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| Unit | FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION |
| JOURNALISM PR. | |
| Code | GZT104 |
| Name | Reading and Expressing Technics |
| Term | 2018-2019 Academic Year |
| Semester | 2. Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 6 ECTS |
| National Credit | 3 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Label | C Compulsory |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Prof.Dr. HATİCE ÇUBUKÇU |
| Course Instructor |
Doç. Dr. AYDIN ÇAM
(Bahar)
(A Group)
(Ins. in Charge)
|
Course Goal / Objective
This course aims to enable students to express their messages through the oral and/or written medium , by considering i contextual/Pragmatic variables such as the purpose, audience, speaker/writer, and also genre-specific features of the given texts.In line with this, students are expected to internalize concepts vital to text formation, such as Unity, Coherence and Cohesion.
Course Content
Towards enabling students to gain insight in different communication styles of institutional conversation and everyday talk, various texts and real-life situations will be examined and oral and written texts will be produced. Additionally, a variety of writing techniques such as, classification, descripton, comparison and contrast, cause and effect relationship will be practiced through in and out of classroom applications.
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Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Distinguishes between the specific features of oral and written communication modes. |
| LO02 | Defines the functioning of verbal communication techniques such as courtesy principles at a conceptual level. |
| LO03 | Defines the communicative functions that language fulfills in different social contexts in which it is used. |
| LO04 | Produces oral and written texts that concorde with given contextual variables. |
| LO05 | Produces oral and written texts using different techniques such as, description,classification, comparison, cause-effect relationship. |
| LO06 | Produces visual and verbal texts making use of creative writing techniques. |
| LO07 | Speculates on reading passages and shares them in group discussions. |
| LO08 | Reports discussions through the written mode. |
| LO09 | Identifies features such as coherence, cohesion and unity through a close observation on the texts. |
| LO10 | Uses text production strategies based on note-taking while listening and summarizing after reading. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | - | Knows theoretical approaches in the field of media and communication, and gains ability of development of new approaches in these fields | 0 |
| PLO02 | - | Knows communication models, and interpreting these models in terms of sociology, psychology, economics etc., puts particular contributions to these models | 0 |
| PLO03 | - | Gains competent, mainly in social and humanities sciences, in some kind of sciences, does multidisciplinary science research, and analyses these kinds of studies/research | 0 |
| PLO04 | - | Recognizing news production models, leads to new models and approaches. | 0 |
| PLO05 | - | Protuces, edits and directs news/reporting in any kind of media (newspaper, magazine, web site, radia, television etc.). | 0 |
| PLO06 | - | Takes photograph, mainly in the field of press photo, in some kind of photography fields | 0 |
| PLO07 | - | Uses communication technologies effectively, and gains production ability of appropriate contents for increasingly developing new communication technologies | 0 |
| PLO08 | - | Works as press adviser, communication coordinator and maneger, and so on in some state and private institutions | 0 |
| PLO09 | - | Learning relevant concepts and notions of, notably in journalism field, communication and mess media, make some contributions to these fields as new concepts and notions | 0 |
| PLO10 | - | Reaches at a consciousness level in which synthesises society, culture and communication concepts each other | 0 |
| PLO11 | - | Gains empathy ability to recognize both individual and societal processes | 0 |
| PLO12 | - | Getting effective communication ability, learns basic dynamics of communication processes, and goes into action in this direction | 0 |
| PLO13 | - | Evaluating contents of media organisations, finds out actual issues and lacks, and has a part to come over these problems | 0 |
| PLO14 | - | Supports peace and consensus of a society, and taking over a mediator mechanism role in any conflicts, sees communication right as primary, and tries to figure out the issues in peaceful and humanitarian ways | 0 |
| PLO15 | - | Works in any national and international medya organisations such as newspaper, magazine, web site, radio, television etc | 0 |
| PLO16 | - | Together with gaining individual/free working ability, be able to be a part of any kind of collective institutions, and be successful to adapts to grups | 0 |
| PLO17 | - | Has self-confidence both to decision making and to participate in decision making process, and takes responsibility while any issue occured | 0 |
| PLO18 | - | Recognizes new missions and works easly, and easly adapts to new trends and movements in the developing and changing world and professional life. | 0 |
| PLO19 | - | Tends to events by professional ways, and considering rational mind and knowledge, tries to figure out issues and facts on the line of scientific | 0 |
| PLO20 | - | Has an high conciseness on society and collectivism, and as be able to be successful in personal life, takes the responsibilities belonging to himself/herself in a social system. | 0 |
| PLO21 | - | Approaches to personal, interpersonal and mess communication processes, knowing what communication and its aims are; and takes an opinion leader role in the communication processes. | 0 |
| PLO22 | - | Lerans a foreign language, at least, at a good level, and in the international area, participates in news/reporting flows and so on. | 0 |
| PLO23 | - | Grasps the field of media and communication, and making in his/her actions through dynamics of these fields, contributes to development of a good communication environment. | 0 |
| PLO24 | - | Conceders social utilities in his/her works and productions, and in these directions, develops communication strategies, and pays attention to humanitarian values as primarily in producing news, reporting, photo, video, graphics etc. | 0 |
| PLO25 | - | Enables society to recognize role of media, and gains depth about such particular subjects as media literacy, new media and social media and so on. | 0 |
| PLO26 | - | Tends to contents in related to general public interests in the media and communication environments such as newspaper, magazine, radio, television, blogs and web sides etc. | 0 |
| PLO27 | - | Since absorbs ethics values of vocation, doesn’t allows to any discriminating or othering content in either his/her professional life or in contents produced by him/her, and finally tries to prevent such kind of discourses. | 0 |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction to the course -Language and communication: verbal7nonveral/extra liguistic features -Comparing oral and written communication | Collect recorded natural speech samples | |
| 2 | Dictionary meaning/ Communicative meaning -Spacial,temporal,physical context -cognitive context and Information Processing Model | Collect recorded natural speech samples | |
| 3 | What are we doing with words. Speech Acts (Searle, 1962) -5 basic category | Note taking activity tobe reported in the next lesson | |
| 4 | Note- taking while listening (a lecture/lesson) -Paragraph analysis | HW: Sample analyses | |
| 5 | Narrowing down subject to topic -Pre writing techniques | HW: Produces sempal paragraph structure | |
| 6 | Setting up the paragraph -Main ideas -Supporting ideas | -HW: Writing Sample paragraph | |
| 7 | Unity, coherence , cohesion in texts | HW: Sample paragraph writing | |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | HW: Sample paragraph writing | |
| 9 | Mid-term exam | Reading course materials | |
| 10 | Writing Technique 1: Descriptive essays -Poiteness issues in talk | HW: Reading Assignment Principles of Politeness (Brown and Levinson) | |
| 11 | Writing Technique 2: Comparison and Contrast | HW: Reading Text Right Brain or Left Brain dominance. | |
| 12 | Writing Technique 3: Creative writing | HW: Reading Text Body language of writing | |
| 13 | Writing Technique 4 :Cause and Effect Rlationship: | HW: Reading Text social fobies | |
| 14 | Portfolio Assessment | HW: Completing the Port Folios | |
| 15 | Assesing Portfolios(CONT.) -REVISION | General review | |
| 16 | Term Exams | Reading course materials | |
| 17 | Term Exams | Reading course materials |
Assessment (Exam) Methods and Criteria
| Assessment Type | Midterm / Year Impact | End of Term / End of Year Impact |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Midterm Exam | 100 | 40 |
| General Assessment | ||
| Midterm / Year Total | 100 | 40 |
| 1. Final Exam | - | 60 |
| Grand Total | - | 100 |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 5 | 70 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 30 | 30 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 157 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 6,28 | ||
| ECTS | 6 ECTS | ||