Week - 1 |
Introduction of the course
Science, scientific research, theory, basic functions of the science, basic rules of the scientific research, scientific researches and other concepts |
Week - 2 |
Research Proposal and Report Writing I
Page layout, footnotes, bibliography, tables and figures; scientific writing, word and sentence structure, rules of scientific writing |
Week - 3 |
Research Proposal and Report Writing II
Page layout, footnotes, bibliography, tables and figures; scientific writing, word and sentence structure, rules of scientific writing |
Week - 4 |
QUIZ I : Writing footnotes and bibliography
-The first step of the scientific research: Problem I |
Week - 5 |
The first step of the scientific research: Problem II |
Week - 6 |
Aim, importance, assumptions and limits |
Week - 7 |
Aim, importance, assumptions and limits |
Week - 8 |
Examining sample studies,
Examining students' studies. |
Week - 9 |
Theoretical approaches on communication and mass communication
-Liberal-popular and critical approaches
-M. McLuhan
-A. Toffler |
Week - 10 |
Reflections of Marxist Approaches on Mass Communication |
Week - 11 |
QUİZ III: Communication Theories
-Propaganda analysis and persuasion theories
-N. Postman
-L. Althusser |
Week - 12 |
Spiral of salience
Agenda setting
Second level agenda setting |
Week - 13 |
QUIZ IV: Effects of the media
-Cultivation theory and researches
-Theories on violance
-J. Baudrillard
-Lacan |
Week - 14 |
-Theory of knowlodge gap
-Theory of uses and gratifications
-Zizek |