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| Unit | FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION |
| JOURNALISM PR. | |
| Code | GZT110 |
| Name | Introduction to Political Science |
| Term | 2018-2019 Academic Year |
| Semester | 2. Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 2-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 4 ECTS |
| National Credit | 2 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Label | C Compulsory |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Prof. Dr. İLKER ÖZDEMİR |
| Course Instructor |
Prof. Dr. İLKER ÖZDEMİR
(Bahar)
(A Group)
(Ins. in Charge)
|
Course Goal / Objective
This course aims at familiarizing the students with the basic concepts of political science, such as politics, power, authority, state, government, ideology, legitimacy, political party, party systems, democracy, etc. It also aims at showing the relations of these concepts with the communication studies. This course also provides the students with an awareness of the embeddedness of politics in citizenss daily activities/lives.
Course Content
The main content of this course is the basic concepts related poltics and political science. Politics as the state affairs and power relations will be hamdled separately. Political concepts, political institutions and main political thougts will be explained and open to discuss. The topics covered in this course are; the development of modern nation-state; fundamental of the classical and contemporary ideologies; policy-making role of the state; relationship between the state and the citizen; democratic and non-democratic governments and constitutional design of government .
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Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | DEfines the basic concepts on the field of politics and political science. |
| LO02 | Evalutes the development of political institutions. |
| LO03 | Establish a link between development of politics and communication. |
| LO04 | Produces thoughts to understand and solve politics and communication. |
| LO05 | Develops projects for the benefit of the community as an individual has developed socio-political consciouness. . |
| LO06 | Acknowledged the concept of communication to synthesize information that communication studies and political science within a interdisciplinary perspective. |
| LO07 | Uses creative thinking about the methods and strategies, for the purpose of the benefit of the society, communication and politics. |
| LO08 | Follows the local, national and international political events with criticallly comments. |
| LO09 | Consiciose about various types of socio-political activities. Develops the conscioness about democracy and participation while learning different types of democracy and participation. |
| LO10 | Improves constantly in social and political fields.Be citizenship consciouness which sensible to human and citizen rights within the knowledge about politics and political science. |
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 course | Presentation | |
| 2 | Frameworks for Understanding Politics | Reading | |
| 3 | What is state | Reading | |
| 4 | concept of power, authority and sovereignty | Reading | |
| 5 | relationship of power and domination | Reading and Discussion | |
| 6 | The basis of the political legitimacy of power, legitimacy theories | Reading and Discussion | |
| 7 | social stratification and political power | Reading and Discussion | |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | owerall files | |
| 9 | Distinction between rulers and ruled, elites and masses | Reading and Discussion | |
| 10 | politiical participation | Reading and Discussion | |
| 11 | public opinion and The formation of public opinion | Reading and Discussion | |
| 12 | Policy instruments and political parties, | Reading and Discussion | |
| 13 | Typology of political parties | Reading and Discussion | |
| 14 | party systems | Reading and Discussion | |
| 15 | pressure groups types, effects and directions | Reading and Discussion | |
| 16 | Term Exams | owerall files | |
| 17 | Term Exams | owerall files |
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 | 2 | 28 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 8 | 8 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 24 | 24 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 88 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 3,52 | ||
| ECTS | 4 ECTS | ||