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
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) 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.