Eastern mediterranean university curriculum Committee Program Revision Proposal Form

Part V. Details of Revision

Fill in the appropriate sections (tables) below. Delete any irrelevant (unfilled) tables to save space.

1. Program Title Change Fill in this part if applicable. Write the full titles of old and new programs without any abbreviations.
Existing program title:		New title:
Rationale
None.

2. Program Degree Change Fill in this part if applicable. Write the universally accepted degrees, like “Bachelor of Science, BS” in the row designated as “English” and degrees in YÖK system like “Ön Lisans” in the row designated as “Turkish”
	Old Degree				New Degree
	Full name		Abbreviation		Full name		Abbreviation
English
Turkish
Rationale
None.

3. Teaching Language Change Fill in this part if applicable.
Existing teaching language:			English			Proposed teaching Language:		English & Turkish
Coverage:		Whole program			Only for the courses:		JOUR482, Graduation Project
Rationale
The main aim of the course is to have the students produce a-six-page newspaper at the end of the semester. Turkish students produce their newspapers in Turkish whereas the non-Turkish speaking students produce their newspapers in English. Therefore it is practical that both of the languages are used, especially when editing the news stories written by the students, and when explaining them their mistakes.

4. Course Code Change Fill in this part if only code of a course is modified. Do not include new or deleted courses. Add extra rows for additional courses or remove blank rows.
	Old Code		New Code		Rationale
1.	COM 412		COMM301		Changes have been made in order to have four digits at the course code and adapt the program to the GE program structure.
2.	JRN 281		JOUR281		In order to have four digits.
3.	COM 242		JOUR283		It used to be a Faculty course, now it has become an Area Core Course
4.	JRN 381		JOUR381		In order to have four digits.
5.	JRN 282		JOUR384		In order to have four digits and adapt to the GE program structure.
6.	JRN 382		JOUR382		In order to have four digits.
7.	JRN 385		JOUR487		In order to have four digits and adapt to the GE program structure.
8.	JRN 482		JOUR482		In order to have four digits.
9.	JRN 284		JOUR484		In order to have four digits and adapt to the GE program structure.
10	COM 205		COMM205		In order to have four digits.
11	COM 404		COMM404		SAA.
12	COM 101		COMM101		SAA.
Further remarks

5. Course Title Changes Fill in this part if only title of a course is modified. Do not include new or deleted courses. Add extra rows for additional courses or remove blank rows.
	Course		Full Title (No Abbreviation)	Transcript Title
1.	JOUR 381	English	News Writing and Reporting – I (JRN 381)	New Writ. and Rep. - I
	Turkish		Haber Toplama ve Yazma – I
	Rationale:		It used to give the impression as if it was the pre-requisite of the JRN 382 (JOUR382)
2.	JOUR382	English	News Writing and Reporting – II (JRN 382)	News Writ. And Rep. - II
	Turkish		Haber Toplama ve Yazma – II
	Rationale:		SAA.
3.	JOUR483	English	Legal and Ethical Issues in Communication (COM 259)	Leg. & Ethic. Issues in Comm.
	Turkish		İletişimde Etik ve Hukuk
	Rationale:
4.		English
	Turkish
	Rationale:
5.		English
	Turkish
	Rationale:
Further remarks

6. Change in the Course Descriptions Fill in this part if the description (content) of a course is modified. Do not include new or deleted courses. Add extra rows for additional courses or remove blank rows. The new course content shall be attached in the later sections of this form.
	Course			Rationale
1.	COMM101			To broaden the scope and clarify the content of the introduction to communication studies.
2.	COMM205			To clarify the focus of theory and theoretical perspectives engaged in the course.
3.	COMM404			To highlight the content of the course more clearly and identify major areas for study and analysis.
4.	JOUR281			To highlight the content of the course and identify major areas for study.
5.	JOUR381			SAA.
6.	JOUR382			SAA.
7.	JOUR384			SAA.
8.	JOUR484			SAA.
Further remarks
In the process of improving the curriculum of the department new courses were added to the existing ones. Examining the course outlines, we have noticed that there were some overlaps between the old courses and the new ones, and in order to define precisely the limits of the courses we have decided to re-write the course contents of some of the courses.

7. Change in the Course Credit Descriptions Fill in this part if the description of a course credit (Lecture / Lab / Tutorial / Total) is modified. Do not include new or deleted courses. Add extra rows for additional courses or remove blank rows.

Course Code

Old

New

Rationale

Lec

Lab

Tut

Tot

Lec

Lab

Tut

Tot

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

By these changes, the total number of credits on the curriculum …

Didn’t change. Increased by:

decreased by:

Further remarks

8. Change in the Prerequisites – Co-requisites Fill in this part if the prerequisites / co-requisites of a course are modified. Do not include new or deleted courses. Add extra rows for additional courses or remove blank rows. (Replace “P” with “C” in the second column if a course is a co-requisite of the course specified in the first column.
	Course Code	Pre / Co		Old		New		Rationale
1.	JOUR482		P			JOUR381 JOUR382		In practice we have noticed that some of the students would register to JOUR482 before taking some of the mentioned courses and as a result they did not have the necessary foundation for the course. Thus we have decided to put pre-requisites for this course.
2.			P
Further remarks
We have decided to put pre-requisites (JOUR281 and JOUR381) for “Internship” (JOUR489) which is a new course. It will be inappropriate if some of the students would want to do their internships before taking the very basic courses in journalism. It will not be nice for them and it will not be nice for the image of our faculty and university.

9. Addition / Replacement / Deletion of Courses in the curriculum Fill in this part if a new course is added to the curriculum as either an additional course, as a replacement for an existing course, or if the course will be totally removed from the curriculum. Add extra rows for additional courses or remove blank rows. The new course contents shall be attached in the later sections of this form. (For additional new courses: leave “old course” column blank. For totally deleted courses: leave “new course” column blank. For courses replaced by a new course: fill in both “new course” and “old course” columns.)

Semestr

New Course

New Course Title

Old Course

Rationale

1.

1

COM 135

Deleted because it has become a university elective

2.

1

GEED101

Critical Thinking Skills-I

COM 123

S.A.A.

3.

1

COMP101

Computer Literacy

COM 117

University core course

4.

EFL 109

UCC.

5.

1

TURK100/109

Communication in Turkish

TURK100, COM 235

UCC.

6.

1

GEED101

SPIKE-I

None

According to the Senate decision.

7.

2

COMM103

Media Literacy

Media Literacy will orient students to the relationship between reading the media and the development of media literacy skills.

8.

2

GEED112

Critical Thinking Skills-II

COM 126

We had to delete it for adaptation to the GE program structure.

9.

2

UE-PN

UE in Physical and Natural Sciences-I

COM 128

Deleted for adaptation.

10.

2

UE-SB

UE in Soc./Beh. Sc.-1

COM 118

Deleted for adaptation

11

2

EFL110

Communication in English –II

EFL 110

It became Un. Core course.

12

2

GEED102

SPIKE-II

None

According to the Senate decision.

13

3

UE-PN

UE in Phys./ Nat. Sci.

14

3

UE-AH

UE in Arts & Hum.

COM 235

It will be replaced by UC course of “Communication in Turkish”.

15

3

UE-SB

UE in Soc./Beh. Sci.

COM 233

Deleted for adaptation

16

3

JOUR283

Basic Photography

COM 242

Changed from 4^th semester to the 3^rd.

17

3

GEED201

SPIKE-III

COM 257

Deleted for adaptation

18

4

JOUR282

History of Journalism

JRN 388

It seemed appropriate that JRN 388 is taught as an Area Elective.

19

4

UE-AH

UE in Arts&Hum.

COM 242

Removed to the 3^rd semester

20

4

UE-AH

UE in Arts&Hum.

JRN 282

Removed to the 6^th semester

21

4

UE-SB

UE in Soc/Beh. Sci.

Com 259

Removed to the 7^th semester under the name of “Ethics in Journalism. (JOUR483)

22

4

GEED202

SPIKE-IV

According to the Senate decision.

23

5

UE-SB

UE in Soc./Beh. Sci.

COM 301

Deleted for adaptation.

24

5

JOUR383

Newspaper Design

JRN 385

Removed to the 7^th semester as JOUR487. JOUR383 will replace JRN 485

25

5

GEED301

SPIKE-V

According to the Senate decision.

26

5

JOUR381

Basic News Writing

JRN 381

Changed the name of the course. Instead of “News Writing and Reporting – 1”.

27

6

COMM301

Cultural Studies

28

6

JOUR382

Advanced News Writing

JRN 382

Instead of “News Writing and Reporting- II”.

29

6

JOUR384

Online Journalism

JRN 282

Removed from the 4^th semester to the 6^th.

30

6

GEED302

SPIKE-VI

According to the Senate decision.

31

7

JOUR487

Broadcast Journalism

JRN 485

Replaced by JOUR383

32

7

JOUR483

Ethics in Journalism

JRN 483

Replaced “Legal and Ethical Issues in Communication” (Com 259)

33

7

JOUR489

Internship

New course without any credits.

33

8

JOUR482

Graduation Project

JRN 482

Replaced “Publication Design & Production” (JRN 482)

34

8

JOUR484

Sociology of Journalism

JRN 488

“Comparative Civilizations” will be taught as an Area Elective.

35

8

HIST200/ 299

History of Turkish Reforms

HIST200

Total number of new courses including replacements…

23

and deleted courses including replacements

17

Total number of courses…

25

didn’t change (check). decreased by:

increased by:

1

Number…

and list of courses being already offered in EMU

Are there similar courses with overlapping content already being offered in EMU?

X

NO

YES. If yes, then justify below:

Code

Similar / Overlapping Course(s)

Justification

1.

2.

3.

Further remarks

To my best knowledge, there are no courses offered by the university which has a similar course content. (It came to my knowledge that there is some sort of a dispute about COMM301/ Cultural Studies with ELH department.)

10. Semester Shifts Fill in this part if the semester of a course on the curriculum has changed. Write the sequence number of the semester in the curriculum (1-8) rather than Fall /Spring. Add extra rows for additional courses or remove blank rows.
	Course Code		Old Sem.		New Sem.		Rationale
1.	JOUR283		4		3		Previously COM 242. The change was done in adaptation to the GE program structure.
2.	JOUR282		6		4		Previously JRN 388. The name and the content have been changed. Instead of History of T/C Media, History of Journalism was installed to give the students a general idea about the development of journalism. History of T/C Media will be taught as an Area Elective.
3.	COMM301		8		6		Previously COM 412. We were forced to change the semester while harmonizing our program with the GE program structure.
4.	JOUR384		4		6		Previously JRN 282. SAA
5.	JOUR487		5		7		Previously JRN 385. SAA
6.	JOUR483		4		7		Previously COM 259. SAA
7.	JOUR484		4		8		Previously JRN 284. SAA
Further remarks

11. Splitting into / Modification of / Merging Streams Fill in this part if the program is splitted into tracks, or the existing streams are modified or merged. Write NONE into “Courses in old curriculum” if the program is split into two or more streams. Write NONE into “courses in new curriculum” column if two or more streams are merged.
	Stream Title	Courses in old curriculum	Courses in new curriculum
1.
2.
3.
4.
Rationale
It used to be one stream and stayed one. Having said that we encourage our students to take suitable elective courses from other departments in order to broaden their sphere of interest and increase their job opportunities in future.

12. Unclassified Changes Fill in this part if there is a change which can not be classified in any of the changes described in above sections.
Brief description of the change	We have added a non-credit area core course “Internship” to the existing 12 courses.
Rationale	It will not cost any money to the university and yet we believe that it will be beneficial to the students. We have always encouraged our students to do their internships during the summer holidays. Experience has shown us that voluntary internship does not work so we have decided to make it compulsory.