Courses

This course provides a critical review of theoretical and research approaches in mass culture analysis. Students will be able to apply and discuss various approaches taught within the course to media studies. Furthermore, content analysis, methods and discourse analysis related to media studies are examined. The aim of the course is to make students apply these methods and techniques in their research projects.

This course focuses on how various issues and problems in different fields are analyzed by the media. Media will be examined in the context of its relationship with other institutions and as part of cultural, political, economic and educational systems. The aim of this course is to enable students to develop a critical understanding of the cultural world and media relations.

This course provides an overview of historical and contemporary theories of mass communication. Furthermore, the course focuses on the questions of different traditional theories about the communication process and how it affects our perception of relations between communication, media and society.

In this course, the basic concepts related to the history and criticism of visuality and image are presented in social, institutional, aesthetic and technological uses. Also,  media synergies and methods of merging existing media technologies with social use in the 21st century are also discussed.

The final requirement to be completed in the non-thesis program is the project. It is a written document prepared by the student and the advisor on a subject determined jointly on communication, media, public relations and advertising. MA project is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member.

The course is designed to improve students' research, written expression and presentation skills. Students choose a topic from a wide range of communication and media fields each week. The students conduct research on the topic they have chosen, prepare a written document on this topic and present it in the classroom. The major aim of this study is to contribute to the thesis preparation stage of the students.

The final requirement to be completed in the thesis program is the thesis project.  The thesis project is prepared by the student and the advisor on a subject determined jointly on communication, media, public relations and advertising. MA thesis is conducted under the supervision of a faculty member. All students enrolled in this program must present and defend their thesis in front of a jury. Originality and uniquness are required and significant criterions of a thesis.