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General Information

Aim of the Program

Department of Media and Communication department is composed of two disciplines such as communication and media, and it is an increasingly important department when considering today's technology conditions. While the emergence of new communication technologies change the communication systems, these developments require employees with the required knowledge. Department of Media and Communication trains students to transfer qualified human resources with the researcher and innovative identity that the industry needs. Accordingly, Department of Media and Communication courses are designed to provide students with theoretical knowledge in many areas such as basic journalism, media economy, media analysis and criticism, professional English, media and public criticism, social media and Internet journalism criticism, news writing techniques in media, social responsibility and media, presentation and presentation techniques.

Target of the Program

Our students are prepared in a well-equipped manner through the professional achievements they have achieved in the media and communication department. Our prior goal as a department is to make students able to apply theoretical knowledge they have gained by using information and communication technologies which they are able to adapt to living technological developments and innovations by using the information and skills they have and to apply the theoretical knowledge they have gained by using information and communication technologies, read the media messages correctly, dominate the concepts of Internet journalism and citizen journalism, to become educated and equipped communicators who are capable of working within the framework of ethical principles with a critical and critical perspective, who are knowledgeable about the structural, managerial and technical aspects of the media, with a researching and innovative identity.

Career Opportunities

Students who graduate from the Department of Media and Communication have the opportunity to work in the media, especially in the communication departments of private and public institutions. Our students can also work in positions such as correspondents, editors, publications coordinators, publications directors, researchers and critics which are the main building stones of media, as well as positions such as new media specialists and communication specialists that are considered among the professions of the future. Those students who wish can continue their academic careers by fulfilling the necessary conditions if they wish.

Working Places

 Students who graduated from the Department of New Media and Communication; He can work in newspapers, magazines, internet publishing, publishing houses, public-private press organizations, television, radio, social media agencies, advertising agencies, press public relations consultancy, news agencies, press public relations and corporate communication units in the public and private sectors.

Programmes allowing Horizontal Transfer

Department of Media and Communication accepts students with lateral transfer within quotas in accordance with "Regulations Regarding the Transition between Programs at the Higher Education Institutions and Programs under the Bachelor's Degree Program, Double Major, Minor and Inter-Institutional Transfer among the Associate / Undergraduate Programs".

Programmes allowing Vertical Transfer

All students who want to be enrolled in the Department of Media and Communication by Vertical Transfer are placed by OSYM in case they get adequate score from the Vertical Transfer Examination. Students who fulfill all the requirements are entitled four years of undergraduate education at our university. Also, the associate degree students at Istanbul Gelisim University will have the chance to be enrolled with 50 percent scholarship if they are placed in paid program after DGS.