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| INTR4004 | politicalcommunication | 3+0+0 | ECTS:6 | | Year / Semester | Spring Semester | | Level of Course | First Cycle | | Status | Compulsory | | Department | DEPARTMENT of INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | | Prerequisites and co-requisites | None | | Mode of Delivery | | | Contact Hours | 14 weeks - 3 hours of lectures per week | | Lecturer | Dr. Öğr. Üyesi Hamdullah BAYCAR | | Co-Lecturer | | | Language of instruction | | | Professional practise ( internship ) | None | | | | The aim of the course: | | Upon the successful completion of the course, students will be able to:
? Demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationships between regional, national, and global socio-political and cultural conditions and collect political communication behavior.
? Analyze multiple perspectives (e.g., religious, psychological, and sociological) on political communication.
? Formulate potential election strategies related to domestic, transnational, and international political communication.
? Demonstrate an understanding of the many issues of defining and conceptualizing political communication.
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| Learning Outcomes | CTPO | TOA | | Upon successful completion of the course, the students will be able to : | | | | LO - 1 : | Demonstrate an understanding of the interrelationships between regional, national, and global socio-political and cultural conditions and collect political communication behavior | 2,3,5,6 | 1, | | LO - 2 : | Analyze multiple perspectives (e.g., religious, psychological, and sociological) on political communication. | 2 | 1, | | LO - 3 : | Formulate potential election strategies related to domestic, transnational, and international political communication | 3,5,6,9 | 1, | | LO - 4 : | Demonstrate an understanding of the many issues of defining and conceptualizing political communication | 3 | 1,3, | | CTPO : Contribution to programme outcomes, TOA :Type of assessment (1: written exam, 2: Oral exam, 3: Homework assignment, 4: Laboratory exercise/exam, 5: Seminar / presentation, 6: Term paper), LO : Learning Outcome | | |
| This course considers the degree to which Turkish? political opinions and actions are influenced by the media as well as the influence of the media on public policy. Topics to be covered include history of the mass media, recent trends in the media, theories of media effects, the implications for politics of changes in media the ways in which the new shapes the public?s perceptions of the political world, campaign communication, how the media affect the manner in which public officials govern, and the general role of the media in the democratic process. |
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| Course Syllabus | | Week | Subject | Related Notes / Files | | Week 1 | Politics in the age of Meditation | | | Week 2 | Politics, Democracy and the Media | | | Week 3 | The Effects of Political Communication | | | Week 4 | The Political Media | | | Week 5 | The Media as Political Actors | | | Week 6 | Party Political Communication: Advertising | | | Week 7 | Party Political Communication-2: Political Public Relations | | | Week 8 | Party Political Communication-3: Political Public Relations | | | Week 9 | Midterm Exam | | | Week 10 | Pressure-group Politics and the Oxygen of Publicity | | | Week 11 | Political Communication in a Globalized World | | | Week 12 | Performance Politics and the Democratic Process | | | Week 13 | Political Communication Practices in Turkey | | | Week 14 | Election Propaganda Analysis in Turkey | | | Week 15 | Review and Analysis of 2023 Elections in Turkey | | | Week 16 | Final Exam | | | |
| 1 | Brian McNair (2011), An Introduction to Political Communication, Routledge. | | | 2 | Holli A. Semetko and Margaret Scammell (2012), The SAGE Handbook of Political Communication, The SAGE Pub | | | |
| 1 | Lyanda Lee Kaid (2004), Handbook of Political Communication Research, Routledge | | | |
| Method of Assessment | | Type of assessment | Week No | Date | Duration (hours) | Weight (%) | | Mid-term exam | 8 | 15/04/2023 | 1 | 50 | | End-of-term exam | 16 | 15/06/2023 | 1 | 50 | | |
| Student Work Load and its Distribution | | Type of work | Duration (hours pw) | No of weeks / Number of activity | Hours in total per term | | Yüz yüze eğitim | 14 | 3 | 42 | | Sınıf dışı çalışma | 14 | 8 | 112 | | Arasınav için hazırlık | 2 | 6 | 12 | | Arasınav | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Dönem sonu sınavı için hazırlık | 2 | 3 | 6 | | Dönem sonu sınavı | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Diğer 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | | Total work load | | | 180 |
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