POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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
GEP0619 Using Media for Communication Spring 3 0 3 4
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester

Basic information

Language of instruction: En
Type of course: GE-Elective
Course Level: Bachelor
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr. BURCU ALARSLAN ULUDAŞ
Course Objectives: This course presents a wide-scale, interdisciplinary analysis and guide to both analog and digital media. Practicing the media platforms, this course explores and analyzes practices of journalism, broadcasting in general and also it provides an effective knowledge to create personal blog and digital space. The students will learn to use networking tools effectively and strategically from analog to digital for both personal communication to public communication.

Learning Outputs

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The students who succeeded in this course;
-will be acquainted with using media platforms
-will be ready to create their own digital media and space
-will enhance their own practical knowledge about effectivity of their own media
-will gain the necessary experience to create the blogs and the other necessary accounts for digital networking
-will be able to guide and/or lead social media accounts
-will use their abilities effectively during their professional experience

Course Content

This course covers the function and principles of media practices through analog in general specificy digital media. It provides students to create their own media in a strategic and effective way.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Presentation of the Aim of the course
2) Delivering the message, the news and the information: How do we reach each other?
3) How to provide personal and public information and news through media
4) Me and my community: Networking through Analog and Digital Media
5) Analog for all, digital for each.
6) Internet and the Digital Communication
7) Having your own blog, Twitter account, and publishing your own news.
8) Project 1
9) Citing, mentioning, tagging and let others know.
10) Strategic timing and publishing
11) Sending the message, catching the zeitgeist through your own media
12) Practicing communication skills: Effectivity of your own media
13) Presentation: Who are you, what is your media?
14) Last words: From personal communication to public communication
15) General review
16) Final Project

Sources

Course Notes: Ders notları Kitap: Social Media Communication: Concepts, Practices, Data, Law and Ethics by Jeremy Harris Lipschultz
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Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Grasp basic theoretical and conceptual knowledge about the field and relations between them at the level of practice.
2) Possess basic knowledge about the causes and effects of political transformations in societies.
3) Possess knowledge about quantitative, qualitative and mixed research methods in social and behavioral sciences.
4) Recognize historical patterns while evaluating contemporary political and social developments.
5) Demonstrate interdisciplinary and critical approach while analyzing, synthesizing and forecasting domestic and foreign policy.
6) Conduct studies in the field professionally, both independently or as a team member.
7) Possess consciousness about lifelong learning based on Research & Development.
8) Communicate with peers both orally and in writing, by using a foreign language at least at a level of European Language Portfolio B1 General Level and the necessary informatics and communication technologies.
9) Apply field-related knowledge and competences into career advancement, projects for sustainable development goals, and social responsibility initiatives.
10) Possess the habit to monitor domestic and foreign policy agenda as well as international developments.
11) Possess competence to interpret the new political actors, theories and concepts in a global era.
12) Evaluate the legal and ethical implications of advanced technologies on politics.