This course provides students with the necessary theoretical and methodological knowledge to understand and analyze different forms and means of communication. The course defines the main issues and porous borders of communication studies as an interdisciplinary field. It helps students develop the necessary analytical skills to criticize media texts.
The course focuses on the media and communication theories that have been developed over the 20 th century and the beginning of the 21 st century. The course adopts a historical perspective when introducing these theories, shedding light not only on the theories and models themselves but also on the socio political context within which they have emerged. The first section of the course focuses on administrative (mainstream media theories) while the second section introduces critical approaches to media and communication. In the application component, the students are expected to use the theories they have learned in their analysis and production of media texts. Within this context, the course includes a two hours-per-week application module. In some weeks students present and critique the media texts they have produced. In others they form groups to engage in hands-on text analysis.
This coursroue will guide senior students in issues regarding professional life. Students will explore best practices for preparing a CV, job applications and going thgh interviews. Part of the curriculum will be devoted to occupational safety and health to improve students’ understanding of the workplace environment and regulations.
This course aims at preparing students to use academic skills in English.
ENG 102 is a compulsory course for first year students. ENG 102 focuses on the cognitive skills of listening, reading, writing and speaking. Students' academic listening skills will be improved by listening to important / relevant information from lectures or discussions and reading skills by reading recent academic texts and then using this information to create an output task. Speaking focuses on giving presentations and students get prepared to express their ideas and opinions by speaking persuasively and coherently. The writing component is a consolidation of the speaking activities.
ENG 310 is a compulsory course for third year students and is designed to enable them to speak more effectively while expressing themselves in a variety of areas, such as business related and academic related topics. These areas range from participating in discusiions to presenting information in the form of short presentations, known as Pecha Kuchas. Students will also take part in role plays and formal debates.
This course is designed to equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge that they will need when they start their professional lives. The course simulates all stages of the job application process, including topics like finding job openings, CVs, job application forms, cover letters, job interviews, and following up, as well as handling job offers and rejection.
This course provides a general information of the events from the end of the 19. century until the end of the Turkish War of Independence and the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 and the following period until 1990’s.
The course will help students recognize the skills needed for university life and their career goals. These skills include self-awareness, goal setting, time management, effective communication, mindfulness and analytical thinking. The course will also raise students’ awareness on problems such as addiction and bullying.
The course aims to develop the student’s knowledge on law within the major domains of fundamentals and general rules of law, sources of law - fundamental rights and freedoms in law, legal rules, some legal concepts, sanctions in law, courts, branches of law and the Turkish legal system, legal event - legal act - legal transaction - contract - unjust enrichment, branches of law and the Turkish legal system, introduction to international protection and organisations in law. In summary the course is to make students explore and develop issues on every aspect of law.
The course outlines main developments in history of communication and media. It shows the significance of technological developments in media and their impact on culture and society.
This course provides an introduction to critical thinking and informal reasoning. If language may be called the medium of all media in terms of which we make sense of our experience and act on others, this course covers the basic ways we may be said to succeed or fail in this attempt.Students will be expected to actively participate in discussions and debate, solve exercise questions and participate in in-class group projects.
In the scope of this course analysis and interpretation of imagesand visual communication materials will be thought to students in order for them to be able to evaluate the aesthetic merit of visuals, articulate the social impact of visuals that would provide with basis of their future production work or images that effectively communicate the intended messages to the audience.
The course combines theories of creative writing with applied methods ofstorytelling. Students will be required to creatively read, write, revise anddevelop stories. There will be 3 quizzes, 5 assignments and a project.
This course is designed to provide the students with an historical account of relations between media and political power. In addition to theoretical discussions on how the media is shaped by social, economic and political circumstances, the course also examines a number of cases, both from international and domestic, that best exemplify the interplay between media and politics.
Sense-making is a peculiar human activity. We do not only think, feel and act, but we also give meaning and value to the ways in which we think, feel and act. Through an examination of the general features of major interpretive paradigms in the social sciences and the ;humanities, this course will discuss the main concepts and strategies of interpretation as we make human thought and action intelligible. Students will be expected to actively participate in discussions and in-class group projects.
The course follows a thematic approach. That is, throughout the semester, in the lecture component of the course a range of different themes such as nationalism, modernization, globalization, democracy etc. are scrutinized. At the end of this course, students should aim to have a general understanding of the role of media in the creation of social realities. Furthermore, the weekly two hour application component of the course urges students to produce media content with a particular awareness towards the themes that will be dealt with throughout the semester.
This course focuses on the issues related to digital media and its connections to social, political and cultural contexts. The course touches upon what is “new” and not new in media, the role of media technologies in daily life, the effects of content creation, the flow and distribution of information through platforms, as well as issues concerning big data. It elaborates on how the digital media ecosystem works, with a particular focus on the components of this ecosystem (users, content creators, media\ncompanies, etc). It discusses contemporary trends such as polarization, echo chambers and fake news.
This course uses design approach for the creation of visual elements and layouts required for a new media environment.
This course uses contemporary hardware and software technologies to introduce the tools, platforms and services used to create audiovisual media content.
By the end of the course, students will be acquainted with the nature and essentials of reporting practice within diverse media institutions, including newspapers, TV and radio stations, particularly their online channels. As an introductory course to reporting, it will include lectures and classroom discussions of news story structure, the nature of news, interviewing techniques.
This course uses contemporary hardware and software technologies to introduce the tools, platforms and services used to create, publish, share and/or distribute multimedia content.
This course introduces studio environment, team work and a periodical approach to improve essential media content production skills.
This course introduces studio environment, team work and a periodical approach to improve essential media content production skills.
In this course students will work individually and in teams and produce a multi-media publication which will include articles, photography, graphics,interactive media, video, podcasts and live broadcasts. The course requires students to create and publish content on a weekly basis throughout the semester. This coursework will include non-class hours and field work.
This course provides an introduction to fundamental ethical paradigms in ethical thinking and evaluation in order to deliberate on and engage with ethical conflict in media old and new. Students will be expected to actively discuss and debate and participate in in-class group projects.;Students will learn the relationship between general theories and the analysis of particular problem by performing exercises tha emphasize he problems of application.
Today’s media business requires professionals to have a realistic grasp of the media as an economic activity, the business models and the new media ecosystem. This course will explore the transition from legacy media to new media structures defined by technology conglomerates. Students will learn about the global media ecosystem, how companies position themselves in the new market conditions and the shifts in ownership structures and new business models.
In this course students will work individually and in teams and produce a multi-media publication which will include articles, photography, graphics, interactive media, video, podcasts and live broadcasts. The course requires students to create and publish content on a weekly basis throughout the semester. This coursework will include non-class hours and field work.
In this course students will develop and complete projects for their portfolios. Projects will be prepared either in photo, audio or video formats, as well as multimedia. Project ideas will be developed through meetings with the teaching staff and then presented to their peers. Approved projects will take off. For group projects, sharing of workload among team members will be monitored. Each project will have weekly tutoring meetings with the lecturers. Project owners will submit a progress report in each weekly meeting. Portfolios and the projects will be presented to a jury by the end of the semester.
Students will either continue their work from New Media Portfolio I or start new projects. Projects will be prepared either in photo, audio or video formats, as well as multimedia. Project ideas will be developed through meetings with the teaching staff and then presented to their peers. Approved projects will take off. For group projects, sharing of workload among team members will be monitored. Each project will have weekly tutoring meetings with the lecturers. Project owners will submit a progress report in each weekly meeting. Portfolios and the projects will be presented to a jury by the end of the semester.
This course provides students with the necessary theoretical and methodological knowledge to understand and analyze different forms and means of communication. The course defines the main issues and porous borders of the communication studies as an interdisciplinary field. It gives students with the necessary analytical skills to criticize media texts.
Internship, covers field experience at any work place for 3 weeks. Students should follow the instructions stated in IUE Internship Guide in order to successfully complete their internships.
Internship, covers field experience at any work place for 3 weeks. Students should follow the instructions stated in IUE Internship Guide in order to successfully complete their internships.
Students will be taught how to use the written and verbal communication tools accurately and efficiently in this course. Various types of verbal and written statements will be examined through a critical point of view by doing exercises on understanding, telling, reading, and writing. Punctuation and spelling rules, which are basis of written statement, will be taught and accurate usage of these rules for efficient and strong expression will be provided. As for verbal statement, students will be taught how to use the body language, use accent and intonation elaborately, and use presentation techniques.
This course explores digital media for humanitarian studies drawing from across the disciplines of sociology, politics, art and design, and informatics.Through examination of relevant international instruments, research, case studies, and agency policies, students will develop the skills necessary for understanding the use of media in development and humanitarian studies.
The course will focus on how cities and media interact and create new communication forms relevant to spheres of design, business and civic engagement. In this context, students will analyze a city as a case study that they will do within the scope of the lesson.
The first part of this course will enable students to acquire knowledge about the value of culture; and provide insights into the economic, political and social aspects of cultural industries. In the second part, the conceptual and practical implications of creative industries will be explored by offering critical insights about how these industries shape cities, and how they are shaped by the digital art ecosystem. Throughout the semester, students will use İzmir as a case study to focus on weekly concepts, and use their class assignments to relate the theoretical knowledge to practical solutions.
This course provides students practical instruction in lighting design.
This course is an introduction to technology studies that approaches technology as a social practice and that emphasizes the ethical problems generated by the production and consumption of new technologies. The course proceeds through critical reading of relevant material and group discussions about the relevant problems.
This course is all about music and music culture. Understanding and using the definition of music, its effect on human mind, defining musical genres and common strategies used when adding music to a moving image; It covers learning the distinctive importance of music in new media tools.
This course is a combination of the knowledge on audio equipments such as microphones, mixing desks, recording devices and an audio editing software. It also covers using the sound as a tool of effective expression.
This course examines the material culture and everyday cultural practices with an aim to demonstrate their functioning as essential means of communication in the 21st century world.
The course outlines the main developments in the history of the Turkish media. It shows the significance of the technological development in the media and their impact on culture and society.
Cultural studies is an interdisciplinary field and this course will introduce the students to the history and development of this field in Turkey and beyond. We will start with a brief history of the development of the field and analyze the concept of culture. We will then discuss specific theoretical contributions and particularly scrutinize the development of the field in Turkey. Every week there will be screenings (movies,documentaries, advertisements...) that will relate the theoretical\nperspectives to our practical understanding.
This course uses fact-based documentary approach to media content production, its theory and practice.
This course combines theoretical work and its application to images. Students are responsible for the preparation of presentations of each week’s key reading. Each week, we will summarise key points and arguments made by a visual theory scholar on a particular topic (see syllabus) and use examples that relate closely to the text.
This course examines various images and representations of gender in mass media paying particular attention to contemporary discussions. We will consider gender as a constitutive element of identity and by analyzing its intersection with other categories such as race, class, nation and sexuality, we will grasp the importance of the representation of gender in media and its meaning for our lives. The course consists of lectures, screenings and discussions revolving around critical analysis of and engagement with contemporary examples of film, television, adverts and new media. It employs theories from cultural studies, media, film and gender studies.
This course introduces the major theories and discussions of social media within new media and communication, as well as other fields of social sciences, in particular political science and sociology. The issues and concepts relating to social media, such as participatory democracy, social movements, alternative identities, virtual communities, new possibilities, inequalities, and surveillance society will be discussed.
The course is designed to emphasize the importance and uses of better speaking. Students will learn how to control their diction and pronunciation and then practice in several forms of speech.
This course is designed to introduce students to diverse theories, concepts, and analyses related to the consequences of globalization processes in the social, economic, cultural and political realms.
Understanding and implementation of radio and podcast production is at the heart of this course. Students will have theoretical lectures, and hands on practice. This practice will be informed by weekly discussions of principles essential to making good radio and podcasts.
This unit introduces various genres and fields of use of photography in which the themes and genres of practice units will be based on.
This course will analyze and discuss popular culture and its role in the world. We will scrutinize the major theories of popular culture and a number of historical and contemporary discussions that have the status and function of culture at their center. The course consists of lectures, screenings and discussions revolving around critical analysis of and engagement withcontemporary examples of film, television, adverts and new media.
This course will teach the basics of digital photography and image processing. Students should have access to a camera with a manual mode and, if possible, an option for capturing RAW images for the duration of the course. Please read your camera’s manual and online guides before class.
This course is about the social transformations brought on by the proliferation of digital data in society. The course has two parts: lecture and practice. In the first part of the course, students will explore the various aspects of data in social life through lectures, and the second part will complement the first by hands-on activities, helping them develop their own project in practice.
The course will provide an introduction to philosophical problems. It will do so by approaching philosophy as a set of tools at our disposal in order to deal with problems that arise when we raise knowledge claims,make value judgments and come to terms with the fact that we are political animals.
This course aims to increase the students’ appreciation of various forms of texts in a variety of media, such as film, television, news, social media, music etc. Furthermore, the course is geared towards guiding students in adopting a critical perspective in their engagements with media texts.
This course combines theoretical readings about the television genres and contemporary television with solid examples drawn from television series that circulate in the global mediascape. Discussion of readings and lecture will be accompanied by the screening of excerpts from several television series that will both exemplify and deepen the understanding of topics we will cover in this class.
This course aims to provide the required knowledge on different disciplines of post-production.
The use of imagination and aesthetic judgment has traditionally been regarded as an inferior mode of thought than cognitive judgments, perception and moral reasoning. However, investigation into the conditions\nof knowledge as well as morality suggests that productive imagination permeates our ability to use concepts as well as make value judgments. This course will examine various theories of imagination and aesthetics in order to explore the ways in which image-making is an indispensable condition of our sense-making practices.
This course provides the foundations for understanding the main theories, discourses and academic debates within alternative media, while probing into scholarship on its theory, history, politics, aesthetics, and practice. It explores a great variety of alternative media practices including subcultural, radical, tactical, social movement, community, participatory,\nethnic minority, indigenous and transnational media. The course also elaborates on the roles, opportunities, and challenges for these media in\nthe changing media ecosystem.
This unit explores the elements of press and documentary photography, such as techniques, ethics and theories.
In addition to theoretical discussions on how the media is shaped by social, economic and political circumstances, starting from the late Ottoman period, the course examines how the Turkish media have affected and been affected by major sociopolitical and economic transformations that have taken place from the outset of the Republic.
This course is divided into four parts. In the first part major technological breakthroughs in daily life will be discussed. In the second part cinema, media, and technology relation will be analyzed. Consequently, the third part will focus on debates surrounding cinema, media and future; concepts like utopia and dystopia will be major concerns in here. In the last part representations of technology in cinema and media will be analyzed in relation to science fiction genre.
Students will learn how to control their diction and pronunciation and then practice in several forms of speech. *This course could be taken without its credits being included in the total ECTS credits by the students who are enrolled in undergraduate programs in English. This course could be taken with its credits being included in the total ECTS credits by the students who are enrolled in undergraduate programs in Turkish.
