| Code | Name of the Course Unit | Semester | In-Class Hours (T+P) | Credit | ECTS Credit |
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| HRY108 | HISTORY AND THEORIES OF COMMUNICATION | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
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| Objectives: | This course aims to provide a critical perspective to the concept of history; to evaluate the changing communication paradigms from the past to the present in the context of epistemological, cultural and technological contexts from the social and cultural point of view; to reveal that the history of communication is not just history in chronological sense; to reveal the relationships between history, history writing, knowledge, power and dominant forms of communication. |
| Content: | The contents of the course include the subjects such as stages of the phenomenon of communication and its technological, cultural, political and economic dimensions; origins of writing; the main differences between oral and written culture; typographic period; the invention of the printing press and modern literacy. |