| English Language and Literature (English) | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code: | UNI251 | ||||
| Course Name: | Television and Everyday Life | ||||
| Semester: | Fall | ||||
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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: | Prof. Dr. AYBİKE SERTTAŞ | ||||
| Course Lecturer(s): | Aybike Serttaş | ||||
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| Course Objectives: | In the Television and Daily Life Criticism course, television, which is a mass communication medium, different media products such as television series, news, advertisements and current shows transmitted to the audience in an uninterrupted flow, will be critically evaluated. |
| Course Content: | "Why are we watching TV?" Starting from the question, many issues will be scrutinized, from the function of spreading ideology to the uniformization of the masses, from the ability to create opinion and obedience, to being a commercial tool. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Theoretically explains the question of why we watch television. 2) Describes the culture industry on television. 3) Knows the rating system. 4) Knows TV narrative. |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | General analysis of television as a mass medium | |
| 2) | Functioning of the rating system and its effect on TV productions | |
| 3) | The change of television news from past to present within the framework of economic, social and political developments in the world. | |
| 4) | Where are the ads in the television narrative? | |
| 5) | CNN Effect, Vietnamese effect, commercialization, liberalism and other concepts. | |
| 6) | Why do we watch TV? Uses and gratification theory and other theories. | |
| 7) | Midterm studies | |
| 8) | Television and social memory | |
| 9) | Television and sexism | |
| 10) | The use of children as television products and consumers of TV products at the same time | |
| 11) | Narrative of TV shows | |
| 12) | Ageism on TV | |
| 13) | TV critiques on TV | |
| 14) | TV as a movie character | |
| 14) | TV as a movie character |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Erol Mutlu, Televizyon ve Toplum Sevilay Çelenk, Televizyon Temsil Kültür |
| References: | Nilgün Chevignon, Televizyon ve İçimizdeki Şiddet |
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| 1) Uses academic English language skills effectively. | |||||||||||||||
| 2) Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail. | |||||||||||||||
| 3) Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features. | |||||||||||||||
| 4) Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics. | |||||||||||||||
| 5) Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples. | |||||||||||||||
| 6) Comprehends the modern language and linguistic theories in a comprehensive way. | |||||||||||||||
| 7) Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features. | |||||||||||||||
| 8) Evaluates the history of world civilization from the cultural and historical perspective. | |||||||||||||||
| 9) To be able to translate English to Turkish and Turkish to English in different text types. | |||||||||||||||
| 10) Apply contemporary teaching methods and techniques related to teaching English as a foreign language. | |||||||||||||||
| 11) Develops course materials related to teaching English as a foreign language. | |||||||||||||||
| 12) Uses a second foreign language at B1 General Level at least according to the European Language Portfolio criterion. | |||||||||||||||
| 13) Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the basic level of European Computer Driving License. | |||||||||||||||
| 14) Applies basic research methods and theories of social sciences. | |||||||||||||||
| 15) Takes responsibilities by adopting fundamental universal values and developing a prudent, respectful, open to communication and learning attitude towards different language, race, gender, religion and social class groups. | |||||||||||||||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Uses academic English language skills effectively. | |
| 2) | Knows the historical and cultural foundations of English Language and its developmental periods in detail. | |
| 3) | Knows the periods of English Literature in detail with its cultural and historical features. | |
| 4) | Evaluates the basic literary genres such as fiction (novel, story), theater and poetry according to their characteristics. | |
| 5) | Can apply various analytical concepts and tools in literary theory to literary examples. | |
| 6) | Comprehends the modern language and linguistic theories in a comprehensive way. | |
| 7) | Can evaluate the important literary figures and works in American and world literature together with their cultural and historical features. | |
| 8) | Evaluates the history of world civilization from the cultural and historical perspective. | |
| 9) | To be able to translate English to Turkish and Turkish to English in different text types. | |
| 10) | Apply contemporary teaching methods and techniques related to teaching English as a foreign language. | |
| 11) | Develops course materials related to teaching English as a foreign language. | |
| 12) | Uses a second foreign language at B1 General Level at least according to the European Language Portfolio criterion. | |
| 13) | Uses information and communication technologies together with computer software at the basic level of European Computer Driving License. | |
| 14) | Applies basic research methods and theories of social sciences. | |
| 15) | Takes responsibilities by adopting fundamental universal values and developing a prudent, respectful, open to communication and learning attitude towards different language, race, gender, religion and social class groups. |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Homework Assignments | 1 | % 50 |
| Final | 1 | % 50 |
| total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 50 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 50 | |
| total | % 100 | |
| 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 | 3 | 42 | ||||
| Homework Assignments | 1 | 10 | 10 | ||||
| Final | 1 | 10 | 10 | ||||
| Total Workload | 118 | ||||||