| 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 |