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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Type Of Course	D	U	L	ECTS
DIL 6036	MEDIA IDEOLOGY AND CRITICAL APPROACH	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	7

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR GÜLSÜM SONGÜL ERCAN

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to have the students know about the history, functions, production and consumption processes, etc. of the media and define how such information is used in daily language and what kind of changes it gives way to and analyse samle media texts and thus gain awareness on the hidden ideology in media texts, its effects on the society and manupilating effect of the media.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1	Defining key concepts and approaches to the media
2	Explaining the relationship between the media and ideology and its specific features
3	Conducting research on languge use in the media
4	Criticizing languge use in the media
5	Relating media with the society and culture and explaining this relationship
6	Researching the explict and/or implicit ideology in media texts and writing a research article on it.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week	Subject	Description
1	The relation between media and language
2	Approaches to media discourse: Converstion analysis and semiotic analysis
3	Approaches to media discourse: critical linguistics, social semiotics, van Dijk's social-cognitive model, cultural-generic analysis
4	Communication in the mass media: properties of mass communication
5	Communication in the mass media: practices of media text production and consumption
6	News value: news value approach of Galtung and Ruge's (1965)
7	Social and cultural explanations relating news value
8	Midterm exam
9	Comprehension of media texts
10	Analysis of news stories
11	Analysis of newspaper articles
12	Analysis of the TV news
13	Media literacy
14	Critical media literacy: different approaches to the same events

Recomended or Required Reading

Demir, V. (2006). Medya Etiği. Istanbul: Beta
Işık, M. (2004). Medyada Yeni Yaklaşımlar. Konya: Eğitim Kitabevi
Şendur, G. ve Atabek, Ümit. (2007). Medya metinlerini çözümlemek: içerik, göstergebilim ve söylem çözümleme yöntemleri. Ankara: Siyasal
Taşkıran, N. Ö. (2007). Medya okuryazarlığına giriş. Istanbul: Beta
Tılıç, D. L. (2001). 2000'ler Türkiye'sinde gazetecilik ve medyayı anlamak. Istanbul:Su.
Türkoğlu, N. ve Cinman Şimşek, M. (2007). Medya okuryazarlığı. Istanbul:Kalemus
Brighton, P. ve Foy, D. (2007). News Values. London: Sage
Ercan, S., Yağcıoğlu, S. (2007). Gazete köşe yazılarında kaçınma kullanımı ve cinsiyet ilişkisi. Dilbilim Araştırmaları, s. 1-16.
Fairclough, N. (1995). Media Discourse. New York: Arnold.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Lecture
2. Presentation
3. Debate
4. Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER	SHORT CODE	LONG CODE	FORMULA
1	MTE	MIDTERM EXAM
2	STT	TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3	FIN	FINAL EXAM
4	FCG	FINAL COURSE GRADE	MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5	RST	RESIT
6	FCGR	FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT)	MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40

*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-6: The assesment will be held by taking homeworks, project paper, presentations and attendance to the course into consideration.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% attendance to the courses is compulsory.
2. Not attending to a course is not going to be accepted as an excuse to the preperations of presentations, homework and in-class debate
3. Cheating and Plagiarism in midterms, finals and homeworks will be graded as "0" (zero)

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assit.Prof.Dr. G. Songül Ercan
DEÜ Edebiyat Fak. C Blok Ofis No: 153

Office Hours

Wednesday 10:30-12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities	Number	Time (hours)	Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures	13	3	39
Student Presentations	12	2	24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures	12	4	48
Preparation for midterm exam	1	10	10
Preparation for final exam	1	10	10
Preparing assignments	3	8	24
Preparing presentations	3	8	24
Final	1	3	3
Midterm	1	3	3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)			185

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO	PO.1	PO.2	PO.3	PO.4	PO.6	PO.7	PO.8	PO.9	PO.11	PO.12	PO.13
LO.1	3	3	5	1		3	3
LO.2	3	4	5	4		4	4
LO.3	4	4	3	4		4	4
LO.4	4	4	3	4		4	4			4	4
LO.5	4	4	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
LO.6	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5

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Description of Individual Course Units

Offered By

Level of Course Unit

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Course Objective

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

Mode of Delivery

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

Recomended Optional Programme Components

Course Contents

Recomended or Required Reading

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Assessment Criteria

Language of Instruction

Course Policies and Rules

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Office Hours

Work Placement(s)

Workload Calculation

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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