Undergraduate
Faculty of Arts and Design
Communication Arts
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Media Critics

Course CodeSemester Course Name LE/RC/LA Course Type Language of Instruction ECTS
ISN4211 Media Critics 2/0/0 DE Turkish 3
Course Goals
In national and internationa media to have knowledge about the correct understanding and reading of the media by their news style and examine some case studies for explaining the message of media.
Prerequisite(s) None
Corequisite(s) None
Special Requisite(s) None
Instructor(s) Professor Okan Ormanlı
Course Assistant(s)
Schedule Tuesday, 11:00 - 12:45, Ataköy Campus, 1C-15
Office Hour(s) Tuesday, 11:00 - 12:45, Ataköy Campus, 1C-15
Teaching Methods and Techniques Verbal presentation and teaching with PP Presentation.
Principle Sources

-          Anaakım Medya -Alternatif Medya, Defne Özonur (Haz.), Nota Bene Yayınları, 2022.

-          Sosyal Medya Eleştirel Bakış 2, Ali Emre Dingin, Literatürk Academia, 2021.

-          Yeni Medya Analizleri, Suat Gezgini Ali Efe İralı (ed.), Eğitim Kitabevi, 2017.

-          Sosyal Medya Eleştirel Bİr Giriş, Christian Fuchs, Notabene Yayınları, 2020

Other Sources  Academic Articles, Internet Publications, Follow-up and analysis of media  and their Web sites.
Course Schedules
Week Contents Learning Methods
1. Week The concept of mass communication and its historical development Verbal Lecture
2. Week The historical development of mass media in Turkey Verbal Lecture
3. Week Evaluation of National and International Media Verbal Lecture
4. Week What is media criticism? Verbal Lecture
5. Week Concepts and sights on media criticism Verbal Lecture
6. Week Issue management and analysis in media Verbal Lecture
7. Week Midterm Exam Midterm Exam
8. Week Case studies on media criticism Verbal Lecture
9. Week Media and human rights relations and examples Verbal Lecture
10. Week Media and child relations and examples Verbal Lecture
11. Week Media and women relationship and examples Verbal Lecture
12. Week Overview and examples of Gender Equality in the Media Verbal Lecture
13. Week Media and Environmentalism relationship and examples Verbal Lecture
14. Week Media and Popular Culture relationship and examples Verbal Lecture
15. Week The concept of media and othering Assesment
16. Week Media and Health relationship and examples Assesment
17. Week Assesment Assesment
Assessments
Evaluation tools Quantity Weight(%)
Midterm(s) 1 30
Final Exam 1 70


Program Outcomes
PO-1Students will be able to define the concepts of communication, art, culture and others on the field and to associate the acquired theoretical information with the practices in the sector.
PO-2To gain the success on the field they will acquire the must theoretical acquisitions and they will be able to make creative designs by learning the quantitative and qualitative methods of the field.
PO-3By understanding developments of the subjects like communication, media, culture and art in their historical processes students will be able to evaluate the changes and results in the field related to cultural, social and technological improvements.
PO-4They will observe the technological, cultural and social improvements and will be able to practice these changes in the field.
PO-5They will be able to analysis the subjects they read, perceived and understand.
PO-6Students will embrace contemporary academic and professional approaches on communication and design and will be able to adapt them to their works.
PO-7By improving their research skills, students will be able to bring together different information sources and communication channels, thus developing creative communication strategies.
PO-8 By improving their skills on management and leadership they will be able organize their time and sources effectively.
PO-9They will develop detailed and must knowledge in the main professional fields like advertisement writership, customer representative, brand manager, communication strategist and communication consultancy.
PO-10Students will generate communication strategy in certain subjects and realize every related works.
PO-11They will work creatively, freely and flexibly in their personal lines.
PO-12Students will be able to provide and amass the necessary ideas and knowledge to give their projects a more effective and convincing formation in written, verbal or other ways.
PO-13During a relation with target group in a work they will be promoters who are encouraging the team work.
PO-14Students will be able to use necessary items and equipments of their profession in exact time and place and will practice their projects on time.
PO-15They will improve solutions to problems in the communication process and able to use their initiatives.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1Will be able to relate daily cases to each other.
LO-2Will be able to determine the importance of subjects and cases what he/she has read, listened, watched .
LO-3Will be able to express the knowledge what he/she has obtained from the mass media mediums.
LO-4Will be able to illustrate the cases in accordance with the knowledge he/she has obtained.
LO-5Will be able to interpret the current issues by the help of knowledge he/she has obtained.
Course Assessment Matrix:
Program Outcomes - Learning Outcomes Matrix
 PO 1PO 2PO 3PO 4PO 5PO 6PO 7PO 8PO 9PO 10PO 11PO 12PO 13PO 14PO 15
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LO 2
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LO 5