| Course Name | Media & Politics II |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
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| MCS 272 | Spring | 3 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Required | |||||
| Course Level | First Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | face to face | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | ||||||
| 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. |
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| Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | X | |
| 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 | Turkish Politics | Mardin, Şerif. Center-Periphery Relations: A Key to Turkish Politics? Daedalus, Vol. 102, No. 1, Post-Traditional Societies (Winter, 1973), 169-190. |
| 3 | Modernisation in Turkey | Bozdoğan, Sibel., Kasaba, Reşat (Eds). Rethinking Modernity and National Identity in Turkey, University of Washington Press, Seattle, London, 1997, 15-35. |
| 4 | The Republic's Official Ideology: Kemalism. Kadro (1932-1935) | Ahmad, Feroz. The Making of Modern Turkey, Routledge, 1993, 52-71. Karaveli, Halil M. An Unfulfilled Promise of Enlightenment: Kemalism and its Liberal Critics, Turkish Studies Vol. 11, No. 1, 85–102, March 2010, 85-102. |
| 5 | Nationalism | Bora, Tanıl. Nationalist Discourses in Turkey, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 102:2/3 Spring/Summer 2003, 433-451. |
| 6 | Nationalism and Far right. Türk Yurdu (1911-). | Poulton, Hugh. Top Hat, Grey Wolf and Crescent, Turkish Nationalism and Turkish Republic, Hurst & Company, London, 1997, 130-167. |
| 7 | Presentations | |
| 8 | Social Democracy, Socialism and the Radical Left. Yön (1961-1967). | Karpat, Kemal H. ‘The Turkish Left’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 1, No. 2, (1966), pp. 169-186. Belge, Murat. Nationalism, Democracy and the Left in Turkey, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Published online: 29 Jan 2010. : http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07256860802579394. |
| 9 | Siyasal İslam. Sebîlürreşâd (1908-1966). | Kamrava, Mehran. Pseudo-Democratic Politics and Populist Possibilities: The Rise and Demise of Turkey's Refah Party, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Nov., 1998), 275-301. Gülalp, Haldun. ‘The Poverty of Democracy in Turkey: The Refah Party Episode’, New Perspectives on Turkey, Fall 1999, 35-59. |
| 10 | Gender and Politics: Turkish Feminism. Kaktüs (1988-1990), Pazartesi 1995-2002). | Arat, Yeşim. From Emancipation To Liberation: The Changing Role of Women in Turkey’s Public Realm, Journal of International Affairs, Fall 2000, 54, No.1, 107-123. Nükhet. ‘Feminism in Turkey: A Short History’, New Perspectives on Turkey, 3/1, Fall 1989. |
| 11 | Nationalism and Minorities. Films: Güz Sancısı (Tomris Giritlioğlu, 2009), Büyük Adam Küçük Aşk (Handan İpekçi, 2001), İki Yutam Saç: Dersim’in Kayıp Kızları (Nezahat Gündoğan, 2010), Salkım Hanım’ın Taneleri (Tomris Giritlioğlu, 1999), Bulutları Beklerken (Yeşim Ustaoğlu, 2005) | Yeğen, Mesut. ‘The Kurdish Question in Turkish State Discourse’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 555-568 |
| 12 | Migration and Poverty in Turkey. Films: Gurbet Kuşları (Halit Refiğ, 1964), Mercedes Mon Amour (Tunç Okan, 1987). | Munro, John M. Migration in Turkey, Economic Development and Cultural Change, Vol. 22, No. 4 (Jul., 1974), 634-653. Coban, Ceren. Different Periods of Internal Migration in Turkey from the Perspective of Development, American International Journal of Contemporary Research Vol. 3 No. 10; October 2013, 58-65. |
| 13 | Presentations | Student Presentations |
| 14 | Presentations | Student Presentations |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Final exam |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 1 | 10 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 25 |
| Presentation / Jury | ||
| Project | 1 | 25 |
| 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 | 23 | |
| Presentation / Jury | |||
| Project | 1 | 23 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | 1 | 36 | |
| Total | 210 |
| # | 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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