Department of Media and Communications

Department of Media and Communications aims to educate individuals who will create and shape the content of contemporary media. The department offers its students the opportunity to produce in various environments, for online or offline media, using the latest technology. Department of Media and Communications derives its academic power from its roots in the social sciences, and thus focuses on grasping the social, cultural and political aspects of new technologies from a critical viewpoint. Drawn from the core disciplines of the social sciences and humanities, sociology, political science, philosophy and literature, the Department trains and educates individuals who will determine the structure of tomorrow's media world.

Graduates of the programme will gain the ability to approach social communication through the mass media with a critical point of view, learn to develop research design in the field of social sciences, learn research methods and recognize basic research trends in the field of media and communication studies.

Our aims are:

Be one of the leading research-based department in media and communications in Turkey        

• Provide a high-quality undergraduate level education in the study of media and communications drawing on the social science disciplines              
• Prepare students for research in the media and communications field and for entry into a variety of careers              
• Conduct research that impacts on the strategies and practices of the media and communications industry, government policymakers and the third sector.