GRADUATE SCHOOL
Media and Communication Studies (With Thesis)
Courses
The aim of the course is to deliver a complete understanding of the various research methods used in social sciences, and to establish necessary practical skills required for their application. In this course, students will develop a formal research proposal for a master thesis or term project on a topic related to their individual graduate programs, with the supervision of their advisors, to be presented to the academic staff of the related graduate program.
Supervisors and students together will evaluate previous research on the basis of rules of academic writing and discuss how to apply skills related to critical reading, understanding, synthesizing and contrasting and comparing. Students will work together with an assigned instructor on a selected area in their discipline. Students are also required to write a paper/report in this seminar.
This course is designed to independently conduct a research and acquire the necessary competencies. Accordingly, a proper research question is identified under the guidance of an advisor, an extensive literature review is made, and a unique hypothesis and research design are determined by taking into consideration the methodologies and gaps in the literature. Within the framework of the research design, the relevant data is collected and a thesis including the theoretical basis, method, results and discussion of the research is written.
Elective Courses
MCS 501 Research Methods in Communication Studies
To be able to formulate sample research projects based on quantitative approaches by differentiating between positivist methodological approaches.
MCS 505 Media, Power and Politics in Turkey*
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.\n\n\n\n\nACADEMIC CAUTION\n\nAcademic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility. \n\nPlagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words. \n\nA detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here.\n\n Course Requirements: \n1-There will be a three-hour lecture on Thursdays from 18:30 to 21:30. The first two hours of the lecture will address the themes outlined below; the last hour will be a discussion hour from 20:30 to 21:30. Students will be expected to participate and contribute to discussions through their reading. Your in-class participation and response papers will account for 15 % of your overall mark for the course. \n2-Students are required to submit one essay (3000 words) during the year. Completion of the essay is a course requirement and non-completion of may result in withdrawal of permission to take the final examintion.\nMark for the essay will constitute 30% of marks for the course. A penalty of 5% points per day will be imposed for late submission of essays. \nDates for the submission of essay is: 18 April 2013. \n3-You are expected to do one presentation on one of the topics listed below. Presentation will constitute 15 % of marks for the course.\nEvaluation criteria for the presentation will be based on material used, structure of the presentation, critical evaluation of issues raised and analysis of the subject.\n4-Final exam ( 40 %) will be a sit-in exam. \n
MCS 509 Advanced Topics in Media Theory and Research*
This course presents the theoretical and methodological grounds for media and communication studies. It focuses on the recent literature which has been built up on these studies.
MCS 553 Media, Ideology and Representation
It involves exploring the main theories of ideology, discourse and representation in media studies. An important part of the course is devoted to the use of a wide variety of texts, such as film, TV shows, music, ads and newspaper articles to explore meaning production in relation to ideology, hegemony, power and resistance. The aim is to develop students’ ability to analyse texts and critically discuss processes of meaning production in media texts in a sociocultural context.
ACADEMIC CAUTION
Academic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility.
Plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words.
A detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here.
MCS 554 Space, Identiy and The Media
How gender, religious, ethnic and civic identities are constructed and represented in the transformed global/local contexts concerning new media technologies constitutes the essential question of the course. The capacities of new social movements and the boundary of politics in these changing circumstances constitute other important issues of the course content.
ACADEMIC CAUTION
Academic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility.
Plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words.
A detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here.
MCS 555 Gender, Media and Politics
By critically examining the terms gender, media, and power, this course discusses the role of media in the definition and (re)production of genderbased inequalities. The conceptual and theoretical frameworks are used to discuss gender representations in different media tools like film, television, advertising, news, radio, and the internet.
ACADEMIC CAUTION
Academic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility.
Plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words.
A detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here.
MCS 556 Globalization, Communication and The New Media Order
This course is designed to introduce students to diverse perspectives, practices and implications of the relationship between globalization and media/communication processes.
ACADEMIC CAUTION
Academic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility.
Plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words.
A detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here.
MCS 558 Film and Visual Theory
This course aims to develop an advanced understanding of film as a complex visual medium through the study of key theoretical approaches. Theoretical approaches discussed will include the chief ones, realist theory and formalist theory, as well as their major manifestations—the films themselves—and their major exponents—such important theorists as Kracauer, Bazin, Münsterberg, Arnheim, and Balázs. We will be trying to look more deeply at the nature of cinema itself, its social and psychological roles as well as its artistic one, and at the relationship of individual films to the theories they purportedly exemplify. Particularly in a world where much of the information we receive is visual in nature—where, increasingly, our knowledge about the world is based on the mediated images that we see and not upon firsthand experience—.
ACADEMIC CAUTION
Academic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility.
Plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words.
A detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here.
MCS 559 Film Analysis and Criticism
The course aims to teach the students how to conduct film analysis and criticism. Students are expected to submit a paper proposal, do a presentation and hand in a term paper.
MCS 560 Contemporary World Cinema
This course will survey developments in world cinema during the 1990s, covering key national as well as international film movements, principal directors, and aesthetic concepts by situating them within broader social, political, and cultural contexts. The course will proceed in roughly chronological (but always comparative or dialectical) fashion and focus on important issues of the period, including the technological advances of the medium and their relationship to film art; the industrio political developments giving rise to particular film movements; the growing prominence of differing national traditions(some of them displaying alternative or oppositional cinematic styles)over and against the commercial dominance of Hollywood; and the rise of film culture together with the legitimization of film as an art and an object of intellectual inquiry.
ACADEMIC CAUTION
Academic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility.
Plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words.
A detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here.
MCS 563 Semiotics, Psychoanalysis and Cinema
This course combines the theoretical/methodological literature of cultural studies with critical and analytic film studies.
ACADEMIC CAUTION
Academic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility.
Plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words.
A detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here.
MCS 564 Discourse Analysis
This course examines discourse analysis, focussing on Critical Discourse analysis and its many approaches such as social actors, discoursehistorical, and multimodal approaches. The course will apply these approaches to a wide variety of media artefacts from popular cinema to local radio news to global television and internet news services. The course will concentrate on wider political, economic and social implications of discourses uncovered through analysis such as the perpetuation of racism, sexism, nationalism and consumerism.
ACADEMIC CAUTION
Academic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility.
Plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words.
A detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here.
MCS 565 The Political Economy of Media
This course will start with a theoretical and empirical analysis of media markets and companies. A number of case studies will be examined in detail. The changing characteristics of media industries and the underling factors will be discussed. Moreover developments affecting the interaction between media users, advertisers and producers will be analyzed.
ACADEMIC CAUTION
Academic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility.
Plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words.
A detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here.
MCS 567 Digital Media Theory and Practice
A wide variety of issues including new media technologies and their influences on the society, dynamics of online media, and networks are covered. Both theoretical and practical aspects of these issues are discussed in the context of digital media.
MCS 568 Alternative Media
This module probes into traditional and newer alternative media/communication practices and the contexts of their implementation
MCS 562 Selected Issues in IMC
This course is a special indepth discussion or is a critical study of theory and research related to advanced topics in IMC. The topics may vary due to the interests/needs of the students and the instructor will determine the specific topics of this course on yearly base regarding with current issues in IMC. Different articles from related journals will also be discussed about relevant IMC topics.
ACADEMIC CAUTION
Academic honesty: Plagiarism, copying, cheating, purchasing essays/projects, presenting some one else’s work as your own and all sorts of literary theft is considered academic dishonesty. Under the rubric of İzmir University of Economics Faculty of Communication, all forms of academic dishonesty are considered as crime and end in disciplinary interrogation. According to YÖK’s Student Discipline Regulation, the consequence of cheating or attempting to cheat is 6 to 12 months expulsion. Having been done intentionally or accidentally does not change the punitive consequences of academic dishonesty. Academic honesty is each student’s own responsibility.
Plagiarism is the most common form of academic dishonesty. According to the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary, to plagiarize means to steal and pass off (the ideas or words of another) as one’s own. The easiest and most effective way to prevent plagiarism is to give reference when using someone else’s ideas, and to use quotation marks when using someone else’s exact words.
A detailed informative guideline regarding plagiarism can be found here.
MCS 566 IMC Principles and Practices
This course is an in-depth discussion and a critical study of principles and practices related to the topics in IMC. After examining the fundamentals of IMC, the process of developing an IMC program will be introduced.\nDifferent articles from related journals will also be discussed about relevant IMC topics.