| Course Name | Media & Politics II |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MCS 272 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Service Course | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | face to face | |||||
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| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | This course aims to familiarize students with advanced concepts in political science and communication studies. The course also aims to enable students to discuss the relations between political science and media studies. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course aims to inform students on the historical development of relation between political power and media practices and institutions. The course also aims to analyze a series of national and global events in light of the interaction between media and economic and political conditions. |
| Related Sustainable Development Goals |     |
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| Core Courses | X |
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| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction | Introduction: General Review of the First Part of the Course: Key Concepts of Politics and Communication |
| 2 | Identity, Politics and Media | Must Reading: K. Woodward (1997) Identity and Difference, Sage: London S. Hall (1995). Further reading: Anderson (1991) Imagined Communities: reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism, London, Verso. |
| 3 | Social Movements and Media | Must reading: R. Crompton and J. Scott (2005) Class analysis: beyond the cultural turn, in F. D. Savage, M. J. Scott and R. Crompton (eds.), Rethinking class: culture, identities and lifestyles, pp186-203. Basingstoke, Palgrave. Further reading: Girdner, pp.331-343 (New Media and Social Movements)./Michael Lowy, Theory of Uneven and Combined Development Vicky Randall, Political Change and Underdevelopment. |
| 4 | Modernization in Turkey | Must reading: Zorunlu okuma: Dankwart A. Rustow, ‘The Modernization in Turkey in Historical and Comparative Perspective’, in Kemal H. Karpat and Contributers, Social Change and Politics in Turkey, Leiden E.J. Brill, 1973, pp.93-122;Şerif Mardin, Center-Periphery Relations: A Key to Turkish Politics? Daedalus, Vol. 102, No. 1, Post-Traditional Societies (Winter, 1973), pp. 169-190. |
| 5 | The Republic's Official Ideology: Kemalism | Must reading: Paul Dumont, ‘The Origins of Kemalist Ideology’, in Jacob M. Landau, Atatürk and the Modernization of Turkey,Westview Press, E.J. Brill, 1984,pp.25-44. Further reading:Feroz Ahmad, The Making of Modern Turkey, Routledge, 1993, pp.1-72./ Mustafa Türkeş, ‘A Patriotic Leftist Development-Strategy Proposal in Turkey in the 1930s: The Case of the Kadro (Cadre) Movement’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Feb., 2001), pp. 91-114. |
| 6 | Nationalism and Far right | Must reading: Zorunlu Okumalar: Hugh Poulton, Top Hat, Grey Wolf and Crescent, Turkish Nationalism and Turkish Republic, Hurst & Company, London, 1997, pp. 130-167./Jacob M. Landau, Pan-Turkism: From Irredentism to Cooperation, London: Hurst & Company, 1995./Further reading: Güney, A. (2006-07). Resmi Milliyetçilikten Popüler Milliyetçiliğe Geçiş: 1960 Sonrası Türk Sineması Üzerine Siyasal Bir Deneme. Doğu Batı, 39, 209-226./Tanıl Bora, Türk Sağının Üç Hali, Birikim Yayınları, 1999./ Gregoire François Georgeon, Türk Mlliyetçiliğinin Kökenleri Yusuf Akçura 1876-1935, Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2005. |
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| 8 | Social Democracy, Socialism and the Radical Left | Must reading: Kemal H. Karpat, ‘The Turkish Left’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 1, No. 2, (1966), pp. 169-186./Further reading: Arslan, U. T. (2001). Popüler Sinema ve Sol Siyaset. Mürekkep, 16, 8-28./ Doğruöz, H. Ş. (2007). Sinemada 12 Eylül: Bellek Yitimine Direnmek ve Temsil Stratejileri. Birikim, 222, 68-80. |
| 9 | Siyasal İslam | Must reading: Haldun Gülalp, ‘The Poverty of Democracy in Turkey: The Refah Party Episode’, New Perspectives on Turkey, Fall 1999, 35-59./ Further reading: Ayse Öncü “Packaging Islam: Cultural Politics on the Landscape of Turkish Television”, in Public Culture, 8(1):51-71, 1995./ Maktav, Hilmi (2010). Sinema ya da İlahi Aşk: İslami Sinemada Tasavvufi Yolculuklar. sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi, 1(2), 31-55./ Cihan Aktaş, Bir Hayat Tarzı Eleştirisi: İslamcılık, Kapı, 2007. |
| 10 | Nationalism and Minorities | Must reading: Harris, Sarah (2008). Turkish Popular Cinema: National Claims, Transnational Flows. The International Journal of the Humanities, 6(3), 77-87./Further reading: Baskın Oran, Türkiye'de Azınlıklar, İletişim, 2008. Mersin, S. (2010). Azınlık Filmleri: Tarihin Yeniden İnşası ve Kolektif Bellek. sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi, 1(2), 5-29. Mesut Yeğen, ‘The Kurdish Question in Turkish State Discourse’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 555-568. http://www.jstor.org/stable/261251 Films: Umut (Hope, 1970), Güz Sancısı (Pains of Autumn, 2009), Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk (Big Man Little Love, 2001), Dersim’in Kayıp Kızları (Two locks of hair: the missing girls of Dersim, 2015), Salkım Hanımın Taneleri (Mrs. Salkım's Diamonds, 1999), Bulutları Beklerken (Waiting for the Clouds, 2005) |
| 11 | Gender and Politics: Turkish Feminism | Must reading: Nükhet Sirman, ‘Feminism in Turkey: A Short History’, New Perspectives on Turkey, 3/1, Fall 1989./Further reading: Seda Özcan, ‘The Dual Identity of Roza Journal: Womanhood and Ethnicity in the Context of Kurdish Feminism’, TJP Turkish Journal of Politics Vol. 2 No. 2 Winter 2011./Sevda Alankuş, Türkiye’de Medya, Hegomonya ve Ötekinin Temsili”, Toplum ve Bilim, N.67 (1995): 76-111./ Dönmez-Colin, G. (2008). Turkish Cinema: Identity, Distance and Belonging. London Reaktion Books./Dönmez-Colin, G. (2006). Kadın, İslam ve Sinema (D. Koç, Çev.). İstanbul: Agora./Güçlü, Ö. (2010). Silent Representations of Women in the New Cinema of Turkey. sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi, 1(2), 71-85. |
| 12 | Migration and Poverty in Turkey | Further Reading: Maktav, H. (2001). Türk Sinemasında Yoksulluk ve Yoksul Kahramanlar. Toplum ve Bilim, 89, 161-189./Further reading: Rifat N. Bali, Tarz-Hayattan Life Style'a Yeni Seçkinler, Yeni Mekânlar, Yeni Yaşamlar, İstanbul, İletişim, 2002./Necmi Erdoğan, Yok-sanma: Yoksulluk-Maduniyet ve “Fark Yaraları”, Yoksulluk Halleri, Ed. Necmi Erdoğan, De:ki, 2002, s.33-64./Türk sinemasında göç ve şehirleşme Gurbet Kuşları (Halit Refiğ, 1964) Gelin (Lütfi Akad, 1973)./Diasporik Türk sineması Mercedes Mon Amour (Tunç Okan, 1987). |
| 13 | Presentations | Student Presentations |
| 14 | Presentations | |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 30 |
| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 3 | 60 |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 1 | 40 |
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 5 | 80 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 20 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 1 | 25 | |
| Project | |||
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | 1 | 35 | |
| Total | 208 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to critically discuss and interpret the theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of the discipline of new media and communication. | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to critically interpret theoretical debates concerning the relations between the forms, agents, and factors that play a role in the field of new media and communication. | X | ||||
| 3 | To have the fundamental knowledge and ability to use the technical equipment and software programs required by the new media production processes. | |||||
| 4 | To be able to gather, scrutinize and scientifically investigate data in the processes of production and distribution. | |||||
| 5 | To be able to use the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able to take responsibility both individually and as a member of a group to develop solutions to problems encountered in the field of new media and communication. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be informed about national, regional, and global issues and problems; to be able to generate problem-solving methods depending on the quality of evidence and research, and to acquire the ability to report the conclusions of those methods to the public. | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to critically discuss and draw on theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of other disciplines complementing the field of new media and communication studies. | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to develop and use knowledge and skills towards personal and social goals in a lifelong process. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to apply social, scientific and professional ethical values in the field of new media and communication. | X | ||||
| 11 | To be able to collect datain the areas of new media and communication and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1). | X | ||||
| 12 | To be able to speak a second foreign language at a medium level of fluency efficiently. | |||||
| 13 | To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise. | |||||
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