Kocaeli University / European Credit Transfer System (ECTS)

Name of Lecturer(s)

Prof. Dr. Mustafa YILMAZ
Associate Prof. Dr. Aybike ÖZEL

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit
Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1) Explain the history of communication.
2) Form the ability to analyze the media according to the historical background.
3) Explain the process of the emergence and development of the mass media.
4) Explain history of the oral, manuscript, print and electronic communication.
5) Explain the effects of the mass media on the social, political and cultural areas.
6) Recognize transformation and changes in the line of historical development of communication tools.

Program Competencies-Learning Outcomes Relation

		Program Competencies
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
Learning Outcomes
	1	Middle	Low	Middle	Middle	Low	Middle	Middle	Middle	Middle
	2	Middle	Middle	Middle	Middle	Middle	Middle	Low	No relation	No relation
	3	Low	Low	Low	Low	Middle	Low	Low	No relation	Middle
	4	Middle	Middle	Low	Middle	Middle	Low	No relation	No relation	No relation
	5	Middle	Middle	Low	Middle	Middle	Middle	No relation	Middle	No relation
	6	Middle	High	Middle	Low	Middle	Middle	No relation	No relation	Middle

Mode of Delivery

Face to Face

Prerequisites and Co-Requisites

None

Recommended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Oral culture / cultural distinction in writing, paper, books, printing, and the first communication systems (Persians, Romans, et al.), The birth of modern journalism: penny newspapers, communication control, the Industrial Revolution and the message (the factory system, mass production, etc.), the world communication and the Ottoman Empire, a short history of printing and the press, the telegraph today the development of telecommunications (visual telegraph, electric telegraph, telephone, et al.), internet and social media

Weekly Schedule

1) Overview of the history of communication
2) Look at the first communication systems
3) A general approach to oral and written cultures
4) The first era, communication, communication in the Middle Ages.
5) Technical possibilities that make up the press.
6) Introduction to the history of media in Europe
7) Development of media organs in Turkey
8) Midterm examination/Assessment
9) Development of Radio and Radio Broadcasting
10) Development of Television Broadcasting and Television
11) Overview of the Concept of Media
12) Overview of the Concept of Media (continue)
13) The concept of the new media
14) Effects of new media in social life
15) Current discussions
16) Final examination

Recommended or Required Reading

1- Armand Mattelart, İletişimin Dünyasallaşması, çev. Halime Yücel, İstanbul: İletişim Yayınları, 2001.
2- Peter Burke, Gutenberg’den Diderot’ya: Bilginin Toplumsal Tarihi, çev. Mete Tunçay, İstanbul: Tarih Vakfı Yurt Yayınları, 2001.
3- Raymond Williams, Televizyon, Teknoloji ve Kültürel biçim, çev. A.U. Türkbağ, Ankara: Dost Yayınları, 2003.
4- Walter J. Ong, Sözlü ve yazılı kültür: Sözün teknolojileşmesi, çev. Sema Postacıoğlu Banon, İstanbul: Metis Yayınları, 1995.
5- Eric J. Hobsbawm, Devrim Çağı, çev. B. S. Şener, Ankara: Dost Yayınları, 2005.
6- Fernand Braudel, Maddi Uygarlık. Gündelik Hayatın Yapıları, çev. M.A. Kılıçbay, Ankara: İmge Yayınları, 2005.
7- Frederic Barbier ve Catherine Bertho Lavenir, Diderot'dan İnternete Medya Tarihi, çev. Kerem Eksen, İstanbul: Okuyanus Yayınları, 2001.
8- Haluk Geray, İletişim ve teknoloji: Uluslararası birikim düzeninde yeni medya politikaları, Ankara: Ütopya Yayınları, 2003.
9- Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Başlangıcından Günümüze Medya Tarihi, çev. Esra Atuk, İstanbul: YKY Yayınları, 1998.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1) Lecture
2) Question-Answer
3) Self Study

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Contribution of Midterm Examination to Course Grade	20%
Contribution of Final Examination to Course Grade	80%
Total	100%

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Not Required

Course Unit Title	Course Unit Code	Type of Course Unit	Level of Course Unit	Year of Study	Semester	ECTS Credits
Communication History	HIT329	Compulsory	Bachelor's degree	3	Fall	3