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COURSE INFORMATION

Course Code	Course Title	L+P Hour	Semester	ECTS
HIT 428	COMMUNICATION AND CRITICAL IDEA	3 + 0	7th Semester	5

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Course Level	Bachelor's Degree
Course Type	Elective
Course Objective	It is difficult to claim that in our contemporary media order, the entire act of communication is shaped in accordance with ethical expectations and on the basis of rational persuasiveness. The fact that concepts such as the manipulative aspect of communication, deception, fraud and disinformation are frequently used in the field also confirms the necessity of critical thinking. Based on this requirement, the aim of the course is to provide the student with the critical skills to distinguish between a communication style that proceeds on a rational basis and irrational communication styles that are often deceptive, in order to distinguish between right and wrong.
Course Content	Rhetoric, rhetorical traps, argument, valid argument and fallacies, concepts of truth-knowledge-belief-value, media manipulation, rational persuasiveness and non-rational persuasiveness.
Prerequisites	HIT 303 PERSUASIVE COMMUNICATION
Corequisite	No the corequisite of lesson.
Mode of Delivery	Face to Face

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	Gains the ability to recognize valid and solid arguments and fallacies, and to analyze non-rational persuasive messages.
2	Acquires scientific knowledge that can explain the manipulative aspect of communication.
3	Sees how fallacies, rhetorical traps, disinformation and fake news appear in the media and communication professions and how they affect society.
4	Knows how to conduct a discussion rationally on the basis of argumentation.

COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

ECTS ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD BY THE COURSE DESCRIPTION

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Work Load (Hour)
Course Duration (14 weeks/theoric+practical)	14	3	42
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	14	2	28
Mid-terms	1	30	30
Final examination	1	30	30
Total Work Load ECTS Credit of the Course			130 5

COURSE DETAILS

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Course Details

Course Code	Course Title	L+P Hour	Course Code	Language Of Instruction	Course Semester
HIT 428	COMMUNICATION AND CRITICAL IDEA	3 + 0	1	Turkish	2022-2023 Fall

Course Coordinator	E-Mail	Phone Number	Course Location	Attendance
Assoc. Prof. Dr. OSMAN ÇALIŞKAN	osmancaliskan@pau.edu.tr		TUR A0407	%80

Goals		It is difficult to claim that in our contemporary media order, the entire act of communication is shaped in accordance with ethical expectations and on the basis of rational persuasiveness. The fact that concepts such as the manipulative aspect of communication, deception, fraud and disinformation are frequently used in the field also confirms the necessity of critical thinking. Based on this requirement, the aim of the course is to provide the student with the critical skills to distinguish between a communication style that proceeds on a rational basis and irrational communication styles that are often deceptive, in order to distinguish between right and wrong.
Content		Rhetoric, rhetorical traps, argument, valid argument and fallacies, concepts of truth-knowledge-belief-value, media manipulation, rational persuasiveness and non-rational persuasiveness.

Topics

Weeks	Topics
1	Language, Communication, Rhetorik and Critical Thinking
2	Valid arguments as a tools of critical thinking
3	true, information, belief and value terms in the context of argumentation theory
4	Fallacies
5	An introduction to formal and informal fallacies. Appearences of these fallacies in the media
6	formal fallacies
7	Midterm exam
8	informal fallacies
9	argument to authorty and analysis of the fallacy examples in media texts
10	Appeal to common practice analysis of the fallacy examples in media texts
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Materials

File	File Name	File Language	Original File Name	Added Date
Download File	Retorik, İkna, C. Perelman ve S. Toulmin'in Argümantasyon Teorisi	Türkçe	SEÇMEN TERCİHLERİNİN YÖNLENDİRİLMESİNDE ARGÜMANTASYON FAKTÖRÜ - Kopya.pdf	19.10.2022 14:58:50

Resources

Resources	Resources Language
Bowell, T., & Kemp, G. (2018). Eleştirel Düşünme Klavuzu. (B. Tanrıseven, Çev.) Ankara: Tübitak Yayınları.	Türkçe
Ruggiero, V. R. (2017). Eleştirel Düşünme İçin Bir Rehber. (Ç. Dedeoğlu, Çev.) İstanbul:Alfa.	Türkçe
Baillargeon, N. (2017). Aklın ve Bilimin Işığında Ele ştirel Dü şünme Klavuzu. (İ. Yıldız,Çev.) Ankara: Dipnot.	Türkçe
Eleştirel düşünmeye dair genel bir çerçeve için: Eleştirel Düşünme-Önce CAN Sonra CANAN-140.Bölüm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UcyGKNclAM	Türkçe

Course Assessment

L+P: Lecture and Practice
PQ: Program Learning Outcomes
LO: Course Learning Outcomes

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