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Environment News in Media

Course Code	: GZ516
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

To be able to literacy of environmental news. To learn the conditions under which environmental news is formed. To be able to comprehend the importance of intellectual accumulation necessary to make environmental news.

Course Content

One of the most important topics that occupy the agenda in the media is undoubtedly the environment and the awareness or lack of awareness about it. All these positive and negative inferences will be discussed according to the way and content of media product

Name of Lecturer(s)

Lec. Hicabi ARSLAN

Learning Outcomes

1.	To define environmental journalism.
2.	To be able to evaluate the phases of environmental journalism in the historical process at an academic level
3.	To evaluate the approaches of media professionals within the scope of environmental journalism
4.	To learn the conditions that constitute environmental journalism
5.	To have knowledge about national and international legislation and laws related to environmental journalism

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Somersan, S. (1993). Türkiye’de Çevre ve Siyaset. İstanbul: Metis Yayıncılık.
2.	Özmen, Y. Ö. (2011). Çevre iletişimi: Çevre haberlerinin yapısal analizi ve okuyucu farkındalığı. (Yayımlanmamış Doktora Tezi). Anadolu Üniversitesi: Eskişehir.
3.	Kırlı, S. ve Sarı, Ü. (2012). (Der.). Medya ve Gündelik Yaşamda Çevre Gerçeği. İstanbul: Aya Kitap.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

Course overview

Week 2 - Theoretical

Different definitions of environmental journalism and the features that differentiate this type of journalism from others

Week 3 - Theoretical

The emergence conditions of environmental journalism and evaluation of these conditions

Week 4 - Theoretical

Evaluation of International Texts and Laws related to Environmental Journalism

Week 5 - Theoretical

Environmental Journalism practices and different meanings of investigative journalism

Week 6 - Theoretical

Examination of the situations faced by Environmental Journalism in the context of Bureaucracy, Laws

Week 7 - Theoretical

Evaluation of the correlations between media ownership structure and environmental journalism

Week 8 - Intermediate Exam

Midterm Exam

Week 9 - Theoretical

Conducting field research for competence in environmental journalism

Week 10 - Theoretical

Mutual evaluation of the field research conducted

Week 11 - Theoretical

Examples of Environmental Journalism from around the world

Week 12 - Theoretical

Examples of Environmental Journalism from Turkey

Week 13 - Theoretical

Examples of Environmental Journalism from Turkey

Week 14 - Theoretical

Negative situations that environmental journalism may face as a type of journalism and evaluations about the future

Week 15 - Final Exam

Final Exam

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Midterm Examination	1	%40
Final Examination	1	%60

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	15	2	3	75
Term Project	2	8	2	20
Midterm Examination	1	14	1	15
Final Examination	1	14	1	15
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
OÇ-1	3
OÇ-2	3
OÇ-3
OÇ-4
OÇ-5			3

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