CHILD DEVELOPMENT (TURKISH)
Associate TR-NQF-HE: Level 5 QF-EHEA: Short Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 5

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
GEP1619 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: Tr
Type of course: GE-Elective
Course Level: Associate
Mode of Delivery: E-Learning
Course Coordinator : Prof. Dr. ÇİSİL SOHODOL
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) Midterm Week
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

Sources

Course Notes: Ders notları Kitap: Social Media Communication: Concepts, Practices, Data, Law and Ethics by Jeremy Harris Lipschultz
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Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance % 0
Laboratory % 0
Application % 0
Field Work % 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) % 0
Quizzes % 0
Homework Assignments % 0
Presentation 1 % 20
Project 1 % 30
Seminar % 0
Midterms % 0
Preliminary Jury % 0
Final 1 % 50
Paper Submission % 0
Jury % 0
Bütünleme % 0
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 20
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 80
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 13 3 39
Laboratory 0 0 0
Application 0 0 0
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) 0 0 0
Field Work 0 0 0
Study Hours Out of Class 12 3 36
Presentations / Seminar 1 20 20
Project 1 20 20
Homework Assignments 0 0 0
Quizzes 0 0 0
Preliminary Jury 0 0 0
Midterms 0 0 0
Paper Submission 0 0 0
Jury 0 0 0
Final 1 2 2
Total Workload 117

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 be able to fulfill the professional requirements of the profession in the field of child development and education and to have knowledge of ethical principles and rules 1
2) Paying attention to children about proper and good usage of Turkish language. 1
3) To be able to monitor the development of typically developing children and prepare activities that support their development. 1
4) To have knowledge and skills on communicating effectively with children and strengthening families' communication skills. 1
5) Apply and practice drama,play and music activities 1
6) Use of basic theoretical and practical knowledge, basic computer programs and related technologies in the field of Child Development 1
7) To be able to monitor the development of children with special needs, plan and implement activities to support their development 1
8) To have knowledge and training skills regarding safe and conscious media use of children and families 1
9) To plan and carry out all activities (Turkish, music, drama, art, games, movement, science, mathematics, trips, tool and material development) carried out in pre-school education institutions within a daily, weekly, monthly and annual flow 1
10) To have knowledge and practical skills regarding the branches of art (painting, literature, etc.) used to support children's development. 1
11) To have knowledge and skills in the field of child nutrition 1
12) To have knowledge and skills about child health and diseases and first aid intervention. 1