Nevşehir Hacı Bektaş Veli University Course Catalogue

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FACULTY OF FINE ARTS / GİT113 - VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN

Code: GİT113 Course Title: COMMUNICATION THEORIES Theoretical+Practice: 2+0 ECTS: 3
Year/Semester of Study 3 / Fall Semester
Level of Course 1st Cycle Degree Programme
Type of Course Optional
Department VISUAL COMMUNICATION DESIGN
Pre-requisities and Co-requisites None
Mode of Delivery Face to Face
Teaching Period 14 Weeks
Name of Lecturer PINAR GÜNER KOÇAK (guner@nevsehir.edu.tr)
Name of Lecturer(s)
Language of Instruction Turkish
Work Placement(s) None
Objectives of the Course
This course is designed to create an awareness of the basic principles of and skills for human communication. It provides an introductory survey of concepts and issues central to interpersonal, small group, organizational, public and mass communication. It aims to enable students understand and practice essential communication principles that apply across context, and to familiarize them with the theory and vocabulary of everyday communication.

Learning Outcomes PO MME
The students who succeeded in this course:
LO-1 Explain the processes of communication history. PO-1 Students are technically and theoretically dominant in the historical development of Visual Communication Design.
PO-5 Students use the accumulation gained from different branches of art and design in an interdisciplinary approach.
PO-13 Describes how to visual communication of meaning and signification.
PO-16 Students will be able to define the sociological philosophical and historical process of human existence in the cultural dimension.
PO-20 Develop the strategies that define the media, communication and art processes as theoretically.
Examination
LO-2 Evaluates the history of communication in the context of society and human relations PO-1 Students are technically and theoretically dominant in the historical development of Visual Communication Design.
PO-2 Students will be able to describe the concepts, thoughts, cases and problems related to the field and perceive them as multi-dimensional.
PO-9 Students will be able to apply their practices scientifically and philosophically.
PO-12 Ability to utilize various artistic and industrial production techniques.
LO-3 Students will be able to explain the definition of communication, elements of communication process, basic communication models, and communication types. PO-1 Students are technically and theoretically dominant in the historical development of Visual Communication Design.
PO-2 Students will be able to describe the concepts, thoughts, cases and problems related to the field and perceive them as multi-dimensional.
PO-20 Develop the strategies that define the media, communication and art processes as theoretically.
PO-26 Interdisciplinary and interdisciplinary cooperation.
Examination
PO: Programme Outcomes
MME:Method of measurement & Evaluation

Course Contents
The course covers the following topics: definition of communication, elements of communication process, basic communication models, and contexts of human communication
Weekly Course Content
Week Subject Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Introduction: the aims and description of the course & class assignments, expectations, and the definition of communication Lecture, question and answer
2 The process of human communication: concepts & basic communication models Lecture, discussion, question-answer
3 Types of communication Lecture, discussion, question-answer
4 Interpersonal communication, intra-organizational communication and mass communication Lecture, discussion, question-answer
5 Introduction to communication studies and mass communication theories
6 Chicago School and Early Mass Media Studies Lecture, discussion, question-answer
7 Chicago School and Early Mass Media Studies Discussion, question-answer
8 mid-term exam
9 Mass media and the powerful effects paradigm Lecture, discussion, question-answer
10 Impact problem in communication studies: limited impacts Lecture, discussion, question-answer
11 Two-stage flow, uses, gratifications, agenda setting, framing, dependency, spiral of silence and cultivation theories Lecture, discussion, question-answer
12 Two-stage flow, uses, gratifications, agenda setting, framing, dependency, spiral of silence and cultivation theories Lecture, discussion, question-answer
13 mass media models Lecture, discussion, question-answer
14 mass media models Discussion, question-answer
15 Overview Discussion, question-answer
16 final exam
Recommend Course Book / Supplementary Book/Reading
1 Armand Mattelart (2001) İletişimin Dünyasallaşması, çev. Halime Yücel, İstanbul: İletişim.
2 Prof. Dr. Ünsal OSKAY, İletişimin ABC'si. DR Yayınları,İstanbul 2007
3 Merih ZILLIOĞLU, İletişim Nedir?, Cem Yayınevi, İstanbul (2003)
Required Course instruments and materials
Slide, computer, projection machine

Assessment Methods
Type of Assessment Week Hours Weight(%)
mid-term exam 1 2 40
Other assessment methods
1.Oral Examination
2.Quiz
3.Laboratory exam
4.Presentation
5.Report
6.Workshop
7.Performance Project
8.Term Paper
9.Project
final exam 1 2 60

Student Work Load
Type of Work Weekly Hours Number of Weeks Work Load
Weekly Course Hours (Theoretical+Practice) 2 14 28
Outside Class
       a) Reading 2 14 28
       b) Search in internet/Library 1 4 4
       c) Performance Project 0
       d) Prepare a workshop/Presentation/Report 0
       e) Term paper/Project 0
Oral Examination 0
Quiz 0
Laboratory exam 0
Own study for mid-term exam 0
mid-term exam 2 6 12
Own study for final exam 0
final exam 2 8 16
0
0
Total work load; 88