Graduate School | Department of Journalism | Doctorate Degree (Ph.D)

The journalism doctorate program provides the opportunity to study the philosophy of sciences in the field of journalism for those who have completed their undergraduate education in the fields of social sciences and communication sciences in general, and journalism, press, and publishing in particular. Students who enroll in the program outside of the field must primarily complete the “difference courses” at the undergraduate level in accordance with the “scientific proficiency curriculum”.

The program’s main objective is to train high-quality staff with a doctorate degree, who can work at universities in our country that provide education in the field of communication sciences, and in all institutions and organizations that require qualified experts in the field of journalism.

For this purpose, there are courses for qualitative research methods alongside of theoretical courses.

In addition to the mandatory courses of Journalism Studies in the World and in Turkey, Research Design and Reporting, Project Management, the program offers the following elective courses for students: Agenda Setting Studies, Semiotic Analysis, New Social Movements in Media, Violence Studies in Media, Internet Strategies and Research, Survey Design and Evaluation, New Global Communication Politics, Newspaper Design Studies.

Students who have completed their courses are expected to succeed in the two-phased written and oral “proficiency exam”. Following that, students are expected to prepare an explanatory doctoral thesis based on the methods they have learned in prior courses and defend it in front of a jury.