Information Package / Course Catalogue
Method In Communication Studies
Course Code: MİÇ517
Course Type: Area Elective
Couse Group: Second Cycle (Master's Degree)
Education Language: Turkish
Work Placement: N/A
Theory: 3
Prt.: 0
Credit: 3
Lab: 0
ECTS: 5
Objectives of the Course

The course aims to open up the discussions of objectivism and relativism by establishing methodological frameworks along the axis of scientific paradigms, and to teach what are the inductivist views on the scientific method in favor of empirical distortion.

Course Content

The course provides the opportunity to discuss and evaluate scientific processes. Theory readings in the course can realize the understanding of different perspectives in the production of scientific knowledge and scientific reasoning.

Name of Lecturer(s)
Learning Outcomes
1.Understands scientific methods.
2.Gains the ability to draw inferences related to methodology.
3.Discuss research methods in social sciences from the perspective of scientific paradigms.
4.Can draw the limit of consistency and contrast of scientific propositions.
5.Gains the ability to discuss and evaluate scientific processes.
Recommended or Required Reading
1.Popper, K. (2018). Bilimsel Araştırmanın Mantığı, Yapı Kredi Yayınları.
2.Hume, D. (2018). İnsanın Anlama Yetisi Üzerine Bir Soruşturma, Biblos Yayınları.
3.Kant, I. (2018). Prolegomena. Türkiye Felsefe Kurumu yayınları.
4.Feyerabend, P. (1987) Yönteme Hayır, Paradigma yayınları.
5.Feyerabend, P. (2017). Bilimin Tiranlığı, Sel Yayıncılık.
6.Kuhn, S.T. (2019) Bilimsel Devrimlerin Yapısı, Kırmızı Yayınları.
7.Aristoteles (2005). İkinci Çözümlemeler, Yapı Kredi Yayınları.
8.Barthes, R. (1993). Göstergebilimsel Serüven.
Weekly Detailed Course Contents
Week 1 - Theoretical
Propositions of Scientific Theory: Analytical, A Priori, Synthetic and A Postoieri
Week 2 - Theoretical
Methodological Readings I: Thomas Samuel Kuhn
Week 3 - Theoretical
Logical Positivism and Its Methods: Promises of the Vienna School and its Circle
Week 4 - Theoretical
Validity and Reliability Problems of Methods Following Aristotle, Hume and Kant
Week 5 - Theoretical
Methodology Readings II: Karl Popper
Week 6 - Theoretical
Designing a Discourse Analysis by Van Dijk and Michel Foucault
Week 7 - Theoretical
A.J. Greimas and the Paris School of Semiotics
Week 8 - Intermediate Exam
Midterm
Week 9 - Theoretical
Saussure and Barthes Cohesion in Semiotics
Week 10 - Theoretical
The Phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Carl Rogers
Week 11 - Theoretical
Methodological Readings III: Paul Karl Feuyerabend
Week 12 - Theoretical
Crowning the positivist tradition: SPSS Applications
Week 13 - Theoretical
Crowning the positivist tradition: SPSS Applications
Week 14 - Theoretical
Understanding the Interpretive Tradition: Creating Guidelines for Qualitative Analysis
Week 15 - Final Exam
Final Exam
Assessment Methods and Criteria
Type of AssessmentCountPercent
Term Assignment1%20
Midterm Examination1%30
Final Examination1%50
Workload Calculation
ActivitiesCountPreparationTimeTotal Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory152375
Term Project28220
Midterm Examination114115
Final Examination114115
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)125
Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes
PÇ-1
PÇ-2
PÇ-3
PÇ-4
PÇ-5
PÇ-6
PÇ-7
PÇ-8
OÇ-1
5
5
OÇ-2
OÇ-3
5
OÇ-4
5
OÇ-5
4
Adnan Menderes University - Information Package / Course Catalogue
2026