Courses

This course will explain the concept of various communication and its historical development as a discipline in detail.   Communication functions and types will be handled and basic models will be transferred to mass communication. Traditional and new media institutions and tools will be analyzed. The concepts of culture and ethics are also among the topics to be covered in the course

Compulsory

Writing for Media is an introductory writing course, which welcomes students to the foundations of academic writing in the university. The work occurs in a classroom setting where the lecturer interacts intensively and creatively with students. Students receive feedback on writing, learn strategies for engaging in critical inquiry, write essays and practice stages of the composing process.

Compulsory

In the digital age we live in, the dizzying developments in technology cause art, science and technology to intertwine, and the use of digital technologies affects every aspect of life as well as culture. In this context, it is inevitable that culture and art, fed by the technology of the period in which it exists, have the characteristics of digital or new media technologies today. The aim of this course is to explain the transformation caused by digital culture in social and communicative practices from a sociological perspective.

The social, political and economic dynamics behind the development of the press will be examined. Radio and television will be discussed to enter Turkey.

Compulsory

Today, the developing relationship between media, technology, and society has become complicated to define.  The news or posts circulating in the media are largely based on the political, economic, material, and cultural configuration of the society. This configuration also shapes our understanding of ourselves, our society, and the world. The change and development of media culture, the emergence of new technologies, new forms of entertainment, new areas of political debate, and the development of new models of participation and labor in the online environment point to a deep series of transformations. Within the scope of this course, how social, political-economic and cultural relations have changed with the new media will be examined. In order to better understand the effects of new media on the daily lives of individuals, changing or changing approaches and perspectives of society and/or individuals, the impact of new media on different aspects of life and society will be discussed with in-depth questions.

Compulsory

Basic concepts related to the journalism profession will be defined, and students will be able to comprehend the social position of the journalist and the economic-political conditions of the current journalism market. In addition, it is aimed that students comprehend the basic processes of news gathering and writing and perform them practically.

Compulsory

Development of media theories will be traced with respect to the following the four eras of mass communication theory: mass society theories, limited-effects perspectives, critical and cultural approaches, and meaning-making perspectives.

Compulsory

The course aims to provide students with theoretical and conceptual knowledge in the context of social media studies; and with the skills to critically evaluate the social, cultural and individual effects of social media environments and to analyze them through case studies.

Compulsory

Students are introduced to the basic definitions and principles in public relations and advertising fields, along with the roles and responsibilities of professionals working in these fields. After analyzing the functions of each field, the course will examine industry regulations, societal implications, and strategic planning processes associated with public relations and advertising campaigns and programs.

Compulsory

Students will also have an understanding of some of the key theoretical approaches to cinema developed by filmmakers themselves, from expressionism to realism, through political cinema, anti-narrative and the avant-garde.

Compulsory

This course is an introduction to broadcasting media with respect to its basic terminology, brief history, technological development and basic techniques and practise. The course will combine the theoretical and practical approaches in the field with lectures, discussion, professional guests, taped broadcast excerpts.

Compulsory

Throughout the course, changes that have followed the modernization of the media, the impact of globalization on individual countries, attempts to preserve the cultural character of domestic media content in the face of increased amounts of imported products, and the effects of new communication technologies, particularly the Internet will be examined and discussed.

Compulsory

In this course, the basic principles and concepts of media ethics are explained, and philosophical approaches and perspectives on ethics and media ethics are taught. The power and role of the media in shaping public opinion on current ethical issues is explained.

In this course, students will be introduced to the basics of multimedia storytelling. In the course, students are also informed about the current and developing trends in digital content production; In this direction, it is aimed to produce their own unique content for digital media by using developing digital storytelling tools such as text, still and moving images, sound, graphics and mobile applications.

Compulsory

After the introduction of the concept of Information Society and discussions around this concept, the course will examine the relationship between media and technology with its social and economic contexts. As current trends in new media technologies are elaborated, students will be provided the theoretical approaches to new media. The course will also focus on the changing nature of media and audience relationship with respect to interactivity and participation.

Compulsory

This course aims to explain the relationship between media and society. It emphasizes media’s role in social and political change, defines key theoretical approaches to mass media with a historical standpoint, briefly introduces current debates and media research. Through the semester, topics such as relations between mass media and modernity, political economy of media and ownership structure, media depictions of social groups regarding their class, race and gender, ideology, new media, social change and consumerism will be elaborated respectively.

Compulsory

This course aims to explore popular culture in the Western world and in Turkey with a critical engagement to the contemporary debates in cultural studies. The course begins with an exploration of debates around the categorisation of high, mass, and popular culture. Following that, different sites of popular culture and media texts are analyzed with a variety of theoretical approaches.

Compulsory

This course includes topics such as research types, ethics, usage of new media tools in a research, data collection methods and data analysis.

Compulsory

This class is designed to provide you with the basics of film making. It covers the production process and techniques involved in transforming ideas into an effective presentation of real life on a screen. The knowledge you develop by taking this course will provide a solid foundation for various kinds of film projects. We will concentrate on the practical features of short film production (both fiction and non-fiction) so that you achieve worthwhile results right from the beginning, whether with a consumer camcorder or professional equipment. At the end of the course each student is required to produce a short film.

Compulsory

This lesson contains the transformation of mediascape after the birth of new media and the effects of this transformation by referring politics and economy

Compulsory

This course aims that students learn how to use the knowledge of critical research and planning in the field of media studies and also media applications.

Compulsory

After a brief conceptual framework, students will be introduced to the administrative system and tradition of the Republic of Turkey with respect to historical developments until Otoman Empire and major administrative institutions, legal bodies and constitutions.

Elective

This course re-examines the concepts of sex and gender, the phenomenon of feminism and feminist media studies. In addition, the analysis of media texts within the framework of the gender phenomenon is also within the scope of the course.

Elective

Due to the dazzling speed of technological developments in the age of New Media or the Digital Age we are going through, the trajectories of art, science and technology intersect. Digital technologies affect almost every aspect of our lives, including art. Art, which has always been nourished by the technologies of the period it is created in, inevitably reveals the characteristics of new media technologies and is even named after the concepts of new media.

This course aims to shed light on various art practices which use digitalization both as a medium, and a language. As such, the distinguishing properties of current digital art practices such as virtual reality, tele- presence and augmented reality will be analyzed.

In addition, the new presentation forms which art gained on digital platforms during Covid-19 pandemics will be discussed.

Electıve

Although theoretical debates on investigative journalism will be addressed, the course will mainly be handled in practice.  Different stages of this practice will be discussed through examples, and the online tools and materials required for desktop research will be taught.

Elective

In this hands-on course, the basics of television aesthetics will be stressed along with the fundamentals of shooting, editing, lighting, audio, and story-telling..

Elective

The course aims at explaining the basic stages of data journalism. The processes of data collection, cleaning, analysis, visualization, verification and storytelling will be introduced and practiced. In addition, the importance of open data for journalism and democracy and the notion of open data as a right will also be highlighted. A final aim is to critically evaluate the role of data journalists in society.

Elective

Students taking the course will see which debates are ongoing in the field of media studies regarding professional journalism culture, both with theoretical discussions and examples from world cinema which correspond to these theoretical debates. With the films that will be watched during the course, the students will understand the development of professional codes and their reflections in society in relation to the current situation of the media industry and additionally they will be able to evaluate the journalism culture in its historicity. Beyond films in which journalists, who are frequently seen in popular cinema, are portrayed as heroes or, conversely, as villains, students will encounter a much more diverse journalism and journalist portrayols with examples from world cinema and independent productions, and on this occasion they will be able to develop a global and a critical understanding of journalism culture.

Elective

In this course, the basic concepts and principles of digital content production are introduced, the relationship between digital content and digital marketing is explained, information is given about the planning, production and distribution stages of digital content production.

Elective