COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DISCOURSE AND IDEOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
DIL 6064 DISCOURSE AND IDEOLOGY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 9

Offered By

General Linguistics

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR GÜLSÜM SONGÜL ERCAN

Offered to

General Linguistics

Course Objective

The objective of this course is to have the students know about the history, functions, production and consumption processes, etc. of the media and define how such information is used in daily language and what kind of changes it gives way to and analyse samle media texts and thus gain awareness on the hidden ideology in media texts, its effects on the society and manupilating effect of the media.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Defining key concepts and approaches to the media
2   Explaining the relationship between the media and ideology and its specific features
3   Conducting research on languge use in the media
4   Criticizing languge use in the media
5   Relating media with the society and culture and explaining this relationship
6   Researching the explict and/or implicit ideology in media texts and writing a research article on it.

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
2 Approaches to media discourse: Converstion analysis and semiotic analysis
3 Approaches to media discourse: critical linguistics, social semiotics, van Dijk's social-cognitive model, cultural-generic analysis
4 Communication in the mass media: properties of mass communication
5 Communication in the mass media: practices of media text production and consumption
6 News value: news value approach of Galtung and Ruge's (1965)
7 Social and cultural explanations relating news value
8 Midterm exam
9 Comprehension of media texts
10 Analysis of news stories
11 Analysis of newspaper articles
12 Analysis of the TV news 14 Critical media literacy: different approaches to the same events11 Analysis of newspaper articles 12 Analysis of the TV news
13 Media literacy
14 Critical media literacy: different approaches to the same events

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. ve Foy, D. (2007). News Values. London: Sage
Ercan, S., 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. Debate
4. Homework

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + FIN* 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-6 will be evaluated by the questions in the midterm and final exams and assignements.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. 70% attendance to the courses is compulsory.
2. Not attending to a course is not going to be accepted as an excuse to the preperations of presentations, homework and in-class debate
3. Cheating and Plagiarism in midterms, finals and homeworks will be graded as "0" (zero)

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

DEÜ Edebiyat Fak. C Blok Ofis No: 153

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 8 96
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 3 12 36
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 216

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1555
LO.2554
LO.3554
LO.4554
LO.5554
LO.6554

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