Academic Catalog

MCS522 COMPARATIVE MEDIA STUDIES

Course Code: 8160522
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Media And Cultural Studies
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
Course Coordinator: Assist.Prof.Dr ÖZGÜR AVCI
Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

This course aims to introduce graduate students to comparative perspectives in media studies. Course participants will explore some approaches in the media theory, basic terms and concepts related to communicative systems as fundamentals of more comprehensive analysis of various levels of communicative actions in terms of domestic and international systems in related to cultural and political contexts. An other aspect of this course is to make applied studies on the media systems particularly by using content analysis and case studies.