GASTRONOMY (TURKISH) | |||||
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) | - Possess advanced level theoretical and practical knowledge supported by textbooks with updated information, practice equipments and other resources. | |
2) | Use of advanced theoretical and practical knowledge within the field. -Interpret and evaluate data, define and analyze problems, develop solutions based on research and proofs by using acquired advanced knowledge and skills within the field. | |
3) | Inform people and institutions, transfer ideas and solution proposals to problems in written and orally on issues in the field. - Share the ideas and solution proposals to problems on issues in the field with professionals and non-professionals by the support of qualitative and quantitative data. -Organize and implement project and activities for social environment with a sense of social responsibility. -Monitor the developments in the field and communicate with peers by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level. -Use informatics and communication technologies with at least a minimum level of European Computer Driving License Advanced Level software knowledge. | |
4) | Evaluate the knowledge and skills acquired at an advanced level in the field with a critical approach. -Determine learning needs and direct the learning. -Develop positive attitude towards lifelong learning. | |
5) | Act in accordance with social, scientific, cultural and ethic values on the stages of gathering, implementation and release of the results of data related to the field. - Possess sufficient consciousness about the issues of universality of social rights, social justice, quality, cultural values and also, environmental protection, worker's health and security. | |
6) | Conduct studies at an advanced level in the field independently. - Take responsibility both as a team member and individually in order to solve unexpected complex problems faced within the implementations in the field. - Planning and managing activities towards the development of subordinates in the framework of a project |