INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
NMD3210 | Media Literacy | Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester. |
Language of instruction: | English |
Type of course: | Non-Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle) |
Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SİNAN AŞÇI |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Instructor SİNEM İNCE |
Course Objectives: | This course aims to develop students' critical thinking skills, question and analyze the information that they receive through media, and reflect on the concept of reality. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; Students who take this course; - will be able to analyze media. - will be able to understand visual codes and visual literacy. - will be able to express the relationship between imagination and media. - can analyze the post-truth and reality. - can analyze the target and goals of tv commercials. - will be able to analyze how sight, sound and motion call emotions. |
The course establishes the link between analysis, questioning, evaluation and mass media at every stage of their lives. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction: Meaning of media literacy | |
2) | Asking critical questions | |
3) | Understanding media genres | |
4) | Media and real world | |
5) | What is the truth? What is post-truth? | |
6) | Media and why do we trust? | |
7) | Agenda-setting | |
8) | Mass communication | |
9) | Visual codes | |
10) | Global media | |
11) | Media ethics | |
12) | Commercialism, media, culture | |
13) | Best examples of media literacy | |
14) | Review of the term |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Media Literacy - W. James Potter Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture Stanley Baran Thinking, Fast and Slow- Daniel Kahneman |
References: | Media Literacy - W. James Potter Introduction to Mass Communication: Media Literacy and Culture Stanley Baran Thinking, Fast and Slow- Daniel Kahneman |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 15 |
Presentation | 1 | % 15 |
Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 40 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 60 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 40 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 4 | 56 |
Homework Assignments | 3 | 3 | 9 |
Midterms | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Final | 1 | 3 | 3 |
Total Workload | 113 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
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, |