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TRC 007 - Media Literacy

Faculty of Education · Turkish Language Teaching · Undergraduate

ECTS: 4 T+P+L: 2+0+0 Field Education Elective
Coordinator: Doç. Dr. Osman ÖZDEMİR

Course Objective

The aim of this lesson is to determine media literacy concept, media literacy in world and Turkey and necessity of media literacy.   

Course Content

Definition of media literacy; its framework; printed, visual, audial and digital media elements; the scope of the messages from mass media, the evaluation of the content of these messages and in the light of this information, thougths on how students can be given media literacy training.

Course Learning Outcomes

  1. Students be able to evalute printed media messages with critical perspective
  2. Students be able to evalute visual media messages with critical perspective
  3. Students be able to evalute audial media messages with critical perspective
  4. Students be able to evalute digital media messages with critical perspective
  5. Sutudents be able to detect propaganda elements in messages they received.

Core Area Distribution

(14) Teacher Training and Education Science%50 (22) Humanities%50

Teaching Methods

ExpressionQuestion-AnswerDiscussionGroup StudyCase StudySelf studyProblem Solving

Assessment & Evaluation

HomeworkTesting (Essay / Tests: True-Falls, multiple-choice, short answer, matching)

ECTS / Workload

ActivityQuantityDuration (h)Total Workload
Course Duration (Including Exam Week)16232
Out of Class Study Period16348
Midterm111
Quiz000
Assignment6318
Practice000
Final111

Course Schedule

WeekSubjectPreparation
1Introduction of lesson content Definition of media and literacylecture notes
2Conception and boundry of media literacylecture notes
3Information society and media literacylecture notes
4Media devices and its effects of our daily lifeslecture notes
5Critical reading and media literacylecture notes
6Critical listening / watching and media literacylecture notes
7Critical reading, listening and watching exerciseslecture notes
8ARA SINAVARA SINAV
9Decoding and evaluating messages in mass medialecture notes
10Propaganda techniqueslecture notes
11TV commercial and analysis exerciseslecture notes
12Newspaper news and analysis exerciseslecture notes
13TV programmes and analysis exerciseslecture notes
14Digital technologies and literacylecture notes
15Analysis of messages in digital medialecture notes
16Final ExamFinal Exam