Erciyes University - Info Package

Course unit title	Level of course unit	Course unit code	Type of course unit	Semester of course unit	Local credit	ECTS credit	Syllabus
CULTURAL COMMUNICATION STUDIES	Third cycle	HİT 340		6	4.00	4.00	Print

Description of course unit

Prerequisites and course requisities	None
Language of instruction	Turkısh
Coordinator	Doç. Dr. Hakan AYDIN
Lecturer(s)	Lecturer Faruk SADIÇ
Teaching assitant(s)
Mode of delivery	Face to Face
Course objective	This course examines communication in the cultural setting, The course focuses upon (a) how culture influences the communication process and the development of relationships, and (b) political, economic an politic nature of culture and communication.
Course description	The course examining culture, culture studies and related issues in general context.

Course contents

1	Main İntroduction
2	Looking at Culture and Communication Conceptions
3	Culture and Communication in Classical Social Theory
4	Culture and Communication as an İdeology in Western Marksism
5	Communication as an Action in Symbolic İnteractionism and Ethnometodology
6	Structualism, Semiotic Analysis and Communication
7	Midterm Exam
8	Cultural Studies and Communication
9	Mass Culture and Communication
10	Popular Culture and Communication
11	Consumer Culture and Communication
12	Globalization and Communication
13	Postmodernism and Communication
14	Final Exam
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Learning outcomes of the course unit

1	This course is designed to help participants learn about the nature of culture from a systems point of view
2	This course is designed to help participants learn about the relation of culture to the communication process
3	This course is designed to help participants learn about an awareness of one's own cultural attitudes, values, beliefs, and assumptions
4	This course is designed to help participants learn about how cultural differences, attitudinal factors, and characteristics of the communication process influence interaction in the intercultural setting
5	This course is designed to help participants learn about how to apply theoretical concepts, research findings, and practical wisdom in the analysis of intercultural encounters.
6	This course is designed to help participants to anlyse communication and culture interaction in the modern world
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*Contribution level of the course unit to the key learning outcomes

1	To be able to develop the ability and knowledge about the application of nurses and nursing theories
2	To be able to create new information by integrating information in the field of women health and gynaecological nursing and information came from another discipline
3	A problem in the field of women health and gynaecological nursing, to be able to build independently, to be able to develop a solution method, to be able to solve, to be able to evaluate and perform results if necessary
4	To be able to critically evaluate information about the field of women health and gynaecological nursing, to be able to direct learning and to be able to conduct advanced studies as an independent
5	To be able to share social, scientific and ethical values by considering them at the stages of data collection, interpretation and announced in the field of women health and gynaecological nursing
6	To be able to use the absorbed knowledge and problem solving skills in the women health and gynaecological nursing at interdisciplinary studies
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Number of stars refer to level of contribution from 1 (the least) to 5 (the most)

Planned learning activities, teaching methods and ECTS work load

	Quantity	Time (hour)	Quantity*Time (hour)
Lectures (face to face teaching)	12	3	36
Study hours out of classroom (study before and after the class)	3	5	15
Homework	3	10	30
Presentation / seminar	0	0	0
Quiz	0	0	0
Preparation for midterm exams	1	10	10
Midterm exams	1	1	1
Project (term paper)	0	0	0
Laboratuar	0	0	0
Field study	0	0	0
Preparation for final exam	1	7	7
Final exam	1	1	1
Research	0	0	0
Total work load			100
ECTS			4.00

Assessment methods and criteria

Evaluation during semester	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm exam	1	40
Quiz	0	0
Homework	0	0
Semester total		40
Contribution ratio of evaluation during semester to success		40
Contribution ratio of final exam to success		60
General total		100

Recommended and required reading

Textbook	Philip Smith, Kültürel Kuram, Babil Yayınları, İstanbul, 2011 - İrfan Erdoğan, Kültür ve İletişim, Erk Yayınları, Ankara
Additional references	None

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