ISTINYE UNIVERSITY BİLGİ PAKETİ / DERS KATALOĞU
| Chemistry (English) | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
Course Introduction and Application Information
| Course Code: | UNI143 | ||||
| Course Name: | Digital Communication and Culture | ||||
| Semester: |
Fall Spring |
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| Course Credits: |
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| Language of instruction: | English | ||||
| Course Condition: | |||||
| Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
| Type of course: | University Elective | ||||
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| Mode of Delivery: | Face to face | ||||
| Course Coordinator: | Doç. Dr. SADİ KERİM DÜNDAR | ||||
| Course Lecturer(s): | Dr.Chein Yang Erdem | ||||
| Course Assistants: |
Course Objective and Content
| Course Objectives: | This course aims to: • Define and analyze digital culture through relevant theoretical perspectives in cultural studies; • Critically examine the relationship between new media technologies and culture practices; • Engage in scholarly debates on emergent cultural forms generated by digital and networked communication; • Examine our roles as consumers and producers of culture in a highly datafied, digitized, and networked society. |
| Course Content: | This course explores contemporary cultural phenomena that are shaped by digital communication technologies. Drawing on digital humanities, memory studies, audience studies, game studies, material culture, and posthuman studies, this course analyzes the formation of public memory, community, subculture, identity, subjectivity, and agency. Topics include digital archive, remix, selfies, influencers, memes, online trolling, hacker culture, and posthuman culture. |
Learning Outcomes
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The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Define the characteristics of contemporary digital culture; 2) Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Apply theoretical perspectives of cultural studies to analyze digital cultural phenomena. 3) Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Demonstrate understanding of the role of digital media in shaping public memory, community, subculture, identity, subjectivity, and agency. 4) Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Formulate their own critical thoughts on current issues of digital culture; 5) Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Critically reflect on their everyday interaction with digital media and their role as media professionals. |
Course Flow Plan
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Course introduction | lecture notes |
| 2) | What is digital culture | lecture notes |
| 3) | The internet, networked communication, and computerizing culture | lecture notes |
| 4) | Cultural data & cultural analytics | lecture notes |
| 5) | Digital archive | lecture notes |
| 6) | Remix | lecture notes |
| 7) | Selfie | lecture notes |
| 8) | Midterm | lecture notes |
| 9) | Gaming | lecture notes |
| 10) | Internet celebrity | lecture notes |
| 11) | Memes | lecture notes |
| 12) | Trolling | lecture notes |
| 13) | Hacker | lecture notes |
| 14) | Culture in a post-human and post-digital age | lecture notes |
Sources
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Ders notları |
| References: | Lecture notes |
Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship
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| 1) Knows the basic concepts related to the theory and applications of chemistry, uses theoretical and applied knowledge, can select, develop and design methods. | |||||||||||
| 2) Makes experimental planning and application for analysis, synthesis, separation and purification methods, provide solutions to the problems encountered and interpret the results. | |||||||||||
| 3) Expresses the basic principles of sample preparation techniques and instrumental analysis methods used in qualitative and quantitative analysis of items, discusses their application areas. | |||||||||||
| 4) Has knowledge about the sources, production, industrial applications and technologies of chemical substances. | |||||||||||
| 5) Makes structural analyzes of chemical substances and interprets the results. | |||||||||||
| 6) Work individually and in multidisciplinary groups, take responsibility, plan their tasks and use time effectively. | |||||||||||
| 7) Follows the information in the field and communicates with colleagues by using English at a professional level. | |||||||||||
| 8) Uses information and communication technologies along with computer software at the level required by the field. | |||||||||||
| 9) Follows the national and international chemistry literature, transfers the knowledge gained orally or in writing. | |||||||||||
| 10) Determines self-learning needs, manages/directs his/her learning. | |||||||||||
| 11) Takes responsibility and adheres to the ethical values required by these responsibilities. | |||||||||||
Course - Learning Outcome Relationship
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Knows the basic concepts related to the theory and applications of chemistry, uses theoretical and applied knowledge, can select, develop and design methods. | |
| 2) | Makes experimental planning and application for analysis, synthesis, separation and purification methods, provide solutions to the problems encountered and interpret the results. | |
| 3) | Expresses the basic principles of sample preparation techniques and instrumental analysis methods used in qualitative and quantitative analysis of items, discusses their application areas. | |
| 4) | Has knowledge about the sources, production, industrial applications and technologies of chemical substances. | |
| 5) | Makes structural analyzes of chemical substances and interprets the results. | |
| 6) | Work individually and in multidisciplinary groups, take responsibility, plan their tasks and use time effectively. | |
| 7) | Follows the information in the field and communicates with colleagues by using English at a professional level. | |
| 8) | Uses information and communication technologies along with computer software at the level required by the field. | |
| 9) | Follows the national and international chemistry literature, transfers the knowledge gained orally or in writing. | |
| 10) | Determines self-learning needs, manages/directs his/her learning. | |
| 11) | Takes responsibility and adheres to the ethical values required by these responsibilities. |
Assessment & Grading
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Homework Assignments | 5 | % 50 |
| Midterms | 1 | % 25 |
| Final | 1 | % 25 |
| total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 75 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 25 | |
| total | % 100 | |
Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation
| Activities | Number of Activities | Preparation for the Activity | Spent for the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | Workload | ||
| Course Hours | 14 | 1 | 3 | 56 | |||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 2 | 28 | ||||
| Presentations / Seminar | 1 | 5 | 1 | 6 | |||
| Project | 1 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| Homework Assignments | 6 | 6 | 36 | ||||
| Total Workload | 134 | ||||||