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| Code | RTS102 |
| Name | Communication History |
| Term | 2024-2025 Academic Year |
| Semester | 2. Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 4 ECTS |
| National Credit | 3 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Doç. Dr. ÖZGÜR İLKE ŞANLIER YÜKSEL |
| Course Instructor |
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Course Goal / Objective
Aims of this course are: 1. To reveal the relationships between history and communication. 2. To reveal that the history of communication is not just the history of tools in terms of chronology. 3. To give a critical perspective related to the concepts of history and communication. 4. To show that the discussions on communication and history cannot be limited to the reality of only one paradigm. 5. To examine the historical developments of communication tools. 6. To examine the communication types which are dominant from their starting point until today. 7. To reveal the relationships between history, writing history, knowledge, power and dominant communication types. 8. To reveal why analysis which is examined within the frame of social, political, cultural and economic relationships of the examined period of time in the analyses of the history of communication.
Course Content
This course includes topics of the distinction between oral culture/written culture, paper, book, printing press, first communication systems; the birth of modern journalism; communication systems, the Industrial Revolution and communication (factory system, mass production, etc.), communication in the world and in the Ottoman Empire, the short story of the printing press and the press; the development of telecommunications from the telegraph to the present day (visual telegraph, electric telegraph, telephone, etc.); internet and network society.
Course Precondition
N/A
Resources
David Crowley ve Paul Heyer, İLETİŞİM TARİHİ: Taş Devri Sembollerinden Sosyal Medyaya, Siyasal Kitabevi, 2019.
Notes
In addition to the main textbook, the following resources will be used: Armand Mattelart, İletişimin Dünyasallaşması, çev. Halime Yücel, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2001. Peter Burke, Gutenberg den Diderot ya: Bilginin Toplumsal Tarihi, çev. Mete Tunçay, İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2001. Walter J. Ong, Sözlü ve yazılı kültür: Sözün teknolojileşmesi, çev. Sema Postacıoğlu Banon, İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 1995. Eric J. Hobsbawm, Devrim Çağı, çev. B. S. Şener, Ankara: Dost Yayınları, 2005. Fernand Braudel, Maddi Uygarlık. Gündelik Hayatın Yapıları, çev. M.A. Kılıçbay, Ankara: İmge Yayınları, 2005. Çam, A. & Şanlıer Yüksel, İ. (2020). Türkiye Sinema Mekânları, Seyir ve Seyirci Araştırmaları Bibliyografyası: Yaklaşımlar, Kaynaklar ve Yöntemler. Türkiye Araştırmaları Literatür Dergisi, 18(36), 9–46. Çam, A. & Şanlıer Yüksel, İ. (2019). Toros Yayla Köylerinde Sinema Deneyimleri: Modernlik, Şehir, Sinema ve Seyirci İlişkilerine Dair Bir Soruşturma. SineFilozofi Dergisi, (4)7, 408-428. Haluk Geray, İletişim ve teknoloji: Uluslararası birikim düzeninde yeni medya politikaları, Ankara: Ütopya Yayınları, 2003.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Explains the history of communication. |
| LO02 | Forms the ability to analyze the media according to the historical background. |
| LO03 | Explains the process of the emergence and development of the mass media. |
| LO04 | Explains history of the oral, manuscript, print and electronic communication. |
| LO05 | Explains the effects of the mass media on the social, political and cultural areas. |
| LO06 | Recognises transformation and changes in the line of historical development of communication tools. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Graduates have advanced theoretical and practical knowledge supported by research methods and techniques applied in the field of radio, television and cinema and other sources. | 3 |
| PLO02 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Graduates have knowledge about different areas of communication. | 5 |
| PLO03 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Graduates have knowledge about program production and directing related to audio and visual broadcasting. | |
| PLO04 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Graduates gain skills in writing various forms of scripts and producing programs for cinema, television and radio. | |
| PLO05 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Graduates gain critical thinking and interpretation skills in the field of radio, television and cinema. | 3 |
| PLO06 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Graduates have the knowledge of thinking in different disciplines of social sciences and adapting them to their own specialisation through research. | |
| PLO07 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Graduates gain the ability to plan and organize all kinds of content for audio-visual activities from design to editing and broadcasting. | |
| PLO08 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Graduates establish a connection between art, aesthetics, law and general culture knowledge related to the field. | 4 |
| PLO09 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Graduates have know-how and skills about production and broadcasting technologies. | |
| PLO10 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Graduates work both individually and as a team in the field. | |
| PLO11 | Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği | Graduates are able to follow social problems at national and international level and adapt them to professional studies. | 1 |
| PLO12 | Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği | Graduates gain the competence of using communication technologies, monitoring changes and continuous self-improvement. | |
| PLO13 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Graduates participate in various social, cultural and artistic activities in the field. | |
| PLO14 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Graduates are able to carry out the tasks expected from him/her as a team member in the applications in his/her field with an interdisciplinary perspective. | |
| PLO15 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Graduates are able to use information and communication technologies together with the computer software required by the field. | |
| PLO16 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Graduates produce visual and audio content with the scientific formation acquired. | |
| PLO17 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Graduates can analyze a film, a script or a television program from a technical, aesthetic and ideological perspective. | 3 |
| PLO18 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Graduates are committed to ethical principles in their professional practice, free from prejudice and against discrimination. | 2 |
| PLO19 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Graduates support the universality of social and cultural rights, gains awareness of social justice, protects cultural heritage. | 2 |
| PLO20 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Graduates prepare working environments such as studio and set in accordance with quality management processes and occupational health/safety. |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction: Scope and the aims of the course | No preparation needed. | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım |
| 2 | What is history? What is historiography? Are alternative approaches to the history of communication possible? | Braudel, 2005 | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 3 | Communication tools of the early civilizations | Crowley and Heyer, Chapter 1 | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 4 | The tradition of literacy | Crowley and Heyer, Chapter 2 | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 5 | The printing revolution | Crowley and Heyer, Chapter 3 | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma, Bireysel Çalışma |
| 6 | Electricity and the wired world | Crowley and Heyer, Chapter 4 | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 7 | Image and Sound | Crowley and Heyer, Chapter 5 | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | Review of textbook and other related materials | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
| 9 | Moving image and the cinema | Crowley ve Heyer, Bölüm 5 | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma, Bireysel Çalışma |
| 10 | Radio days | Crowley and Heyer, Chapter 6 | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 11 | Times of television | Crowley and Heyer, Chapter 7 | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 12 | Old and new media in digital age | Crowley and Heyer, Chapter 8 | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 13 | Is it possible to look back from today? Questioning history through communication | Crowley and Heyer, Chapter 8 (cont.) | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 14 | A non-technological determinist historiography of communication:New Cinema History | Çam ve Şanlıer Yüksel, 2019; Çam ve Şanler Yüksel, 2020 | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 15 | Current discussions and review of the course | Overview of the course pack | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 16 | Term Exams | Reading | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
| 17 | Term Exams | Reading | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
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 | 3 | 42 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 109 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 4,36 | ||
| ECTS | 4 ECTS | ||