COMMUNICATION AND DESIGN | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
NMD2908 | Digital Culture and Media | Fall | 3 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
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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 TİRŞE ERBAYSAL FİLİBELİ |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SİNAN AŞÇI |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None. |
Course Objectives: | This course will explore sociological understandings of youth cultures, tracing the socio-historical factors which facilitated the development of the modern youth market and critically evaluating the ways in which sociology has theorized the relationship between young individuals, popular culture and “traditional” and “new” media. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; - account for the social and historical factors that facilitated the development of the modern youth market, - critically assess key theoretical accounts factors of the relationship between youth and popular culture in a local and global context, - reflect on the notions of youth, gender and ethnicity as they are represented in, shaped by, and articulated through popular culture, - critically evaluate the relationship between youth cultures and “traditional” and “new” media, - examine the theoretical relevance of the terms “subcultural” and “post-subcultural” in an understanding of contemporary youth cultures, - connect themes and issues covered in the course to wider sociological debates. |
Themes covered within the course include young individuals and mass media, TV and film, cultural representations of youth style and gender, subcultural groups and ethnic identities, youth cultures and music scenes, young individuals and new technologies, and global and local youth cultures. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | An overview of the course’s content, objectives, learning methods, and tips for academic reading | |
2) | Basic Concepts: Youth, Culture, Youth Media Studies | |
3) | Sociological Understanding of Youth Style, Subcultures and Youth | |
4) | Questioning Youth Culture - Generations & Transitions? | |
5) | Transnational Youth Cultures | |
6) | Mediatization of Culture | |
7) | Midterm | |
8) | Youth Culture and the Mass Media | |
9) | Subcultures in Detail: Gendered Subcultures, Criminalized Subcultures | |
11) | Subcultures in Detail: Virtual & Global Subcultures, Subculture as Performance & Style | |
12) | Youth and Violence | |
13) | Youth and Difference | |
14) | Youth and Media (in General) |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | 1) Williams, Patrick J. (2007) ‘Youth Subcultural Studies: Sociological Traditions and Core Concepts’, Sociology Compass, 1/2: 572-593. 2) Nazan Maksudyan. 2011. “Orphans, Cities, and the State: Vocational Orphanages (Islahhanes) and Reform in the Late Ottoman Urban Space.” International Journal of Middle East Studies 43: 493-511. 3) Christine Elizabeth Griffin. 2010. “The trouble with class: Researching youth, class and culture beyond the ‘Birmingham School’.” Journal of Youth Studies 14 (3): 245-259. 4) Erll, A. (2014). Generation in literary history: Three constellations of generationality, genealogy, and memory. New Literary History, 45(3), 385-409. 5) Siibak, A., Vittadini, N., & Nimrod, G. (2014). Generations as media audiences: An introduction. Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, 11(2), 100-107. |
References: |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Quizzes | 2 | % 20 |
Midterms | 1 | % 30 |
Final | 1 | % 50 |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
Course Hours | 13 | 3 | 39 |
Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 8 | 112 |
Quizzes | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Total Workload | 159 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Create design oriented application for the visual communication design field. | |
2) | Resolve visual communication problems via concept based designs and an integrated perspective in the visual communication design field. | |
3) | Qualify in design directing through analysis and design processes. | |
4) | Display creative thinking, approach and production process skills. | |
5) | Integrate basic fields of visual communication; print, time-based and interactive media, through mastering each one of these fields individually. | |
6) | Identify complementary design solutions in the visual field in order to solve communication problems. | |
7) | Perform necessary operational skills in order to finalize products in the visual communication design field. | |
8) | Evaluate recent design trends and the evolving aesthetic perspectives. | |
9) | Use recent design softwares that coincide with the developing information technologies and communication channels. | |
10) | Interpret theoretical, historical and intellectual roots of the visual communication design field. | |
11) | Perform necessary time management in order to complete a visual communication design project. | |
12) | Demonstrate leadership qualities in a design team as well as individual skills during the progress of a visual communication design project. | |
13) | Display compositional solutions and aesthetic skills to fulfill design needs in a visual communication design work. | |
14) | Develop academical, intellectual and critical point of view for global, local and individual visual communication design works. | 3 |