CMN 101 Introduction to Communication
The aim of the course is to help students to understand the fundamental concepts in communication such as the process of signification and representation. Students will also acquire knowledge about the historical development of different media sectors and understand how they work.

HIST 103 History of Civilization
The course covers the main developments of the mankind from the earliest to the present time. The main focus is on the big turning points of the culture such as the Neolithic Revolution, the rise of the civilizations, the Renaissance, Industrial Revolution, and modern periods. By exploring the history of the World, students learn how to think creatively and critically, to reason, and ask questions about the social, political and economic systems and institutions. The experiences of the past is necessary to understand the world we live in, and give us tools to imagine the future.

CMN 106 New Media Technologies
Digitalization of the media and the emergence of the new media technologies are probably the most influential changes after the press printing. The nature of marketing, advertising public relation, filmmaking and broadcasting, journalism and many other professions in the field of communication have profoundly changed by the emergence of these new changes, Therefore, it is essential for us to get to know these new and fast-pacing changes and get adapted to them both in the level of personal and professional. That’s what this course is all about to introduce this non-traditional view to students and equipped them with the necessary knowledge about the evolution of communication technologies, their origins, characteristics, and the way they have effected human interactions.

ECON 111 Principle of Economy
Economics and scare sources problem, factors of production, demand and supply, market equilibrium, elasticity, consumer preferences, production and cost, main market types, GDP, aggregate demand and aggregate supply, product market, monetary system, monetary and fiscal policies, inflation and growth, international trade.

AIT 103 Principles of Atatürk’s I
The course examines the recent Ottoman history and the process of renewal that the Ottoman state had entered since the middle of the 19th century and the collapse of this process, the history of national struggle and the emergence of the idea of national independence.

YIT 101 Turkish for Foreigners I
It is a beginner course. Accordingly, it is carried out within the framework of a curriculum that covers beginner topics.

ENG 101 English I
It is a beginner course. Accordingly, it is carried out within the framework of a curriculum that covers beginner topics.

SOC 122 Sociology
What is sociology? What does it mean to think sociologically? What concepts and theories make sociological perspectives? These are some of the questions that SOC122 tries to explore. This class offers an introduction to the basic character of society and the relationship between society and the individual. Students are being introduced to key issues addressed by contemporary sociologist; class, race, gender, sexuality, religion, globalization, education, health care, crime, the media, and the environment.

JRN 128 Computer Skills for New Media
Within the scope of the course, information is given about the new information techniques and technologies in terms of historical, cultural and sociological aspects and various theories and concepts. Journalists of the future will learn about the developments in the media media of the future, learn about practical studies and future professional experiences

CMN 100 New Media Journalism
The course provides a platform for students to learn what new media journalism is, its challenges and its future, while comparing it to traditional journalism.

AIT 104 Principles of Atatürk’s II
Besides the philosophical foundations of Ataturk’s principles historic events up to the establishment of the Republic of Turkey, the basic meaning and form of interpretation in the light of contemporary developments founded on the Turkish modernization are the focus of this course.

YIT 102 Turkish for Foreigners II
The aim of this course, which is a continuation of YIT101, is to improve the Turkish of students and to increase their basic knowledge of English.

ENG 102 English II
The aim of this course, which is a continuation of ING101, is to improve the professional English of students and to increase their basic knowledge of English.

CMN 208 Political Science
This course aims to develop students’ understanding of political science. Students are expected to take active roles in the learning process and make presentations about different ideologies.

CMN 217 Communication Theories
The aim of the course is to help students see the intricacies of the communication field in which they will be spending most of their professional time.

JRN 205 Introduction to News Writing
This course equips students with an understanding of the basic principles and practice of journalism: how to organize and develop a news story, gather facts through interviewing and research, develop sources, craft welcoming leads and satisfying endings, and create news articles that inform the readers.

JRN 209 Basic Photography
Students will be introduced to the history of photography in terms of the technological development and also learn about the political, social and cultural circumstances of the areas these happened in. Students will be taught of the importance of composition and context whilst establishing a knowledge base for understanding the basic principles of capturing and recording quality images

JRN 219 Basic Programming for New Media
The course aims to introduce students to programming languages, tools and programming terminology used in the new media. By creating programming and projects for new media, students will learn browsers, browser applications, HTML editors and image editors.

CMN 202 Communication Sociology
This course presents students fundamental concepts and issues in sociology and connects them to communication studies.

CMN 212 Politics of Mass
The media influence politics by setting the agenda and shaping public opinion. This course introduces students to arrange of concepts which are mostly unique to political communication. Students will learn to think about concepts, to understand them theoretically and practically and then apply them to current affairs.

JRN 220 Audio, Image and Video Reporting
In this course, students will be involved in the increasingly popular online news making process by using digital technology. Video journalism is now widely used in many online news media outlets. Students will also learn the techniques of short and low-cost news making that are more used by televisions and documentaries.

JRN 309 Press Photography
This course is designed to teach students the importance of photography in journalism. Students will gain experience in collecting, editing, and presenting photographic images which tell a story as news material for publication or broadcast.

CMN 303 Research Methods and Techniques in Social Sciences
Research Methods for Media Studies provides students with the tools they need to perform critically engaged, theoretically informed research using methods that include interviewing, focus groups, historical research, oral histories, ethnography and participant observation, and textual analysis. Each chapter features step-by-step instructions that integrate theory with practice, as well as a case study drawn from published research demonstrating best practices for media scholars. Students will also find in-depth discussions of the challenges and ethical issues that may confront researchers using a qualitative approach. Qualitative research does not offer easy answers, simple truths or precise measurements, but this course provides a comprehensive and accessible guide for those hoping to explore this rich vein of research methodology.

CMN 310 Communication Law
This course presents students fundamental concepts and issues in communication law with the aim of helping them develop an understanding of how legal systems function.

JRN 301 Techniques of News Writing
Students will learn how to gather and evaluate information to craft different types of news stories. This includes to focus on the core skills of news judgment along with the writing practices on different types of news stories (hard, soft and features stories). Additionally, students also learn basic reporting and editing skills, conducting interviews for different media outlets and ethical framework of the journalists.

JRN 306 Techniques of Publishing in Journalism :
In this course, students learn and apply all stages of newspaper design until publication.

JRN 311 Course Training
In this course, it is aimed that students realize the knowledge they have learned about journalism profession in a media organization and develop their knowledge and skills in practice.

JRN 320 Data Journalism and Verification
The aim of the Data Journalism course is to understand the basic stages of this field, data discovery, data collection, data cleanup, data analysis, data visualization process practically and theoretically, and to understand the relationship between open data by using the right to acquire information.

CMN 341 Research of Mass Media
Mass communication is the study of how people and entities relay information through mass media to large segments of the population at the same time. In other words, mass communication refers to the imparting and exchanging of information on a large scale to a wide range of people. It is usually understood to relate newspaper, magazine, and book publishing, as well as radio, television and film, even via internet as these mediums are used for disseminating information, news and advertising.The study of mass communication is chiefly concerned with how the content of mass communication persuades or otherwise affects the behavior, attitude, opinion, or emotion of the person or people receiving the information.

JRN 324 New Media Studies
Within the scope of the course, students will learn about the theories and concepts about the new information techniques and technologies.

JRN 326 New Media Design
Social, economic and managerial processes related to creativity in new media, information and communication technologies. The study of social communication and the resulting social networks that are increasingly common in cyberspace. The effects of cyberspace virtuality on the individual and the resulting socialization dynamics.

CMN 413 Media Ethics
This course aims to establish the importance of the philosophy of ethics in communication and media studies. The course begins with introducing the central questions and discussions on ethics and morality and continues to elaborate on the role of ethics as a philosophy in media and communication practices, in analyzing media structures and use and control of new media technologies.

CMN 431 Political Communication
Introduction to theory and practice of political communication; role of media in political campaigns, press-government relations and policymaking; implications for media, politicians and the public. Impact of the media on American politics through their interactions with political actors and involvement in the policymaking process; use of strategic political communication in government, and the media’s role in spotlighting policy problems and suggesting policy solutions.

JRN 433 Rights-Oriented Journalism
This course presents an insight to rights-oriented journalism with its theoretical background and practices. The course discusses the evolution of human rights. human rights law and international frameworks, it then conceptualizes violence and introduces the ethics of human dignity and nonviolence. In the second half of the semester, the course looks into the practices of the various representations of violence in the news media, and informs the students on how to identify and report human rights violations.

JRN 435 Editing of Digital News
The course will examine all phases of news broadcasting and editing processes that has been changed in new media. Students will learn the presentation of the news in the new media by organizing the relationship between the writing bodies and visual fields according to the content of the news to increase the perception effect.

CMN 444 Communication and Modernity
This course is an introduction to the formation and prospects of modernity and postmodernity and to the communication aspects of these processes. The course will start with the formation of modernity going back to its roots in Enlightenment, and proceed to the development of modern state, media, and changing class, gender and race divisions in this process. The course will then move to globalization and modernity/postmodernity covering topics such as social media, politics and power. Students are expected to develop an understanding of modernity/postmodernity and to be able to make sense of contemporary society with a critical perspective.

CMN 405 Cultural Studies
Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary field. Drawing on the sociological end of the cultural studies, this course focuses on diverse perspectives on culture and society. We will examine different theoretical positions in relation to culture and media including, the rise of mass culture, ideology and cultural hegemony, popular culture, feminism, racism, and social resistance. We will ground theory in both the practice of doing cultural studies and the production of media texts.

CMN 446 New Media and Pluralism
This course presents an introduction to the new media, pluralism and democracy. It will first discuss the concepts of democracy and pluralism and then explore the new media in depth and their effects on the prospects of democracy.

JRN 440 Departmental Project
Students will prepare an original graduation project. They will write and compile their project based on their interested topic.
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JRN 201 Basic Journalism
In this course, we will study the principles and practices of journalism as well as journalism’s role in a democratic society.

JRN 206 Interviewing Techniques
Interviewing is an important element of journalism. Students will learn how to prepare for interviews, how to conduct interviews, and how write them.

JRN 212 New Information Techniques
This course will examine the new information technics and its reflections in journalism througout the world. To be able to do that, economic, political, technological, and socio-cultural changes will be discussed as well. In this class, students will be able to discuss all the changes starting from Industrial Revolution. Class will also focus on satellite systems, digital broadcasting, surveillance systems and digital economy as well.

JRN 401 Investigative Journalism
Students will be able to demonstrate an initial understanding of and competence in identifying enterprising investigative stories. They will be able to gather and report investigative news in an accurate, fair, comprehensive and clear manner as required to practice effectively as a professional in print or digital journalism.

FLM 102 History of Cinema
This course aims to teach students how cinema emerged and evolved throughout the 20th Century.

FLM 231 Basic Concepts in Sound and Image
This course aims to introduce students to basic concepts and techniques required for capturing quality sound and image.

FLM 310 Introduction to Radio and TV
Introduction to radio and television aims to provide students with a wide range of issues such as history and origin of radio and television, basic equipments used in broadcasting, news production the tenets of broadcasting, and principles of radio and television production.

FLM 315 Semiology
The course aims to introduce students to the principles of semiotics, semiotic analysis and representation in cinema. Students will gain an understanding of the origins of symbolic constructionism and structuralism and be able to apply semiotic and structuralist methodologies together to critically analyse the sign systems, coding, expressions and discourse in films.

FLM 326 Visual Culture
According to Hooper, visual culture works towards a social theory of visuality, focusing on questions of what is made visible, who sees what, how seeing, knowing and power are interrelated. It examines the act of seeing as a product of the tensions between external images or objects, and internal thought processes. Through this dimension, the content of course focuses the social, economical, religious, political and artistic backgrounds of visuality and image production and analyses the practical development of the image in local and global culture.

FLM 328 Introduction to Philosophy
This course introduces students to the classic works of prominent Western philosophers. Through discussing these philosophers’ ideas and their work the course is designed to help students explore the study of general and fundamental problems of philosophy, such as knowledge, existence, values, reason, mind and language

FLM 414 Film Analysis
This course aims to teach students how to make a critical analysis in cinema; how to read a movie, and understand the language of the cinema..

PRA 332 Advertising Applications
This course is designed to provide an overview and understanding of the strategic planning and management process required to develop and execute content communication campaigns. While referring to concepts such as marketing, consumer behavior, corporate culture, media, marketing communication, it focuses on campaign planning, development and implementation processes.

PRA 333 New Media and Digital Applications
The concept of information society, new media and digital technologies, as well as applications which emerged together with changes and developments in information communication technologies will be discussed in this course.

RTC 325 Radio and Television News
In this course students will develop essential skills for radio and television news production and understand how various events are reported for radios and televisions.