International Relations (English) | |||||
Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 |
Course Code: | NMC004 | ||||
Course Name: | Gender and Media | ||||
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Fall Spring |
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Course Credits: |
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Language of instruction: | English | ||||
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Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
Type of course: | University Elective | ||||
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Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning | ||||
Course Coordinator: | Doç. Dr. HASAN GÜRKAN | ||||
Course Lecturer(s): | Assoc. Prof. Dr. Hasan Gürkan | ||||
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Course Objectives: | The purpose of this course is to examine the role of media in constructing gender and its intersections with race, ethnicity, class, and sexuality. This course recognizes the importance of diversity in media industries and addresses the role of new media technologies in challenging and/or reaffirming traditional constructions of gender |
Course Content: | This course examines representations of race, class, gender, and sexual identity in the media. In the course, the students will be considering issues of authorship, spectatorship, audience and the ways in which various media content (film, television, print journalism, advertising) enables, facilitates, and challenges these social constructions in society. Moreover, the students will examine how gender and race affects the production of media and discuss the impact of new media and digital media and how it has transformed access and participation, moving contemporary media users from a traditional position of readers to writers and/or commentators. Students will analyze gendered language and embodiment as it is produced online in blogs and vlogs, avatars, and in the construction of cyberidentities. The course provides an introduction to feminist approaches to media studies by drawing from work in feminist film theory, journalism, cultural studies, gender and politics, and cyberfeminism. |
The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Recognize diversity across audiences, content and producers of media 2) Identify stereotypes of gender, race, class, and sexual identity in media portrayals 3) Locate examples of framing, intersectionality, and symbolic annihilation in media 4) Analyze texts in context of cultural and social identities, considering how reality is socially and discursively constructed by media 5) Discuss media literacy in contemporary terms, in light of 21st century developments in online cultural production and new media 6) Understand key theories and methods of studying media, power, and social identities |
Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
1) | Introduction to the course and discussion on ‘Why Study Gender and Media?’ | |
2) | Sex/Gender and the Media: From Sex Roles to Social Construction and Beyond” | |
3) | Feminist Perspectives on the Media | |
4) | Feminist Perspectives on the Media / Assignment 1: Performing Gender | |
5) | Gender in Media Industries (Media Organizations, Film Industry, Public Relations and Advertisement) | |
6) | Gender in Media Industries (Media Organizations, Film Industry, Public Relations and Advertisement) | |
7) | Men, Women, and Queer Individuals and Visibility in the Media | |
8) | Men, Women, and Queer Individuals and Visibility in the Media / Assignment 2: Visibility | |
9) | Gender and Representation | |
10) | Gender and Representation | |
11) | Bodies, Celebrity and Self-Branding | |
12) | Discussions | |
12) | Discussions | |
12) | Discussions | |
13) | Digital Culture: Gender and Online Self-Presentation | |
14) | Gender and Online Activism |
Course Notes / Textbooks: | - David Gauntlett (2008), Media, Gender and Identitiy: An Introduction, Routledge. - Cynthia Carter and Linda Steiner (2004), Critical Readings: Media and Gender. Open University Press. |
References: | Books, Articles, Films, TV series, and new media contents |
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Program Outcomes | |||||||||||
1) Has knowledge about basic theoretical debates in the field of International Relations. | |||||||||||
2) Defines contemporary developments, approaches and basic concepts in the field of International Relations at national and international level. | |||||||||||
3) Relates the interaction of the Department of International Relations with other social sciences (history, political science, law, economy). | |||||||||||
4) Gains knowledge and skills to evaluate and discuss the events in an interdisciplinary dimension, and analyze the political, social and economic problems encountered in national and international contexts within a certain conceptual framework. | |||||||||||
5) Using social sciences methods, can conduct research and follow the field. | |||||||||||
6) Uses leadership characteristics with awareness of teamwork. | |||||||||||
7) Can design and prepare scientific projects such as projects, reports, articles and theses with their own or others with uses qualitative and quantitative research techniques. | |||||||||||
8) Develops behavior according to ethics and social values and evaluates what they have learned by deciding what he/she needs and critically question the information has acquired. | |||||||||||
9) Transmits the opinions, thoughts and solutions in the field of International Relations to the related persons and institutions in written and orally. | |||||||||||
10) Follows the developments in the field and communicates with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1. | |||||||||||
11) Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Has knowledge about basic theoretical debates in the field of International Relations. | |
2) | Defines contemporary developments, approaches and basic concepts in the field of International Relations at national and international level. | |
3) | Relates the interaction of the Department of International Relations with other social sciences (history, political science, law, economy). | |
4) | Gains knowledge and skills to evaluate and discuss the events in an interdisciplinary dimension, and analyze the political, social and economic problems encountered in national and international contexts within a certain conceptual framework. | |
5) | Using social sciences methods, can conduct research and follow the field. | |
6) | Uses leadership characteristics with awareness of teamwork. | |
7) | Can design and prepare scientific projects such as projects, reports, articles and theses with their own or others with uses qualitative and quantitative research techniques. | |
8) | Develops behavior according to ethics and social values and evaluates what they have learned by deciding what he/she needs and critically question the information has acquired. | |
9) | Transmits the opinions, thoughts and solutions in the field of International Relations to the related persons and institutions in written and orally. | |
10) | Follows the developments in the field and communicates with colleagues by using a foreign language at least at the level of European Language Portfolio B1. | |
11) | Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. |
Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | 14 | % 10 |
Homework Assignments | 2 | % 55 |
Final | 1 | % 35 |
total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 65 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 35 | |
total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Preparation for the Activity | Spent for the Activity Itself | Completing the Activity Requirements | Workload | ||
Course Hours | 14 | 3 | 42 | ||||
Study Hours Out of Class | 3 | 6 | 18 | ||||
Project | 3 | 9 | 27 | ||||
Homework Assignments | 2 | 10 | 20 | ||||
Final | 1 | 7 | 7 | ||||
Total Workload | 114 |