FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION

Department of New Media and Communication

NMC 475 | Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Name
Media, Society and Politics in Turkey
Code
Semester
Theory
(hour/week)
Application/Lab
(hour/week)
Local Credits
ECTS
NMC 475
Fall/Spring
3
0
3
4

Prerequisites
None
Course Language
English
Course Type
Elective
Course Level
First Cycle
Mode of Delivery -
Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course -
Course Coordinator -
Course Lecturer(s)
Assistant(s) -
Course Objectives This course aims to familiarize students with advanced issues in politics in Turkey. The course also aims to enable students to discuss the relations between politics media and society.
Learning Outcomes The students who succeeded in this course;
  • Identify fundamental issues in Turkish politics;
  • Identify the link between politics and media;
  • Analyze the relations between political and economic conditions of societies and the structure of media;
  • Understand how transformations in political institutions’ functions affect media models;
  • Develop an in-depth knowledge in Turkish politics and media relations.
Course Description In addition to theoretical discussions on how the media is shaped by social, economic and political circumstances, starting from the late Ottoman period, the course examines how the Turkish media have affected and been affected by major sociopolitical and economic transformations that have taken place from the outset of the Republic.

 



Course Category

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

 

WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATION STUDIES

Week Subjects Related Preparation
1 Introduction: General Review of the First Part of the Course: Key Concepts of Politics and Communication
2 State and Society in the Late Ottoman Empire and the Early Republic Feroz Ahmad, The Making of Modern Turkey, Routledge, 1993, pp.1-72. Şerif Mardin, ‘Center-Periphery Relations: A Key to Turkish Politics?’ Daedalus, Vol. 102 (1973): 169-90. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20024114
3 Modernization in Turkey Case Study: Araba Sevdası and Fatih Harbiye novels. Readings: Dankwart A. Rustow, ‘The Modernization in Turkey in Historical and Comparative Perspective’, in Kemal H. Karpat and Contributers, Social Change and Politics in Turkey, Leiden E.J. Brill, 1973, pp.93-122. M. Şükrü Hanioğlu, ‘Garbcılar: Their Attitudes toward Religion and Their Impact on the Official Ideology of theTurkish Republic’, Studia Islamica, No. 86 (1997), pp. 133-158. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1595808. Kemal H.Karpat, ‘Structural Change, Historical Stages of Modernization and the Role of Social Groups in Turkish Politics, in Kemal H. Karpat and Contributers, Social Change and Politics in Turkey, Leiden E.J. Brill, 1973 pp.11-92.
4 Turkish Politics and Media Readings: Kemal H. Karpat, ‘The Impact of the People's Houses on the Development of Communication in Turkey: 1931-1951’, Die Welt des Islams, New Series, Vol. 15, Issue 1/4 (1974), pp. 69-84./Uygur Kocabaşoğlu, ‘Tek Parti “Matbuatı” Üzerine Gözlemler’, in in Mehmet Ö. Alkan, Tanıl Bora, Murat Koraltürk (Derleyenler), Mete Tunçaya’a Armağan, İletişim Yayınları, pp.573- 602./Ahmet O.Evin, ‘Novelists:New Cosmopolitanism versus Social Pluralism’, in Turkey and the West, M. Heper, A.Öncü and H. Kramer (eds), I.B Tauris & Co.Ltd, London, New York, 1993, pp.92-115.
5 The Republic's Official Ideology: Kemalism Case Study: Kadro Journal and Hakimiyet-I Milliye Newspaper. Readings: Mustafa Türkeş, ‘A Patriotic Leftist Development-Strategy Proposal in Turkey in the 1930s: The Case of the Kadro (Cadre) Movement’, International Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1 (Feb., 2001), pp. 91-114. Paul Dumont, ‘The Origins of Kemalist Ideology’, in Jacob M. Landau, Atatürk and the Modernization of Turkey,Westview Press, E.J. Brill, 1984,pp.25-44
6 Nationalism and Far right Case Study: Üç Tarz-I Siyaset and Primo Türk Çocuğu (Ömer Seyfettin) Readings: Hugh Poulton, Top Hat, Grey Wolf and Crescent, Turkish Nationalism and Turkish Republic, Hurst & Company, London, 1997, pp. 130-167./Jacob M. Landau, Pan-Turkism: From Irredentism to Cooperation, London: Hurst & Company, 1995.
7 Mid-Term I
8 Social Democracy, Socialism and the Radical Left Case Study: Aydınlık and Yön journals and Gece Dersleri (Latife Tekin) Readings: Kemal H. Karpat, ‘The Turkish Left’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 1, No. 2, (1966), pp. 169-186./Further reading: Arslan, U. T. (2001). Popüler Sinema ve Sol Siyaset. Mürekkep, 16, 8- 28./ Doğruöz, H. Ş. (2007). Sinemada 12 Eylül: Bellek Yitimine Direnmek ve Temsil Stratejileri. Birikim, 222, 68-80.
9 Political Islam Case Study: Minyeli Abdullah (Hekimoğlu İsmail and Huzur Sokağı (Şule Yüksel Şenler) Readings: Haldun Gülalp, ‘The Poverty of Democracy in Turkey: The Refah Party Episode’, New Perspectives on Turkey, Fall 1999, 35-59./ Further reading: Ayse Öncü “Packaging Islam: Cultural Politics on the Landscape of Turkish Television”, in Public Culture, 8(1):51-71, 1995./ Maktav, Hilmi (2010). Sinema ya da İlahi Aşk: İslami Sinemada Tasavvufi Yolculuklar. sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi, 1(2), 31-55./ Cihan Aktaş, Bir Hayat Tarzı Eleştirisi: İslamcılık, Kapı, 2007. Martin Stokes, ‘Islam, the Turkish State and Arabesk’, Popular Music, Vol. 11, No. 2, A Changing Europe (May, 1992), pp. 213-227. http://www.jstor.org/stable/852942.
10 Nationalism and Minorities Case Study: Films: Hope/Umut (1970); On the Way to School-İki Dil Bir Bavul (2008); Salkım Hanımın Taneleri-Mrs. Salkım's Diamonds (1999) Readings: Mesut Yeğen, ‘The Kurdish Question in Turkish State Discourse’, Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Oct., 1999), pp. 555-568. http://www.jstor.org/stable/261251/Harris, Sarah (2008). Turkish Popular Cinema: National Claims, Transnational Flows. The International Journal of the Humanities, 6(3), 77-87/Baskın Oran, Türkiye'de Azınlıklar, İletişim, 2008/Mersin, S. (2010). Azınlık Filmleri: Tarihin Yeniden İnşası ve Kolektif Bellek. sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi, 1(2), 5-29.
11 Mid-Term II
12 Gender and Politics Case Study: Handan (1912) Halide Edip Adıvar; Çöl Güneşi (1933), Şükufe Nihal Başar Kadının Adı Yok (1987) Duygu Asena. Reading: Nükhet Sirman, ‘Feminism in Turkey: A Short History’, New Perspectives on Turkey, 3/1, Fall 1989./ Deniz Kandiyoti, ‘Sex Roles and Social Change: A Comparative Appraisal of Turkey's Women’, Signs, Vol. 3, No. 1, (Autumn, 1977), pp. 57- 73. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3173079.
13 Migration in Turkey Case Study: Fikrimin İnce Gülü (1976), Adalet Ağaoğlu; Gurbet Kuşları (1964), Halit Refiğ. Readings: Rifat N. Bali, Tarz-Hayattan Life Style'a Yeni Seçkinler, Yeni Mekânlar, Yeni Yaşamlar, İstanbul, İletişim, 2002./ Türk sinemasında göç ve şehirleşme Gurbet Kuşları (Halit Refiğ, 1964) Gelin (Lütfi Akad, 1973)./Diasporik Türk sineması Mercedes Mon Amour (Tunç Okan, 1987).
14 Poverty in Turkey Bereketli Topraklar Üzerinde (1953), Parasız Yatılı (1971), Füruzan; Orhan Kemal); Acı Lokma (1986), Temel Gürsu, Dertler Benim Olsun (1974), Safa Önal; Readings: Necmi Erdoğan, Yok-sanma: Yoksulluk-Maduniyet ve “Fark Yaraları”, Yoksulluk Halleri, Ed. Necmi Erdoğan, De:ki, 2002, s.33-64./
15 Semester Review
16 Final Exam

 

Course Notes/Textbooks
Suggested Readings/Materials

 

EVALUATION SYSTEM

Semester Activities Number Weigthing
Participation
1
10
Laboratory / Application
Field Work
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
Portfolio
Homework / Assignments
Presentation / Jury
Project
Seminar / Workshop
Oral Exams
Midterm
2
50
Final Exam
1
40
Total

Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade
3
60
Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade
1
40
Total

ECTS / WORKLOAD TABLE

Semester Activities Number Duration (Hours) Workload
Theoretical Course Hours
(Including exam week: 16 x total hours)
16
3
48
Laboratory / Application Hours
(Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours)
16
0
Study Hours Out of Class
14
3
42
Field Work
0
Quizzes / Studio Critiques
0
Portfolio
0
Homework / Assignments
0
Presentation / Jury
0
Project
0
Seminar / Workshop
0
Oral Exam
0
Midterms
2
7
14
Final Exam
1
15
15
    Total
119

 

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.

X
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.

5

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

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.

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.

X
9

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

10

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

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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