FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION

Department of New Media and Communication

NMC 401 | Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Name
New Media Portfolio I
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
NMC 401
Fall
2
4
4
8

Prerequisites
None
Course Language
English
Course Type
Required
Course Level
First Cycle
Mode of Delivery Online
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course Group Work
Critical feedback
Lecture / Presentation
Course Coordinator
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives This course aims to help students to identify their career plans and provide them with the means of preparing their portfolio for graduation. The students are expected to organize their projects according to their intellectual and professional interests.
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Prepare media products for their portfolios.
  • Create media outputs making use of their theoretical knowledge and practical skills.
  • Take complete responsibility in all stages of a project.
  • Acquire necessary skills for teamwork as part of a project.
  • Identify their future career goals.
Course Description In this course students will develop and complete projects for their portfolios. Projects will be prepared either in photo, audio or video formats, as well as multimedia. Project ideas will be developed through meetings with the teaching staff and then presented to their peers. Approved projects will take off. For group projects, sharing of workload among team members will be monitored. Each project will have weekly tutoring meetings with the lecturers. Project owners will submit a progress report in each weekly meeting. Portfolios and the projects will be presented to a jury by the end of the semester.

 



Course Category

Core Courses
Major Area Courses
X
Supportive Courses
Media and Management Skills Courses
Transferable Skill Courses

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Related Preparation
1 Course introduction
2 What is a digital portfolio?
3 Portfolio components
4 The portfolio process
5 Nominating contents for portfolio Putting previous work together
6 Setting the portfolio concept Preliminary research
7 Developing exclusive content for the portfolio, starting new projects Initial proposals
8 Discussion of new project ideas and setting up the project teams
9 Developing project ideas (meetings) Research
10 Final project assignment Research
11 Presentation of project proposals Project proposal submission
12 Project work (meetings) Research and production, progress report submission
13 Project work (meetings) Research and production, progress report submission
14 Project work (meetings) Research and production, progress report submission
15 Project work presentations Submission of final reports
16 Review of the semester

 

Course Notes/Textbooks
Suggested Readings/Materials

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
1
20
Laboratory / Application
1
40
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
2
20
Project
1
20
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm
Final Exam
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
5
100
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Theoretical Course Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
2
32
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)
16
4
64
Study Hours Out of Class
14
3
42
Field Work
0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
0
Portfolio
0
Homework / Assignments
0
Presentation / Jury
2
30
60
Project
1
70
70
Seminar / Workshop
0
Oral Exam
0
Midterms
0
Final Exam
0
    Total
268

 

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS RELATIONSHIP

#
Program Competencies/Outcomes
* Contribution Level
1
2
3
4
5
1

To be able to critically discuss and interpret the theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of the discipline of new media and communication.

2

To be able to critically interpret theoretical debates concerning the relations between the forms, agents, and factors that play a role in the field of new media and communication.

3

To have the fundamental knowledge and ability to use the technical equipment and software programs required by the new media production processes.

4

To be able to gather, scrutinize and scientifically investigate data in the processes of production and distribution.

X
5

To be able to use the acquired theoretical knowledge in practice.

X
6

To be able to take responsibility both individually and as a member of a group to develop solutions to problems encountered in the field of new media and communication.

X
7

To be informed about national, regional, and global issues and problems; to be able to generate problem-solving methods depending on the quality of evidence and research, and to acquire the ability to report the conclusions of those methods to the public.

X
8

To be able to critically discuss and draw on theories, concepts and ideas that form the basis of other disciplines complementing the field of new media and communication studies.

9

To be able to develop and use knowledge and skills towards personal and social goals in a lifelong process.

X
10

To be able to apply social, scientific and professional ethical values in the field of new media and communication.

X
11

To be able to collect datain the areas of new media and communication and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language ("European Language Portfolio Global Scale", Level B1).

12

To be able to speak a second foreign language at a medium level of fluency efficiently.

13

To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise.

*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest

 


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