Information Package / Course Catalogue
News Types and Practices
Course Code: GZT315
Course Type: Required
Couse Group: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 2
Prt.: 2
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 6
Objectives of the Course

On this course our first aim is for students to remind basic journalism principles. Furthermore there are several types of journalism such as sports journalism, arts journalism, political journalism, magazine journalism, business journalism etc. Our second aim is teach about these several types of journalism both theoretical and practical ways.

Course Content

To provide students with theoretical information about many types of journalism in the field of journalism and to give them practical skills in these areas.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Assoc. Prof. Ali Emre DİNGİN
Learning Outcomes
1.Develops news gathering and writing skills.
2.Apply interviewing news techniques.
3.Apply court news techniques.
4.Apply financial-business news writing techniques.
5.Practice different news writing techniques of sports journalism.
6.Use various culture and art news writing techniques.
7.Use various political news writing techniques.
8.Apply conference-meeting news writing techniques.
9.Obtains theoretical and practical knowledge of radio and TV journalism.
10.Apply news writing for news agencies.
Recommended or Required Reading
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Definition of the course, what we remember from the News Writing Techniques lesson.
Week 2 - Theoretical
General principles of news gathering and writing-I
Week 3 - Theoretical
General principles of news gathering and writing-II
Week 4 - Theoretical
Local news
Week 5 - Theoretical
Writing a meeting news
Week 6 - Theoretical
Writing judicial court news
Week 7 - Theoretical
Writing sport news
Week 8 - Theoretical
Writing culture-art news
Week 9 - Theoretical
Writing political news
Week 10 - Theoretical
Writing entertainment news
Week 11 - Theoretical
Writing business and financial news
Week 12 - Theoretical
Writing health, scientific and environment news
Week 13 - Theoretical
Magazine news writing
Week 14 - Theoretical
Radio and TV news writing
Week 15 - Final Exam
Final Exam
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Midterm Examination1%40
Final Examination1%60
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory74349
Lecture - Practice74349
Assignment113316
Midterm Examination115318
Final Examination115318
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)150
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
PÇ-9
PÇ-10
PÇ-11
PÇ-12
PÇ-13
OÇ-1
5
5
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
OÇ-2
5
5
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
OÇ-3
5
5
4
5
5
5
5
4
4
5
5
5
OÇ-4
5
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
OÇ-5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
OÇ-6
5
5
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
OÇ-7
5
5
4
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
5
OÇ-8
5
4
4
4
5
4
3
OÇ-9
5
4
3
5
OÇ-10
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026