Lesson plan / INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION THEORIES

Lesson Information

Course Credit 3.0
Course ECTS Credit 6.0
Teaching Language of Instruction Türkçe
Level of Course Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle
Type of Course Compulsory
Mode of Delivery Face-to-face
Does the course require compulsory or optional work experience? Z
Course Coordinator
Instructor (s) Prof. ARİF CAN GÜNGÖR
Course Assistant

Purpose and Content

The aim of the course Acknowledgment about the basic concepts and theories of communication, and their impact on culture, society, and arts.
Course Content Some fundamental topics are culture and communication, basic models of communication, media communication studies before and after World War II, critical models, Frankfurt school, Culture industries and popular culture, globalization and communication, The effects of communication on the society.

Weekly Course Subjects

1Description, goal, and importance of communication
2Functions and types of communication.
3Components participating the communication process.
4Relations among art, culture, and communication
5Mass media and means of mass media.
6Effects of mass media on the social structure.
7Classification of the theories of communication.
8The Theories of Communication: Studies during the early periods
9Midterm
10The Theories of Communication: World War II.
11The Recent Theories of Communication.
12Critical models at Media Studies: Frankfurt School
13Cultural Industry and Popular Culture
14New Media and Information Society.

Resources

1-Erol Mutlu - Dictionary of Communication

• Nurçay Türkoğlu – Culture and Communication

• Walter Ong – Orality and Literacy, The Technologizing of The World

• Introduction to Communicational Works , John Fiske, Bilim ve Sanat, Ankara, 2003

• More Than Meets The eye, Graeme Burton, Kasım 1995.

• Media Models Of Mass Communication, Dennis McQuail-Sven Windahl, İmge Kitabevi, 1997

• Ways Of Seeing, John Berger, Metis, 2005

• Art and Community in The Frankfurt School, Besim Dellaloğlu, SAY, İstanbul, 2007