SOS103 SociologyIstanbul Okan UniversityDegree Programs New Media And CommunicationGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational Qualifications
New Media And Communication
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

General course introduction information

Course Code: SOS103
Course Name: Sociology
Course Semester: Fall
Course Credits:
Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
3 0 3 5
Language of instruction: TR
Course Requisites:
Does the Course Require Work Experience?: No
Type of course: Compulsory
Course Level:
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree QF-EHEA:First Cycle EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Dr.Öğr.Üyesi İLKER ÇAYLA
Course Lecturer(s):
Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives: The aim of the course is to explain the basic approaches, methods, concepts, social organizations and processes in the field of sociology.
Course Content: The critical issues such as social inequality, racial and religious relationships, gender (discrimination) and sexual differences, and vertical and/or hierarchal classes and social groups that are created by these concepts in social structure are explored with a historical scope.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
Learning Outcomes
1 - Knowledge
Theoretical - Conceptual
1) Explains fundamental perspectives, methods, and concepts in sociology.
2) Describes the foundation of social organization and social process.
3) Identifies the central difference between microsociological and macrosociological perspectives.
4) Explain how theories can change over time.
2 - Skills
Cognitive - Practical
3 - Competences
Communication and Social Competence
Learning Competence
Field Specific Competence
1) Distinguish between an everyday actor and a social analyst, and the kinds of knowledge that are relevant to each.
Competence to Work Independently and Take Responsibility

Lesson Plan

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) A general introduction Syllabus
2) Emergence and development of sociology, founding sociologists Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
3) Emergence and development of sociology, founding sociologists Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
4) Sociological theories and perspectives Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
5) Sociological theories and perspectives Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
6) Health, illness and disability Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
7) Stratification and social class Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
8) Poverty, social exclusion and welfare Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
9) Midterm Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
10) Gender and sex Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
11) Race, ethnic identity and migration Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
12) Religion in modern society Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
13) Education
14) Crime and deviance Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.
15) Final exam Anthony Giddens ve Philip W. Sutton, Sosyoloji, 7. Edisyon, Ankara: Kırmızı Yayınları, 2016.

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Anthony Giddens. Kırmızı Yayıncılık. İstanbul. 2013.
References: John. J. Macionis, Sosyoloji, Ankara: Nobel Akademik Yayıncılık, 2012.
Martin Slattery, Sosyolojide Temel Fikirler, İstanbul: Sentez Yayınları, 2007.
Zygmunt Bauman, Sosyolojik Düşünmek, İstanbul: Ayrıntı Yayınevi, 1999.

Course-Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Learning Outcomes

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Program Outcomes
1) 1. communicating with digital agencies about new media projects in order to be a part of the solution. 2. Sharing the solution suggestions on communication area using qualitative and quantitative research. 3. Organizing and implementing projects and events for one'ssocial environment using the digital communication formats in a creative way.
2) 1. Acquainting oneself with technologic developments which have effect on new media area. 2. Gaining the theoretical infrastructure controling the influence flow within social media, society and digital culture. 3. Implementing digital communication on productive and strategic projects by using the right applications. 4. Wining theoretical and factual infrastructure to use data which can reach the right information in an ethical way
3) 1.Designing, strategizing and managing related processes as an active actor of the new media at the center of all transformations and changes, especially production, marketing, journalism, social relations. 2.Being able to comprehend the interdisciplinary structure of the new media and the tendency to work with traditional media such as newspapers, radio and TV, and to produce interactive content in this direction. 3.Generating a new generation of news in the context of news gathering and writing transformations; to be a new media correspondent, editor or producer in newspapers, radio or TV institutions carrying publishing activities on the Internet and mobile media. 4.Designing, producing and implementing content for public and private organizations with disciplines as public relations, trade, advertising for effective reach to target audience, productivity and competitive advantage. 5. Solving the crisis based new media at the institutions and to produce parallel strategies to the new situation. 6.Portal management, learning and implementation of stages in web design areas.
4) 1.Entrepreneurship that to be able to present thoughts and creativity in all new media platforms like web, newspaper, blog, e-commerce. 2.Informative, entertaining content production based on social existence, sharing and interaction in social media. 3.To be able to perform the profession as a team member and fulfill the responsibilities, while remaining committed to ethical values. 4.Paying attention to the fair representation of the views of all parties within the framework of accountability, equal approach to the parties and not misleading.
5) 1. Comprehension of media literacy skills in the process of news gathering. 2. Learning how to effectively use and develop new media platforms. 3. Comprehension of conceptual connections between media and politics 4. To be able to understand and question the basic principles of mass communication and the place and importance of mass communication. 5. Developing a perspective of being able to analyze and tired of economic politics, social, political and cultural influences of mass communication.
6) 1. communicating with digital agencies about new media projects in order to be a part of the solution. 2. Sharing the solution suggestions on communication area using qualitative and quantitative research. 3. Organizing and implementing projects and events for one'ssocial environment using the digital communication formats in a creative way.
7) 1. Understanding the basic principles and doctrines of communication and foprming a point of view. 2. Understanding and evaluating theoritical approach on communication. 3. Comprehension of criticism on media theories. 4. In Turkey and in the world assessing industry 4.0 strategies, Making the analysis of the practices. 5. Solving possible crises in the institutions by evaluating all technological, political and economic developments that will affect the new media field and producing parallel strategies to the new situation

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) 1. communicating with digital agencies about new media projects in order to be a part of the solution. 2. Sharing the solution suggestions on communication area using qualitative and quantitative research. 3. Organizing and implementing projects and events for one'ssocial environment using the digital communication formats in a creative way.
2) 1. Acquainting oneself with technologic developments which have effect on new media area. 2. Gaining the theoretical infrastructure controling the influence flow within social media, society and digital culture. 3. Implementing digital communication on productive and strategic projects by using the right applications. 4. Wining theoretical and factual infrastructure to use data which can reach the right information in an ethical way
3) 1.Designing, strategizing and managing related processes as an active actor of the new media at the center of all transformations and changes, especially production, marketing, journalism, social relations. 2.Being able to comprehend the interdisciplinary structure of the new media and the tendency to work with traditional media such as newspapers, radio and TV, and to produce interactive content in this direction. 3.Generating a new generation of news in the context of news gathering and writing transformations; to be a new media correspondent, editor or producer in newspapers, radio or TV institutions carrying publishing activities on the Internet and mobile media. 4.Designing, producing and implementing content for public and private organizations with disciplines as public relations, trade, advertising for effective reach to target audience, productivity and competitive advantage. 5. Solving the crisis based new media at the institutions and to produce parallel strategies to the new situation. 6.Portal management, learning and implementation of stages in web design areas.
4) 1.Entrepreneurship that to be able to present thoughts and creativity in all new media platforms like web, newspaper, blog, e-commerce. 2.Informative, entertaining content production based on social existence, sharing and interaction in social media. 3.To be able to perform the profession as a team member and fulfill the responsibilities, while remaining committed to ethical values. 4.Paying attention to the fair representation of the views of all parties within the framework of accountability, equal approach to the parties and not misleading.
5) 1. Comprehension of media literacy skills in the process of news gathering. 2. Learning how to effectively use and develop new media platforms. 3. Comprehension of conceptual connections between media and politics 4. To be able to understand and question the basic principles of mass communication and the place and importance of mass communication. 5. Developing a perspective of being able to analyze and tired of economic politics, social, political and cultural influences of mass communication.
6) 1. communicating with digital agencies about new media projects in order to be a part of the solution. 2. Sharing the solution suggestions on communication area using qualitative and quantitative research. 3. Organizing and implementing projects and events for one'ssocial environment using the digital communication formats in a creative way.
7) 1. Understanding the basic principles and doctrines of communication and foprming a point of view. 2. Understanding and evaluating theoritical approach on communication. 3. Comprehension of criticism on media theories. 4. In Turkey and in the world assessing industry 4.0 strategies, Making the analysis of the practices. 5. Solving possible crises in the institutions by evaluating all technological, political and economic developments that will affect the new media field and producing parallel strategies to the new situation

Learning Activity and Teaching Methods

Expression
Lesson
Reading

Assessment & Grading Methods and Criteria

Written Exam (Open-ended questions, multiple choice, true-false, matching, fill in the blanks, sequencing)

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Midterms 1 % 40
Final 1 % 60
total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 60
total % 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Grading

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 12 36
Study Hours Out of Class 14 140
Midterms 1 3
Final 1 3
Total Workload 182