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 |
NMD4101 | Critical Media Analysis | 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: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi SİNAN AŞÇI |
Recommended Optional Program Components: | None |
Course Objectives: | This course is designed to provide students with necessary analytical tools to critically analyze media organizations, media texts and their larger social contexts. |
The students who have succeeded in this course; - will be able to develop critical analytical skills to understand, criticize and evaluate media texts in relation to their social contexts, - will be able develop high levels of media literacy skills, - will be able to develop a critical understanding of the media's role in the construction of social reality, - will be able to understand the significance of media in relation to meaning-making processes in people’s ordinary lives, - will be able to develop media awareness, - will be able to understand, discuss and evaluate research methods in the critical media analysis, - will be able to understand how people conceptualize the world by way of various media, - will be able to evaluate media texts as a struggle over power and in relation to knowledge and ideology, - will be able to discuss power and domination always with resistance. |
The theoretical framework of this course is based on critical theory and social constructivism. In the first half of the course, we analyze the role of media in relation to the concept of power. In the second half, we try to understand the media's role in the construction of reality. We follow the idea that reality is socially constructed and based on the mutual understanding between sides in the communication process. |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to the course | |
2) | What is “critical” in media analysis? | |
3) | Marxism I | |
4) | Marxism II | |
5) | Other critical theories | |
6) | Structuralism | |
7) | Semiotics | |
8) | Midterm | |
9) | Feminism and research | |
10) | Narrative, Genre, Autuer, Star Analysis | |
11) | Pyschoanalysis | |
12) | Postmodernism and Postcolonialism | |
13) | Debates and Controversies in Communication | |
14) | Evaluation of the term before final |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | Stocchetti, Matteo and Kukkonen, Karin (2011) Critical Media Analysis: An Introduction for Media Professionals. Frankfurt: Peter Lang Beck, Andrew, Bennett, Peter and Wall, Peter (2004) Communication Studies: The Essential Resource. London: Routledge Stokes, Jane (2003) How to do Media and Cultural Studies. London: Sage. |
References: |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Midterms | 1 | % 50 |
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 | 5 | 70 |
Midterms | 1 | 2 | 2 |
Final | 1 | 2 | 2 |
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, |