision of health services, prioritizes the protection and development of the health of individuals and society.
4)	Taking into account the individual, societal, social and environmental factors affecting health; does the necessary work to maintain and improve the state of health.
5)	By recognizing the characteristics, needs and expectations of the target audience, provides health education to healthy/sick individuals and their relatives and other healthcare professionals.
6)	Shows a safe, rational and effective approach in health service delivery, prevention, diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation processes.
7)	Performs invasive and/or non-invasive procedures in diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation processes in a safe and effective way for the patient.
8)	Provides health services by considering patient and employee health and safety.
9)	In the provision of health services, takes into account the changes in the physical and socioeconomic environment on a regional and global scale, as well as the changes in the individual characteristics and behaviors of the people who apply to it.
10)	Takes good medical practice into account while carrying out his/her profession.
11)	Fulfills its duties and obligations within the framework of ethical principles, rights and legal responsibilities required by its profession.
12)	Demonstrates decisive behavior in providing high-quality health care, taking into account the integrity of the patient.
13)	Evaluates his/her performance in his/her professional practice by considering his/her emotions and cognitive characteristics.
14)	Advocates improving the provision of health services by considering the concepts of social reliability and social responsibility for the protection and development of public health.
15)	Can plan and carry out service delivery, training and consultancy processes related to individual and community health in cooperation with all components for the protection and development of health.
16)	Evaluates the impact of health policies and practices on individual and community health indicators and advocates increasing the quality of health services.
17)	The physician attaches importance to the protection of his/her own physical, mental and social health, and does what is necessary for this
18)	Shows exemplary behavior and leads the healthcare team during service delivery.
19)	Uses resources cost-effectively, for the benefit of society and in accordance with the legislation, in the planning, implementation and evaluation processes of health services in the health institution he/she is the manager of.
20)	Establishes positive communication within the health team it serves and assumes different team roles when necessary.
21)	Is aware of the duties and responsibilities of the health workers in the health team and acts accordingly.
22)	In the professional practices, works in harmony and effectively with the colleagues and other professional groups.
23)	Communicates effectively with patients, their relatives, healthcare professionals, other professional groups, institutions and organizations.
24)	Communicates effectively with individuals and groups that require a special approach and have different socio-cultural characteristics.
25)	In the diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation processes, shows a patient-centered approach that associates the patient with the decision-making mechanisms.
26)	Plans and implements scientific research, when necessary, for the population it serves, and uses the results and/or the results of other research for the benefit of the society.
27)	Reaches and critically evaluates current literature knowledge about his/her profession.
28)	Applies the principles of evidence-based medicine in clinical decision making.
29)	Uses information technologies to increase the effectiveness of its work on health care, research and education.
30)	Effectively manages individual work processes and career development.
31)	Demonstrates skills in acquiring and evaluating new knowledge, integrating it with existing knowledge, applying it to professional situations and adapting to changing conditions throughout professional life.
32)	Selects the right learning resources to improve the quality of the health service it offers, organizes its own learning process