Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
HISTORY OF COMMUNICATION	ZAUL1102	2. Semester	2 + 0	2.0	6.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction	English
Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery
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Goals	To gain critical perspective about the concept of history; evaluate some concepts such as information, communication, oral and written culture, mass media in the historical and social context.
Course Content	What is history? Distinction between oral and written culture; first communication systems; enlightenment and the industrial revolution; development, adaptation and transformation of communication technologies such as railroads, telegraph systems, newspapers, radio, tv; the origins of modern journalism.
Learning Outcomes	1) The definition of the concept of history and historiography 2) Defines positivist historiography and the criticisms against him. 3) Distinguish the width of the concept of communication.

Week	Topics	Teaching and Learning Methods and Techniques	Study Materials
1. Week	meet and course description
2. Week	What is history?
3. Week	Relationship between history and archeology
4. Week	Communication ways of the first civilizaitions
5. Week	the first communication systems
6. Week	Midterm Exam
7. Week	Printing revolution
8. Week	Emergence of public sphere; public spaces
9. Week	Development of modern journalistic and the emergence of advertising sector
10. Week	Development of telegraph systems and the Ottoman case
11. Week	History of radio and propaganda
12. Week	History of cinema and photography
13. Week	History of tv
14. Week	History of the internet

Recommended Sources

Armand Mattelart (2001) İletişimin Dünyasallaşması, çev. Halime Yücel, İstanbul: İletişim.

Chris Friedman ve Luc Soete (2003) “Giriş”, Yenilik İktisadı, çev. E. Türkcan, Ankara: TÜBİTAK, 1-27

Eric J. Hobsbawm (2005) Devrim Çağı, çev. B. S. Şener, Ankara: Dost.

Event	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Course Duration (Total weeks*Hours per week)	14	2	28
Work Hour outside Classroom (Preparation, strengthening)	14	2	28
Midterm Exam	1	1	1
Time to prepare for Midterm Exam	1	8	8
Final Exam	1	2	2
Time to prepare for Final Exam	1	15	15
Total Workload
Total Workload / 30 (s)
ECTS Credit of the Course			30