COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MEDIA STUDIES AND LANGUAGE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 3041 MEDIA STUDIES AND LANGUAGE ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

DOCTOR MELTEM SARGIN

Offered to

Linguistics

Course Objective

The aim of this lesson is to have students improve awareness on the media discourse: its functions, production and consumption processes; and also criticize media texts using various approaches used to analyze media discourse.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Describe the basic concepts and approaches about media
2   Explain the relation between language and media
3   Prepare an assignment on the use of language in media
4   Criticise the language use in media
5   Establish a relationship between anguage, media and culture and explain them

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The relation between media and language use
2 Approaches to media discourse: Linguistic and sociolinguistic analysis, Conversational analysis, Semiotic analysis
3 Approaches to media discourse: critical linguistics and social semiotics, Van Dijk's socio-cognitive model, cultural-generic analysis
4 Communication in the mass media: the properties of mass communication
5 Communication in the mass media: Practices of media text production and consumption
6 News Values: Galtung and Ruge's (1965) Approach of News Value
7 Sociological and cultural accounts of news values
8 Mid-term
9 Comprehension of media texts
10 Analysis of news stories
11 Analysis of media texts
12 Analysis of the Television news
13 Media literacy
14 Critical media literacy: Same event, different approaches

Recomended or Required Reading

Demir, V. (2006). Medya Etiği. Istanbul: Beta
Işık, M. (2004). Medyada Yeni Yaklaşımlar. Konya: Eğitim Kitabevi
Şendur, G. ve Atabek, Ümit. (2007). Medya metinlerini çözümlemek: içerik, göstergebilim ve söylem çözümleme yöntemleri. Ankara: Siyasal
Taşkıran, N. Ö. (2007). Medya okuryazarlığına giriş. Istanbul: Beta
Tılıç, D. L. (2001). 2000'ler Türkiye'sinde gazetecilik ve medyayı anlamak. Istanbul: Su
Türkoğlu, N. ve Cinman Şimşek, M. (2007). Medya okuryazarlığı. Istanbul:Kalemus
Brighton, P. and Foy, D. (2007). News Values. london: Sage
Ercan, S. G. ve Yağcıoğlu, S. (2007). Gazete köşe yazılarında kaçınma kullanımı ve cinsiyet ilişkisi, Dilbilim Araştırmaları, s. 1-16.
Fairclough, N. (1995). Media Discourse. New York: Arnold.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1- Lecture
2- Presentation
3- Question and answer
4- Discussion

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

1- Learning outcomes 1,2, 4, and 5 will be evaluated via the questions asked in the mid-term and final exams
2- Learning outcomes 3, 4, and 5 will be evaluated via homework assignment/Project.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1- 70% class attendance is obligatory.
2- Absence from classes will not be considered as an excuse for late submission of the homework assignments/projects.
3- Cheating and plagiarism attempts in assignments and exams will be evaluated with a 0 (zero) grade.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Faculty of Letters
Department of Linguistics
B432

Office Hours

Wednesday 11:00 - 12:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 2 26
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 13 2 26
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 5 5
Preparation for Final Exam 1 10 10
Preparing Individual Assignments 1 6 6
Final 1 1 1
Mid-term 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.15
LO.255
LO.35555
LO.455
LO.55555

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