PUBLIC RELATIONS AND PUBLICITY
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
ADV3631	Project Management	Spring Fall	3	0	3	5

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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 ÖNDER YÖNET
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi ÖNDER YÖNET
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	The objective of this course is, within the concept of "project management", to gain the students the ability of designing many projects in life (and in advertising). Hence, in other words, the objective is from the organization of their weddings to designing advertising campaigs, to teach them the steps, main concepts of project management and mediate in their becoming effective and efficient project managers.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) To clarify what project is
2) To differentiate what project management is
3) To describe the project life cycle
4) To identify the stakeholders of a project
5) To employ project initiation to any given project
6) To develope a project plan
7) To analyse how to execute a project
8) To determine how to control a given project
9) To formulate how to communicate about a project
10)To organise how to close a project
11)To assess any given project
12)To design a project
13)To manage a project

Course Content

The course will be held two-sided, on one side the students will learn theoretical knowledge about project management, on the other side, by the same time, they will analyse case studies and practise designing their own real-time projects.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Introduction
1)
2)	What is a project? What is project management? The players of projects: Who is who in the project management?
3)	Project life cycle
4)	scope management
5)	stakeholder analysis & management
6)	Stakeholder analysis & management
7)	WBS (Work Breakdown Structure) and OBS (Organizational Breakdown Structure) The project in the organizational structure
8)	Quiz-Review-Improving or Catching Up! past subjects.
9)	Risk management
10)	Risk management, Project budgeting
11)	PERT Diagrams and the Critical Path Method
12)	PERT Diagrams and the Critical Path Method and resource allocation Determining the final project topics
13)	The Monitoring-Controlling Cycle, Determining how to control a given project - The fundamental purposes of control
14)	Organising how to close a project

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	Project Management: A Managerial Approach, Jack R. Meredith, Samuel J. Mantel Jr.,2011. Managing Projects Large and Small: The Fundamental Skills to Deliver on budget and on Time by Richard Luecke, Harvard Business School Press (March 31, 2004) / Proje Yönetimi,Richard Luecke, Türkiye İş Bankası Yayınları,2009.
References:	The Principles of Project Management (SitePoint: Project Management), Mari Williams, 2008. Project Management Case Studies,Harold Kerzner,2009

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Homework Assignments	8	% 40
Final	1	% 60
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 60
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	14	3	42
Study Hours Out of Class	14	4	56
Homework Assignments	8	3	24
Final	1	3	3
Total Workload			125

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)	To prepare the students to become communication professionals by focusing on strategic thinking, professional writing, ethical practice and innovative use of traditional and new media
2)	To be able to create effective public relations plans using fundamental planning components that include situation analysis, public profile, objectives, strategies and tactics.
3)	To be able to apply theoretical concepts related to mass communication, consumer behavior, psychology, persuasion,sociology, marketing, and other related fields to understand how public realtions works.
4)	To be able to have the ability to explain and identify problems associated with the relationships between events and facts in the areas of public relations, persuasive communication, communication management, corporate communications.
5)	To be able to analyze primary and secondary research data in the fields of perception and reputation management and corporate communication practices.
6)	To be able to search, write, and design articles, newsletters, and fliers, brochures, and announcements, in styles and formats appropraite various audiences, mediums and settings.
7)	To be able to apply the underlying theories of communication and the necessities of work safety to different types of public relations processes and campaigns.
8)	To be able to develop creative and persuasive management skills in terms of reputation, employee relations, leadership and similar corporate practices.
9)	To be able to take responsibility in an individual capacity or as a team in generating solutions to given scenarios which can occur in public relations processes.
10)	To be able to understand how an organizational culture works and how employees and leaders create messages as a communication tool.
11)	To be able to critically discuss and interpret theories, concepts, methods, tools and ideas in the field of public relations.
12)	To be able to to use information, communication technologies and computer software with the required level of public relations, marketing communication, persuasive communication, communication management, corporate communications.
13)	To be able to explain and describe business marketing activities, economics, business law and global business practices.
14)	To be able to recognize national and international, social and cultural dimensions of public relations.