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| Code | ILT301 |
| Name | Communication and Ethics |
| Term | 2023-2024 Academic Year |
| Semester | 5. Semester |
| Duration (T+A) | 3-0 (T-A) (17 Week) |
| ECTS | 4 ECTS |
| National Credit | 3 National Credit |
| Teaching Language | Türkçe |
| Level | Lisans Dersi |
| Type | Normal |
| Mode of study | Yüz Yüze Öğretim |
| Catalog Information Coordinator | Prof. Dr. İLKER ÖZDEMİR |
| Course Instructor |
Prof. Dr. İLKER ÖZDEMİR
(A Group)
(Ins. in Charge)
|
Course Goal / Objective
In this course, it is aimed to give an insight to students to examine a variety of philosophical and practical approaches to ethical and moral definitions of right and wrong in terms of communicative acts, rules and professional behavior, ethical and social change, popular culture and ethics, ethics in the media. Students will be able to apply the theoretical background to daily examples. professional ethic rules, self-kontrol mechanism, ethic codes and rules should be internalized by communication students.
Course Content
Course schedule will include; the history of ethical theory point of view, the different approaches: deontological-teleological ethics, utlitiarianist ethics, discursive ethics, communication, ethics and modernization, an ideal communication medium-Habermas, critical social theory, facilities, ethnographic studies, field surveys, the sample will be in the form of subject choices and research facilities and seminar presentations. Transition to professional ethics and communication ethics will be realized after general ethics, and journalism ethics, public relations ethics ane new media ethics will be discussed detailly.
Course Precondition
None
Resources
Ruhdan Uzun/İletişim Etiği: Sorunlar, Sorumluluklar, Gazi Üniversitesi, İletişim fakültesi Yayınları
Notes
A Belsey, R Chadwick, Medya ve Gazetecilikte Etik Meseleler, çev. NT, Aytıntı yay. 1998.
Course Learning Outcomes
| Order | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| LO01 | Defines the basic concepts of the field of ethics. |
| LO02 | Evaluates the relation between ethics and human rights. |
| LO03 | Distinguishes ethics and moral concepts and updates the knowledge about ethical issues. |
| LO04 | Be conscioness about ethical theories for synthezing communication field. |
| LO05 | Produces thoughts and knowledge to understand and solve ethical problems on communication fields from individual to global communications. |
| LO06 | Develops a sense of responsibility towards the society, as individuals, develops projects for the benefit of the community. |
| LO07 | Ethical codes related communication fields will be internalized by stuıdents for applying professşional life of them. |
| LO08 | While accessing all kinds of information, using and transmitting of all other thoughts on the process and in all other practices of the profession strives to comply with ethical requirements and endeavors. |
| LO09 | Has basic skills and use these skills for mediating to the general population methods in the specific praxis areas related ethical principles in his/her professional life and daily life. . |
| LO10 | Follows the local, national and international eventsfrom the point of ethics with critically comments by the knowledge of the legal framework related to the professional ethical field. |
Relation with Program Learning Outcome
| Order | Type | Program Learning Outcomes | Level |
|---|---|---|---|
| PLO01 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Explains the basic concepts of the field, communication patterns, communication and cultural functions within the framework of communication as the basis of Communication Studies. | 3 |
| PLO02 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Recognizes the national and global communication systems, the basic concepts, theories and principles. | 3 |
| PLO03 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Holds information related to the fields as a basis; Instrumental Social Communications (Radio, TV, Film, Advertising, Public Relations, Journalism) within a terminological frame (=teleological) (Public Sphere, Public Opinion, Cultural Production Areas, Citizen Participation, Popular Culture, etc.). | 3 |
| PLO04 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Has the knowledge and skills to use and/or explain how communication works in every aspect in different cultures, from individual to group, mass, institutional communication within the major tools of communication. | 2 |
| PLO05 | Bilgi - Kuramsal, Olgusal | Distinguishes non-scientific knowledge from the scientific method, and follows technological innovations in the field with the updated work. | 2 |
| PLO06 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | From an interdisciplinary perspective, acknowledged the concept of communication to synthesize information that Communication Studies has background from different areas like, Sociology, History, Psychology, Linguistics, Political Sciences, Anthropology and so on. | 4 |
| PLO07 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Produces thoughts and knowledge to understand and solve communication problems encountered in size of individual to global communications. | 4 |
| PLO08 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | As a requirement of competence to communicate effectively, has the ability to express himself/herself up, facing the people with correct understanding in environments in which he/she is capable of empathy sets. | 4 |
| PLO09 | Beceriler - Bilişsel, Uygulamalı | Organizes and/or actively participates in the social, artistic and cultural activities, reports events. | |
| PLO10 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Follows the local, national and international events with critical comments. | 4 |
| PLO11 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Is able to work in the group as well as having the competence of the individual work | |
| PLO12 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Develops a sense of responsibility towards the society, as individuals, develops projects for the benefit of the community, leadership and entrepreneurial skills of intellectual exhibitions. | 1 |
| PLO13 | Yetkinlikler - Bağımsız Çalışabilme ve Sorumluluk Alabilme Yetkinliği | Improves constantly himself/herself, as well as being open to professional developments in scientific, social, cultural and artistic fields according to his/her interests and abilities, identifying needs of learning | |
| PLO14 | Yetkinlikler - Öğrenme Yetkinliği | Has rational thinking skills, creative thinking in written, oral, visual and so on, as well as using the methods and strategies, for the purpose of communicating thoughts. | |
| PLO15 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Has at least one foreign language in the European Language Portfolio (B) with the level of using the information in track and communicate with colleagues abroad. | |
| PLO16 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | While accessing all kinds of information, using and transmitting of all other thoughts on the process and in all other practices of the profession strives to comply with ethical requirements and endeavors. | 5 |
| PLO17 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Has basic skills and use these skills for mediating to the general population methods in the specific praxis areas, such as media literacy, | 4 |
| PLO18 | Yetkinlikler - İletişim ve Sosyal Yetkinlik | Is competent to use required level of knowledge of the area and use of computer software as well as all means of communication (body language, verbal and nonverbal communication, newspapers, magazines, radio, television, cinema, internet and other information / communication technologies, and mass media) | |
| PLO19 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Identifies learning needs and future career plan and perform accordingly. | |
| PLO20 | Yetkinlikler - Alana Özgü Yetkinlik | Has the knowledge of the legal framework related to the field. | 4 |
Week Plan
| Week | Topic | Preparation | Methods |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Introduction, the general framework | reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım |
| 2 | overview of the history of ethical theories | reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım |
| 3 | different approaches: deontological-teleological ethics-1 | reading and discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım |
| 4 | different approaches: deontological-teleological ethics-2 | reading and discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 5 | communication ethics and modernization | reading, presentation and discussion. | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 6 | ideal communication sphere-Habermas-1 | reading and discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma, Grup Çalışması |
| 7 | ideal communication sphere-Habermas-2 | reading and discussion. | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma, Grup Çalışması |
| 8 | Mid-Term Exam | reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Soru-Cevap |
| 9 | possibilities of critical social theory | reading | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 10 | ethics in ethnographic studies, field surveys | reading-discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma |
| 11 | current issues, case studies 1 | reading-planning for presentation | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma, Örnek Olay, Problem Çözme |
| 12 | current issues, case studies 2 | reading-planning for presentation | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma, Örnek Olay, Problem Çözme |
| 13 | current issues, case studies 3 | reading-planning for presentation | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma, Örnek Olay |
| 14 | current issues, case studies 4 | reading-planning for presentation | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Anlatım, Tartışma, Örnek Olay, Problem Çözme |
| 15 | overall evaluation | discussion | Öğretim Yöntemleri: Soru-Cevap, Tartışma |
| 16 | Term Exams | owerall files | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
| 17 | Term Exams | owerall files | Ölçme Yöntemleri: Yazılı Sınav |
Student Workload - ECTS
| Works | Number | Time (Hour) | Workload (Hour) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Related Works | |||
| Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) | 14 | 3 | 42 |
| Assesment Related Works | |||
| Homeworks, Projects, Others | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) | 1 | 7 | 7 |
| Final Exam | 1 | 18 | 18 |
| Total Workload (Hour) | 109 | ||
| Total Workload / 25 (h) | 4,36 | ||
| ECTS | 4 ECTS | ||