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Bachelor	TR-NQF-HE: Level 6	QF-EHEA: First Cycle	EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code:

COM201

Course Name:

Communication Ethics

Semester:

Fall

Course Credits:

ECTS

Language of instruction:

English

Course Condition:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Type of course:

Compulsory Courses

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

E-Learning

Course Coordinator:

Prof. Dr. SÜLEYMAN İRVAN

Course Lecturer(s):

Prof.Dr. Süleyman İrvan

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives:

This course aims to:
● Define communication ethics in relation to law;
● Examine ethical theories and help students to understand different ethical approaches
● Examine ethical problems in traditional, online, and television journalism, photography, advertising, and social media.

Course Content:

This course covers ethical problems related to communication and the media. It will help students to gain ethical awareness by concentrating on ethical principles and problems in different fields of communication and the media. The course includes topics as defining ethics; freedom of expression and the press; ethical theories and principles; journalism ethics; self-control systems in journalism; photography and ethics; ethics in television journalism; social media and ethics; advertising ethics

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) İletişim alanlarındaki etik sorunları kavrayacaklardır;
2) Etik teorileri gazetecilik ve diğer iletişim alanlarında karşılaştıkları etik sorunları çözmek için kullanacaklardır;
3) Mesleklerini etik ilkeleri gözeterek yapacaklardır.

Course Flow Plan

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	Course introduction
2)	Freedom of speech and the press
3)	Ethical theories and principles
4)	Ethical problems in traditional and online journalism I
5)	Ethical problems in traditional and online journalism II
6)	Ethical problems in television journalism
7)	Media accountability systems
8)	Midterm
9)	Photography and ethics
10)	Crime stories and ethical principles
11)	Children in the news
12)	Advertising ethics
13)	Social media ethics
14)	Final project

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:	David Gordon et al (2011). Controversies in Media Ethics, 3. ed. Routledge
References:	Medya içerikleri, sunumlar

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes	1	2	3
Program Outcomes
1) By providing both theoretical and practical education, it prepares students for academic and business life.	2	2	2
2) It provides a critical perspective on mass media.	2	2	2
3) With the English curriculum, it allows students to follow the international market and academic studies from original sources.	3	3	3
4) Students will be an expert in front of the camera, behind-the-scenes, news center, light, sound, editing, directing, cinematography, screenwriting.
5) Thanks to the media professionals, the students will be ready for the sector.	2	2	2
6) Acquires production skills such as short and medium films, screenplays, documentaries and TV programs.
7) Have the basic knowledge and experience of image technologies.
8) Thanks to sectoral cooperation, professional business life will be started.
9) Through an applied curriculum, students gain an interdisciplinary perspective on different media studies.
10) With the technical training to be taken in studio environment, students gain experience in the sector.
11) They will have skills such as negotiating with the group, taking initiative.	1	1	1
12) Acquire basic values related to media and business ethics.	3	3	3
13) Follow the developments in the field and communicate with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1.	2	2	2
14) Students use information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field.

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Average	3 Highest

	Program Outcomes	Level of Contribution
1)	By providing both theoretical and practical education, it prepares students for academic and business life.	2
2)	It provides a critical perspective on mass media.	3
3)	With the English curriculum, it allows students to follow the international market and academic studies from original sources.	3
4)	Students will be an expert in front of the camera, behind-the-scenes, news center, light, sound, editing, directing, cinematography, screenwriting.
5)	Thanks to the media professionals, the students will be ready for the sector.	3
6)	Acquires production skills such as short and medium films, screenplays, documentaries and TV programs.
7)	Have the basic knowledge and experience of image technologies.
8)	Thanks to sectoral cooperation, professional business life will be started.	2
9)	Through an applied curriculum, students gain an interdisciplinary perspective on different media studies.
10)	With the technical training to be taken in studio environment, students gain experience in the sector.
11)	They will have skills such as negotiating with the group, taking initiative.	2
12)	Acquire basic values related to media and business ethics.	3
13)	Follow the developments in the field and communicate with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1.	3
14)	Students use information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field.	3

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Midterms	1	% 40
Final	1	% 60
total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 60
total		% 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	13	39
Study Hours Out of Class	14	70
Midterms	1	3
Final	1	8
Total Workload		120