HISTORY OF FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION

Hacettepe University Faculty of Communication is established recently. It was founded in 8 August, 2005. It has two departments: Department of Communication Sciences and Department of Radio, Television and Cinema. Department of Communication Sciences has three other disciplines. These are Chair of Society and Communication, Chair of Intercultural Communication and Chair of Media Studies. Department of Radio, Television and Cinema also has three disciplines. These are Chair of Radio and Television, Chair of Cinema and Chair of Informatics and Information Technologies.

 

MAIN ACTIVITIES

Hacettepe University Faculty of Communication is a graduate school with a M.A. program and a PhD. Program to be started in 2009. The faculty does not have any Bachelor Degree Program. The MA. program in Communication Science has opened courses for the year 2006-2007. The aim of the program is to contribute to the production of knowledge by providing the environment necessary for doing research and analysis on several aspects of communication studies ranging from daily life to the media. In this context, the MA program has been designed to make the faculty and the students work and research together, in a rich curriculum. The program’s purpose is to produce academics and researchers who are able to do critical and original academic work on communication studies. The curriculum in the MA program has been designed in a diversity permitting a discussion of contemporary topic within communication studies. The language of the MA program is Turkish, although it is compulsory that the students enrolled have to master two foreign languages.

1. The applicants should have a B.A. diploma with an average of at least 2.80 over 4.00.
2. The applicants should have at least 60 standard score from the ALES (Exam For Academic Staff and Graduate Education) in Quantitative, Verbal or Quantitative-Verbal Equal sections. The equivalent scores from GRE and GMAT exams, approved by the Hacettepe University Senate, can be accepted.
3. In order to apply for the program, the applicant should master at least two of the foreign languages, English, German, French, Italian and Spanish. For the first foreign language, the score 70 from KPDS or UDS exams in Turkey will be accepted and for the second language the expected score is 60. Applicants should submit the score of the first foreign language in admission and the students that are being accepted to the program to complete the preparatory year may use this time in order to improve their second language. At the end of the preparatory year these students must submit their scores from the second foreign language in order to continue their M.A. courses. The scores from international exams like TOEFL and IELTS, which are approved by the Hacettepe Senate as equivalent to these scores will be accepted as well. (The detailed equivalent chart can be found in the web site of Institute of Social Sciences http://www.sosyalbilimler.hacettepe.edu.tr/?q=node/409)

The students can use the facilities of Hacettepe University for the second foreign language education.

4. Applicants should submit a letter of intent that will be at least one page long stating their purpose for their application to the M.A. Program of Communication Science (A4, Times New Roman, Font 12), a CV (curriculum vitae) with their photograph attached and two reference letters that will be handed in closed envelops to the Hacettepe University Institute of Social Sciences.

5. Regarding the other issues the regulations of Hacettepe University for Graduate studies will be in use.

REQUIREMENTS FOR GRADUATION

 

In order to complete M.A. of Communication Sciences Program it is required to take 21 national credits from courses in total, 2 seminar courses, an implementation course, and to submit and defend a successful master’s thesis and an implementation project. A minimum of 120 ECTS course credit hours is required at the end of these studies.

Partner Universities in Erasmus Program



Austria

• Alpen-Adrian-University Klagenfurt

      Communication Sciences

Bulgaria

 

• University of St. Kliement Ohridski University

 

• New Bulgarian University

Mass Communication

 

Germany
 

• Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

Institute für Volkskunde

 

• University of Augsburg

Communication Sciences

European Ethnography

• Eberhard Karls University Tübingen

Cultural Studies

 

• Münich Ludwig-Maxmillian University

Intercultural Communication

• Berlin Freie University

Communication Sciences

Italy

• University of Rome "La Sapienza"

Communication Sciences

The Netherlands

 

• Hague University
• Gröningen University (in progress)
  
  Poland
• University of Warsaw

Journalism

Switzerland

·        University of Fribourg
Social Antropology

OTHER BILATERAL AGREEMENTS

South Federal University of Rostov-on-Don